Just How Rich Are Those YouTube Guys?

Exactly how much money it took to make YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen giddy as the schoolboys they are in this Google acquisition announcement video? Google's latest SEC filing shows it's roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of Djibouti.

Yahoo Pipes The Internet To You

People using Yahoo Pipes will be able to mix and mashup data sources from all kinds of places on the Internet into combined feeds they can share with others.

Academy Directs Oscarwatch To Change Name

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, home of Oscar and the Academy Awards, has been cracking hard on blogs using the Oscar name; until this year, they had left Sasha Stone of Oscarwatch.com alone. That changed on January 22nd. Sasha provided Webproworld with a copy of the letter she received from the Academy, accusing her of infringement on the Oscar mark. The legalese…

Anthony Cumia Shows You How To Install Vista

I'm a huge fan of the Opie & Anthony radio program on XM Satellite Radio, have been for years, and over the last week, I've heard show host Anthony talking about his experiences with Windows Vista. Anthony's had a lot of trouble, running into unsigned drivers, video card drivers that have worse performance in Vista than in XP, and a constant Blue Screen of Death…

YouTube Blindly Follows Viacom’s Demands

Over the last week, Viacom, reportedly after negotiations went nowhere, demanded YouTube remove 100,000 videos. Now, people are complaining that legitimate videos got swept up in the Great Purge, including this guy who had a video of him and some buddies discussing RSS and OPML, deleted because it occured in a restaurant that shares a name with a CBS personality.