Unless you’re living under a rock, and there’s no shame in that, you’ve heard that AOL may be planning to dump their ISP business and focus on their web portal.  They, however, are saying that investors should not believe everything they hear.  Their upcoming announcement is supposed to clarify their plans.
From PaidContent:
Time Warner stated that [...]

While I think, as well as most online observers, that the Netscape.com change is a good one, gradual change is commonly regarded as a good thing when it comes to changing a longstanding web brand like Netscape.
If you haven’t heard the web design story everyone is buzzing about:
I’ve been tracking the
release of the [...]

Microsoft ventured into the ‘original video’ business in the mid-late 90s, but due to slow dial up connections was unable to find a business model that would work.  However, if once you do not succeed, try, try again.
MSN Originals will be created by Reveille, the creators of The Office and The Biggest Loser.
MediaPost says they [...]

AOL is launching a financial blog network, Blogging Stocks.  The company who’s invested heavily into blogging and video to create a Web 2.0 portal (as opposed to their Web 1.0 portal that wasn’t working) is branching out to include financial blogs.

The network, dubbed Blogging Stocks,
will initially cover Time Warner, AOL’s parent company, as well as
Google, [...]

This year there was a new category
added to the Emmy Awards. They tried to include all non-traditional viewing
platforms in this award by calling it the Original Entertainment Programming
Created Specifically For Nontraditional Viewing Platforms Award.

Among some of the other online video content nominees
were:
"24: Conspiracy," by News
Corp.’s Fox Mobile Entertainment. A spinoff of
the Fox TV show [...]

Video content is the hottest thing online at the moment.  With the video iPod launch a few months ago, vidcasts are springing up everywhere.
AOL has been a long-time provider of video on their portal, probably due to their TimeWarner parent company.  However, with the purchase of Truveo AOL adds a new depth to AOl’s online [...]

The Google/AOL deal is still a hot topic online, especially in this slow news weekend.  Is AOL planning on going public in a few years?
Under the new five-year deal announced earlier this week, AOL will now have the right to use Google’s search technology on its own and also will receive a $300 million credit [...]

Friday, rumors contend that the AOL/Google deal was still very much, an unsure thing. In fact, some sites suggest the decision, at the AOL offices in NY, was made while AOL folks shuffled between Steve Balmer (Microsoft) and Sergey Brin (Google) in offices separated by only a few walls.
Whatever the case, one thing is [...]

Everyone, from podcast listeners to PR professionals, have been discussing the possibilities of television networks and their plans with RSS technology and vidcasting.
A high-level Fox exec had this to say:
Fox Filmed Entertainment is open to a deal with Apple Computer’s iTunes
music and video service, its co-chairman said Thursday. "Of course,
we’d be open to that. We [...]