actor90
Never a dull moment
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join:2003-07-21
L.E.H.T., NJ
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| And so the end is near....
I personally hope yahoo gets control of the aol brand and merges it in with yahoo. Then they can drop the aol name all together, move the sheep off the horribly buggy add ridden AIM to yahoo messenger, and transition aol e-mail to the yahoo mail banner. The sites aol have that have some popularity like TMZ.com and winamp.com can be moved under the yahoo brand, and the less popular sites can be killed off. Hopefully winamp will survive, I use it more then any other program to listen to my mp3's.
As for the dial up business, there will always be a need for it for back up purposes. If they sell to Earthlink, they should stream line the dial up to no thrills, and lower the price.
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| I think the chances of Yahoo! buying AOL just took a nosedive in the past few days, thanks to corporate politics... My guess is that if anyone's going to buy the non-dialup portion of AOL, it'll be Microsoft, who would probably be better off dumping the moribund MSN brands in favor of the better-known AOL (at least in the US, worldwide could be different) |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL | Why not just merge the dial up with Net Zero (yes, they too are still around). They could be net-aol...or AOL-Zero!
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| NetZero (now merged with Juno to create United Online) is getting out of the DialUp business too- they own Classmates.com and FTD, among others. I've seen it rumored that Earthlink is hoping to create some sort of uber single dial-up giant by buying NetZero/Juno and AOL's access division. |
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JAAulde
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join:2001-05-09
Hagerstown, MD
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said by actor90  :...move the sheep off the horribly buggy add ridden AIM to yahoo messenger... Funny, I have maintained accounts on all the major IM providers for years and use programs like Adium or sites like Meebo to manage them.
In the last 2 years or so, the only IM spam I ever got was on YIM, and I got more then 2 or 3 per week. Since the only reason I maintained a YIM account was to stay up with the one person I knew who used YIM, and since that one person had started using another service and hadn't signed onto YIM in over a year, I stopped logging into it.
Then, since the only reason I maintained a Yahoo! account at all was for YIM, I deleted my Yahoo! account as well.
I never get ads or spam on AIM, though I'll reiterate that I don't use their client so I am less likely to get their own advertising. |
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SJoe2
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They will never actually disappear completely because sites like money.aol.com, mapquest, and moviefone are all hugely popular, even the main aol.com portal gets alot of news readers. I could see merging AIM and Yahoo, although AIM has a ton of customers so they will probably keep the name and just make them communicate together which would be great.
They should give the free aol client to a company that actually knows what users want, that thing is buggy and a nuisance, other then email that thing is a joke. |
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