mediamemo.allthingsd.com— Google(GOOG) sales chief Tim Armstrong becomes chairman and CEO of the troubled Web property, effective immediately.
Mar 12, 2009View in Crawl 4
Hrm, maybe this guy will be smart enough to realize that AOL has to things left for it. AIM and name recognition, and use those two to expand the brand into strong areas. The "digg" intellectuals can harp on it all they want, but tons of people still use aol email, and TONS more use AIM... thats a pretty strong user base.
AOL suffered a lot of brand damage because of bad practices in the past, but it's all new people now, new products. AIM, MapQuest, Truveo, TMZ.com, Engadget, Live 365, Winamp, and others. The dial-up is slowly fading off, as we've been encouraging them to move to broadband, but there's still a solid customer base there.Current employees don't like what AOL used to be either, and the company's focus has changed to it's products, advertising, and social networks.Randy Falco wasn't a popular CEO, and he made many choices that the rest of the employees didn't agree with, such as Bebo. So we're all hopeful about this new guy.
icasualtyMar 13, 2009
It's surprising how many people still coming into Geek Squad because they don't know how to use AOL...I just facepalm and tell them to get a good ISP.
drizzitMar 13, 2009
We'll if he was dumb enough to leave Google for AOL, I'm guessing he did Google a favor.
randkiMar 13, 2009
Hrm, maybe this guy will be smart enough to realize that AOL has to things left for it. AIM and name recognition, and use those two to expand the brand into strong areas. The "digg" intellectuals can harp on it all they want, but tons of people still use aol email, and TONS more use AIM... thats a pretty strong user base.
raingirlloriMar 13, 2009
AOL suffered a lot of brand damage because of bad practices in the past, but it's all new people now, new products. AIM, MapQuest, Truveo, TMZ.com, Engadget, Live 365, Winamp, and others. The dial-up is slowly fading off, as we've been encouraging them to move to broadband, but there's still a solid customer base there.Current employees don't like what AOL used to be either, and the company's focus has changed to it's products, advertising, and social networks.Randy Falco wasn't a popular CEO, and he made many choices that the rest of the employees didn't agree with, such as Bebo. So we're all hopeful about this new guy.
mtheoryxMar 14, 2009
Or perhaps he sees an opportunity that you don't? I mean, that could be the reason that he's a high paid CEO, and you are not.Just sayin'.
mtheoryxMar 14, 2009
fist fronting?
yashicakMar 16, 2009
Hope to see something new!!!