Every once in a while I enjoy reading news like this about AOL ... I just think there is so much you can learn from their story ... to me they are one of the only companies out there that had many chances to be the biggest player in the industry but over and over missed it ... many ideas implemented by successful companies of today (such as Social Networking in general) could have all been implemented better and more successfully by these guys, years ago... maybe they were just never as smart as the other guys :)