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No Wonder the Dulles Wegmans Removed all the AOL themed Specials

The Dulles, VA Wegmans used to have a lot of AOL themed food specials. Afterall, AOL's former HQ is right across the road. After the last major round of layoffs, all the food specials disappeared from the store.

I thought it was the round of layoffs that had the specials pulled from in store advertisements. However, after receiving an email from a recruiter (text after the jump with recruiter and company name redacted) much less the gas to get out to the hinterlands of Loudoun county.  I think Wegmans pulled the specials because nobody left at AOL can afford to eat there!

For everything they are asking in the job description, the pay is pitiful. Even marking up the hourly rate 40-50% for agency margin shows that AOL is no longer serious as a content play and is biding their time with warm bodies that can be tossed overboard without a severance package when their Time Warner masters finally figure out a way to spin them off and close that chapter in their corporate history.

The full text of the recruiter's email appears after the jump:

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Collaboration Tools Web Office Web/Tech

Web Office Security

Office
documents equal corporate secrets and while the recent developments in
the Web Office space from Google, Adobe, Microsoft, ThinkFree, and Zoho
are painting an attractive picture of tomorrow’s Office suite but new
questions about of corporate information security arise as the
Office suite morphs into an online/offline hybrid.

Zoho recently made headlines with accepting Google and Yahoo logins meaning that users don’t have to have  a separate Zoho login. However, while I’ve been avidly following Web Office suite developments the Zoho announcement about accepting Google and Yahoo logins was positively consumer. I’ve yet to read about a major enterprise win for Zoho or any other Web Office vendor for that matter and/or security developments like two-factor security with RSA SecurIDs.

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