AOL cuts 700, including Weblogs Inc lifestyle blogs

AOL will fire 700 employees according to a memo sent to all staff by CEO Randy Falco today. Included in the cuts is a freeze on "merit" pay rises for 2009. Among the cuts is also said to be ... continue

2009 Will Be The Year of the Uber Blog

As we end 2008, the year ahead offers the biggest challenge ever in the history of blogging. Although blogging dates back to the beginning of the first dot com boom, it truly came of age as the second ... continue

Is the Blog Network model dying?

Blogging may have started from personal journals, but the diaries of 2000 evolved into something different. As sites grew a new form of company emerged, the blog network, that aimed to take the experience often gathered in ... continue

3 year later, AOL Weblogs Inc is thriving with brilliant numbers

It only seems like yesterday that Jason Calacanis launched the blog network Weblogs Inc. I can still remember him pitching me at The Blog Herald, asking me to cover his new network. It took a couple of ... continue

Weblogs Inc veterans launch new blog network

Former Weblogs Inc staff, including co-founder Brian Alvey have launched a new blog network Crowd Fusion, built around a new content management system of the same name. The first blog to launch in the network is Obsessable, a ... continue

AOL launches new blogs. PS: I was wrong on Weblogs Inc

Back in July I wrote a post arguing that issues at Weblogs Inc prove that big companies and blog networks are a difficult mix, and that AOL proved it. While there is a still a sound case ... continue

I want to be acquired by AOL [Socialthing]

AOL's acquisition of lifestreaming service Socialthing has been confirmed, reports Mashable. Financials have not been revealed. According to their QBase entry, "Simplifying the management of sites and services that you already use like blogs and social networks, ... continue

AOL proves that big companies and blog networks are a difficult mix

A week after announcing cut backs, bloggers at the AOL Weblogs Inc are still up in arms, according to a post at ReadWriteWeb. In an internal briefing AOL Senior VP of Programming Marty Moe spun a positive line, ... continue

AOL to close services, Weblogs Inc blogs affected

AOL will close Bluestring, Xdrive, MyMobile and AOL Pictures as part of a restructure, and Weblogs Inc blogs have not missed out, according to a report at PaidContent. Of the services being cut, most would be unfamiliar names ... continue