Product End of Life

America Online continues to tighten its belt with the announcement of its discontinuing the services of AOL Pictures, BlueString, and XDrive.  AOL will begin notifying customers next week.  AOL had discontinued AOL journals and AOL Hometown earlier this summer.

All three products will go offline in December, however, AOL customers that have photos on AOL pictures will be able to access them until June 2009.

The company is clearly looking to shave budgets by eliminating money losing products.

With the closing of some of its more interesting social media apps, the current economic climate, and Yahoo’s 64 percent drop in profits and 10% cut in workforce, the rumor mill is active again about a possible AOL-YAHOO merger….