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Animoto.com: Making your pictures come alive on video

September 15, 2007

I found this amazing site yesterday through one of the feeds on LinkOverLoad.com. Awesome video coming right up… Animoto basically turns your pictures into a fantastic MTV-style video, with some great soundtracks available on their site for free, or you can use your own audio – with your pictures almost flashing in rhythm to the [...]

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Woot Sells Out – In Style

September 12, 2007

“The _____ swept down from the hills like a dark and hungry wind. The first thing anyone would notice would be the _____, its long white hair flew wildly in the breeze generated by the two swinging katanas that had been enchanted to draw blood from anything, even lamp posts and cheese. Raised in a [...]

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Google Finally Starts Video Advertising on YouTube

August 23, 2007

We all knew this day would come, but I had been more curious about the type of video ads that would show up: would they be pre-roll (first show the ads, then the actual video)? Would they be post-roll (after the video) or some kind of pop-up (probably not, knowing their Adsense policy about pop-ups)? [...]

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Google Acquisition History

June 11, 2007

Check out this pretty cool list of Google’s acquisitions, from Deja to YouTube to Doubleclick to Feedburner. If you notice the trend, they’ve pretty much tried to stick to their core competency and have bought companies with products that complement their core niche of search and analysis.

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Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion

April 14, 2007

Google came to prominence with a “Hate Images, Love Text” campaign. Slowly but steadily, they ventured into “banner” advertising, then “video” advertising, then affiliate programs, and now they have purchased one of the biggest “traditional” online advertisement networks, DoubleClick. Their huge dependence on their “advertising” model is both exciting and scary at the same time.

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BitTorrent Goes Legit and Launches Movie and TV Downloads

February 26, 2007

From the Wikipedia: BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. The protocol was originally designed and created by programmer Bram Cohen, and is now maintained by BitTorrent, Inc. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the whole of the corresponding costs of hardware, hosting and [...]

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XM Radio, Sirius announce merger

February 20, 2007

So is this the start of yet another monopoly? Why hasn’t anyone else gotten into this? It’s not like there are major infrastructure setup pains involved – just buy a darn satellite and start broadcasting – it’s not like it’s hard to do for someone with a lot of cash and people – something that [...]

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