Does anyone use AOL anymore?
By Will Park on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 at 6:07 PM PST In General, Mobile Web
Seriously. Remember when AOL was “the way” to get on the new-fangled “internet?” Aside from AOL Instant Messenger, we can’t think of anyone in our huge group of friends that still actually uses the AOL web portal. They’ve been losing ground to, well, just about everyone that offers web access.
So, what can AOL do to recover some most of their lost market share? Bank on the mobile web. But, does anyone use AOL anymore? Actually, it seems that mobile users are definitely using AOL. The company has been busy optimizing their web presence for mobile phones and Business Week tells us that it’s paying been paying off. Apparently, AOL’s mobile portal deals with higher US traffic volume than Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and about double that of MSN’s mobile web portals.
AOL’s trying to cash in on advertising in the mobile space and has plans to fully integrate all their online services into their mobile portal, and even wants to get their software pre-loaded onto handsets, a la Google and Yahoo. Is AOL poised to make a comeback through mobile web services and advertising? They just might.
[Via: MocoNews]
1. AOL Mobile site actually doesn’t get more traffic than it’s competitors if you accurately count real pageviews.
2. Ask Mr. Falconer what his qualifications are to lead the mobile team. Ask him how he got his job.
3. AOL does not have active conversations with handset manufacturers. Any conversations are regarding AIM and those that Tegic (sold) used to have.
4. AOL Mobile has nothing to do with Third Screen Media. AOL Mobile was never in the decision making process for acquiring TSM.
5. John Burbank is an invisible executive and has nothing to do with AOL Mobile. The fact that he’s from AT&T means nothing.
6. The reason so many open headcounts are open is that most of the existing team have no mobile experience and they are outsourcing development.
I cannot believe that any reasoning being would actually be fooled into accepting that AOL is the Internet. But, sadly, there seems to be many that do just that.
I don’t know whether they really stop to think about the extent to which everything they do is filtered and possibly recorded as well. This company has no morals, so if they can think of a way to make money off you, they will do it. MSN/Hotmail and Yahoo are hardly any better, it’s just that AOL has been doing it longer so is a bit better at it.
AOL sucks.
Just cause you add your product in thousands of computers and default home pages like the crapware aol really is doesn’t mean your competing, it means your uninstalled in seconds.