AOL Moves to Build Tech ‘Newsroom of the Future’ – BusinessWeek

Good press that may move the stock needle for the old guard investors, but AOL seems to be making another, deeper step into being a TimeWarner style content company here. Once, AOL’s greatest features were community driven – instant messenger, e-mail, buddy lists — all of the old bbs community features that kept people in touch with each other.

Features that Facebook natively does and does better.

First, AOL thought of itself as an ISP, then it tried to be a major media company. Now it is trying to find a mix to create new newsroom that is really a hybrid of an algorithm like google news, a social media tracker like twitteruly, and make editors SEO marketers.

I don’t think it bodes well.

AOL Moves to Build Tech ‘Newsroom of the Future’ – BusinessWeek.