Archive for the 'Rumors' Category

Hot Tip for Domainers: 853-1212

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Hilarious article in the LA Times this morning about how at&t (formerly SBC, formerly PacBell, formerly AT&T with big letters) is abandoning their automated time service on 853-1212 in California, active since 1948.  Apparently, there are too many other ways to figure out the correct time.  Funny, because I’ve always relied on the good old […]

Money for Content and your Clicks for Free

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Web authors have long dreamed of making money from nothing, or in this case, the content they generate.  It’s rare to make a living from your articles; face it, most stuff isn’t very good.  Popular websites, like YouTube, MySpace, Wikipedia and weHow.com, have so far relied on freely-donated content generated by their users.  But as these […]

Real Google Story Drowned out by YouTube Rumors

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Sure, today comes the rumor that Google is in talks to buy YouTube for $1.6bn (about $53 per YouTube user).  This managed to create 375+ news articles in a couple hours.  See details on Google’s own News site:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=google+youtube
But the more important story, certainly to Google’s future, came in the LA Times this morning “Google Puts […]