Media - Internet

The regular meetings of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers–known as ICANN, the folks who make Internet domain names work as well as they do–have long been one of the tech community's better held secrets. Its actual work is incorrectly dismissed as mind-numbingly dull, but ICANN has built a solid reputation for great travel opportunities. Need an excuse to visit Shanghai...

A group of bloggers including mainstream journalists from outlets such as CNBC, The Nation and The New York Times are banding together to strike a blow at established media and pick up some ad dollars in the process. Operating initially as Pajamas Media--a play on criticism that bloggers are "just a bunch of guys in their pajamas"--the site will offer original content and links to affiliate sites...

The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom. Till October, the Web grew by more than 17.5 million sites, says monitoring firm Netcraft. This figure exceeds the growth of 16 million sites seen in 2000 when the Internet frenzy was at its most feverish pitch. Till October, the Web grew by more than 17.5 million sites in 2005 alone, says Internet monitoring firm...

I’ve been blogging for almost two weeks now. Only a few people, mostly those I know and have bribed with coffee, have commented. But I’m out there. Web-logging to my heart’s content about all kinds of topics – obituaries for pets, objectivity, mistakes in stories, multi-tasking media maniacs, mucking horse stalls. Mucking stalls? You’ll have to read the blog’s archives. Later this month when I go...

Yahoo! (YHOO:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) has joined the whirlwind Internet industry courtship of AOL, sources say. The news comes as AOL, whose core dial-up business has been long viewed as an albatross for parent Time Warner (TWX:NYSE - news - research - Cramer's Take), has suddenly emerged as a hot property on the fast-changing Internet landscape. Talks among Time Warner, Google...

About 250 people attended The Media Center's We Media conference last week at The Associated Press, with that number swelling to about 280 during Al Gore’s keynote address. The energy at the conference shot through the roof at the unexpected appearance of Tipper and the entire Gore clan. Ah, celebrities... If you haven’t yet, check out the We Media conference blog, here, which includes Al's speech...

Google Inc. and Comcast Corp. are talking about investing in Time Warner Inc.'s America Online division, a move that could shift the geopolitics in the Internet world by creating new alliances between online search and entertainment giants. Google, which already powers the Dulles-based AOL's Internet search tool in the United States and Europe, wants to strengthen and expand that relationship --...

The wooing of America Online has begun. Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, and online search leader Google are in talks to acquire a stake in AOL's recently launched free Internet portal, AOL.com, according to people familiar with the talks. A stake in AOL, whose collection of web sites including Moviefone and Mapquest draws an audience second only to Yahoo's, would help Google...

Market compulsions make strange bedfellows. So it has, of Microsoft and Yahoo who have decided to marry their instant messaging (IM) services in a bid to take on market leader America Online (AOL). The move comes just as the popular communications tool is beginning to expand into video chatting and Internet telephone functions. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: IM interoperability is the right thing for...

Even as the big Internet players are falling over each other in a bid to have a slice of the RSS (really simple syndication) pie, the reality of user survey statistics shows that market is not that yummy yet. Two recent surveys have demonstrated that the awareness of RSS is low even in a country like the United States (US). But yes, the scope is tremendous. While users of more advanced RSS...