http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/02/aol-joins-the-party-five-years-late/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/02/aol-joins-the-party-five-years-late/comment-page-1/#comment-32100 IP Democracy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/08/02/aol-joins-the-party-five-years-late/#comment-32100 <!--%kramer-pre%-->AOL giveaway doesn’t guarantee success,” “AOL freebies won’t guarantee success,” and on and on. My absolute favorite item that casts a huge cloud of doubt over the last-ditch strategy is this piece by Mathew Ingram. Mathew, whose writing is always fun to read, says: If nothing else, the much-discussed decision to make America Online’s software and services completely free will result in a great laboratory experiment on a truly grand scale, an<!--%kramer-post%--> AOL giveaway doesn’t guarantee success,” “AOL freebies won’t guarantee success,” and on and on. My absolute favorite item that casts a huge cloud of doubt over the last-ditch strategy is this piece by Mathew Ingram. Mathew, whose writing is always fun to read, says: If nothing else, the much-discussed decision to make America Online’s software and services completely free will result in a great laboratory experiment on a truly grand scale, an

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