I briefly worked for AOL on the Winamp team right after they acquired both Winamp and Time Warner. The story that an AOL deal ends up in a total cluster fuck is 10 years old.
With any knowledge of recent history, it is boggling anyone thought this acquisition would work and I don't believe for a second Arrington is writing in earnest.
SHOUTcast's recent week-long on and off outage and subsequent crippling of their APIs is evidence enough of how seriously (or lack thereof) they take some of their properties.
The life of any app is measured in years, the best of which is when you sell to a "larger organization that can use its widespread exposure to further grow the community" while it dies a couple of years later. Just look at Yahoo!'s portfolio. Arrington wanting his baby back is a bunch of BS.
Reddit would be an anomaly, I'm happy to say, although it still has a ways to grow out of its niche.
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I briefly worked for AOL on the Winamp team right after they acquired both Winamp and Time Warner. The story that an AOL deal ends up in a total cluster fuck is 10 years old.
With any knowledge of recent history, it is boggling anyone thought this acquisition would work and I don't believe for a second Arrington is writing in earnest.
SHOUTcast's recent week-long on and off outage and subsequent crippling of their APIs is evidence enough of how seriously (or lack thereof) they take some of their properties.
Oh, to live in a world where MySpace was acquired by AOL instead of Rupert Murdoch.
The life of any app is measured in years, the best of which is when you sell to a "larger organization that can use its widespread exposure to further grow the community" while it dies a couple of years later. Just look at Yahoo!'s portfolio. Arrington wanting his baby back is a bunch of BS.
Reddit would be an anomaly, I'm happy to say, although it still has a ways to grow out of its niche.