Salon Media Group, Inc. operates as an Internet media company. Salon Media Group operates salon.com, a content Web site with various subject-specific sections, which includes two online communities and a social network. It updates an array of news, features, interviews, columnists, and blogs, including news and politics, opinion, technology and business, arts and entertainment, movie page, life, books, comics, and environment and science. The company’s Web site also offers investigative stories and personal essays along with commentary and staff-written Weblogs about politics, technology, culture, and entertainment. Its online communities include The Well and Table Talk, which allow users to discuss Salon content and interact with other users. Salon Media Group, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PeoplePC might want to consider changing names to PeopleISP. PeoplePC first made a name for itself giving PCs away for "free" with the purchase of a multiyear membership to its Internet access service. In 2004 PeoplePC changed tack and began to focus on providing straightforward ISP service. It has dropped the PCs and now provides value-priced, narrowband Internet access to more than 1 million subscribers as a subsidiary of Internet service provider EarthLink. PeoplePC also offers a fee-based acceleration service to augment its dial-up speeds and a fee-based spam-blocking service.

Eclipse Internet (Eclipse Networking's trading name) sells broadband Internet access via DSL to about 40,000 business and residential customers in the UK. Eclipse Networking company also offers managed network services to corporate clients that include Hamleys and the City of York Council. Founded in 1995, Eclipse started out focusing on customers in the southwest of England, but Eclipse Networking company has since expanded its service areas. Eclipse Networking Limited company was acquired by Kingston Communications in 2004 for £12.5 million.

Axia NetMedia wants to reach out to small-town citizens. Axia NetMedia Corporation designs, develops, and operates broadband networks for clients in both urban and rural areas. Its Real Broadband Services unit builds and operates high-speed computer networks for voice, video, and data. Axia NetMedia also offers Intelligence Online, a partnership with Galileo Educational Network that helps K-12 teachers use technology to enhance their teaching abilities. Having set up a broadband network in the Canadian province of Alberta, Axia NetMedia Corporation is developing a similar network for Labrador and Newfoundland, and is pursuing overseas opportunities. Axia NetMedia gets about 80% of its revenues in North America.

Started by Michael Kinsley in 1996, Slate Magazine is owned by The Washington Post. In 2008 the magazine became part of The Washington Post's newly created Slate Group. If you find mainstream journalism a dull, cold world, you might try this online publication. Slate Magazine operates a popular Web site offering news and commentary slightly skewed for hip and erudite readers. The Internet magazine covers the arts, business, politics, sports, travel, and technology and attracts an audience of about 5 million people. The Web site is supported through advertising and sponsorships.

FriendFinder Networks (formerly Penthouse Media Group) owns and operates a variety of social networking websites, including FriendFinder.com, AdultFriendFinder.com, Amigos.com, and AsiaFriendFinder.com. All total, its sites are offered to some 245 million members in some 170 countries. The company also publishes the venerable adult magazine PENTHOUSE, and produces adult video content and images. It began focusing on the Web when it acquired Various (doing business as FriendFinder) in 2007. The following year the company changed its name from Penthouse Media Group to FriendFinder Networks. In 2010 it postponed plans to go public.

Access US provides dial-up, DSL, and dedicated Internet access to consumers and businesses in the Midwest. The ISP also provides Web site development, email, and Web hosting services, as well as managed firewall services. Its managed services for business clients include data and network hosting, disaster recovery, network security management, and co-location. Access US serves residential and small-business subscribers primarily in communities around St. Louis. President and chairman Victor Mattison and CEO Rob Semaan, who met as students at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Business, founded Access US company in 1995.

Vertro, Inc., an Internet company that owns and operates the ALOT product portfolio primarily in the United States. The company offers ALOT toolbar, homepage, and desktop applications, which are designed to make the Internet easy for consumers by providing direct access to affinity content and search results. It markets its products under the ALOT brand name. The company was formerly known as MIVA, Inc. and changed its name to Vertro, Inc. in June 2009. Vertro, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York, New York.

YouTube was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen (former CTO) and Chad Hurley (former CEO). Today it is a subsidiary of Internet search giant Google. YouTube is definitely not your father's method of sharing video footage. The company has amassed a collection of more than 100 million video clips, many of which feature user generated content, which it broadcasts online via its Web site at YouTube.com. With about 70 million unique visitors a month in the US (and the sixth-largest audience on the Web), it has become the clear leader in online video sharing. YouTube earns revenue by selling advertising, and has partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, Warner Music Group, and the NBA.

eDiets.com, Inc. engages in developing and marketing Internet-based diet and fitness programs to consumers and businesses primarily in North America. It offers various digital subscription-based diet plans according to an individual’s weight goals, food and cooking preferences, and related shopping lists and recipes; and subscription-based weight loss oriented meal delivery services, as well as interactive online information, communities, education, and telephone and online support services. The company also provides message boards on various topics of interest to subscribers, such as online meetings presented by licensed mental health counselors, registered dietitians, and certified fitness trainers. In addition, it offers private label online nutrition, fitness, and wellness programs to health insurance, pharmaceutical, and food industries; and operates a Web site, eDiets.com, which provides content in the areas of diet and nutrition, fitness, mind and body, health, and food and recipes, as well as plans, designs, and develops private-label nutrition Web sites. eDiets.com, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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