Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday December 20, 2002 @09:11AM 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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Waitaminnit by JPelorat · 2002-12-20 09:16 · Score: 1, Troll

This isn't a dupe! We're overdue for one... damn, you guys can't even get your screwups right.

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Actually ... by burgburgburg · 2002-12-20 09:56 · Score: 2, Troll

the only good thing about AOL.
What else was there, ever?