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more about #aol more comments → raincoaster: Um... "Now,US Drywall Rots, Sucks. Eats Your Home." is a good headline? It's not even a good use of keywords (spacing issue). more » TedSez: This isn't writing, or even blogging. It's aggregating. They're basically just asking people to restate news stories, without adding any value (such ... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: When commenting, please use keyword rich phrases more » PaisleyPajamas: "We're not Gawker, be boring and undeserving of an audience." more » nirreskeya: Eternal December. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: They are breaking the internet by filling it up with crap NOT AOL will be the default google search more » daveyjonesisdead: "There I was, having a quiet day at home, when my crib recalled the day it was put together..." Like that? I could do that. more » Penscribe: Blogs already do this. more » sweetpickles: Did they go to Harvard to get that business plan? FAIL! more » iplaudius: I look forward to “block AOL content” features on Firefox, Google, and likely every ISP worth its salt. more » marcsiry: This marks the day that "branding" was officially rebranded as "wanking." more » TroisFilles: Now it's just garlic dressing with a typo. StuPiD. more » raincoaster: Sucker. Bullshit. Down the toilet. more » MincnglyWhrdL'mer: lol. more » MessiahsHandle: I suggest Doa. Can't we take Aol to Switzerland to put it out of its misery...legally? more » -
#journalismism
AOL's Editorial Process — Revealed!
Today we obtained a copy of one AOL editor's "welcome to the team" email to new writers. More » -
#theinternet
AOL's Big Plan: Robot Traffic Whoring
The internet needs more hot search keyword-driven advertorial "content" about as much as the internet needs AOL. So, welcome to the "linchpin" of AOL's growth strategy: Hot search keyword-driven advertorial "content" crap! More » -
#branding
Surf The Internet the Mostly Lower Case Way
Stop everything, The Internet: AOL is now Aol. Whether superimposed on a fish or a hand or just some swirly crap, this logo makes the bold statement: We can no longer afford capital letters. [Ad Age] -
#holidaze
The Incredible Shrinking AOL
Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self. More » -
#valleywag
AOL will lay off about 100 today, as we reported, says All Things D.
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#holidaze
AOL Layoffs Tomorrow to Kick Off Depressing Holiday Season?
'Tis the season to rush up layoffs so they don't fall in the sacrosanct Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period: An AOL insider tells us the company is slated to let go around 100 people tomorrow, following 1,500 firings Electronic Arts announced today. More » -
#secondmarriages
AOL and Time Inc CEOs Meet to Discuss Merger?
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore met recently. More » -
#exits
A Dramatic Google Goodbye
Today was Kristin Kovner's last day at Google, after three years with the company in New York. And what better way for a YouTube marketer to say goodbye to cherished colleagues than with a serenade, uploaded to the intranet? More » -
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#spinoffs
Why Delay AOL's Mass Layoffs?
Everyone knows Tim Armstrong is planning more layoffs at AOL once the company is spun off from Time Warner. So why let them hang over the company's return to the markets as an independently-traded stock? More » -
#valleywag
Did Elisabeth Murdoch Just Get Conned?
It seems Joanna Shields has found another mark. Barely 18 months ago, she sold her also-ran social network Bebo to AOL for $850 million. The disastrous deal still haunts AOL. Now she's charmed Rupert Murdoch's daughter into bankrolling her. How? More » -
#internalmemos
AOL's CEO Calls for 'Laser Focus,' Fires People
Tim Armstrong has begun to shape AOL to his liking, four months after Time Warner announced the much-diminished internet conglomerate's spinoff. Here's the internal memo in which the CEO calls some serious buckling down — and jettisons two executives. More » -
#television
Why Warren Buffett and Martha Stewart Just Showed Up at an AOL Meeting
Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart and legendary investor Warren Buffet are on stage at a big AOL meeting. "People are going fucking nuts," a tipster writes. Why are the business celebrities at AOL? To make children's programming, naturally. More » -
#theinternet
Michael Jackson Traffic Melts Entire Internet
Any doubts about Michael Jackson's megastardom should have ended after news of the singer's death tripped up Google and crashed AOL Instant Messenger, Wikipedia, TMZ and, of course, Twitter. A survey of the epic traffic: More » -
#conflictsofinterest
AOL's Shameless CEO Bailout
Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO, just bought a company from... Tim Armstrong, investor. The official line is that the deal is on the up and up, since the consummate salesman won't be taking any profits off his stake. Rich. More » -
#jobs
Fired AOL Ad Man Was Paid $60,000 Per Day
Gregory Coleman was hired in February to run AOL advertising network Platform A. Two weeks later, the CEO who hired him was out; two months after that, Coleman's own departure was announced. But at least AOL made it worth his while. More » -
#deals
Is There a Coporate Suicide Plot Behind AOL Spinoff?
The surrender of AOL was a humiliating enough denouement for Time Warner, the old-line media conglomerate once imagined invincible. But there's talk it could get worse. What if Time Warner ceased to exist as an independent concern? More » -
#spinoffs
The AOL-Time Warner Saga Bookends One Sorry Decade
The 21st century dawned with news that two media megaliths, AOL and Time Warner, were to merge. Critics howled that the vast tentacles of a combined AOL-TW would subsume us all. Today, Time Warner confirmed it's spinning off AOL, ending a business saga that defined whatever you're calling the 2000s. More » -
#housekeeping
Valleywag: An Instruction Manual
Dear Ryan:
As I head to NBC to run its Bay Area site, I'm leaving you one Silicon Valley gossip blog, used but in good condition. A few thoughts on how to keep it that way. More » -
#feuds
Alec Baldwin Picks Fight with AOL for Saying He Picked a Fight
Today in his Huffington Post column, Alec Baldwin delivered an important lecture about how to practice good, proper journalism. First lesson: Don't mess with Alec Baldwin. More » -
#rumormonger
New AOL CEO Wants to Buy Twitter's Web Cool
An AOL tipster tells us incoming CEO Tim Armstrong, the Google sales veteran, wants to buy Twitter, the hot message-broadcasting startup. One problem: He hasn't even started at AOL yet. More »
