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Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the somewhere-between-the-cdrom-and-the-floppy dept.

TheViewFromTheGround writes "Why have the years since the merger with Time Warner been so hard on America Online? Michael Wolff, a consultant who advised Time Warner not to buy AOL in the early 90's, says that the the big problem is Time Warner's denial of AOL's core value: a monopoly on dirty chat. The argument says that AOL was successful because they had a critical mass of people and that it skillfully marketed talking dirty by appearing to be family friendly. Now, the old media bedfellow is pushing AOL to stop its pimping ways."

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  1. yea! by incripshin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first

  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!

  4. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    me too

  5. Re:What are they going to do? by ipxodi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up! That's funny.

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  6. Since you ask by IPFreely · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    This isn't a dupe! We're overdue for one... damn, you guys can't even get your screwups right.

    The article immediately before this one on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters was a dupe from October.

    Happy now?

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  7. This is just my opinion... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A couple more shots of whiskey, women 'round here start looking good. [something about a 10 being a 4 after a six-pack? Ed.]

  8. Re:Smelly fingers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ass juice == a foul mixture of sweat and shit that accumulates between your ass cheeks when you sit on your fat ass in the server room for too long eating doritos.

    Usually you can just smell it, but sometimes you can even see small shit particles in it.

  9. Re:Welcome to the internet... by ninewands · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wish to HELL I had mod points ... somebody treat this post to a +1 Funny ...

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