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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yahoo is set to officially shut down GeoCities by the end of 2009. The free personal web-page host, which Yahoo acquired in 1999, is a relic from the Web 1.0 era, which cost Yahoo an estimated $4.6 billion. The service will Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. News Corp is firing MySpace CEO and Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe. DeWolfe, who has been with MySpace since its launch in 2003, ran the company when News Corp acquired it for $580 million in 2005. It has been reported that former Facebook Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Ad gurus Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, whose agency created the Aflac Duck, have a new book called, The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference. They say that big has gone bust in 2009, and it’s Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Abode announced that it will soon bring its Flash software to televisions. The software manufacturer told NAB attendees that Flash can now deliver HD video and rich-media applications to Internet-connected televisions. Adobe expects the first HD-version of Flash to be available Continue Reading →

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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. During his weekly video address, President Obama named Aneesh Chopra the United States first Chief Technology Officer. President Obama noted that Chopra, who has served as Virginia’s secretary of technology, along with Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, “will promote technological innovation Continue Reading →

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I was talking to an experienced, but not-yet-discovered, on-camera, news/talk person at one of my Social Media Networking Parties. She was asking if I could give her some advice about getting in front of the “right” people in New York. Not a problem. I’ve got a couple of friends in the biz, so I asked Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The operators of the Pirate Bay were convicted of breaking Sweden’s copyright law by helping millions of users freely download music, movies and computer games on the Internet. The four principals were sentenced to a year in prison each, and ordered Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. CNN has acquired the Twitter account @CNNbrk, which has nearly a million followers. While the Twitter account updated followers with breaking news, the account was not run by the news network, but rather James Cox. Cox, who has no affiliation with Continue Reading →