AOL will shut down its blogging platform and its hub for AOL community homepages, it announced yesterday.
Both services are scheduled to officially close their doors on October 31, and AOL has informed users how to save their information. It says it will soon post information on how to transfer Journal content to another blogging service.
Who does this even affect? Virtually no one, at least based on a memo that was leaked back in July. Kevin Conroy, AOL's executive VP for Products, announced that the company would be cutting costs, and presumably these two products fall under the umbrella of those that "continue to struggle."
Journals was launched in 2003 and fell prey to other platforms like Google’s Blogger and WordPress.
AOL’s more substantial community exists in the Bebo network, which is set to rear its head out in the new homepage redesign. And while it is making some cuts with old projects, they have also been launching a series of new niche sites, including Digital City, a celebrity blog PopEater, and LemonDrop, a blog geared towards women.
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