You know how the big three networks are all over Hulu and YouTube about copyright and how they fear/need the internet to survive? Blip.tv is what they fear. Today, Blip announced some big changes that are going to mean something to anyone with a TiVo, has Verizon FIOS, or a Sony TV with Ethernet jack.

Hotmail has started offering its web messaging service to users in multiple countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, China and other parts of Europe and Asia. With Web Messenger, you can send instant messages from Windows Live pages without the need to download and install Windows Live Messenger. Users will now be more »

“Pics show beauty topless, kissing married TV star”..“Reality show couple calls it quits”…“Star is skin and bones on red carpet”…or if you don’t like that anorexically-inclined headline, try “Skinny actress frumpy in white”…“One busy, hot mama tells how to get in shape quickly”…

At 10:30 p.m. PST on July 15, 2008 – the end of a day that saw more stomach-churning stock market volatility, more violent death in Iraq and Afghanistan and closer poll results in the presidential race – the front page of AOL showed some, shall we say, interesting priorities among those who are making the news judgment calls and authorizing the headlines at this major portal.

Not that Yahoo! or MSN, viewed at the same time, were in danger of being confused with PBS’s “Newshour with Jim Lehrer.” It’s just that AOL seemed to be taking most of its news cues lately from its sister entertainment/celebrity gossip website TMZ.com.

As the ads for the drug Cymbalta say, “Depression hurts.” A new study out of the University of Bristol suggests that doing a web search for information about a certain permanent solution is not a good idea. The search engines that were used were Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. For each search engine, 12 searches more »