Posted on 12/10/2004 5:57:47 PM PST by Cableguy
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Rob Glaser, the founder and chief executive officer of RealNetworks Inc., has been elected chairman of Air America Radio.
The liberal talk show network, heard on 40 stations, also announced it received $13 million in new investments. A spokeswoman said Glaser has been an investor in AAR and is one of the lead investors in this latest round of funding.
Air America also said it renewed contracts with Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, two show hosts. Franken, a comedian and author, said, "I have re-signed with Air America in order to spend less time with my family."
There was no announcement of Glaser's new role by RealNetworks . A company spokesman said his involvement was "personal." RealNetworks provides Webcasting services for Air America's audio streaming.
"Air America has created the hottest new brand on radio, offering some of the most dynamic personalities and programming found anywhere on the radio dial," Glaser said in a statement.
U.S. Supreme Court justices quizzing attorneys in Tuesday's hearing about wine shipments from out-of-state vineyards showed some sympathy for the winemakers, according to the Los Angeles Times. Its report of the arguments included the observation that most of the justices sounded surprisingly skeptical of the states' argument to prohibit shipping. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was quoted as saying New York's law against the practice seemed less about protecting minors than protecting "local farmers" from out-of-state competition, the paper wrote.
Henry Copeland, founder of an Internet company that sells advertising across hundreds of Weblogs, said business is good. BlogAds is placing ads on as many as 100 blogs a day, he told Business Week Online. Six months ago, he placed ads for only 10 companies on 20 blogs. "More money (will flow to) more (blog) authors as smart advertisers bypass publishers and pay authors directly for their audiences," Copeland told the news service. He said current advertisers include Sharp Electronics Corp. and the Walt Disney Co. .
EBay has begun offering a free service for people who want to buy items. "Want It Now is a new format enabling buyers to let sellers know what they are looking for and allowing sellers to respond to buyers with eBay listings," the company said on the site. Here's the Want It Now page .
About 30,000 would-be buyers have signed up to use the service, according to InternetRetailer.com. Sellers are allowed to browse the want ads and then send the buyer a link to an item for sale on Ebay. They cannot contact buyers and try to merchandise goods directly.
Another tidbit about America Online's plans to launch a free e-mail service next year was passed along Wednesday morning by the Washington Post. An article reported that the new service will give users e-mail addresses that end with "@aim.com" related to the company's AIM service (AOL Instant Messenger). There was no start date reported for the service.
I like BLOAT.
Does this mean that they did not resign Ed Schultz?
Thanks for the tip, but at some point, I got so annoyed with how slow Adobe Reader was, that I googled how to speed it up. It really only involves removing or renaming the "plug_ins" folder and now it runs at least as fast as version 5. But the fact that they would have all of those plugins enabled by default and force the user to find ways to fix the issue still annoys me.
Real would resort to even more disgusting (and probably illegal) tricks. One page in the process would show the user some very legitimate choices above the "fold" (the bottom of the area of a web page that can be shown in a window without forcing the user to scroll). However, beneath the fold, Real had options for additional plug-ins with dubious value such as sound enhancers and web accelerators, that were selected BY DEFAULT. If a user did not scroll down (and the design cleverly did not signal to the user that they had any reason to do so) they would not see that there were choosing to purchase around $50 in additional software. Real told us that this page alone was responsible for driving their average order up by $25. They even told us that most people didn't even know they were buying the additional software. When we told them that we found these tactics user un-friendly, unsustainable, and bad for the brand, they agreed. But they also told us that they were "hooked on it like heroin!" and didn't want to change anything for fear of loosing revenue.
guess I'll be using media player and quicktime more now
Somebody needs a tax write off.
Get DivX - it plays most anything very well.
So when is Colin Powell going to join Air America?
Take a look at winamp too....
Good move. Friends don't let friends run RealPlayer; fundamentally it's spyware.
If you really must be able to play RealMedia streams, there is RealAlternative.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm
Figures. Only a bloated deluded liberal could design and market an overtly annoying product like Real Player.
Yeah, mine's gone now too...
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However, that fat-pig-headed-stinkoid had a good one-liner...
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Franken, a comedian and author, said, "I have re-signed with Air America in order to spend less time with my family."
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LOL!
I'd love to have a legal, sanctioned cage-match against alfranken...
Hardly surprising. RealPlayer is teh suxxors - full of spyware and ads.
Lucky me. I've never heard it, being in central Indiana.
FMCDH(BITS)
Pinging since you've indicated distaste (or worse) for RealPlayer.
See the replied-to post about RealAlternative. I've used it, it works for me. FYI. I haven't put RealPlayer on any of my systems for years.
I really wish people wouldn't use RealMedia streams, but sometimes, I want to see something that's only in that format.
Just uninstalled RealPlayer and related software. Fortunately now the streaming sites that I frequent give me a choice of players. I don't know any now that only use RealPlayer.
Me, too, long ago. Didn't like the other crap (including spyware) that RP added to my hard drive. The fact that Maria Cantvotewell made XX millions in a few years from this company with no real management experience or business contribution added to my bias of the organization. Glaser was her primary mentor and political supporter.
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