May 31, 2009
Was Bush on a Mission From God?
dalasverdugo: azspot: Stranger still are new accounts emerging from France describing how former president Jacques Chirac was utterly baffled by a 2003 telephone conversation in which Bush reportedly invoked fanatical Old Testament prophecy – including the Earth-ending battle with forces of evil, Gog and Magog – in his arguments to enlist France in the Coalition of the Willing. “This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins,” Bush said to Chirac.
May 29, 2009
“Drag Me To Hell”. Quite a pleasant introduction for prospective new users. It’s like one massive house ad for a black hole.
“Drag Me To Hell”. Quite a pleasant introduction for prospective new users. It’s like one massive house ad for a black hole.
May 27, 2009
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Must Be The Ganja | Eminem
“ You can really tell a lot about a person through the shoes, so I always like to keep me a fresh pair.
‘Sneakerheads’ pay big bucks for rare kicks - CNN.com Incidentally, Superkix started generating revenue today, no big deal!
May 25, 2009
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Guns High by Ace Hood
“ Who would have thought that America’s largest state, a state whose economy is larger than that of all but a few nations, could so easily become a banana republic?
State of Paralysis - Paul Krugman
May 24, 2009
The Link: This Changes Everything
May 22, 2009
Morning Joe Thomas Friedman and Joe discussing torture. Besides being perhaps my favorite show on TV, the Morning Joe website is spectacular - complete access to embeddable media with in-line clip editing!
“ The real baddie here is bespectacled, mild-mannered Craig Newmark, whose eponymous free service blew up the industry’s most profitable line of business: classified advertising…You can’t compete with free.
Newspaper Killer: Google? Or Craigslist? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
“ Noted VC Tim Draper is funding a private exchange for institutional investors to trade shares of start-up companies, calling it a “springboard” to an IPO. Start-ups need to have at least $20 million in revenue to participate in XChange.
Tim Draper Wants An Exchange For Startups To Go (Kinda) Public
May 19, 2009
fascinated: With a tagline like this, what could go wrong?  This is a finalist of the Facebook FB Fund in the music category, sad.
fascinated: With a tagline like this, what could go wrong?  This is a finalist of the Facebook FB Fund in the music category, sad.
May 18, 2009
The Worst is Yet to Come
May 17, 2009
superkix: Nike Dunk Low Premium SB “Ms. Pacman” | chlorine blue/cerise

superkix: Nike Dunk Low Premium SB “Ms. Pacman” | chlorine blue/cerise

May 11, 2009
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Turning Lane | Mike Jones
May 10, 2009
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The staggering amount of video YouTube processes confers serious infrastructure advantages. Achieving that level of scale provides critical technology operations insight. By the time everyone realized that video needed to become a core content offering, YouTube’s penetration and brand presence was insurmountably large. Their embed player, ugly as it was (and is), was (and remains) ubiquitous. Had YouTube rolled out a commercial video platform with
rich on-demand encoding services, a fully customizable embed player, HD or at least higher quality playback all sitting on a developer friendly App Engine-type infrastructure, they would have obviated the need for at least half a dozen related services from On2, Brightcove, thePlatform, Limelight and Akamai. They could have created the Amazon AWS equivalent in video overnight. It costs real money to serve video, and it ain’t easy, particularly when it’s done well. Video consumes orders of magnitude more bandwidth than other content types. As such, it presents a significant infrastructure business opportunity. However, most good companies opt to ‘monetize’ simply by marking up their costs, rather than playing shell games with loss-leaders and hoping to make up the difference with advertising. No amount of advertising can feasibly subsidize the cost of serving video both on-site and off-site, particularly at healthy operating margin levels.

Posted by Jonathan Marcus at May 10th, 2009 at 11:42 am
YouTube Advertising Revenue to Grow Soon Says Analyst | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD