As Yahoo tries to find ways to stop Microsoft from gobbling it up, speculation abounds about the possibility of News Corp. setting up a deal that ostensibly would make all parties involved quite happy.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. could get a 20-plus percent stake in Yahoo and MySpace and other News Corp. properties would be combined with Yahoo to create a mega-online firm.
And while some believe this is a match made in Heaven, I can't seem to grasp exactly why that could be. As far as I'm concerned, this is a match made in hell that will never happen anyway.
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Correction: This blog initially misstated the day NBC announced it was pulling its content off YouTube. It was Monday.
Am I the only person who has lost every ounce of respect for NBC? First, it tells the world that it will not renew its contract with Apple citing disputes over content pricing, and then it tells us all Monday that it has pulled all of its content off YouTube and will reserve it for Hulu when it finally goes live.
Nice one, NBC. Not only have you pulled your programming off the most popular video-sharing site on the Internet, you've decided to add it to a video site of your (and News Corp.'s) own that has no promise. Am I missing something here?
There is no chance Hulu will ever become a success. And the reason is quite simple: It is being produced by two companies that have no idea what consumers want and are utterly unaware of how the Internet works. Even worse, neither of those companies knows what Web 2.0 is all about.
I give Hulu one year.
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