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EXCLUSIVE: AOL Teases Users By Allowing Few to Turn Off Promotional Footer Text in E-Mail

EXCLUSIVE — It appears that AOL has plans to allow their users to disable the promotional text at the bottom of their e-mail. At this time, it appears only a select few have been able to successfully disable the company’s ads at the bottom of their e-mail. More »

Post-Microhoo Drama: TWX vs. YHOO vs. MSFT

Robert Scobleizer believes Microsoft is the real “loser” after bailing out of the acquisition of Yahoo. I disagree, I mean, you can’t dispute the facts. Investors invest because of longevity and ROI, and clearly Yahoo missed their mark.

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PWND: AOL, Real Networks, Yahoo Must Pay Licensing Fees For Streamed Music

As if times at AOL Radio weren’t bad enough, a legal decision will now require three of the Internet’s content distributors to pay for proper licensing to ASCAP for music they streamed to Web users. This decision serves as a legal precedent for enforcing licensing of music over the Web. I have a hunch that AOL Radio is going to either get fully stocked with ads or will punch out of the Streaming Music market — or both. More »

AOL Discontinues XM Partnership

AOL Radio, a popular free streaming music service for AOL users, has discontinued their partnership with XM Radio, effective April 30, 2008 (today). The announcement was communicated to users of AOL Radio throughout the month, but the ISP boasting more than 20M users did not provide details as to reason for the termination of the partnership. [UPDATED 8:19PM MST] More »

O RLY? AOL’s Reports +11% Unique Visitors, +35% Page Views (3/07 — 3/08)

The ship hasn’t sunk — yet. AOL claims that Internet traffic to their Web sites increased 35% (page views), along with 11% growth in unique visitors. However, this begs the meme — O RLY? More »

Texas Instruments to Occupy Fmr. AOL Dev and Saves Buildings in TUC.

Just wanted to let you know that Texas Instruments will be the new tenants of the buildings previously built for AOL Development and Saves departments in Tucson, AZ. The buildings are located at the Williams Circle (5400 E block of Broadway and Craycroft). More »

Consumer ADvocacy: Consumer Targeting Explained

In an effort to help people better understand what consumer targeting is and what it could become, I share some useful info for the average consumer. (Consumers in this context are Internet users.) More »

YouTube Changes TOS in Favor of Tenured Users (But I Disagree.)

YouTube recently announced a few changes in their Terms of Service (TOS) enforcement for misbehaving users. The changes will affect a lot of users in the way they are sanctioned for inappropriate activity. More »

The Value of Social Networks

Social Networking is almost cliche these days because it’s often overused, duplicated and imitated several times over. However, in light of a few recent acquisitions, I intend to find out how does one define the value of a growing social network? More »

Consumer ADvocacy: Opting-Out Just Isn’t Good Enough

In response to consumer advocate groups supporting a “Do Not Track” database (to later be ran by the FTC), AOL and Google privacy executives OK’d opting out choices for consumers. In this entry, find out why this isn’t good enough to protect your privacy and security. (And how to fix it.) More »