ROSS FADNER
Writer, MediaPost

Contact MediaPost Editorial
  • Vista's Out, Does Anybody Care?
    Forgive the media for being skeptical, but after years of delays, Microsoft ...
  • Schmidt Shows GOP How Web Sways Public
    At a conference in Miami yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Republica ...
  • Disney: YouTube Take-Down Policy Not Enough
    Anne Sweeney, Disney's head of entertainment and news television, said she se ...
  • Yahoo Rejects Google Book Appeal
    Google has requested information from Yahoo and Amazon about their respective effor ...
  • YouTube Pulls Copyright Reins, Competitors Do Same
    You might have noticed that it's getting harder to view copyrighted materi ...
  • Big Changes, New Deals At BitTorrent
    It's odd that BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file distribution protocol that became near ...
  • Nintendo: Wii's Sales Better Than PlayStation 3
    The Wii, Nintendo's oddly named new next-generation game console, is enjoying stell ...
  • Debut Of Episodic Web Videos
    The evolution of content on user-generated video sites like YouTube goes somethi ...
  • Google: Mobile Carriers Try To Block Our Apps
    There is no such thing as network neutrality on mobile phones. Mobi ...
  • Online Video Erodes TV Viewing For Some Consumers
    Britons who watch video at sites like YouTube are watching less T ...
  • Record Sales, Traffic For Cyber Monday
    "Cyber Monday" turned in record numbers after all. Maybe people bought in ...
  • IAC Joins The S&P 500
    Nine months after Google's entry, IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Web conglomerate owned by med ...
  • In-Text Is In Style
    In-text advertising has quietly found its way into the publishing mainstream witho ...
  • Podcasters' Revolution Found Wanting
    Podcasting was supposed to be a revolution in the way we consu ...
  • Wal-Mart's Web Plan: Make Up For Lost Time On Black Friday
    While retailers across the country reported strong holiday sales on Black Frida ...
  • Break.com Paying $400 Per UGV Clip
    Break.com, one player in a teeming pool of user-generated video sites, h ...
  • Copyright Trouble Persists Overseas For Google
    Google's under pressure overseas: in France, filmmakers are suing the company ov ...
  • 'Hactivist' Program Seeks To Open Web To Censored Countries
    They call themselves "hactivists"--political-minded computer wiz's who hack for a cause. B ...
  • The Man Behind The Zune
    Microsoft is finding itself to be an underdog these days in ma ...
  • French Film Company Sues Google
    Google is having legal problems again. Flach Film, the French company th ...
  • Nintendo's PS3 Killer Receives Rave Reviews
    The early results are in--and so far, things aren't looking so go ...
  • Cyber Monday Is Smoke And Mirrors
    Yes, yes "Cyber Monday" is next week, and there'll be several stori ...
  • Music's Big Four Lose Copyright Case In China
    Legal reps of the major record companies have been busy recently, Univers ...
  • News Corp. Resells Intermix Properties
    News Corp., which acquired MySpace parent Intermix for $580 million in Ju ...
  • Google Shares Hit $500
    Google shares exceeded $500 for the first time yesterday, and instead ...
  • Leaving Search For The Era Of Discovery
    So-called "recommender" engines are the next step in search and human lazines ...
  • Free AOL Smells Like Bubble 2.0
    Yes, it's 1999 all over again. Web start-ups are cropping up wi ...
  • Media Shakeups Have Online Video Bent
    News Corp., Time Warner, Viacom and CBS Corp. have seen executive shake-u ...
  • Yahoo Should Search For Answers
    The New York Times asks, a day after the highly publicized "Pean ...
  • MySpace Should Settle With Universal Music
    The media loves irony. A day after the announcement of the Ne ...