A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with “pretty stones” they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism...
Yahoo, who changes their mind far more than, well... wants in on the online video deal, again. It almost seems like they got wind of what AOL was planning and said "Ooh! ooh! Us too!" Their on again, off again love affair with online video ...
With so many people getting news from so many sources, the giants of the medium have begun to lose a lot of their audience. So now, you have giant corporations teaming up to combine their respective viewers into one large audience to be more attractive ...
The Hulu auction seems to be faltering. Microsoft is said to have stepped away, as did Yahoo! Collusion on their parts? After all, they do collude on many other things already. Nah, it was probably that whole thing about the CEO getting fired which, Occam's ...
According to All Things Digital, Hulu is still pondering and discussing the various bids placed by interested new owners. These companies include Yahoo!, Amazon, DirecTV, and Google. But it seems Google is playing by its own set of auction rules, offering a much higher number ...
Yahoo! was in online video, then they were out, then they were in and then out...and now, starting in about a month's time, they're all in again? It would seem so. Aside from being named in the Hulu bidding of late, they are also apparently ...
While the online video world continues to wait for news on the potential acquisition of streaming video site Hulu, there's not much left for the web's journalists to do but speculate. The latest theory gaining some ground is the idea that Hulu's buyer won't end ...
Hulu is still for sale, and as of yet, has not been purchased by anyone. You might remember that those companies interested in acquiring Hulu were reportedly expected to turn their bids in on Wednesday of this week. However, according to the Hollywood reporter, those ...
According to just-released June 2011 data from Google, Facebook is still the world's most popular website, with 870 million unique visitors and a whopping 1 trillion pageviews per month. Right behind Facebook--in terms of unique visitors, at least--is YouTube, with 790 million visitors per month ...
AOL HD is continuing its march into your living room with its latest announcement that it will start pushing content to connected boxes. Now that doesn't mean that everything will instantly have an AOL video button or app, but so far, they are targeting the ...
Microsoft has bowed out stating they would not enter into the second round of bidding for Hulu. Apparently, they didn't like what they saw and chose not to whip out a cool $2B for the video service. Meanwhile, Yahoo! has upped the stakes and Apple ...
We are happy to be the first to report that Microsoft now appears to be supporting HTML5 video emails in their Hotmail web client (provided what we're seeing isn't part of some beta test). The Hotmail web mail client displays HTML5 video in Chrome, Firefox, ...
Hi everyone, hope your summer is going well. I know, it's a non-standard way to start an article talking about statistics, but I wanted to get off on the right foot. Also in that vein, I wanted to give you some information that I've received ...
Google Plus has certainly received plenty of praise from me. Maybe I was getting bored with Facebook. Or maybe Google Plus has some really cool features and attributes that I like a lot. Most likely, it's a bit of both. But despite everything I love ...
Q&A services are all the rage right now, with sites like Quora and formspring adding tons of new users and piling up the archives of content. And now Quora is taking a huge leap forward in engaging content by adding the ability to embed YouTube ...
I just wrote a piece over at Gamers Daily News talking about how, if Microsoft were to pick up Hulu (and they are listed alongside Google & Yahoo as potential buyers) they could roll it into a new, higher level, higher priced, Xbox LIVE subscription. ...
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