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Re: What Was AOL Thinking?

David Henderson — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:35:02 -0000

I have lots of ideas how AOL can leverage the social graph with AIM.

Rule #1, you don not need to acquire a single social graph aggregation point! The social graph is open.... HELLO!

Re: What Was AOL Thinking?

Doug — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:59:39 -0000

In order to have a network you need to have people. There are people using AIM, but instead of concentrating on them they have concentrated on advertising to them. This has neglected the true needs of the individual using the service. This is how things like AIM pages slip through the cracks.

I use the AIM service, but I don't use AIM client. If we take out all the people that are in that scenario, how many true users do they have?

Re: What Was AOL Thinking?

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:44:48 -0000

Hey Rajiv,

I do know about AIM pages but why didn't they build it into the application? I should be able to search and do everything right from the app. No?

Re: What Was AOL Thinking?

Rajiv Doshi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:43:18 -0000

AOL has tried to leverage AIM to build a social network called AIM Pages. Considering most people have not heard of it, means they not done a good job in terms of integrating it into AIM itself. Plus last update to their blog was in September 2007 so the project made be abandoned at this point.

Re: What Was AOL Thinking?

Tom — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:30:20 -0000

Ironic considering that AOL was basically the most popular social network at one point.