IP Democracy: AOL's Miller at Web 2.0: AOL is Now...AOL

Dan Farber at ZDNet’s Between the Lines reports that AOL’s CEO Jonathan Miller announced at the Web 2.0 conference that AOL is changing the name of the company to…AOL. Actually, in a sensible move America Online is dropping the “America” part of its name to gain greater acceptance internationally. It will now be known simply as AOL, not America Online.

Miller also noted that both AOL and rival Yahoo share a common vision of pumping up video distribution capabilities.

“It’s a real turning point for video consumption over IP, and we want to do a lot more of it,” Miller said. “Today we have a lot more video than anybody else [a Time Warner company], more video assets and programs, and we’ll take Weblogs (AOL acquired blog network Weblogs, Inc. today) into print and video as well.”

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on October 7, 2005 7:20 AM to IP Democracy