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Thursday March 18, 2010

How the big boys win the race for most popular website and rake in the dough

For you paranoid delusional peasants out there who think the big rich websites play by different rules that the little people, here's some more fodder for your anger.

Recent documents from a lawsuit between YouTube and Viacom show how the companies vying to become the dominant video uploading websites (a battle which YouTube seemed to have won), knew quite well that to win the race to become the dominant video website would require focusing on illegally hosting copyrighted material.

So they weren't just content to simply turn a blind eye when people uploaded such copyrighted videos -- they were in a race to win the market, so naturally they did what any one would do, the founders of the site were busily uploading the illegal copyrighted videos themselves, in an attempt to boost the traffic on the site, and therefore win the popularity competition and make the big money.

Welcome to the web 2.0, where if you want to get bought out by google and make the big money, sometimes you have to do what it takes to inflate your traffic.  The law is for people in 2nd place.

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"Chen twice wrote that 80 percent of user traffic depended on pirated videos. He opposed removing infringing videos on the ground that 'if you remove the potential copyright infringements... site traffic and virality will drop to maybe 20 percent of what it is.' Karim proposed they 'just remove the obviously copyright infringing stuff.' But Chen again insisted that even if they removed only such obviously infringing clips, site traffic would drop at least 80 percent. ('if [we] remove all that content[,] we go from 100,000 views a day down to about 20,000 views or maybe even lower')."

http://arstechnica.com/te...outube-viacom-filings.ars

posted by mouser donate to mouser - March 18, 2010, 07:53:00 PM
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Wordoid.com - looks for made-up domain names based on a root word

Wordoid lets you type in a word and it will report on the availability of domain names that are made from made-up derivatives of the word, that sound natural:

http://wordoid.com

posted by Target donate to Target - March 18, 2010, 07:37:00 PM
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Tuesday March 16, 2010

35 Beautiful Photography Websites

Smashing Magazine posted an incredible list of 35 Beautiful Photography Websites.

http://www.smashingmagazi...iful-photography-websites

I'll add that one of my favs for large photojournalism is the Boston Globe's Big Picture site. The web may be bad for print newspapers, but it's been a boon for photography.

posted by zridling donate to zridling - March 16, 2010, 10:46:00 PM
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C-Span Finishes Project to Put Full (US Govt) Video Archives on the Web

This is pretty huge for (recovering) political junkies like me -- this week c-span has finished putting it's entire video archives online, with an awesome search engine.  Some amazingly good stuff to watch here, and a big step forward for US citizens.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/

posted by mouser donate to mouser - March 16, 2010, 10:37:00 PM
discovered on NY Times via slashdot.org
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Spare Change: Facebook, Bebo and Myspace Application Developers Micro-Payment System

Another micro payment service, this one focused on social networks:

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How It Works:
Spare Change is simple. Users fund their Spare Change account with their credit card, PayPal, bank account or mobile phone - or complete marketing offers and surveys. Users use Spare Change instantly on all of their favorite social network applications.

http://sparechangeinc.com

posted by Stephen66515 donate to Stephen66515 - March 16, 2010, 05:13:00 PM
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Cafepress Shop Alternatives

Good discussion of some cafepress alternatives:

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CafePress Alternatives & Competitors
Three main competitors are challenging CafePress. Links to each company and a review of each alternative "print on demand" service.
You've spent countless hours creating designs. Now you're ready to open your own online store & make money selling your T-shirts and merchandise! What print on demand service should you choose? Here are the three main competitors of CafePress.com so you can decide for yourself!

http://www.squidoo.com/cafepress_alternative

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