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...garden,” has complicated connotations, both historically and in the context of media outlets. Online, it has come to suggest monopoly and content lock-in (that is, practices designed to maintain even unhappy customers by constructing barriers to exit) as much as it has privacy: America Online (AOL) was referred to in the mid 90s as a walled garden because they denied their subscribers access to the Internet at large and denied outsiders access to the content created within. This made it difficult for AOL users to leave and enjoy the fruits of the burgeoning world...
...million, primarily from Chicago private equity firm Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Co., to help finance that expansion. RediClinic, a subsidiary of the Houston consumer medical-screening firm InterFit Health, has 11 clinics and got an injection of funds from Revolution LLC, the investment house launched last year by AOL founder Steve Case with $500 million of his online fortune...
...people, not just a handful of engineers and a six-pack of Code Red. One open-source program, the truly excellent Web browser Firefox, has been downloaded 150 million times. SourceForge.net a website that coordinates open-source work, is currently host to almost 15,000 projects. Internet behemoth AOL, which shares a corporate parent with this magazine, open-sourced its instant-messaging service just last week...
...million by 2007, nearly tripling last year's take. America Online this month launches In2TV, an ad-supported lineup of six streaming-video channels featuring 300 episodes of such vintage series as Kung Fu, Growing Pains and Falcon Crest. "It's not material everyone wants to own," says AOL vice president Erik Flannigan in a bit of an understatement. "But certainly shows like Wonder Woman can be entertaining from the kitsch factor alone." AOL executive vice president Kevin Conroy says he's "at or near the point" of selling out a full year's worth of ads before the service...
...hoping to cash in on downloads and video on demand while helping consumers catch up. "Unless you're one of the 10 million households who have devices like TiVo, the only other catch-up mechanism so far has been buying full seasons of a show on DVD," says AOL's Flannigan...