Can someone please buy AOL and ‘gut it like a fish’?! I mean no disrepect to all the great people working at AOL – but this is a Web 1.0 company and its day is done. It can join a long line of great Internet companies that are really no more – Netscape, Alta Vista, Overture etc etc. Time to move on folks!
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AhmedF // 30 September 2008 at 8:50 pm |
Eh – what is wrong with ‘web 1 .0′?
Furthermore – Overture as a failed 1.0 company? Without the monetization schema that Overture started, it is arguable if Google would even exist.
And Overture still does exist, just not in name anymore.
mickyj // 1 October 2008 at 8:51 am |
I’m with you, DF – though I’d challenge the Web 1.0 description… they’re kind of an anti-web, really.
dylanfuller // 1 October 2008 at 9:24 am |
Thanks for the comments. What can I say? Overture was one of the great Internet companies and true innovation machine – but my view is it is slowly being run down by YHOO. And yes, I see AOL as really a pre-Web company (hertitage is access/dial-up), maybe that makes it a ‘Web -1.0′?