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Little has been written about yesterdays announcement that Yahoo would be selling display and video ads for Comcast’s websites, in particular, Comcast.net.
What’s so special about this deal beyond the shear size of Comcast and the inventory it makes available to Yahoo to sell ? its the network stupid.
The one thing that Google doesn’t have is [...]

All media will be going digital in the next five years, said Brian McAndrews, president/CEO of aQuantive.
In the keynote address at an industry conference titled “The Digital Decade: What the Last Five Years Can Teach Us About the Next Five,” Lynne Johnson, a senior editor at FastCompany.com, interviewed Mr. McAndrews yesterday about how past developments [...]

The landscape of online video becomes more interesting by the day. While YouTube find itself bogged down in a quagmire of takedown requests and DMCA notices, Blinkx has decided to roll out a new search tool specifically aimed at directing users to television content that they can view and/or download.
Fans of Babylon 5, Buffy the [...]

Comcast this week announced the creation of Comcast Interactive Media, a new division to develop and grow the company’s internet businesses, including the Comcast.net portal (via ReveNews). It will leverage Comcast’s advanced broadband network and technology, existing service offerings, extensive content relationships, and its customer and supplier relationships to build innovative new online services.
Comcast veteran [...]

Kudos to AOL for the free TV site, chock full of classic TV episodes that can be streamed (no commercials) or downloaded for a limited time, free. This is one of the real fun sites to visit and a very pleasant diversion. A must to bookmark.
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