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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: cody andre who wrote ()11/17/1996 7:02:00 AM
From: Bob Jacobson   of 13594
 
The one way that AOL and the other online majors might find a perchhold in the future Net universe would be to position themselves as _interpretive_ systems: i.e., systems that help their users to make sense of _the rest_ of the Internet. So far as I can tell, only The WELL provides this type of referential service -- and only as part of a much richer melange, which perhaps disguises this usefully central aspect of The WELL. IMHO, AOL and the others (most of which have already started to waste away) cannot offer interpretive services since they are so godawfully self- centered and determined (it seems to me) NOT to happily guide others to "competing" information sources. The one exception, besides The WELL: MSN, and its problem is simply that it's Microsoft, as self-serving as you can get. Forget the majors: in the future, the specialized services will be the ones
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