Jason’s team at Weblogs, Inc. does it again: www.bloggingstocks.com. For a more mainstream writeup, read Heather Green’s article at BusinessWeek (via Nick Wilson at Performancing).
BloggingStocks.com has the Weblogs, Inc. look and feel to it, integrates AOL assets (links to Message Boards, Alerts & Reminders, Quotes, Portfolios, etc.) but is done in a way that’s very clean — not the usual AOL “Fisher Price” style of web design. This could be the watershed moment for AOL’s “audience” business.
What makes me really chuckle is that this feels so Motley Fool 2.0 to me. I mean, 11 years ago, to the month, AOL helped launch the Gardner brothers online.
Lets just hope that AOL can repeat that success again, in today’s popular format. Here’s to wishing that TWX stock price goes up.








November 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Good question. I suspect the twitter user community who was accustomed to the old pre-oauth ways of dealing with authorization ...
November 5th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Another question that occurred to me -- how is this different than cookies allowing access to a site when browsing? ...
November 5th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I agree with that option as well. It largely depends on what the outstanding tokens allow access to in my ...
November 5th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I would paraphrase what Terrence said a bit: Most users expect that when you change your password, having known the ...
November 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Alex: That's a great analogy -- hopefully, that helps others understand why the "expected" behavior that Terence suggests is both ...