John Sessoms wrote:
From: Bob Sullivan
Sorry about that.
I never understood AOL's business model.
When they cut back on hosting web pages,
I cut back from $29/month to $10/month.
I can go to $0 when you leave.
I find the interface is getting more cumbersome,
and the time it takes to link to their web pages is often long.
This wasn't noticeable on a dial-up service, but is on a high speed line.
I just leave the AOL site when a page takes more than 5-10 seconds to
load.
I'm looking to deprive them of eyeballs and ad revenue.
Regards, Bob S.
I think it's mostly people who don't know anything about computers but
want email. A lot of people who don't want to know anything else about
computers. My mom uses AOL for email.
Just one step up from Web-TV.
At the risk of putting myself out there for flames and insults I'm gonna
respond. I've given this company five and a half years of my
professional life. That's a record for me. I'd love to give them five
more to be a part of where the company might be going. I think our new
CEO has a vision but I'm worried about his execution. Moving operations
offshore is going to destroy this place. We know first hand that the
people in Bangalore are not going to be up to the task to take over
every aspect of operations in the short period of time they have.
The whole "internet on training wheels" insult is old and tired. AOL
has changed soooo much since it was "your mom's ISP." We are NOT an
ISP. We are more like yahoo and MSN. The term "portal" does not do us
justice. We are so much more than that. We have dozens of sites that
millions of people go to every day without realizing they are "using"
AOL. That's what the future of AOL is supposed to be about. Content.
Sure we have people still paying for dial-up but we are shedding those
(on purpose) by the millions every year. We also have people too stupid
to use anything but the crappy, bloated, slow, AOL client software. My
life in the email ops department would be a billion time easier if we
scrapped the client because of all the legacy interfaces we have to keep
around while we modernize the rest of the infrastructure.
Last week we separated completely from Time Warner (a marriage doomed
from the start) and started trading as "AOL" on the NYSE. Yes, our
valuation is crap. Yes, the stock is gonna be pretty bad. But there is
a ton of potential too. Time Warner dragged us down. A string of bad
CEOs and CTOs cost the company dearly. Now that we are independent,
maybe we can make gains in the marketplace.
Then again, I might get laid off in the next month. In which case I
could give a shit what happens....
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Christian
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