Over on The Bubbling Point, Rachel Rosmarin has posted a couple of entries:
- AOL May Have A Clue. No, Seriously.
- The New, Old Thing
The same month that Time Warner’s AOL unit dealt itself the worst public relations blow in its history–in August, it unintentionally let loose the personal search queries of 650,000 subscribers–the veteran Internet company made a very promising move. AOL acquired Los Angeles-based startup Userplane and set in motion a plan to upend its legacy as a subscription-based Internet service provider and turn itself into an open platform…Jones’ new boss, Marcien Jenckes, AOL’s vice president of instant messaging, said Tuesday morning at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that he hopes Internet companies of all sizes will choose to build their business models around AOL’s technology platform.
Internet company professionals who were awake for the last five years should be suspicious of overused tech buzzwords–remember “mindshare” and “new economy”? But attendees at the Web 2.0 Summit this week will hear and use many of these terms again–without irony.
