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more about #valleywag more comments → MincnglyWhrdL'mer: lol. more » MessiahsHandle: Oh no! He didn't "Mount Kilauea" or "Scale Diamond Head" did he? I seriously hope he's not stuck his penis in the pu pu platter cause aside for the od... more » MessiahsHandle: I suggest Doa. Can't we take Aol to Switzerland to put it out of its misery...legally? more » shostakobitch: but what does denton think about this? more » PandoraSpocks: Palin Newsom 2012. Their slogan: We're totlly clueless but look great on TV. more » Sir Thomas More: They might as well have gone all the way and changed it into Lol. more » naugahydeinplainsight: This is the one that scared me. Brought back memories of waiting so long for pages to load it felt like my head was about to explode. Thanks for brin... more » Motoko Kusanagi: That newscast seems appropriately shit for SF. more » son of spam: Aol. Rhymes with A-hole. more » AzureTexan: I'm diggin' the ideogram. Reading right to left, it's "Eddy hook 'em fish." more » lobstr: If the folks behind this are the same people who did that new Pepsi swirl campaign, I'd love to see the 40-page corporate-branded meta-existential shi... more » Motoko Kusanagi: Dead fish gets flushed down the toilet. Rock on! more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: A great holiday gift for friends, colleagues, clients, inmates ... more » TedSez: Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to distribute these messages to anyone who wanted to read them? And do it for free? Oh, right. more » iplaudius: What started as a democratic open forum has become like the professional knowledge industry, academia: largely controlled by obsessive white males. more » -
#branding
Surf The Internet the Mostly Lower Case Way
Stop everything, The Internet: AOL is now Aol. Whether superimposed on a fish or a hand or just some swirly crap, this logo makes the bold statement: We can no longer afford capital letters. [Ad Age] -
#holidaze
The Incredible Shrinking AOL
Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self. More » -
#valleywag
AOL will lay off about 100 today, as we reported, says All Things D.
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#holidaze
AOL Layoffs Tomorrow to Kick Off Depressing Holiday Season?
'Tis the season to rush up layoffs so they don't fall in the sacrosanct Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period: An AOL insider tells us the company is slated to let go around 100 people tomorrow, following 1,500 firings Electronic Arts announced today. More » -
#exits
A Dramatic Google Goodbye
Today was Kristin Kovner's last day at Google, after three years with the company in New York. And what better way for a YouTube marketer to say goodbye to cherished colleagues than with a serenade, uploaded to the intranet? More » -
#spinoffs
Why Delay AOL's Mass Layoffs?
Everyone knows Tim Armstrong is planning more layoffs at AOL once the company is spun off from Time Warner. So why let them hang over the company's return to the markets as an independently-traded stock? More » -
#valleywag
Did Elisabeth Murdoch Just Get Conned?
It seems Joanna Shields has found another mark. Barely 18 months ago, she sold her also-ran social network Bebo to AOL for $850 million. The disastrous deal still haunts AOL. Now she's charmed Rupert Murdoch's daughter into bankrolling her. How? More » -
#internalmemos
AOL's CEO Calls for 'Laser Focus,' Fires People
Tim Armstrong has begun to shape AOL to his liking, four months after Time Warner announced the much-diminished internet conglomerate's spinoff. Here's the internal memo in which the CEO calls some serious buckling down — and jettisons two executives. More » -
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#television
Why Warren Buffett and Martha Stewart Just Showed Up at an AOL Meeting
Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart and legendary investor Warren Buffet are on stage at a big AOL meeting. "People are going fucking nuts," a tipster writes. Why are the business celebrities at AOL? To make children's programming, naturally. More » -
#theinternet
Michael Jackson Traffic Melts Entire Internet
Any doubts about Michael Jackson's megastardom should have ended after news of the singer's death tripped up Google and crashed AOL Instant Messenger, Wikipedia, TMZ and, of course, Twitter. A survey of the epic traffic: More » -
#conflictsofinterest
AOL's Shameless CEO Bailout
Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO, just bought a company from... Tim Armstrong, investor. The official line is that the deal is on the up and up, since the consummate salesman won't be taking any profits off his stake. Rich. More » -
#jobs
Fired AOL Ad Man Was Paid $60,000 Per Day
Gregory Coleman was hired in February to run AOL advertising network Platform A. Two weeks later, the CEO who hired him was out; two months after that, Coleman's own departure was announced. But at least AOL made it worth his while. More » -
#deals
Is There a Coporate Suicide Plot Behind AOL Spinoff?
The surrender of AOL was a humiliating enough denouement for Time Warner, the old-line media conglomerate once imagined invincible. But there's talk it could get worse. What if Time Warner ceased to exist as an independent concern? More » -
#spinoffs
The AOL-Time Warner Saga Bookends One Sorry Decade
The 21st century dawned with news that two media megaliths, AOL and Time Warner, were to merge. Critics howled that the vast tentacles of a combined AOL-TW would subsume us all. Today, Time Warner confirmed it's spinning off AOL, ending a business saga that defined whatever you're calling the 2000s. More » -
#housekeeping
Valleywag: An Instruction Manual
Dear Ryan:
As I head to NBC to run its Bay Area site, I'm leaving you one Silicon Valley gossip blog, used but in good condition. A few thoughts on how to keep it that way. More » -
#rumormonger
New AOL CEO Wants to Buy Twitter's Web Cool
An AOL tipster tells us incoming CEO Tim Armstrong, the Google sales veteran, wants to buy Twitter, the hot message-broadcasting startup. One problem: He hasn't even started at AOL yet. More » -
#faketrends
AOL Email Now as Ironic as a Trucker Hat
Is AOL email now retro cool? One longtime AOL user sure hopes so! -
#exits
AOL Boots Loser CEO for Google's Tim Armstrong
At last, AOL has done something right: The Time Warner Internet unit has hired Google's Tim Armstrong as its new CEO, booting the laughably incompetent duo of CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant. More »
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#twitterati
The Twitterati Drink Alone, or with Jenny 8. Lee
What's Twitter good for? Knowing that your life of quiet desperation is shared by the rich, powerful, or merely well-read, for starters. Steve Case, Sasha Frere-Jones, and Rob Corddry deserve twitty pity: More » -
#layoffs
Attention, AOL Layoff Victims: Steve Case Is Sad
AOL, the failing Time Warner Internet unit, is laying off another 700 employees via emails alerting them to an "important meeting." Even the pink-slipping process is predictable now. And former CEO Steve Case? He's sad. More »
