• Time Sends Pirates Overboard by Wendy Davis

    Time Inc. is shuttering Office Pirates, its six-month-old humor site led by former Maxim Editor in Chief Mark Golin. The site will cease operations on Friday. ...Read the whole story

  • MySpace Members Balk At Phony Profiles by Erik Sass

    As MySpace and other social networking sites have grown, they have drawn more interest by marketers. But increased advertising spending leaves the publishers facing a dilemma: Marketers' use of the sites risks diluting the authenticity and appeal of the medium that made it so successful. ...Read the whole story

  • Classmates Readies Promotional Effort by Mark Walsh

    As the popularity of online social networks explodes, Classmates.com--which helped define the category when it launched a decade ago--is looking a bit, well, old school. Over the last year, the site has seen its traffic fall by more than 20 percent as a new crop of competitors including MySpace.com, Facebook and MyYearbook have quickly built up huge followings of young, Internet-savvy adherents. ...Read the whole story

  • AOL Premieres Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' by Shankar Gupta

    AOL Wednesday will begin offering free streams of Bob Dylan's XM Satellite weekly radio show, "Theme Time Radio Hour." AOL will also simulcast XM's world premiere of Dylan's new album, "Modern Times," today and Tuesday--and will stream the album on demand all week. ...Read the whole story

  • Trust-Busting With AOL by George Simpson

    When they introduced "The Office" into the U.S. market, instead of directly ripping off the characters and plots from the U.K. version, they should have ... ...More

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