Were you prowling around the shopping mall parking lot last Friday looking for a space? Or, were you online?

Entertainment industry veteran Ann Mather brings some Hollywood glamour to Google's board of directors, which she has just joined.

Finally, TiVo has found a way to leverage its easy-to-use interface for search. Today, the company that gave us digital video recorders announced its first search product.

Oh, the pleasures of holiday shopping. Black Friday looms. But online, it's always a shopping day. Online, the stores are never closed.

After years of news reports about the record and entertainment industry suing file-sharers, the tables have finally been turned. In a richly ironic development, the same company that has so aggressively defended its intellectual property rights is being sued for interfering with its consumers'rights to property--their hard drive

As most of us await fabulous meals on Thursday (we hope!), folks are turning to the Web for new dishes to supplement their well-worn family recipes.

Is it possible that we could one day soon be reading posts about porn for the video iPod from Fleshbot.com via Yahoo? Not that we read Fleshbot.com, of course. And if we did, it would only be for the posts.

New media company America Online this week crashed old media's turf--literally. AOL held a luncheon at the print world's favorite stomping ground--Michael's in New York City--to unveil a plan to promote authors of self-help books.

We attended a party for Salon.com last night. The edgy online mag was celebrating 10 years of feisty cultural commentary, news, reviews, and community--and the New York mediarati turned out in force to party with the crew.

Online content--articles, video, music, sports and the like--is on a growth curve rivaling that of the earliest days of the Internet.