AOL’s Worldwide Plans for Patch

by Matt on Mar 23, 2010 in Industry

AOL “believes that conceivably there could be a Patch in every community in the world. So, international expansion is in the cards.”

From AOL mapping VP Jon Brod, speaking at the Marketplaces 2010 conference in San Diego this week. So apparently I wasn’t too far off when I recently suggested that AOL could become our hyperlocal overlords.

More coverage of Brod’s appearance: Marketplaces 2010: Local Is Largest Opportunity Yet to Be Won Online

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March 23, 2010 | Filed Under Industry 

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