You may have heard about AOL’s ridiculous screw-up in releasing 3 months of around 650,000 of their users search histories earlier this week. Since the file was leaked, dozens of online, searchable databases have sprung up. While most of the blogoshpere has been focusing on finding creepy users with disturbing search histories, I’m positive...

Forum: Social Hall Posted By: Mat Garretson Post Time: 11-15-2006 at 02:55 PM

I heard from the AOL food folks recently about a cheapo wine tasting they just completed: It's our first annual list of Top 5 Wines at $5.99 (or less), timed with the holiday entertaining season when people are looking to... Continue...

Katie from AOL Food just tipped me off to an interesting “Top…” list they posted: Top 5 Wines at $5.99 (or less) . Their brave tasting panel collected 34 wines for evaluation and recommend five. Not surprisingly, for me anyway, many of the wines are found on the shelves of Trader Joe’s markets here in the U.S. and the top wine chosen is Trader Joe’s Coastal Cabernet (what, no Napa River...

Forum: Social Hall Posted By: Paul Soals Post Time: 03-14-2008 at 05:37 PM

Fee, fie, foe, fum…. Here they come! Certain industry pundits have written recently on the “de-portalization of the Internet” and the “death of the portal.” But a quick look at the numbers show that their premonitions are premature. eMarketer estimates that net US ad revenues at Yahoo!, AOL, MSN and Google represented 57.4% of the total Internet ad spend in 2006. READ FULL ARTICLE...

Filed under: Wine , Snacks , Lush Life , Television/Film , Stores & Shopping , Comfort Food And that headline is your first answer in this quiz over at AOL Food (via The Smoking Gun ). Match the contract demand with the singer that makes the demand on their contract. All the same names seem to pop up: Britney, Christina, Mariah, Celine, Madonna, and Paula Abdul. I didn't realize that Abdul...

Filed under: Wine , Snacks , Lush Life , Television/Film , Stores & Shopping , Comfort Food And that headline is your first answer in this quiz over at AOL Food (via The Smoking Gun ). Match the contract demand with the singer that makes the demand on their contract. All the same names seem to pop up: Britney, Christina, Mariah, Celine, Madonna, and Paula Abdul. I didn't realize that Abdul...

Vogue Magazine defined “green” as “the new black.” The New York Times declared “green” as the new “red, white and blue.” So Steve Case, a billionaire who co-founded AOL, plans to plunk down about $800 million of his own green to build the first of his eco-friendly resorts, known as Revolution Places , in the coastal town of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. (Not a wise choice for a name — sounds like...

... from AOL Food dropped me a note to let me know that their list of top wines for $5.99 or less was ready for readers. (Image from AOL's food site) Their picks include wines readily available...