Nicholas Carlson

AOL today announced its acquisition of Userplane, which develops and markets Web-based chat and messaging technology. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Userplane licenses technology to Web sites and online communities, such as MySpace, Honda, Date.com, Spark, IGN, Tagged, Red Bull and Marvel Comics. Traditionally, those customers paid a licensing fee for monthly […]

Outside of mergers and acquisitions, there are big deals and then there are $900 million deals. Google’s deal with Viacom on Monday to syndicate MTV content over its AdSense network was a big deal. Google’s deal with News Corp. to provide search and display advertising to MySpace users for the next three years and nine […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Should Flickr, Yahoo’s photo-sharing property, become an eBay for photos? I wouldn’t ask if a Flickr founder hadn’t told me he was wondering the same thing. I talked with both the founders, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, last week at a little fete in midtown Manhattan to celebrate the winners of the “blink […]

AOL has picked its horse and the company is now feeding it. Today it announced AOL My eAddress, a free e-mail service for registered users that allows them to pick their own domain names to use. AOL will own the domain names. Beginning in September, Web users will be able to set up and register […]

AOL fessed up to leaking hundreds of thousands of search queries yesterday. But it was all a big mistake. Spokesperson Andrew Weinstein told internetnews.com that the company posted the queries on July 31 on the publicly accessible research.aol.com. Weinstein said AOL removed the queries, as soon as it discovered them, on Sunday evening. “This was […]

Google  today announced a deal with Viacom  to syndicate clips from Viacom’s MTV Networks over its AdSense network. The companies said in a statement that Google will offer clips from MTV’s Laguna Beach, the MTV Video Music Awards and Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants to some of the Web sites in Google’s AdSense network. “With the combination […]

Search firms Google , Microsoft , Yahoo , Ask.com and LookSmart   are sick of the click fraud problem and they’re doing something about it. The search vendors, under the aegis of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and in conjunction with the Media Rating Council, formed the Click Measurement Working Group this week. Their goal […]

Google announced a partnership with XM Satellite Radio today, saying it would sell radio ads for the network’s talk shows over its dMarc platform, an automated system that allows advertisers to place, schedule and track radio advertising. The deal’s roots are with last January’s dMarc acquisition. The agreement adds new inventory for Google’s growing advertising […]

UPDATED: After having aired its strategy debates for weeks in front of anyone who reads the daily papers, Time Warner today officially announced “You’ve Got Mail – For Free.” On a conference call this morning, the company said AOL’s software and e-mail, as well as various other products, will be free to broadband users. Among […]

CNN.com’s today opened the gates to CNN Exchange, a new online platform for user-generated content, including photos, video and text. It’s a new online venture, utilizing a longtime CNN technique, spokeswoman Jennifer Martin told internetnews.com. “User-generated content, amateur video, citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it, has been around for a while,” she said. […]

The Time Warner internal debate over AOL’s future has been all over the daily papers, but the news today is its new video service. Called AOL Video, the beta service is meant to compete with popular crowd-sourcing video sites, such as YouTube, iFilm, Google Video and Yahoo Video. The video portal will be available for […]

Adsense was among the standouts for Google’s stellar earnings results that more than met expectations. While rivals Microsoft and Yahoo were forced to announce profit fall-offs and buy-back plans this week, Google pleased investors today describing how its core product propelled them to high profits. Google’s revenues soared by 77 percent to $2.46 billion for […]