Online Video Auteurs: Keep Your Day Jobs, Part 2  —  Perez Hilton tells TVWeek his videos on Google’s YouTube generated 25 million views over the past three months and netted him a whopping $5,000 in revenue.  That’s a 20-cent CPM.  (It’s an even lower net CPM for Google, by the way, assuming a payout ratio […]

Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph  —  Google has been quietly rolling out social features across all of its services based on Gmail contacts.  While Google still has to overcome some of its social tone-deafness (e.g. automatically adding contacts without asking), this move makes perfect sense.

Source:   Publishing 2.0
Author:   Scott Karp
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Announcing Hoosgot: Resurrecting the Lazyweb  —  Today I’m unveiling a new service that I put together over the last 48 hours.  It’s called hoosgot.com.  Hoosgot (pronounced “who’s got…”) is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for.  Just put “hoosgot” in a blog post or a Twitter tweet and it’ll show up […]

RIAA not suing over CD ripping, still kinda being jerks about it  —  Okay, so we’ve done some digging into the RIAA’s lawsuit against Jeffery Howell, in which the industry is claiming that ripped MP3s are “unauthorized copies,” and it turns out that Jeffery isn’t actually being sued for ripping CDs …

Source:   Engadget
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Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike  —  IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off.  Why?  Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Janet Rae-Dupree
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30know.html

Girl Gets Bizarre Surprise Instead of iPod  —  A little girl thought she was getting an iPod for Christmas but ended up getting a rude surprise.  She got the box but when she opened it up, she found a surprising switch: the iPod had been replaced with a bizarre note.

Source:   myfoxdc.com
Link:   http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail…

VC’s New Math: Does Less = More?  —  Thiel Seeks to Change Old Habits by Investing Small on Start-Ups  —  Three years ago, Peter Thiel, who runs a small venture-capital concern called Founders Fund, plowed $500,000 into a little-known social-networking Web site called Facebook Inc. Later on, his company invested a bit more.

Source:   Wall […]

Google is God  —  For something I’m working on, I compiled a bunch of stats on Google (sorry, I didn’t intend to blog it and so I didn’t capture all the links, but I found the collection so compelling I thought I’d share it):  —  • Google is the “fastest growing company in the history […]

How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time  —  WERE Henry Ford brought back to life today, he would most likely be delighted by the Internet: the uninhibited way many people express themselves on the Web makes it easy to supervise the private lives of employees.  —  In his day, the Ford Motor …

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Video of iPhone Firmware 1.1.3 in Action and Evidence Shows Update Is Real  —  Here’s a video of the allegedly iPhone Firmware 1.1.3.  Update: It is very real, according to Natetrue and the evidence we have gathered from him.  Knowing that the mighty Natetrue (the author of iBrickr …

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Jesus Diaz
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