YouTube Redesigns Around “Channels” Strategy

YouTube unveiled its largest redesign yet Thursday, bringing user personalization and the video Web site’s growing selection of programming topics, or “channels,” front and center.

Dish in Talks for Internet TV

Dish Network Corp. has approached several media companies about the possibility of licensing their TV channels for use on a new pay-TV service to be delivered over the Internet, rather than over Dish’s satellite system, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Exclusive: MSN U.S. Head Scott Moore to Depart Portal

Scott Moore, who runs the U.S. arm of Microsoft’s MSN portal, is leaving the building. Thank you very much.
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HuffPo Hires Google Engineer Dierks

AOL’s media arm, the Huffington Post Media Group, has hired longtime Google techie Tim Dierks to oversee its growing programming engineering team as SVP of engineering.
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Exclusive: Longtime Yahoo Front Page Editor Liz Lufkin Out

Another ones bites the dust: According to sources close to the situation, longtime Yahoo Front Page chief Liz Lufkin has parted ways with the company.
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An Unlikely Pair (Me and Glamour Magazine, That Is) Tackle Women in Tech Conundrum This Fall

As readers of mine know, I write a semi-ranty post now and again about the lack of women in high-level tech jobs and on the boards of its major companies. This fall, Glamour magazine and I will be asking about that lack of women. And — fair warning — we have a lot of questions.
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YouTube Opens Streaming Floodgates

YouTube’s move into live streaming took a big step forward today with the initial rollout of YouTube Live, which will integrate the tools for producing and discovering live feeds into the site’s core system for the first time. Google’s video site is also opening its streaming platform to approved YouTube partners and hopes thousands of them will climb aboard. The amount of live programming now warrants its own viewing guide page.

Google to Revamp YouTube With "Channels"

Google Inc.’s YouTube video website is working on a major site overhaul to organize its content around “channels” as it positions itself for the rise of Internet-connected televisions that allow people to watch online video in their living rooms, according to people familiar with the matter.

Exclusive: Yahoo News Head Moves to Disney.com, Which Will Get Big Redo

Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Mark Walker, the head of the powerful Yahoo News site, was leaving the Internet giant for another company. That company, sources said, will be Disney, where Walker will be leading a major overhaul of its flagship Disney.com site.

Live From Petaluma: Chief TWiT Leo Laporte Talks About Podcasting Expansion and More!

Right before the Oscars, BoomTown motored up to Petaluma, Calif., a lovely town in Northern California, to be in studio on Leo Laporte’s “This Week in Tech” online show. TWiT is just one of the more than two dozen online video shows put out by the energetic Laporte via the TWiT Netcast Network, whose expansion has been heartening to see given the programming–though decidedly geeky–is really top-notch.

Goodbye, Free TV on Your iPad. For Now…