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AOL CityGuide
AOL's CityGuide has been a longtime fixture on both AOL and AOL.com. Whether you should opt for CityGuide over its rival, City Guides (a key component of MSN), will have as much to do with geography as features. There's not a complete overlap among the two services, so if you live in Newport, Rhode Island, MSN's City Guides will be your only option, while if you live in southern West Virginia, you'll want to turn to AOL's CityGuide. That said, CityGuide tends to do a better job of catering to visitors, with tips on getting around town and suggestions for all sorts of free activities (for New York, it told us which museums have free admission days and tracked the many street festivals that take place during the warmer months). There are more than a few quirky features as well, including a monthly guide to "wacky" events (August brings National Underwear Day—one more reason to avoid the subway). One feature was distinctly less appealing: an emergency resource guide that offers links to agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, and even lets you sign up to receive Amber Alerts when children go missing in your neighborhood. Though it's jarring, this feature could prove useful.

Some of AOL.com's best features are geared toward specific segments of its diverse audience; AOL's pay service has long embraced users of different backgrounds, interests, and lifestyles. CityGuide, for example, offers a wealth of content geared toward gay and lesbian visitors, while the excellent AOL BlackVoices section brings together news, message boards, magazine articles, and blogs of interest to the African-American community. AOL.com's Military Center is chock-full of message boards and blogs for and by soldiers and their families.

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