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Old 08-07-2007, 08:14 PM   #1
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[News] Meetro And AOL Quietly Developing New Forum Products

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...Now we’re hearing a rumor that the Meetro team is quietly building a new product - an easy “one-click” way of creating new forum on the fly. Instant messaging and forums are very similar businesses...
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...AOL is also rumored to be releasing a new forum product in the Fall. We’re hearing that the product was handed over to the Userplane team after some development difficulties...
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I am not sure how much of an impact it would make on the forum builders/admin community. vB is already holding a strong ground and it might turn out to be difficult for these ventures to lay siege on it.
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Old 08-07-2007, 09:51 PM   #2
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I doubt it will add up to anything that will challenge the big time forum software vendors like vBulletin. Especially since AOL is doing it. They'll screw it up somehow.
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It'll probably be more of a social network than a forum. I doubt vB is very worried.
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Forums designed by AOL, come on the only people using their software are the elderly and the hanger ons. They might try to cash in on the forum/community driven website ala Myspace and facebook.
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I'll tell you I'm not worried the bit least - AOL was a major faliure and I don't see anything better coming out of those offices.
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I'll tell you I'm not worried the bit least - AOL was a major faliure and I don't see anything better coming out of those offices.
I would not call AOL a failure, during the 1990's the AOL network was pretty massive. However AOL's time has passed now, and it is time for them to quietly go away.
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I would not call AOL a failure, during the 1990's the AOL network was pretty massive. However AOL's time has passed now, and it is time for them to quietly go away.
True - when Dial up was all the rage - but they've failed to offer a competitive service and I don't see them doing it any better with anything else.

They may reinvent the wheel nicely, but it'll either become bloated with crap or just left to rot, if I know anything about AOL.
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