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As some of you already know, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE online service will be experiencing a major scheduled outage for maintenance purposes at 3:01 AM on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. The bulletins floating around about it, like from Major Nelson’s site, mention that the outage may be as long as twenty-four (24) hours (!!!), so [...]
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These days, a lot of people are raving (and sometimes even ranting) about Twitter. But several years ago, after E-mail was “acknowledged” as the Web’s super-app, AOL’s [TWX] instant messenger service was the new front-runner for super-app status. Sure, there was that massive dilution/fragmentation of IM users between AIM and all of the the rest. But [...]
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A Little Bit: A few hours ago, Time Warner [TWX] announced the ousting of CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant from the helm of AOL, LLC, replacing them with Tim Armstrong, lately of Google [GOOG] as one of its SVP’s. The tenure of Falco and Grant has been marred with a tremendous amount of [...]
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Earlier today, AOL [TWX] has announced laying off another 700 employees from its workforce. In this era of massive job losses, it does not seem as massive as in years past, but nevertheless, with only about 7,000 workers remaining since the last wave of AOL layoffs, the number is still a very large one. In [...]
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Given all of the speculation surrounding whether AOL [TWX] and Yahoo [YHOO] are being sincere in their talks, and the current mega-swirl in CBS’ [CBS] declining value, here’s an interesting notion: Hey, Jeff Bewkes, why not sell AOL to Yahoo, and then buy up CBS? This would give Time Warner that pure broadcast play that [...]
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This is one of those perennial murmurs through the IT community, it seems: who/what is going to buy AOL, and what is the damage going to be? As an ex-AOL’er, this is always a fun thread to follow, across the blogosphere and even as bleed-through to traditional media. Today, CNBC is repeating a Reuters article [...]
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Ah, finally! A recent post from somebody outside of the OpenID devsphere about OpenID. During my tenure at AOL, one of things I always wondered about was: How do external consumers and outside developers look at our OpenID? When creating the enterprise transactions systems, I had the luxury of using AOL internal IDs and OpenIDs, [...]
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