20 Nov 08 Do You Use This Free Phone Service?
Do you use the AIM Free phone line service? I tried it out for a while some time back, and it worked quite well if you didn’t mind running AIM on your desktop all the time.
AIM Free Phoneline is
I haven’t used it since I moved my business lines to Skype, which gives me much more portability, and the ability to use my cellphone as well via their service. AIM free phone line tied you to your desk. Still it was, well, free, and it was useful before I had GrandCentral to separate my personal and business calls for me.
Anyway, it’s another service that AOL are closing down. From January 13, 2009, it will be no more. They seem to be taking stuff down bit by bit. The AOL journals went recently too.
I don’t use AOL myself these days, and I only dabbled with it out of curiosity in the past, but they seem to be slowing fading away. They’ve attempted to become more and more part of the ‘mainstream’ internet in recent times, but I wonder if they’ve left it too late. Perhaps they could have been one of the leaders of Social Media Networking if they’d followed a different strategy. After all like ‘em or loathe ‘em they were one of the leaders at one time in online connectivity, with millions of customers. It was where the majority of the newbies went, and it was part of the crapware installed on many many store-bought home PCs.
Come to think of it, I can’t remember the last time I had one of those AOL CDs appear in my mailbox…
Tags: aim, aol cds, bit by bit, business calls, business lines, cellphone, connectivity, crapware, curiousity, desk, free phone line, home pcs, journals, last time, mainstream internet, newbies, skype
17 Mar 08 Manic Monday
Why does everything seem to go wrong on Mondays? I remember writing on this topic just last week.
Services that were once a luxury, such as telephone, and even electricity are now seen as necessities and for many the Internet falls into that category too. It certainly does for those of us that rely on the connectivity to earn a few pennies each day!
This morning, no Internet. That means no phone too, when you use VOIP. That’s not so bad, as mine is set up to forwardto my cellphone if there’s a net outage anyway. Although I can check my emails on my cellphone, it’s not a full web browser, and not the best way to try and reply.
Fortunately, I was off to visit a client this morning anyway, so I’ve been able to purloin a spare computer of theirs to do some other tasks that needed doing this morning.
Heck it was only yesterday, that I was commenting that ‘we’ve never had it so good” as far as the Internet goes. I guess, I put a jinx on things, and today’s citywide outage is all my fault!
Tags: comcast, connectivity, electricity, expensive, necessities, pennies, reliability. comcast suck
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