GNG News Guy
12-28-2007, 11:16 AM
Users in our Roadrunner forum (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r19689132-TWC-RoadRunner-selling-cars-now) note that Time Warner and their partially owned ISP subsidiary Roadrunner have been playing around in the car sales business (see TV commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvsvqWrGgco)) for a few years. While it's certainly normal for companies to branch out into other fields (Comcast just bought Fandango, after all) it's a little strange to see that their car sales website, BeepBeep.com (http://beepbeep.com/Global/category.asp?C=45464&nav=menu230_1), simply re-constitutes the Roadrunner ISP logo.
What's more, clicking on the website's privacy link simply takes you to the Roadrunner ISP privacy page (http://content.rr.com/rr-privacy/). It's worth noting because it demonstrates how wide of a net ISPs are casting into the content arena in order to avoid being dumb-pipe providers. Time Warner is probably trying to get maximum mileage out of their Looney Toons properties but still, you'd think a company that large could afford a slightly original design.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/My-ISP-Sells-Cars-Too-90534)
What's more, clicking on the website's privacy link simply takes you to the Roadrunner ISP privacy page (http://content.rr.com/rr-privacy/). It's worth noting because it demonstrates how wide of a net ISPs are casting into the content arena in order to avoid being dumb-pipe providers. Time Warner is probably trying to get maximum mileage out of their Looney Toons properties but still, you'd think a company that large could afford a slightly original design.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/My-ISP-Sells-Cars-Too-90534)