MeeVee's cocked-up new strategy for growing a late-night audience

A tipster has shared a hard-on-laden screenshot of the MeeVee homepage around midnight Tuesday. From their launch in 2000 as a "TV Guide killer" to their recent shift into online video listings, MeeVee has never managed to find an online-video niche — but this slip-up suggests one. The site has been up for sale since April. Clearly, these guys are not partying with YouTube's porn team nearly enough. Or maybe MeeVee is the one place where the YouTube team can go to blow off a little steam. Here's what slipped past MeeVee's filters: More »

MeeVee's board slaps "for sale" sticker on company

Taking corporate transparency to a new level, MeeVee's board issued a press release offering the company up for sale. Email the director of engineering, Steve Hughey, if you're interested — he's one of only seven employees left at the company. MeeVee was originally launched as an online TV listings website, and has received $24 million in funding since 2000. Sadly, the two circles on the Venn diagram of people who still need television listings and people who go online don't actually intersect anymore, and the company's efforts to rebrand themselves as an online video search and discovery tool apparently didn't work out.

Bubblespotting, ultimate reader tip edition: MeeVee got its sign for free, Yahoos booed their CEO, and Chad Hurley can't park

Readers sent in some great tips over the past 24 hours. Tipster #1 allays our fears that TV-listing startup MeeVee is blowing its cash on signage: More »

Bubblespotting: MeeVee's fantastical branded building

Silicon Valley's answer to Gawker Stalker isn't spotting CEOs and engineers — no one leaves their offices anyway — it's spotting signs of the new tech bubble. The first sighting is a real what-the-fuck moment: the photo above shows TV guide MeeVee abusing its $20 million in funding. A reader writes in: More »