Topic: Will AOL’s Tim Armstrong Redefine Online Publishing?

[sam]

Why are you reading TechCrunch, or anything online, for that matter? We know it’s not because of flashing banner ads. And so do all the online publishers.  Now that online advertising has failed to print money the way people hoped it might a decade ago, large content owners such as AOL and Yahoo are focusing on how to make more of what people actually want to read. AOL, in particular, is reinventing itself under CEO Tim Armstrong as a Time Inc. for the 21st Century. AOL employs thousands of journalists and is hiring hundreds more to help expand its local content. So we’re thrilled to announce Armstrong will be speaking at Disrupt, our conference on media and technology taking place May 24-26 in New York City.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/06/disrupt-aol-armstrong/

[Clive]

In other news AOL still exists?   

[Rik]

I hated that setup, I much preferred Compuserve.

[Simon]

It wasn't known as AOHell for nothing. 

[Rik]

We had another name for it. 

[Simon]

[Rik]

I did support for Adobe on there as well as CI$. The 'audience' was very different, and we didn't like working AOL.

[Clive]

I used it as backup dial-up for a year or so because they charged a flat rate of 1p per minute at any time of the day.  At that time BTInternet charged local call rates during the week but was 'free' on weeekends. 

[sam]

dial up seems like a lifetime ago.

[Simon]

It does, Sam. 

[Rik]

For Sam, it was.

[Simon]

 

[sam]

For Sam, it was.

Not really.