The Swiss knife for AOL broadband service: OpenRide
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In the AOL road to become the new Yahoo, there’s another new service, or truly speaking a platform: OpenRide. The software folds all AOL broadband service in one place, from the AIM instant messenger, to the recent launch of AOL Pictures, the answer to Yahoo-owned Flickr.
OpenRide might be considered as the Wall-Mart for AOL services. But it’s interesting to see where AOL comes this idea. Remember the time when AOL was the short name for America Online, and that the ISP was providing a multi-service platform to its dial-up customers? Well, that’s the same thing.
AOL debuting OpenRide is bad news for smaller players. Especially one, Imeem, a social network where members dump links, share video, music, photos and playlists. We tried IMeem. Verdict: Great. But we wonder big its user base could grow when a big fish like AOL is hunting in the same waters.
Oct 4, 2006 | By Nuno
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ok just checked it out. the dynasizer is a neat trick - easy to use. but you have to use AIM (that’s ok since a lot of ppl use it) for chat, AOL Browser (no thanks!), AOL Email for email (uh who uses that still???), and the media features allow for NO user-generated content (it’s all content picked by AOL - old school!).
This looks like a good attempt at getting AIM users to use other AOL products that are pretty bad (AOL browser, email, etc). The main point is that this is just a new interface for them, but not much else in terms of real features around content.
i just hope it doesn’t have the buggy .exe files that their Triton beta had last year…
Tell us one thing: At the beginning of the story, were you an AOL customer, but then who got rid of its ISP and now, still closely check the AOL moves?