{"id":4493,"date":"2012-03-14T09:18:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2012-03-14T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:18:33","slug":"aim-is-unofficially-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/14\/aim-is-unofficially-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"AIM Is (Unofficially) Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5893031\/aim-is-unofficially-dead\">Gizmodo<\/a> links to this report from <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/13\/aol-slashes-more-than-40-jobs-with-more-expected\/\">Nick Bilton<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petermaurer\/status\/179871655269629953\">Peter Maurer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/13\/aol-slashes-more-than-40-jobs-with-more-expected\/\"><p>The AOL Instant Messenger group took the deepest cut so far. A former AOL employee said the group was &ldquo;eviscerated and now only consists of support staff.&rdquo; This person, who asked not to be named because they were not allowed to speak publicly about the company, added that &ldquo;nearly all of the West Coast tech team has been killed.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow I find this more surprising than Encyclopaedia Britannica <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/13\/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses\/\">going out of print<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo links to this report from Nick Bilton (via Peter Maurer): The AOL Instant Messenger group took the deepest cut so far. A former AOL employee said the group was &ldquo;eviscerated and now only consists of support staff.&rdquo; This person, who asked not to be named because they were not allowed to speak publicly about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}