I’ve been meaning to write this post ever since I got back from my trip to San Francisco at the beginning of this month. The purpose of my trip was to attend the TC Disrupt Conference and to catch up with old friends. The whole trip from start to end was an amazing adventure and better than anything I ever expected. After flying a mere 18 hours (with a stop-over in Atlanta), I finally made [...]

It can be argued that AOL is the granddaddy of the social Web. They were the first to have a buddies list, the first to really get instant messaging, groups, email as a social graph and they were the first to integrate all of these in one service. Lately they seem to be making a push back to their social roots with an entire division called People Networks built around their social properties (Bebo, AIM, [...]

AOL sure is in an interesting place these days. They have a brand new CEO (ex Google VP – Tim Armstrong), a legacy dial-up access business (that more than twenty years after it was launched) still makes billions of dollars a year and the rest of AOL split up into three different groups; 1) Platform A which is one of largest advertising networks 2) Media Glow which includes AOL.com and mega blogs like TMZ and [...]