5 posts and columns on AOL Mail

Exclusive: Amid Layoffs in AOL’s AIM and Mail Ranks, Top Execs Shellen and Van Miltenburg to Also Depart

in News on March 8 at 7:02 pm PT

Another day, another, well, you know …
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Digital Musical Chairs: Google Exec to Scribd, Apple Exec to AOL, Yahoo Exec to Google!

in News on July 19, 2010 at 9:56 pm PT

Oh, the game of musical chairs in the digital sector never seems to stop. In today’s Silicon Valley roundelay, Google’s head of traditional media and publisher partnerships, Rob Macdonald, heads to online publishing start-up Scribd, while AOL nabs Apple marketing exec Alan Eyzaguirre and Google grabs former Yahoo tech exec Venkat Panchapakesan.

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Peanut Butter Manifesto Author: You've Got Mail, With Fewer Ads

in News on December 10, 2009 at 12:47 pm PT

Brad Garlinghouse is known for the so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto he penned at Yahoo, in which he argued that the company spread itself too thin. Mr. Garlinghouse joined AOL earlier this year, and on Thursday, as the company completed its spinoff and began trading, he fired off another memo, this time promising AOL mail customers that change is coming:

Face(book)lifts All Around! And A Bit of Botox for AOL Too!

in News on September 10, 2008 at 1:13 pm PT

Although about one-third of its user base–30 million people–has already switched over to its new design, which has been opt-in since July, Facebook will now officially start to move the entire site and the other 70 million Facebookers. The changeover–which is not optional–will be complete in a few weeks, Facebook said. I do like the new look, which is definitely cleaner and simpler, although it makes the experience a little more disjointed, since everyone’s profile is now cut up into tabs.