AOL layoffs confirmed, 2,000 to go

PAYTHEPIPER — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:35:22 PDT

AOL WILL FAIL. I Mean seriously, wtf is WOW.COM and why would they roll out a search engine that is not functional? Moving their business structure towards advertising only means that they are looking to "polish" the appearance of what was once a household name, AOL, so that they can sell it.

PAYTHEPIPER

AOL layoffs confirmed, 2,000 to go

schvitzatura — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:25:08 PDT

From:

to build a global medium as central to people's lives as the telephone and the television...and even more valuable.

to:

to serve the world's largest and most engaged community.

now to:

to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network . . . while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.

Serve ads to an "audience", not "people"; community schmamunity (Propeller? TMZ?); ...while keeping them ComScore/Nielsen metrically "engaged"...you know, for advertisers!

It's the new order of things. Scaling to mediocrity and wrinkle cream ads will be the true challenge.

Resquiat in Pace, America Online/AOL. Wilkommen AOL/Platform A!

schvitzatura

AOL layoffs confirmed, 2,000 to go - Valleywag Comments

AOL layoffs confirmed, 2,000 to go

AOL layoffs confirmed, 2,000 to go