Fred Singer, 44, is an art collector and former AOL executive who is now chief executive of two technology companies: Anystream, an on-demand-video company, and Echo360, which uploads university lectures to students.

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That's clever, but it also says that AOL, which has made an art form in the U.S. of providing the Internet for the "everyman, " believes the market is sufficiently uninformed about the Net that it can be swayed into thinking AOL is it.

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