New AIM, VoIP flavor
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Despite higher ad sales, AOL revenues fell 8% by the end of 2005. It lost 625,000 subscribers in the same time. That still leaves him up to more 19.5 million members only for the US, but itsfears are justified, its AIM struggles to keep pace with the Google/Skype/MSN/Yahoo VoIP-enable instant messenger. AOL CEO Jonathan Miller unveiled some tactics to get ahead, including video and voice chat.
That’s what AOL is missing the most right now…
“Part of the reason MySpace works so well is it has music,” said Charlene Li, analyst at Forrester Research, to USA Today. It makes sense when we know that most of MySpace users are teenagers. Soon its forthcoming version, AOL will provide the non-original AIM functionality in user space, plus the sexier service of free movies for AOL users.
What about phone call?
To contend both Google’s and Yahoo’s VoIP plans and to grab some market share to eBay-Skype, AOL will revamp its AIM to make it a more serious competitor, adding free PC-to-PC calls (quite mandatory) and planning to open its source to software developers― the Google’s tactics of providing API to developers is definitively gaining some new supporters.
Feb 21, 2006 | By Nuno
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