Holy Sh*t! Facebook’s Net Worth Is Now $15 Billion?! (2007)
According to The Wall Street Journal, Facebook is negotiating with Microsoft to sell a small stake in the social network at a valuation of around $15 billion.
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Halo 3 – Review
Adding to Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, the epic saga continues with Halo 3, the amazingly anticipated sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed Halo franchise. Halo (2001) and Halo 2 (2004) sold 14.5 million copies worldwide. In this third chapter of the Halo trilogy, Master Chief returns to finish the fight, bringing …
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Are people around you spontaneously talking like pirates? Hold on to your eye patch! Today is "International Talk Like a Pirate Day"!
Coca Cola readying self-chilling soft drinks?
And you thought non-stick chewing gum was the heat. Turns out, Coca Cola may be plotting a new version of Sprite that actually chills itself upon opening. Apparently, the drink has to be kept at a specified temperature before being snapped up, and once the oh-so-thirsty consumer pops the top, “a mechanism inside creates ice …
Tearful Britney Fan Is a YouTube Hit
A tearful Britney Spears fan named Chris Crocker posted a passionate video called Leave Britney Alone! on YouTube after the pop star’s disastrous MTV Awards performance. Crocker’s video has become an instant YouTube hit and has gotten about 4 million views. In it, Crocker defends Britney’s widely-criticized performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on …
MySpace’s Tila Tequila Gets MTV Show
MTV’s latest reality show – A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila – is built around the dishy, scantily clad singer/model who is reputed to have the most friends in the history of MySpace (2,009,335 at last count). Tila’s career began at the age of 18 when she was discovered at a shopping mall by …
NBC, News Corp. Christen Online Video Venture Hulu
News Corp. and NBC Universal have named their online video joint venture Hulu. The venture is designed to be the ad-supported home for Web videos from News Corp., NBC Universal and other content companies that want to participate. The venture has distribution deals with some of the biggest Web sites, including AOL, Comcast.net, MSN, MySpace …
Hulu Details Emerge
The News Corp./NBC Universal video portal finally has a name and a URL. The venture’s new CEO Jason Kilar writes they picked the moniker Hulu because it is “short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce and it rhymes with itself.” (Hulu means “feather/plumage” or “choice and precious” in Hawaiian, so perhaps it’s also a sly …
How to Download YouTube Videos for Your iPhone and iPod
UPDATE: YouTube has reworked their site in response to this article. If you get an error when trying to download a YouTube video, please try some of the plug-ins and scripts listed in step #3. YouTube.com is a great resource. Not many sites allows users to freely upload, view, and share video clips like YouTube …
Arm-wrestling game recalled in Japan
Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm. Distributor Atlus Co. said Tuesday it will remove all 150 “Arm Spirit” arm wrestling machines from Japanese arcades after three players broke their arms grappling with …
MethodShop Named “Site of the Week” By Davis Freeberg
After checking our referral traffic today we noticed a boost in visitors coming from Davis Freeberg’s “Digital Connection” blog. Apparently Freeberg liked our article about Apple rejecting iPod engravings. Although Davis said MethodShop wasn’t a “useful site” but he at least he still thought we were “entertaining.” Thanks Davis, we’ll take that as a compliment. Special …
"Superbad" rules box office for second week
Bawdy teen comedy “Superbad” proved to be super good at North American movie box offices, holding onto the No. 1 slot for the second straight weekend, according to studio estimates on Sunday. “Superbad” grossed $18 million, pushing its 10-day total to $68.6 million and making it one of the top comedies of the summer. “The …
Diamonds Nearly as Old as Earth
Diamonds are indeed forever, or at least nearly as old as the Earth, a new study shows. Scientists have unearthed diamonds more than 4 billion years old and trapped inside crystals of zircon in the Jack Hills region in Western Australia. Nearly as old as Earth itself and considered the oldest terrestrial diamonds ever discovered, …
Google Starts Monetizing YouTube, Steals Video Overlay Ad Unit From VideoEgg
YouTube did not claim to invent the video overlay ad concept. They obviously just liked it enough to steal it from VideoEgg. I guess Google's strategy is, if you can't out-innovate your competitors, then steal from them.
73M Visited Online Video Sites in July 2007 [stats]
Online video-sharing sites continue to see growing usage, and YouTube is still way out in front of its competitors. Online video sites in general lured about 73 million unique visitors in July, according to Web audience measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings. About 75 percent of that audience stopped at YouTube, which drew 55 million unique viewers in …
Internet Video Contest Gives American Idol Hopeful an Edge
Can an Asian-American ever hold the American Idol title? Paul Ethan Hahn says a resounding "yes" and Internet video might be his Ace in the Hole.
How To Run iTunes From A USB Drive
Wish you could free your iTunes Library from your computer and take it with you in your pocket? GetUSB.info put together an excellent tutorial on how to run a mobile iTunes Library from a USB stick or hard drive. This method will run the entire iTunes application from the storage device, making it easy to …
