AOL may buy more online media and even traditional newspapers in its bid to boost the digital content it offers customers, a senior company executive said.

“It is a possibility,” AOL Chief Technology Officer Alexander Gounares said on Wednesday.
The move would be in line with AOL’s strategy to have most of its content, including international content, from internal sources, he added.

It seems like AOL may be on the rise again. Wouldn’t it be nice to become an affiliate, so we could share the wealth too?

Have you tried out the new mobile version of YouTube?

Google yesterday unveiled a new and improved mobile version of YouTube that blows the existing, pre-installed YouTube iPhone app out of the water. The new app, which can be downloaded from any HTML5 compliant browser, is faster, clearer and more up-to-date than the prepackaged iPhone version, which relies on infrequent updates to keep up with new YouTube features.

I’ll be checking it out tonight.

Just think, if we had a tm-t88iv printer from Epson, we could print our own airline tickets too!!!

Google Inc plans to buy one of the Web’s key providers of airline travel software for $700 million, potentially raising new antitrust concerns for the world’s largest Internet search engine.

Google said on Thursday that it had agreed to buy privately-owned ITA Software, in a move that Google said would allow it to improve the way consumers find flight and fare information online.

Face it. You cannot power up a computer or handheld device and not use Google in your daily life. If you can, it won’t be much longer until you can’t. All hail Google!

In a move that could very well fund term life insurance for seniors, Foursquare raised some new funding.

Startup website Foursquare, a location-based services company, said it has raised $20 million in new funding.

The funding was led by Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and Foursquare’s original investors, Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Foursquare said on Tuesday that it would use the funding to expand the company. Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley said in a company blog post on Tuesday that the funding would also allow it to move into a new office and invest in other infrastructure.

I haven’t quite figured out how FourSquare will make money, let alone succeed. It’s pretty much like a reverse stalking app. You log in, and as you arrive at different locations you ‘check in’ to tell everyone your location. I don’t see a business model here.

BP Plc has bought terms such as “oil spill” from search engine providers including Google Inc to help direct Internet users to its website as it attempts to control the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

A spokesman said BP would pay fees so its own website would rank higher or even top in the list of results when Internet users search on terms such as “oil spill,” “volunteer” and “claims.”

They can control the flow of information all they want. It still won’t hide their oily, tar covered asses when it comes time to pay the piper.

Dashing the hopes of dozens of startups that had hoped to make money where Twitter had so far been unable to do so, the social mini-messaging company announced Monday that it would not allow third-party advertising on its platform henceforth.

In a blog post Tuesday, the company spent more than 1,200 words to get to the meat of the announcement: Twitter will reserve permanently the right to “inject paid tweets into a timeline” using the Twitter API. In other words: Sure, you can accept payment for a Tweet, type it up yourself and publish it using the service — but you can’t create an automated system to do this using the code Twitter provides to companies that want to build their own empires using the Twitter infrastructure.

This makes sense doesn’t it? People can type an ad into the system, but they can’t automate the process. Bots aren’t allowed in many places.

Oops! Can someone turn on the Minka Aire fan, please?

A Twitter glitch has allowed users to game the popularity contest by making it appear that celebrities had subscribed to read their mini-blog postings known as tweets.

The flaw, which Twitter said Monday it has fixed, allowed users to add anyone else as a follower of their tweets. Normally, the other person has to initiate such “following.”

It’s unclear how long the flaw existed and how many people took advantage of it. Twitter Inc. says it’s looking at the issue.

Twitter has an immediate remedy. Click “unfollow” to remove the hijacked follow. Hmm.

Anyone who took advantage of this “glitch” is a tweetjacker, not fake.

With the amount of data some businesses want to push through the intertubes, it might be time for some of them to consider cutting back, but then again they probably can’t handle the diet pill side effects.

Yahoo’s news site is launching a daily 90-second series based on its most popular stories.

Yahoo says it is teaming with Toyota and the production company Reveille to make “Who Knew?”. The feature made its debut Monday on the popular news page.

Like you don’t have enough to watch/read on the web already.

Google will be out of China completely, quicker than my local Chinese restaurant can prepare food.

Google Inc closed its China-based search service and began redirecting Web searchers to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong, drawing harsh comments from Beijing that raised doubts about the company’s future in the world’s largest Internet market.

Google said it intends to continue research and development in China, as well as maintain a sales staff there, even after closing Google.cn and rerouting traffic to the unfiltered search site in Hong Kong.

The decision comes amid heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington over a range of issues, from Internet freedom to the yuan exchange rate, economic sanctions on Iran and U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.

China reacted to Google’s move by saying the Internet search giant was “totally wrong” and had “violated the written promise it made on entering the Chinese market,” signaling a tough line over the dispute.

So, they finally pulled the plug. How long do you think it will be until the Chinese government puts the kabosh on that forwarding outside of their Great Firewall of China? Why not do something much more fun and click here instead?

Google Inc. stopped censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland Monday but said it will maintain other operations in the country. The maneuver attempts to balance Google’s disdain for China’s Internet rules with the company’s desire to profit from an explosively growing market.

Google’s decision comes after an impasse pitting the world’s most powerful Internet company against the government of the world’s most populous country. It’s still not clear if Google’s solution will resolve a standoff that began Jan. 12. That’s when Google said it would no longer adhere to China’s requirement that it omit some Internet results.