Image Source: Ryan Seacrest’s Facebook Page

Reality television host, media personality and producer Ryan Seacrest is getting his own TV network, it’s being reported. continue reading...

In segment 1, we shift our focus away from the debacle at AOL and look at Yahoo!’s own soap opera by expanding on a couple of articles I published on TechCrunch, namely why and how Yahoo! could make a run to Hulu and Yahoo!’s options.  We cover a lot, and in there I go over a lot of numbers explaining the financial engineering, so I included the numbers below.  Watch the video below (and scroll down to get the financial engineering math) continue reading...

Image Source: NMA News YouTube

Check out an animated version of the AOL-Huffington post acquisition as done by NMA News: continue reading...

From The Guardian, an article by former managing editor of Salon.com Scott Rosenberg:

Paywalls are psychological as much as navigational, and it’s a lot easier to put them up than to take them down. Once web users get it in their head that your site is “closed” to them, if you ever change your mind and want them to come back, it’s extremely difficult to get that word out. continue reading...

CNET’s ZDNET, Iran and Yahoo!?  You know this would not end well.

I was very surprised to read that Yahoo! had handed over names of Iranians youth to the authorities.  Turns out it was false.  Interestingly enough if a blog would have written that, it would have gotten much less consideration… but at the same time, because a “well respected, traditional, new media source” such as ZDNet reported it, it’s a big deal. continue reading...