• ZDNet, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:30 PM

Popular software blog Download Squad became the latest casualty in AOL's post-HuffPo content "consolidation," ZDNet reports. In an email issued late Monday, Download Squad's staff was effectively told to gather their personal belongings. "From that moment, no further blog posts were made on Download Squad," ZDNet writes. Editor Sebastian Anthony then tweeted, "In a world where software is moving towards ubiquity, AOL-HuffPo has seen fit to shut down the best software blog on the Web. Insane."

Regarding layoffs, AOL head Tim Armstrong assured last month: "There will be job changes ... There's no way around it, but we'll do it thoughtfully." AOL has said that it plans to get $20 million in savings out of the Huffington Post deal, so layoffs were inevitable. As president and editor-in-chief of the newly formed Huffington Post Media Group within AOL, Arianna Huffington has so far folded -- or is in the process of folding -- 30 content brands into other in-house properties.

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