Comments on: A tour of MyAOL, a Personalized Aggregator

By: Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Web Strategy Reading: July 16, 2007

Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Web Strategy Reading: July 16, 2007 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:24:52 +0000

[...] launches!, Frank tells the story. Frank came by PodTech a few weeks ago to show off the [...]

By: Web Strategy by Jeremiah » List of companies that provide Behavioral Recommendations and Social Recommendations Web Services

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:45:47 +0000

[...] David Marks the co-founder and CEO of Loomia has been chatting with me and has told me all the people in his space, I really appreciate him being so open to talk about his competitors, true community marketing. I was able to see a demo of Criteo yesterday. [...]

By: Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Fire in Palo Alto Hills near PodTech

Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Fire in Palo Alto Hills near PodTech — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:39:06 +0000

[...] On Monday, during a meeting with Frank Gruber and Jen from AOL we started to smell smoke. At first I thought it was incense but then one of our colleagues came into the room declaring “The Stanford dish hill is on fire!”. It’s warm right now in California, in fact a few hundred homes had burnt down in Tahoe this last week. [...]

By: arunerblog

arunerblog — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:17:03 +0000

Standards, the My Suite, and Summer …

I believe in the general synchronicity of summer, and think June and July bring unexpected Jungian gifts. This is an eventful summer for me in many ways, but for now, a quick word on my professional life. Firstly, buddy and……

By: Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Silicon Valley Sightings: AOL

Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Silicon Valley Sightings: AOL — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:31:19 +0000

[...] Update: Frank Gruber and Jen came over to PodTech to show me the new MyAOL, I take back what I said, AOL is innovating. While certainly not cutting edge, they are making strides in the right direction. [...]

By: jeremiah_owyang

jeremiah_owyang — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:12:57 +0000

Understood Dallas.

Frank is a good guy, AOL is lucky to have him (and Jenn too). Although I think that AOL is headed in the right direction, I’m still not going to be using their products, I’m probably the wrong demographic.

By: Dallas Freeman

Dallas Freeman — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:28:56 +0000

Good to see that people still have the guts to come and see you after you have criticised the company with your large audience. I have high respect for Frank Gruber now.

Whenever I see AOL, all I see is America and that is a bit personalised for others to enter. If they want to be successful outside of America, I think a name change would be required. So it all depends if you just want to target America or not.

Already by looking at the name ‘myAOL,’ I’m turned off because I automatically think that it won’t be useful for me. I don’t have AOL and I don’t use AIM either.