• AOL Grows Video Content With Virtual Film Festival by Gavin O'Malley

    In hopes of increasing online video content, AOL's Moviefone on Thursday announced plans to launch a virtual short film festival next week. Ford Motors' Mercury Milan is sponsoring the event, which includes fifteen comedic shorts including "The Office Party" with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, and "Young Arty Feldman," which tells the story of a 15-year-old wheeler-dealer who brokers jobs in the San Fernando Valley's fast food industry. ...Read the whole story

  • Yahoo!: Online Banking Empowers Consumers by Wendy Davis

    More than one out of three single consumers say they prefer to apply for credit cards online than by mail or in person, while more than one in four would rather apply for mortgages online, according to a new report released Thursday by Yahoo! and Ogilvy One Worldwide. ...Read the whole story

  • New MSN Browser Reportedly Will Include Expanded RSS Features by Shankar Gupta

    Microsoft is expected to announce today at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle its new support for RSS in its new browser architecture. Dave Winer, an RSS developer who also writes the Weblog ReallySimpleSyndication.com, posted in a Thursday blog entry that MSN will likely demonstrate a deeply integrated RSS in the upcoming version of the Explorer browser at today's conference. ...Read the whole story

  • IDG Entertainment Launches Game Site by Shankar Gupta

    Video game company IDG Entertainment today will officially launch Games.net, a Web site devoted to information about the video game industry. IDG, which also publishes the popular video game magazine GamePro, intends for the Games.net to focus on news and developments in the industry as a whole, rather than on reviews and previews that follow the cycle of a game's development, said Craig Eastman, IDG's director of online product development. ...Read the whole story

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