Comments on: Armstrong’s Small Step from Google, Could be a Giant Leap for AOL

By: aolisdyingslowly.

aolisdyingslowly. — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:13:59 +0000

AOL is dying slowly ” non recusandae.”

By: AOL says goodbye to Google, maybe hello to independence : Debt and Finance

AOL says goodbye to Google, maybe hello to independence : Debt and Finance — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:57:44 +0000

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By: MarketerView » No News On AOL - What Does It Mean?

MarketerView » No News On AOL - What Does It Mean? — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:04:45 +0000

[...] advertising sales and now CEO at AOL. Clearly, with the timing of his arrival to AOL as CEO, Armstrong is motivated. A spun-off AOL will give Armstrong that much more latitude to clean house and do things his way; [...]

By: Perk

Perk — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:58:28 +0000

AOL = Compuserve.

I believe that the game is over for AOL even with a tremendous amount of investment.

AOL’s strength was a universal access vector that happened to have good enough content for a captive audience. Those days are long gone. AOL has not been successful in a competitive content environment and AOL cannot support the current overhead even with a wildly successful Internet content scheme.

It will continue to die a slow death or at least shrink to a small shadow of its current self.

By: Frank Reed

Frank Reed — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:26:50 +0000

I have a personal contact within AOL who is pretty excited about the new direction and energy that Armstrong is bringing to the brand. Of course, the possibility of being spun off and out from under the TW umbrella is exciting enough in its own right. I never thought I would think this but maybe there is some life in AOL but they will have a lot of work to do to define themselves in the marketplace since no one is truly aware of what they are today.