AOL is on a product-cutting spree. In addition to the shuttering of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring, the company will also be shutting down the AOL Video Uploads service starting this week, says Michael Arlington on TechCrunch. AOL is recommending that users transfer videos to Motionbox, a New York based video sharing and editing startup that we first covered in 2006. (more…)

comScore released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of  the search marketplace. February 2008 saw Americans conduct nearly 10 billion core searches, representing a 6-percent sequential decline in activity versus January, primarily a result of the shortened month. In February, Google Sites extended its share of core searches to 59.2 percent, up from 58.5 percent the previous month. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 21.6 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.6 percent), AOL LLC (4.9 percent), and Ask Network (4.6 percent). (more…)

Today I saw in Gmail that I can talk with AIM users directly from chat and GTalk. I did’nt hear anything about it latelly, I only know that Yahoo Messenger and MSN work together. So, this is new

Unfortunatelly none of my friends use AIM and very very few are talking on GTalk, but Yahoo is still the mos popular IM system arround here.

AOL will aquire social-networking site Bebo.com for some 850 million dollars. Bebp has some 40 million users. There was no surprise, Bebo was for sale and AOL was looking to buy new things. The rumors were about some 1 billion dollars. But the outcome is less. I can almost say CHEAP!

Yahoo is negotiating with Time Warner to buy a stake at AOL, and it thinkg this deal it may help get rid of the Microsoft buyout offer.

So, what if Yahoo says no to Microsoft? I think everyone is happy. Users are ok because they love Google, and a partnership with Google will stimulate Yahoo. Shareholders are happy, because Google is “cooler” than Microsoft and the management will be happy too. And Microsoft will to the same think it did with online advertising: buy the second, worse, option. This time, it will have to buy AOL because otherwise all can be lost…

Ten years after MS lauched Internet Explorer and Netscape fortunes started to slide, AOL announced it is finally pulling the plug on the Netscape browser. The start of the saga dates back to 1994, when a University of Illinois student named Marc Andreessen founded a company called Netscape Communications, after taking the world by storm with the NCSA Mosaic browser. (more…)