Christina Applegate Arriving To “The Late Show W/ Conan O’Brien”

Christina Applegate was all smiles as she arrived to the NBC studios to be on, “The Late Show With Conan O’Brien“. Are there any fans of her new show, “Samantha Who?“? I think the show is pretty funny and rather cute. I especially like the best friend who delivers some of the funniest lines.

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Price Harry Out With Some Princesses

I’m sorry. When did Prince Harry become a man? Did I miss something? Like a decade? These pictures are actually confusing me. How old am I? Better yet, how old is HE? And how ODD it is to watch Prince Harry come out of Mahiki nightclub in London alongside Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. In [...]

New Kids On The Block Reunite

New Kids on the Block! New Kids on the Block! New Kids on the Block! New Kids on the Block! New Kids on the Block!
I’m sorry I just can’t get over it! How exciting was it to watch the New Kids on the Block talk about being back together on the Today show? HOW [...]

IAC’s launch of gaming site InstantAction imminent

 

 

IAC, the parent company of Ask.com, is looking to get into online gaming in a big way. According to Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org, IAC’s is looking to spend $50-100 million to build their new gaming portal, InstantAction into something that carries titles with “deeper” interactivity than the casual fare typically found online.

The site is currently looking for sign-ups for their beta phase, and it promises to deliver games that sit in the spot so far largely unexploited between casual online gaming and full-on console or computer games. From watching the demo video on the front page of the new gaming site, the games do look to be some of the most graphically complex I have seen that promise to run in-browser. It is probably safe to assume that a lot of that money slated to be invested in the new venture is going into resource management development.

IAC’s drive to build InstantAction in a sure hit surely stems from the conglomerate’s purchase last year of GarageGames. It doesn’t appear to want to make a small splash. But the timing seems odd for such a major development, what with all of the recent layoffs at the Ask search portal. It leaves one feeling a bit curious when a company with some outstanding corporate questions is seen throwing this much money at a fairly unproven product category.

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MyKinda heads for the deadpool

 

 

I just got word from MyKinda founder Lee Wilkins that he plans to shutdown the Eastern European blog network later today.

The network launched just last September and was being bootstrapped. 

Wilkins says the shutdown is temporary to ensure that money due to writers doesn’t continue to add up. The sites will remain down until, he says, “we redefine a more profitable sustainable business model.” The company had total expenses of about €319,000, with no advertising revenue to offset it. Wilkins capitalized the company with €175,000, leaving €144,000 or so in unpaid debts.

MyKinda joins the DeadPool for now. Hopefully we’ll see them relaunch down the road, and continue to cover tech and other news in Eastern Europe.

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Wedding website buys wedding magazine

 

 

You know the media world has been turned upside down when Websites start buying magazines. Today, the Knot, which operates the wedding site of the same name, acquired The Bump, a group of local magazines and maternity guides in 11 cities. Terms were not disclosed.

In an effort to reduce the natural churn of its audience (who needs to check a wedding site after the big day is over?), the Knot created other bookend lifestyle sites—TheNest for newlyweds, and TheNestBaby for new parents. So what does a Website need magazines for? The Bump is distributed in OB/GYN offices and could help channel readers to TheNestBaby. The Knot can also use it to sell combined print/Web advertising packages.

It’s got to do something to drive traffic. TheNestBaby barely registers on comScore, with only 171,000 unique visitors in the U.S. in January, compared to the TheKnot’s 1.8 million (which itself shot up in January after a few months of decline). Maybe print isn’t dead after all. I wonder if we are going to see more Web-buy-print deals, especially in niche media.

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