AOL Reborn

MediaPost has an interesting take on the "new" AOL today. They're predicting that AOL, which they call "Time Warner's Ugly Ducking" will emerge as a swan when corporate earnings are announced next week.

As someone who has been with AOL for years - long enough to have my name (with no added numbers or characters) as my email there - I'm delighted to see it. AOL's been through a variety of rocky times, and it looks like their gamble of knocking down the "paid" walls has paid off handsomely.

I didn't know that AOL had finally abandoned its "Rainman" proprietary technology and updated to HTML. That's long overdue.