Eun saw content in terms of metrics and promoted what he called "The AOL Way, " a system for increasing productivity and page views that was less Ben Bradlee than Henry Ford.
Huffington, since coming aboard, has made it clear the AOL Way is no longer the blueprint, but then her site has long engaged in its own forms of search-baiting and pageview juicing.
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Ironically, in pushing for a greater adoption of web-based platforms like Firefox, Mozilla is pushing the idea of its own walled garden into extinction much in the same way that Netscape and AOL became less important with the spreading of an open internet and rise of individual online properties.
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AOL, of course, has survived many threats before, including the rise of the web itself when AOL was a proprietary service that offered no way of jumping on board the Net.
The most interesting part of this story is that Google has managed to adapt to the changes in the way people consume news far more effectively than Yahoo and AOL did.
He compares the approach Clear Channel is taking to what AOL did when he was running that company, or the way Microsoft over the years added features that other companies were approaching as free-standing businesses.
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The suit has been working its way through the courts since 2008, when Bascom sued both AOL and Yahoo for patent infringement.
Another option could be an attempt to acquire AOL. Microsoft could stand in the way of this though.
Jill Lesser, assistant general counsel at AOL, said the service doesn't have another way to identify parental consent.
The Husky Lab experience is a bit different from the glory days of AOL Chat in more than just one way, though.
Lawsuits by Microsoft and AOL against suspected spammers are still making their way through the courts.
Late last week, a new solution came onto the scene, and in a very visible way: TechCrunch, another AOL property which has similar commenting problems (fanboys, trolls, you know: the fun types) threw the switch on Facebook's new and improved native commenting system.
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Robert Pittman and Steve Case ultimately followed Levin, and AOL Time Warner is now run by Time Warner executives, just the way Turner wanted it.
So far, however, the numbers are small: in the week of April 25th, 61 writers published 155 articles in this way on 33 AOL sites.
Though AOL Mail can't be pushed to the device, there's now an easy way to manage it from the Web browser.
Once the AOL software is installed, Windows usually asks if a user wants it to become their default, or main, way of going online.
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