Barry Diller's forgotten website for black people?

-BETH Everyone's talking about Thedailybeast.com the well publicized news gathering site bankrolled by Internet Mogul Barry Diller and headed by Editrix Tina Brown. The site which you should already know about based on the constant mentions by people like Joe Scarborough of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" according to recent traffic reports is a hit right out the gate. This is good news for both Diller and Tina Brown being that her last attempt at a start up crumbled and for Diller, well, things aren't looking too rosie in the spreadsheets at IAC. But what about Diller and IAC's other recent launch? What launch you ask? Well back in April of this year, the 10th of April to be exact, IAC launched what it dubbed a first-of-its-kind search engine for the Black community. The site titled Rushmoredrive.com, yeah odd name for a so-called search engine, at first glance looks like some kind of medical website. The logo is poorly designed, the color choices are very medically! and on top of all that it just lacks that search enginie kind of appeal. But the shirts at IAC being the Mavericks they are, probably set out for this exact appeal!! But enough about how much the site sucks. How is the traffic? Are black people utilizing their first of its kind search engine? Do they even know it exists? I mean did IAC do a direct mail campaign targeting black communities telling them that their is a new site designed and constructed specially for them? Well according to Quantcast.com Rushmoredrive.com had 1 million visitors in its first three months and has since been stuck at under 300k visits per month. Compared to Thedailybeast.com's 2.3 million visitors since it launched on October 15, Rushmoredrive.com probably should get the word out. Then again the monthly traffic could be worst. I mean look at Blackwebportal.com, that other search engine for black people. It only gets a little over 8k visits per month.

The Tina and Barry Show: Tina Brown the former editor of everything you can think of got into Barry Diller's pockets for a new online project

By SDH Like almost everyone who once worked on the print media side at some point or another, Tina Brown is taking her next act to the web and got Barry Diller to come out of his pockets to back it. Brown will launch a new un-named aggregated news site which seems to be the norm now because there is a need for more destinations as to read the same aggregated shit. Diller seems to be the go to person if you have a half way decent idea for a website. One of his most recent backings is the Huffington Post spin off, 236.com. Brown's new venture is already being compared to other sites like Huffpost and the Drudge Report and may even have an editor already. We're sure Brown won't be throwing a huge bash to celebrate the launch of her latest effort. Diller is really rolling them out huh? IAC is set to roll out their website for brown people next week. While some have speculated that the site is an attempt by Diller to rejuvenate IAC, such analysis is surely hyperbole. IAC, after all, still is a $6.1 billion company even after its shares have been nearly halved in the past year. Additionally, IAC's online content efforts of late -- including financial site FiLife.com, a joint effort with News Corp.'s Dow Jones, and political comedy site 23/6 -- are of negligible value compared with such IAC assets as Ticketmaster, Ask.com and