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YouTube announces paid downloads, DVD sales for filmmakers [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
On the heels of extending the time and size limit for uploaded videos from partners, YouTube has announced that as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival tomorrow it will be launching the "Screening... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Submit your most creative Muni and Bart maps to Cubed now. We said NOW! [Curbed] Reason 58918597 why we love Danielle Steel. [SF Weekly] Obama contingent can't campaign at Pride. Qua? [SFBG] Stewart Butterfield (co-founder of Flickr) profound, dramatic resignation letter to Yahoo.…
GottaPark Invites More Parking Spaces, More Traffic to SF
Well, this is a nifty idea. Sort of. San Francisco resident John Somoza came up with a practical and much-needed way for all of you vehicle drivers out there to find some extra parking: a site where people can rent out their unused spaces. The name of the site is GottaPark. What it does is…
Seesmic launch illustrates how Metcalfe's Law and Dunbar's Number correlate [Valleyspeak]
Some of the most pervasive buzzwords in the Valley are terms to classify product or idea adoption, such as "early adopter," which serves to define a behavior profile of a customer or user who's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Britney Spears, Perez Hilton and Vinod Khosla walk into a courtroom [Lawsuits]
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins was sued by prison inmate Jonathan Lee Riches, who wanted $43 million from Khosla because "Khosla’s fund invests in prison buildings," among other... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Loic Le Meur goes spelunking for the mythical g-spot in Seesmic demo [Conferences]
$1795 a head is a lot to pay for a sex ed lesson, let alone a tech conference, so why not combine the two? That was apparently the idea behind "Liquid Conversations," which nearly ran off the rails... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
READING: Watch out for flying bullets as Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, fatwa fame) reads selections from his latest work, The Enchantress of Florence. 8 p.m. // Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness) // $20 COMEDY: Come listen to ladies hilariously talk about bad sex with…
Twitter is no longer Blaine Cook's problem [Caption Contest]
Briton Paul S. Downey catches Blaine Cook, former lead architect of Twitter, at Supernova. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Nichelle Nichols Animated Star Trek & Truck Turner Mashup
Rockdontrun made a great “Trek Turner” mashup featuring the cartoon version of Lieutenant Uhura from the Star Trek animated series, dubbed over with Nichelle Nichols’ dialogue from the 1974 blaxploitation film “Truck Turner”. See Previously: Mashup of William…
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Vermont's new liberal incorporation laws make Delware's look draconian [Startups]
Delaware has long been the state of convenience for filing incorporation papers. But those nannies require you to have a physical address and all sorts of trappings of the 19th century. Thanks to law... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Update On Heart Attack Victim at Yesterday's Gay Marriage Melee
We briefly touched on this yesterday, that someone at City Hall had a heart attack during the celebration cum protest. According to SF Weekly, local AIDS activist Michael Petrelis saw what went down. Apparently, a local troubadour -- who might or might not be named "Joni" or "Francis" or...…
Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor, it's the story of doomed love between two members of rival clans. Gosh, we wonder where we saw that before! Oh yeah, there: Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops,- Juliet: O, swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon,…
Michael Arrington has at least one favored flack [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
Struggling to get your clients noticed by TechCrunch? Maybe it's because you're not one of the unnamed public relations BFFs Michael Arrington seems to be referencing in this Twitter update. if... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
23andMe looking for designer comfortable with "vague" as directions [Job Descriptions From The Future]
Designers, want to torture yourself in a contract position surrounded by smarmy, know-it-all PhDs who give you only the vaguest of instructions and expect you to master the intricacies of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Newsom Tries To Put Heart Of The City Under His Thumb
Hey, are you doing anything tomorrow night? If you're like us and you love the Heart of the City Farmers' Market (Wednesdays and Sundays on UN Plaza), you might want to consider going to City Hall, sidestepping the throngs of happy marrying couples, and going to room 250 at 5:00. See, Mayor…
Accused murderer Googled "how to kill with a knife" [Crime]
British citizen Neil Entwistle is on trial in the UK, accused of murdering his wife Rachel and daughter Lillian Rose. In the course of the trial, computer forensics expert Detective Lawrence James... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mercredi, c'est Ravioli.
We are upset at ourselves for not seeing this one coming: Meredith goes to the golf course. It's so obvious! The fondness for lobster and the Marina: it's a straight line to golf! And yet, the review is half decent. You can skip the first few paragraphs, where Meredith reminisces about eating in…
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Raw Footage of Muni Train Crash
KTVU has some choice footage of last Saturday's Muni crash over on King Street near AT&T Park. Since major news networks inexplicably don't believe in the religion of Embedded Code, we are forced to link to it here. (Oh, and then you have to click on "RAW VIDEO: Watch Muni Surveillance…
New York Times embraces latest tech fad long after the hype has peaked [Death Of Print]
With Firefox browser plugin TimesPeople, the venerable gray lady will now allow registered users to connect, adding "friends" and recommending articles to each other. You can follow recommendations... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Scoop: "Sunny Jim’s" Mansion Atop Liberty Hill (3690 21st Street)
It’s a French Chateau inspired home (at least on the outside) atop Liberty Hill (3690 21st Street) which was built in 1908 by banker and entrepreneur James “Sunny Jim” Rolph for his mistress, silent-film actress Anita Page. Three years...
