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more about #barrydiller more comments → The Sneak: JOKER'S WILD: Seamlessly combines a tired pre-existing television concept with an already cliché "online" component by having Internet poker players ... more » TheSometimesWhy: Which court system deals with cases of creative bankruptcy? more » moneyries: So it's same ol' TV...mixed with that wacky new internet! more » dystopika: I love Emo Philips, been wondering what he's been up to... #bensilverman more » Richard Blakeley: Ricky Van Veen is super talented, so how is this a bad thing? #bensilverman more » Crantastic: I guess that Peter Pan internet guy really did refuse to grow up. #bensilverman more » TheSometimesWhy: I hate to break it to you, but Mr. Silverman has fallen a lot farther than you know. At the Coffee and Tea Bean on Sunset this morning, he made me th... more » Trai_Dep: With a haircut like that, Van Veen is definitely straight. Limits the "benefits" part of the friends-with-benefits equation, no? #bensilverman more » FormerEnglishMajor: Wait, isn't Bee Schaeffer at College Humor as well? Maybe Ben can do a multi-platform deal where it's Electus, Notional, CollegeHumor AND TeenVogue, w... more » Motoko Kusanagi: "besties" must die. #bensilverman more » Magister: Was it all a plot? Did Ben Silverman fatally wound broadcast television to boost demand for 'net video? #bensilverman more » TheHonJudgeSmails: This would make a great buddy flick. Silverman could play the guy whose abilities are too small for his position, while Van Veen plays the guy who mak... more » Motoko Kusanagi: Ignoring Barry Diller is a must for Internet success. #barrydiller more » celery: Read the headline at least 5 times as "Google Co-Founder Kind of a Jerk in Prison, Says Fellow Billionaire." Made the actual article confusing, and th... more » Kakapo: "Self-possessed" is not the insult Diller seems to think it is. #barrydiller more » -
#television
Is Ricky Van Veen Spending Too Much Time with Ben Silverman?
Ricky Van Veen announced the production schedule for his brand-new TV studio, and it would appear the CollegeHumor founder believes the future of the small screen lies in the past, because he's unleashing a mess of game shows. More » -
#moguls
Ben Silverman's New College Buddy
As an NBC chairman, Ben Silverman once mingled with true media titans. But now the fallen mogul rolls with a different crowd; we hear he's besties with CollegeHumor editor-in-chief Ricky Van Veen. Now they might be in business together. More » -
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Google Co-Founder Kind of a Jerk in Person, Says Fellow Billionaire
It's so fun to see the media wars play out in actual tiffs between actual human beings in actual rooms together. Take this passive-aggressive clash between Google's Larry Page, programmer, and IAC's Barry Diller, onetime movie mogul. More » -
#mediawars
Twitter CEO's Mockery: We 'Were Laughing at Those Media Guys'
Twitter's revenues will be just $4 million this year, according to a new Wired feature story. But that's not going to crimp its co-founder's swagger: Evan Williams knows Twitter will be huge, and has words for anyone who says otherwise. More » -
#gossiproundup
I Am Slightly Underwhelmed By Lindsay Lohan's Paris Fashion Week Debut
Lindsay Lohan makes her big Paris Fashion Week catwalk debut. Beyonce dad is impregnating women and moving women to the left. Vincent Gallo: still awesome. Liza Minella, Michael Jackson, Padma, Diller, the High Line! Here's your Sunday Morning Gossip Roundup: More » -
#startups
Barry Diller Just Bought This Kid a TV Studio
At the ripe old age of 28, Ricky Van Veen is finally putting CollegeHumor.com behind him. He's leaving the site he co-founded and starting a production company called Notional. But the young man remains in Barry Diller's well-padded nest. More » -
#beardedladies
Diane Von Furstenberg's Secrets To Success: 'Independence,' Sugar Daddies, Sheer Delusion
You know when the Sunday New York Times profiles Diane Von Furstenberg - fashion designer, wife of heterosexual business owner Barry Diller - they're going to deliver. And oh, did they. Welcome to Diane Von Furstenberg's Secrets to Success.
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#preferences
Barry Diller Will Cater to Very Specific Sexual Tastes
After pawning off his highbrow cultural shopping newsletter on the New York Observer, what does Barry Diller buy? Sites for people with fetishes for the "Big and Beautiful," Black Baby Boomers and Italians. Diller, after all, knows from picky. (Pic) -
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#jaredkushner
Typo, Filler Ad, Mainstream Movie Herald New York Observer's Second Very Short List
How is shopping newsletter Very Short List doing on the second day under the New York Observer's ownership? Poorly enough to motivate mogul wannabe Jared Kushner to hire some dedicated staff, perhaps. More » -
#populargaybooks
Amazon.com Outs Barry Diller
Ho ho, what do people who buy a copy of "Dillerland," a biography of married media mogul Barry Diller, also buy, according to the Amazon.com robots? More » -
#deals
'The Observer's Very Short List' Proudly Brought to You by the New York Observer
The first edition of email newsletter Very Short List is out for the first time under the control of New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner. What advertiser do you think he lined up? More » -
#breaking
'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
A source writes in: ink on the long-rumored deal selling IAC property Very Short List to Jared Kushner and The New York Observer's dry. VSLers have been fired, and the property's clumsily fallen into the Observer's hands, now. Update: confirmed.
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#moguls
The Very Long Con of a Very Short List
Barry Diller's effort to pawn off Very Short List, his failed shopping newsletter for the rich, is turning into a classic New York media folly — a big drama over a puny digital property. More » -
#mogultoys
Barry Diller's Not-So-Exclusive 'Very Short List'
Very Short List has been a favorite bauble of Barry Diller since the IAC chief established it nearly three years ago, after failing to buy Daily Candy. He envisioned VSL as a smart, tidy newsletter. But it looks worrisomely distended. More » -
#eatingdisorders
Barry Diller: Picky Eater
Heterosexual business magnate Barry Diller was a guest on CNBC's Power Lunch today, which was shot on location at the Four Seasons. And he freaked out when they tried to make him eat. More » -
#jazzfeet
Old Man Twinkle Toes Delights Room Full of Children
Barry Diller was on hand to introduce the The CollegeHumor Show (his IAC owns a stake in the mostly-online venture) at last night's launch party. He made old man jokes and did some fancy footwork. More » -
#gallery
The CollegeHumor Show's Premiere Party
Those fratty nerds at CollegeHumor celebrated the launch of their new MTV television show last night, in the lobby of their big boss Barry Diller's IAC building in Chelsea. Here are some photos. More » -
#236
Barry Diller's Funny Business
Just last month, IAC chief Barry Diller was chiding his fellow moguls for laying workers off in a recession and spending indiscriminately. So how does he explain getting rid of 23/6, his humor site? More » -
#media
Tina Brown's 'Reinvention' Is Wearing Thin
Tina Brown — who once edited Tatler, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker and Talk — has reinvented herself by editing a website that mixes high and low culture. Where have we heard that before?
