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...with luxury condos, a five-star hotel, six restaurants, a Las Vegas-style casino and a private yacht club on the nearby Isla Saboga. The project is 10-to-20 times more expensive than that of any other skyscraper in Panama City. It will be 20% bigger than the AOL-Time Warner building in New York City, Khafif says...
First there were the AOL chat rooms, the pioneer of forums for online creepers and the occasional renegade tween to unite nationwide. Then MySpace came along and ratcheted it up a notch, giving a face to the cyber freak in the form of the emo bathroom mirror photoshoot. And even for the high-brow college crowd, Facebook arrived to provide the perfect venue for creeping clandestinely—without compromising class. But no site has exploded onto the social networking scene quite as absurdly and gloriously as Chatroulette...
GERALD LEVIN, former Time Warner chairman, taking the blame for the 2000 merger with AOL--"the worst deal of the century, apparently"--which cost shareholders billions of dollars...
...culled from other websites, neither advancing the story nor bringing any insight (a description, it should be noted, that can be just as fairly applied to many offerings of more mainstream media). Most Examiners are not journalists, and their prose is not edited. CEO Rick Blair, who helped launch AOL's Digital Cities, an earlier attempt at a local-news network, calls them "pro-am" - more professional than bloggers, but more amateur than most reporters. You might also call them traffic hounds: because their remuneration is set by, among other things, the number of people who click on their stories...
...event in northern Virginia on mybarackobama.com last week, you'd have gotten 72 matches: five events for the Democratic gubernatorial nominee Deeds, five for candidates out of state and about 60 one-year-anniversary parties for the election of Barack Obama. Charlie McKeon, a senior systems analyst at AOL, spent much of Sunday door-knocking for Deeds just a few miles from the McDonnell rally. Whereas last year the campaign offices overflowed with volunteers, resources and money, this cycle it has taken 200 calls to produce just one volunteer, he says. "That was a once-in-a-lifetime campaign," bemoans...