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YouTube vixen tries product she pitched, spits it out [Online Advertising]
Jill Hanner, the popular YouTube personality known as xgobobeanx who was hired to produce a response video to a Coors Light viral video campaign meant to popularize the watery brew with the binge... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 150
Photo by the Zachness/Flickr 1-877-LIKE-POT. Hee! Yeah, we're 12-years-old. And?
At Cannes Microsoft, Yahoo party on yachts, in penthouses and with Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend [Online Advertising]
"Microsoft has quite a boat over here in Cannes," says AdWeek's Brian Morrissey, reporting from the 2008 Cannes Lions advertising festival. He writes: [Microsoft] upgraded from last year’s more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cafe de la Paz Runs Contest for Hungry, Amorous Kern County Same-Sex Couples
Aw. Well, this is just downright sweet. And smart. You see, Cafe de la Paz, which has received a three-star rating by the Yelp mafia, is throwing a contest for Kern County queer couples only. The nuevo Latino and tapas restaurant is inviting Kern County to win a marriage ceremony and a small…
Twitter Followers Have Exceeded RSS Feed Subscribers
Well it’s official, there are now more people following me on Twitter than are subscribed to Laughing Squid’s RSS feed. That should give a good idea how things are changing, especially in regards to the ways that people are getting their information. Also FriendFeed is also quickly…
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Spare the Air for the Very Last Time?
Our dear friends over at the Daily Clog tell us that tomorrow's Spare the Air Day, -- where you can ride public transit for free until noon tomorrow, June 19 -- will be the last one, ever. What? This is terrible news. Anyway, the Air District and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission…
How Time's 50 best Web sites make money (if they do) [50 Best Websites 2008]
Why's Microsoft so panicked over Google-Yahoo? Time's 50 best Web sites provides an anecdotal answer. Of the 50, 18 rely on Google ads for their income. Only one, UrbanDictionary.com, uses Microsoft... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How Jeff Weiner botched the top job at Facebook [Exits]
Yahoos are still buzzing about Jeff Weiner's departure for the world of venture capital. Before he left, many of his coworkers thought he was a shoo-in for a CEO gig at Facebook. Now that he's an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Feasibility Study: Indulging Anxiety
“Feasibility Study: Indulging Anxiety” is an amazing animated short by Ryan Fedyk that he made for his masters thesis project at the Glasgow School of Art. Feasibility Study is an illustration of a man’s anxious emotional struggle the day after he loses his job. The goal was to…
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Faces of MySpace identity theft an ode to bangs and mascara [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
In order to prove ownership of a MySpace account, the company asks users to film themselves reading their account number to the camera. Brad Troemel assembled a number of these clips into Proof, a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Last Voyage of Omega, A Sci-Fi Comedy Using Input From Twitter
Knifebeatsfinger presents “Last Voyage of Omega”, an original sci-fi comedy about the afterlife written by Sean Kelly and directed by Helena Nolan, which takes place Fridays & Saturdays through August 9th at Stage Werx in San Francisco. Portions of the show will be influenced by…
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Scene from a Muni Wait
Photo by joe.moore/Flickr When it's not playing bumper cars and sending passengers to the hospital, it's... well, not doing anything at all. The above shot was taken last night at the N-Judah platform at 4th and King streets. Oh Muni, you tease.
YouTube moves to counter Hulu by offering full-length movies and shows [Online Video]
Mark Cuban says Hulu is kicking ass because of a simple marketing device: The NBC and News Corp.-backed site is advertising full-length programs on YouTube to get traffic to shows on which they can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Spotswood explores a disturbing social trend
Is it just me, or is this gay people getting hitched thing old news? I mean, I've been attending "commitment ceremonies" for years, and those queens could put Bridezilla to shame. I get the legal and...
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Skype 4.0 Beta: It's all about telemarketing [Launches]
The acquisition of Skype has been something of an albatross around eBay's neck — what, exactly, does an auction site need voice-over-IP and chat software for? With the new release, it's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hey Mush, Your Celtics Won the NBA Championship
(By Joe Kukura) Congratulations, all of you Boston expats out there. As of this morning, your Celtics are the NBA’s newly-crowned 2008 World Champions. You represent yourselves disproportionately well in Bay Area sports bars and events, yet there is sometimes a perception that we f*cking…