AOL Wakes Up To The Web, A Decade Late

from the what-year-is-it? dept

1996 is calling, and it wants its business model back... Remember the time when Yahoo launched MyYahoo as a free portal? And companies like Rocketmail and Hotmail first hit the scene with their ideas for free, web-based email? Yeah, well, it appears that AOL has just figured that stuff out, and is starting to offer free web-based email and more content in a free portal. This, just three years or so after plenty of folks told them that pushing further into a walled garden mentality probably wasn't going to do much for their business. And people wonder why the company is struggling...

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