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Insider Blogging looks at the employees blogs of our favorite companies, exposing the last legal way to get "inside information."

AOL Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis feels "pretty good -- not great, but pretty good" about AOL's results, as reported Wednesday. He'd feel better, of course, if the street wasn't a little peeved about the too-rapid decrease in subscribers. He doesn't mention why he doesn't feel great, instead focusing on the positive, the ad revenue growth: "the businesses we get compared to most often are Yahoo! and MSN, and we grew nearly as fast as the former and nearly four times faster than the latter."

He's also wonderfully pleased with the company's decision to take the content out from behind the subscriber-only wall and offer it to everyone (along with free e-mail). "Customers like our products," he says, pointing out AOL's 107 million unique visitors, a number that's stable despite the subscriber loss.

Meanwhile, over at the Yahoo! Publisher Network blog, we finally have a response to their unceremonious boot-age of many MySpace publishers.

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Insider Blogging: Ted feels good about Time Warner results, Scoble talks Ultra Mobile originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 05 May 2006 13:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Or, as Ted Leonsis goes, so goes the world. Everybody's doing YouTube and (as he wrote, and we covered last week), AOL's Ted Leonsis is one of them. In the Washington Post [registration required], the YouTube phenomenon is reviewed and the writer notes that all the biggies are launching video sharing sites of their own; we've got AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! all on the list as of last count.

The concept - that users create their own videos and upload them - seems more of a play for a company that doesn't already own lots of video-ready content (i.e., Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft) than one that does (i.e., AOL). Video content is expensive for corporations to create, but very cheap for individuals.

But can any of them match the success of the seemingly grass-roots upstart, YouTube (actually a heavily-venture-capitalized firm founded by early employees of PayPal)? If even the execs at the would-be competition are lauding YouTube, I have to wonder.

YouTube, I tube, we all tube? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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