AOL vs. Live vs. Yahoo: Fight
A day after Yahoo announced how the new front page of Yahoo.com will look like, and a couple of days after AOL redesigned its front page, Microsoft does pretty much the same thing, turning Live.com into a social networking hub of sorts.
It’s impossible to compare the three sites since neither the new Live nor Yahoo [...]
AOL’s Hit List: 50+ Projects Gone Or Going (TWX)
Last week, AOL told users of its Hometown and Journals services that they would shut down within a month. The soon-to-be gone offerings are two of many services, features and projects the company has axed or is planning to axe this year. News of the cuts has been dribbling out throughout the summer and fall, [...]
AOL: Now Our Ad Network Business Is Seizing Up, Too (TWX)
This is going to make it harder for Jeff Bewkes to get the price he wants for his wobbling AOL unit: An admission by CFO John Martin that the Web company’s ad revenue is sputtering. Bloomberg:
Google Releases Free “Ad Manager,” OpenX Slayer
Google is taking its “Ad Manager” ad-serving software out of beta. As Center Networks’ Allen Stern points out, that could be bad news for OpenX, a startup chaired by former AOL chief Jonathan Miller that does basically the same thing.
Like OpenX, Google’s Ad Manager is a tool that allows publishers to manage and maximize ad [...]
AOL Gives Up on Search for Social Networking!
Ever wondered if AOL is turning its back on search for social networking? Well, you might not be too far of the mark.
AOL has just confirmed that it has acquired Socialthing!, a lifestreaming service that competes with FriendFeed.
Socialthing! joins the social platforms stable in the AOL People Networks division, which already includes social network Bebo, [...]
Are AOL Blog Cuts Permanent, After All? (TWX)
AOL party line about the cutbacks at some of the company’s blogs — just temporary tweaks, through the end of the month. And some AOL bloggers have volunteered to write for free, anyway. But everything goes back to normal in August.
Not so, some of AOL’s bloggers tell us. They say that this morning, they [...]
More AOL Cost-Cutting: Dumping Properties; Cutting Back On Blogs (TWX)
AOL is “sunsetting” (i.e. killing or trying to sell) some of its underperforming units, including Bluestring, Xdrive, AOL Pictures and MyMobile.
TechCrunch has the memo, issued last week, by EVP Kevin Conroy, who oversees the company’s product group. Conroy’s unit will now focus on projects like its Truveo video search, though PaidContent notes that Tim [...]
Steve Case Joins App Developer Living Social’s $5M A Round
LivingSocial, a social network app developer that allows users to see what kind of books, movies, beer, etc. their peers like, has rasied a $5 million Series A Round led by Grotech Ventures. Joining in: Former AOL CEO Steve Case and his wife Jean.
The various apps run by the company have more than 6.4 million [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo!, Search Engine Partners?
How Mergers and Acquisitions May Change the Search
Engine Playing Field - and Where Google Comes In
By Scott Buresh (c) 2008
Until recently, there were five major players in the search engine world: Google, MSN, AOL, Ask.com, and the Yahoo! search engine. These top Internet search engines quickly could be narrowed down to four, however; AOL uses [...]
Optimize Email Deliverability with Best Practice Strategies
As an email marketer you may face email deliverability issues every day. Whether you’re sending a personal email or bulk customer communication, electronic messages are frequently intercepted, filtered, erroneously labeled as spam, bounced or returned to the sender as undeliverable. For routine non-business correspondence, this is simply a minor annoyance and inconvenience. But when your [...]
