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Thursday March 18, 2010
How the big boys win the race for most popular website and rake in the doughFor 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. Quote "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
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Wordoid.com - looks for made-up domain names based on a root wordWordoid 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
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Tuesday March 16, 2010
35 Beautiful Photography WebsitesSmashing 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.
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C-Span Finishes Project to Put Full (US Govt) Video Archives on the WebThis 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/
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Spare Change: Facebook, Bebo and Myspace Application Developers Micro-Payment SystemAnother micro payment service, this one focused on social networks: Quote 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
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Cafepress Shop AlternativesGood discussion of some cafepress alternatives: Quote 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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