Posts Tagged with ‘AOL’

I was just reading a short article by a friend about the use of the term "Digg Killer" and how it is used too often and inappropriately. We all have a tendency to compare things, but why is it that everything has to be a Digg or Google killer? I guess there is nothing wrong with comparisons and they are even helpful when trying to describe a difficult concept or startup, but maybe we should all spend more time describing "the thing" than [...]

Word in the Valley has it that some execs at AOL are thinking of killing the social news system established some time ago at Netscape.com to rip off compete with Digg. Apparently, it hasn’t reached the level of success they believed it would many months back, and think it’d be better simply to direct Netscape.com visitors to the traditional portal originally established at the domain, rather than having to seek out Netscape.AOL.com.
Here’s to hoping the rumors are [...]

As I am sure you already know, viral video is all the rage on the internet. It is all about sharing and embedding your favorite video content into other sources such as your social network profile or a blog. Now, bloggers have an all new place to catch the latest videos… but this time, they are not comedic or user-generated. They are news and current event videos.
Today, the NewsMarket, launched VideoCafé, a new service that will give bloggers the ability [...]

In an effort to make itself known as the most thorough of privacy protectors in the realm of search today, Ask.com, generally thought to be the fourth in line to the industry throne (behind Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL), has announced a feature to be launched later this year which will allow users to perform “anonymous searches.”
The feature, dubbed "AskEraser", will be possible for the portal’s users to easily turn on as a barrier disallowing Ask from retaining any information regarding [...]

My old favorite YouTube seems to be chugging along according to the news today. According to statistics from a Hitwise, Inc traffic data, from January to May the market share of visits to YouTube rose 70 percent even in light of the site's legal woes. The next closest site was News Corp's MySpace Video according to the survey with about 16 percent of the market.
YouTube Then the Others
Google's YouTube as of May, 2007 controls over 60 percent of the [...]

Just when I thought spamming would never end a story comes out today about a Brooklyn man who plead guilty to spamming 1.2 million AOL subscribers. 26 year old Adam Vitale pleads out today in a Manhattan Federal Court to breaking the anti-spam laws. Vitale was caught making a deal with a government informant who sent spam mails advertising a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the product's profit. One has to wonder how lucrative these activities must [...]

Do you recall the point in time when the online world was up in arms over Google’s involvement in the censoring of information as it made its first venture into China? Of course you do. The rumors, the speculation, and the stories about the measures were front and center for a good few weeks. Those were stormy days for the company widely believed incapable of doing wrong. (The reputations of others were also tarnished a good deal for walking [...]

WorldTV is another invitation only, alpha even, startup I have been testing for our readers over these last few days. The service allows users to select and view millions of online videos and to organize them into unique playlists. The idea is not revolutionary but the flash interposing of full screen video inside the user browser is. WorldTV has a look and feel that is unique and attractive. The service is perhaps one of the most interesting early phase startups we [...]

Picture this. You’re at home, inside an Internet café, or library laced with WiFi, and you hear – through an email notification, an IM, etc. – that there’s a concert going on someplace. It’d be great if you could see it live. But you can’t, for a myriad of reasons. Would you then opt for a virtual sit-in of sorts?
Some businesses, many of which sprouted due to the success of the Web experiment that placed the worldwide Live 8 [...]