http://www.seocritique.com/seoforeveryone/?p=16 AOL is thinking about dropping fees for broadband users and users with a non-AOL dial-up service. What would happen if they make their content index-able too?
Even with there services, would people still even want to use them? All you are going to get is a SPAM advertised e-mail address..
AOL has tons of community content. The game-plan is to open that to the Internet public and sell advertising space.
AOL has already been stigmatized among the knowledgeable. They are lucky they have people that just have no interest in the internet passed myspace and AIM.
Don't be premature predicting AOL's demise. AOL has a long history. No one expected it to surpass Compuserve. Everyone expected it to die with GEnie, Compuserve and Prodigy. Companies like Apple and Yahoo! Have reinvented themselves and made themselves relevant again. AOL has plenty of resources behind it so it could very well happen again.
Apple and Yahoo! have reinvented themselves by being quality companies. AOL is not a quality company, to say the least.
Im going to have to agree with you, AOL does have a lot of community content. I know by personal experience several years ago when i first got a computer, I thought AOL was great, for the normal computer user, AOL is great... Even if its used with Broadband.