Says Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, “The utter stupidity of this is staggering.” Gosh, AOL only made public some 20 million web queries from 250,000 people. That’s not NEARLY as invasive as this probe cam (click to see recent footage) they keep sending to my house.
AOL Video debuts with what “Video on the Web” calls a “Hail Mary Play.” AOL is in DEEP trouble. It’s hemmoraging customers at the rate of 2,000,000 a year. If they keep that up, pretty soon there won’t be an AOL. So what are they gonna do? They’re tapping their video content… Remember it’s AOL-Time…
As an update on a recent report about popular online video sites, here are the latest site rankings of online video sites according to Alexa. Not all of the online video sites allow for uploading and sharing, so they’re not all packed with viral videos. * Refers to those that give you the ability to…
Interesting Nightline report on the AOL and Comcast situations… we have cameras and we’re ready to showcase the best and worst of customer support. If you can make it to the end of this report, you’ll see my broadcast debut (I’m the wink at the end… it’s an excerpt from this Comcast video).
Well after the Comcast Sleeping video and the AOL cancellation video, I thought I’d give this a go. I needed to cancel Comcast anyway… so I tried to see if I could provoke this rep. No such luck, but I had fun anyway. I find it very interesting that Comcast (and probably other companies with…
I’ve noticed that my most popular posts are not my deepest thoughts about the future of online video, or about how amateurs can make money. Nope, if I want blogger popularity I simply write about what video is hot that week. Indulge me, dear readers, in an experiment. In this post I will write about…
Here's my video version of the AOL Cancellation (click to see it on YouTube). A guy tries to call and cancel his AOL account and runs into an aggressive call-center employee who wants to talk him out of it. And it's all caught on audio for everyone to enjoy! Here's the blog entry about this…