Jag har skrivit några ord om AOL:s väg till att bli sann mediajätte 2.0, baserat på en läckt presentation. Se även Fredrik Strömbergs kommentar i frågan.
Month: February 2011
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The AOL masterplan
SAI’s got the AOL masterplan, with the Town concept and how the old dial-up company is to be the new media giant 2.0, in a leaked 58 page presentation. AOL’s calling it The AOL Way and it shows an extremely harsh way of looking at content, with pageview goals and SEO tools to further improve the content’s search engine rankings. Writing for search engines isn’t anything new of course, but AOL desperately needs its brands to stand on their own, not be reliant on traffic from the AOL homepage.
All this isn’t news. The Town concept have been known for some time, and the fact that AOL is ramping up on content isn’t new either. But the way it is presented, cold and down to numbers, is both refreshing and scary at the same time.
Will AOL pull it off?
I doubt it.
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Darth Vader typography is beautiful and brilliant
This is just wonderful, Darth Vader typography. Would make a great poster or something.
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WordPress for iOS updated to 2.6.5
The WordPress for iOS app is updated to version 2.6.5, fixing a number of issues including some image related ones. If you’re still experiencing some of them, try to remove the app and then install it again. The developers are looking for people to help push the development forward, so if you’re interested be sure to let them know.
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Readability is Instapaper with a bit of Flattr to it
The Readability experiment on the Arc90 blog got some exposure and is overall a pretty cool bookmarklet that lets you strip away all the nasty stuff (that’ll be ads and poor design) from websites. It’s built into Safari and is actually something of a live version of Instapaper.
And now it’s available for $5/month (or more, if you want to), on its own site and all.
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Do we want to use Facebook's comments?
Facebook (fan me!) will most definitely give Disqus and others a run for their money when they launch their hosted commenting service. I’ve got clients asking me about Facebook’s solution already. Question is, do we really want comments to be Facebook users only? Not due anytime soon it seems.
