![]() Ryan Sagawa, our talented AOL Events intern, has come up with 4 logos for Disrupt AOL. By being open and letting the AOL community- all of you bright and creative people- loose on some of our APIs, I'm convinced we will generate some awesome ideas that will help move the company forward in significant ways. AOL has a long history of innovation, with more than 1000 patents awarded since the inception of the company. This event is designed to drive the AOL Open philosophy and to challenge and reward AOL brands to be more open. Oh yeah, winners also will get a pretty sweet prize package, including CASH. Putting a twist on TechCrunch Disrupt, this event will be comprised of a Hackathon and an Idea Battlefield, and will culminate in your projects being pitched before judges and considered for actual development. Disrupt AOL will take place on our campuses around the world on December 3rd, with a Judging Event broadcast globally on December 5th. We are pleased to announce an exciting event coming next month. For a t-shirt, for an invitation to the Event we are announcing today and for the design on the $2,500 check you and your co-workers might win as one of the prizes…. See the different logos below/attached? We need you to pick one. We read through each and every submission, and we started to take action. We asked you to share thoughts and ideas about the AOL community, our products, and how we work. (I'm voting for D.)Ībout a month ago, we held Beat The Internet Breakfasts in multiple AOL offices. Would barnyard animals sprout wings? Would dogs and cats live peacefully together? Would AOL as we know it cease to exist?Īlmost forgot: If you're an AOL employee, not only can you submit your ideas to “Disrupt AOL,” but you can also help choose the logo you'll be forced to look at while doing so. ![]() Putting aside the fact that an internal hackathon is actually a cool idea, and that encouraging cross-promotion of various internal APIs is a good thing, and that yeah, we could come up with some new ideas for this “Idea Battlefield,” I began to worry that maybe AOL could become too Disrupted.įor instance, what if someone Disrupted our broadband business, the most profitable part of the company, and our grandmothers ended their 15 year-old AOL subscriptions? What if someone Disrupted our horrible internal employee portal, which is only accessible through the most arcane and impossible VPN you might never hope to use? What if someone found a way to Disrupt our massive - and growing - layer of middle management at AOL, thereby crippling our bureaucracy and spiraling the company out of control? The memo touts the company's “long history of innovation,” which is qualified by the number of patents AOL has been awarded. (One could argue that having the Disrupt branding “borrowed” without our knowledge for this “exciting event” is an example of such “openness.”) ![]() Then there's a whole part about the “AOL Open philosophy,” which I've never heard of but apparently “challenges and rewards AOL brands to be more open,” which I have never actually seen happen. Oh yeah, and there is a “pretty sweet prize package,” “including CASH.” ![]() In an internal memo today, AOL Global CTO Curtis Brown announced an “exciting event” that will be taking place next month in AOL campuses “around the world.” In an “exciting twist” on the TechCrunch-branded Disrupt events, the company will be running an internal “Hackathon” and “Idea Battlefield” in which participants will be able to “pitch their ideas” in front of “judges.” Winning ideas will be “considered for actual development.” We've Disrupted San Francisco, we've Disrupted New York City, and most recently we've Disrupted Europe.īut now, our parent company wants TechCrunch employees, and all the rest of the company, to “Disrupt AOL.” Over the last few years, TechCrunch has done a pretty good job of Disrupting things.
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