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Is Barry Diller delusional?

Are Barry and Rupert Delusional?The market will decide. They should quit talking about it and put up a product and see if they make money. Money talks and suckers walk.Value is the driving forcePeople will pay for a service if it has any real value. If that...

Tags: Network technology, Barry Diller, Diller, Barry

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Poll on Digg: Will Barry Diller buy Digg?

Poll on Digg: Will Barry Diller buy Digg?China Real Estate SiteBarry Diller's IAC should consider expanding into China and Hong Kong like Newscorp did in the internet space.A great acquisition candidate for online real estate in china is one i found that is getting serious traction.www.PropGO.com PropGO.com is the only...

Tags: Real estate, Digg, Barry Diller

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Is Digg on Barry Diller's IAC shopping list? Move over News Corp.

Is Digg on Barry Diller's IAC shopping list? Move over News Corp.http://www.analogstereo.com/daewoo_lacetti_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/daewoo_lacetti_owners_manual.htm

Tags: Barry Diller, IAC/InterActive Corp., News Corp., Digg

Discussion threads 2007-12-02

Ask vs. Google: Can $100 million buy IAC search happiness?

IACs Ask.com is not Google, but it aspires to be! Is $100 million in media spend all it will take?We have a number of ways to tell people about Ask, its tools, and why it should be used and why you should make a change from Google," IAC Chairman and...

Tags: Advertising, Google, Search, Self-Promotion

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST!

Another day, another company that claims to be the one that will dethrone $150 billion market cap, and “everyone’s favorite garage band,” Google from its search advertising kingdom.Who is the latest to put forth the would-be Google slayer, along with potential killer of perennial runner-up Yahoo and slow out of...

Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Google Ads, AdWords, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-30

IAC, Dow Jones team for personal finance online community

Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, is fond of saying flagship search engine Ask.com is the “glue” for IAC’s integrated conglomerate of Internet properties, even though Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone prefers to see himself as a head “chef.”(SEE Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: Exclusive Interview)Be it by “glue” or a “mixing of...

Tags: team, Ask.com, finance, personal finance, IAC, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Barry Diller

Blog posts 2007-03-11

CitySearch bails out InsiderPages: What's the deal?

IAC is taking the struggling InsiderPages local reviews site off of the hands of its founder Idealab and investors Sequoia capital and Softbank Capital.Bill Gross, Idealab CEO, at the Idealab homepage:We began Idealab with the dream of creating ground-breaking companies whose products and services would change the way people think,...

Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Amateur Content, Yellow Pages, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-03-01

IAC CEO Barry Diller on Ask.com

A few weeks ago I asked Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, for his thoughts on Barry Diller, CEO of corporate parent IAC, considering Ask.com to be the “glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of Web properties. SEE “Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: ‘Real Deal’ Interview”Lanzone told me he prefers to see himself...

Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Search, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Metrics, Search Advertising, IAC, Barry Diller

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Ask has the mojo to double its search market share

Ask is aiming to double its market share in the search and judging from AskX may just have the mojo to do so. On a conference call Dec. 19 Interactive Corp. IAC chief Barry Diller outlined the companys outlook for the year ahead. ...

Tags: IAC, AskX, Barry Diller

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Does IAC dig Digg?

Barry Diller, CEO of InterActiveCorp, is keen on news; Delivering it online, that is.Diller runs what he calls an "integrated conglomerate," an amalgam of Internet properties in diverse sectors, from retail to dating, and from entertainment to real estate.Diller has intimated of late that he seeks to add one more...

Tags: Amateur Content, Print, Local, Media, Culture, Digg, Barry Diller, IAC

Blog posts 2006-11-28

Poll on Digg: Will Barry Diller buy Digg?

In "Is Digg on Barry Diller’s IAC shopping list? Move over News Corp." I discuss how Michael Jackson, IAC/InterActiveCorp programming president, is honing in on online sites that “aggregate and edit news and help point people to the best information available,” as buyout candidates.Barry Diller, IAC Chairman & CEO, has allocated...

Tags: Digg, IAC, Barry Diller

Blog posts 2006-11-02

Is Digg on Barry Diller's IAC shopping list? Move over News Corp.

Barry Diller is on an IAC/InterActiveCorp mission. In reporting his company’s Q3 earnings today, the IAC Chairman and CEO said:We are unabashedly building an interactive conglomerate. We have three interrelated strategies: one, the growth of each of our businesses; two, Ask.com as the connecting thread; and three, all our cross...

Tags: IAC, Barry Diller, Kara Nortman

Blog posts 2006-10-31

Web 2.0 Conference Day 2: Yahoo! CEO on future of media

Today was a bit more laid back, with all the talks happening in the main auditorium. In practice this meant a lot of people wandered in and out of the talks, to spend time schmoozing and having meetings. Most of the hallway chatter was about weblogsinc selling to AOL. The...

Tags: Terry Semel, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2005-10-06

Interactive media mogul Barry Diller at Web 2.0

Interactive media mogul Barry Diller at Web 2.0Web2.0 < AJAX 2.0http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AJAX_2-0

Tags: Channel management, Interactive Media, Barry Diller, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2005-10-05

Interactive media mogul Barry Diller at Web 2.0

InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller fielded questions [video clip here] from Web 2.0 conference host John Battelle and the audience about how his recent purchase of ask.com Ask Jeeves, with Google, Yahoo and MSN breathing down his neck, and how the entertainment industry is morphing.Diller said the key to growing Ask...

Tags: talent, Barry Diller

Blog posts 2005-10-05

Barry Diller helps Ask Jeeves get in shape

Barry Diller helps Ask Jeeves get in shapeThere are a ton of new engine here!Ask is a great engine they own MyWay and a lot of other sites.You can find a ton of new search engines at:http://www.searchenginesinternational.comThere are a lot of links to search software also!

Tags: SEARCH, Ask Jeeves Inc., Barry Diller

Discussion threads 2005-08-09

Additional Resources

News to know: Win7, Google Wave, Palm WebOS, Apple Tablet, Google Docs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's message to IT pros: Meet us half way with Windows 7 Larry Dignan: ...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Docs, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Is Barry Diller delusional?

Here's chapter 120 of Barry Diller's "people will and should pay for online content" tour. But I have a nagging question: Why exactly are we still listening to Diller? First, here's the video of Diller rapping with Katie Couric. The refrain sounds familiar: Pay for online content...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-29

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

The Cost of the Free Internet

The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a ‘paid system’ was instructive. First, it shows the power of the “free” Internet, as it is currently constructed. A...

Tags: Payment, Video, Cable, Programming, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-16