Comments on: AOL’s baby step in VoIP http://gigaom.com/2004/12/14/aols-baby-step-in-voip/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ready, AIM, VoIP http://gigaom.com/2004/12/14/aols-baby-step-in-voip/#comment-99423 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/12/14/aols-baby-step-in-voip/#comment-99423 Hope you’ll remember that they are still pretty big in AIM. Having innovated “presence” so to speak — they know a thing or two.

Don’t underestimate AIM. Lots of folks use it — even the execs at big time VoIP service providers are using AIM.

Close your eyes and imagine that AOL wasn’t an Internet Service Provider. Now you see this software — AOL Instant Messenger … kinda looks like Microsoft now doesn’t it. A software company … So even if they never run the biggest VoIP network on the planet — which I’m sure is the case — they are a player in VoIP because of their brand name (which I am not an expert on) but most certainly because of the depth of reach of AIM and the associations with presence and communications.

]]> By: Ready, AIM, VoIP http://gigaom.com/2004/12/14/aols-baby-step-in-voip/#comment-99424 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/12/14/aols-baby-step-in-voip/#comment-99424 Hope you’ll remember that they are still pretty big in AIM. Having innovated “presence” so to speak — they know a thing or two.

Don’t underestimate AIM. Lots of folks use it — even the execs at big time VoIP service providers are using AIM.

Close your eyes and imagine that AOL wasn’t an Internet Service Provider. Now you see this software — AOL Instant Messenger kinda looks like Microsoft now doesn’t it. A software company … So even if they never run the biggest VoIP network on the planet — which I’m sure is the case — they are a player in VoIP because of their brand name (which I am not an expert on) but most certainly because of the depth of reach of AIM and the associations with presence and communications.

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