Despite the stigma, there are many people still using AOL email. Some are stuck in a technology time warp; but not everyone is that backwards. Some notable and presumably intelligent celebrities are reportedly still using their AOL email addresses.
The assclowns running AOL and Yahoo! think that merging their two sinking companies into one is a great idea. They may have their own dicks in their ears, because they can’t hear the whole internet screaming how stupid that is.
In the best tie-up since that time I made myself a Vodka and skim milk out of sheer desperation, AOL and Yahoo may become one. It’d be just like Voltron, if Voltron were a rotten egg and a ruptured spleen.
A report from Business Insider claims that AOL is starting a search to replace Michael Arrington as head of TechCrunch. Arrington will contribute as a writer, but will no longer have editorial control over the blog. [Business Insider -- Photo: Noah Berger/Bloomberg News]
Vanity website purveyor About.me is offering up @about.me email addresses, where your website username becomes your handle. Supporting both IMAP and POP, you can redirect your mail to your own email client, or view mail in your about.me account. [About.me via TNW]
Happy Birthday, Interwebz! How far you’ve come. See, if the internet drew its first breath in the spring of 1969, it took its first steps toward its potential on August 6, 1991. Took awhile there. But it was this first step that was just the beginning.
You’re working. A chat window pops open. It’s your mum. “How are you today?” Another window fires; your roommate. “Bro, check this video!” Oh, here’s one from your boss, he wants to know if you’ve seen his pen. Goodbye, productivity.
Magazines rock, but most of them are doing about as well financially as a drunk at a Vegas craps table. Which is indirectly leading to interesting new digital media experiments like (*ahem*) Longshot magazine and tons of tablet publications.
