For instance, in one of the legal briefs unsealed today in the YouTube Viacom dispute, such as the amount of money YouTube co founder Chad Hurley made from the $1.65 billion sale of the company to Google in 2006. His take: $334 million (based on the November, 13, 2006 closing price of Google's stock). In other words, the young CEO owned about 20 percent of YouTube at the time of the sale. 
Share:  For instance, in one of the legal briefs unsealed today in the <span class="company">YouTube</span> Viacom dispute, such as the amount of money <span class="company">YouTube</span> co founder Chad Hurley made from the $1.65 billion sale of the company to Google in 2006. His take: $334 million (based on the November, 13, 2006 closing price of Google's stock). In other words, the young CEO owned about 20 percent of <span class="company">YouTube</span> at the time of the sale. Tweet this 

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. 
Share:  For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to <span class="company">YouTube</span>, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. Tweet this 

As Apple goes on the offensive against Android , it risks alienating more and more developers. Today, another prominent developer is chose the opposing side. Tim Bray , the well known software architect and blogger, is joining Google to help rally even more developers around the Android mobile operating system. 
Share:  As <span class="company">Apple</span> goes on the offensive against Android , it risks alienating more and more developers. Today, another prominent developer is chose the opposing side. Tim Bray , the well known software architect and blogger, is joining Google to help rally even more developers around the Android mobile operating system. Tweet this 

Google just launched a new feature on the mobile version of Google Product Search which could take local shopping search startup Milo out at the knees. Whenever you do a Google product search from a mobile phone, blue dots will appear next to items which are in stock at nearby stores. The image at right is from a search I just did for "HDTVs." 
Share:  <span class="company">Google</span> just launched a new feature on the mobile version of <span class="company">Google</span> Product Search which could take local shopping search startup Milo out at the knees. Whenever you do a <span class="company">Google</span> product search from a mobile phone, blue dots will appear next to items which are in stock at nearby stores. The image at right is from a search I just did for "HDTVs." Tweet this 

Google has Google Trends , Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia. Pete Skomoroch at Data Wrangling built a trending topics page for Wikipedia . The homepage ranks the top 25 Wikipedia articles with the most pageviews over the past 30 days, as well as the fastest rising articles in the past 24 hours. 
Share:  <span class="company">Google</span> has <span class="company">Google</span> Trends , Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia. Pete Skomoroch at Data Wrangling built a trending topics page for Wikipedia . The homepage ranks the top 25 Wikipedia articles with the most pageviews over the past 30 days, as well as the fastest rising articles in the past 24 hours. Tweet this 

No wonder Apple is suing HTC for patent infringement over its Android phones. In the three months between October and January, Android's overall share of smartphone subscribers in the U. S rose 4.3 points to 7.1 percent, according to mobile market share data released by comScore . Android showed the biggest single gain of any of the top five smartphone platforms. 
Share:  No wonder <span class="company">Apple</span> is suing HTC for patent infringement over its Android phones. In the three months between October and January, Android's overall share of smartphone subscribers in the U. S rose 4.3 points to 7.1 percent, according to mobile market share data released by comScore . Android showed the biggest single gain of any of the top five smartphone platforms. Tweet this 

Earlier today, Google chief economist gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a cliff for years. Many media companies blame Google and are trying to put the genie back in the bottle with partial metered models for online news. 
Share:  Earlier today, <span class="company">Google</span> chief economist gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a cliff for years. Many media companies blame <span class="company">Google</span> and are trying to put the genie back in the bottle with partial metered models for online news. Tweet this 

There's been a lot of churn in AOL's executive and employee ranks since Tim Armstrong became CEO. The latest exec to head for the door is 9 year veteran Mike Rich, who is the senior VP in charge of AOL Entertainment (which includes AOL Music, Moviefone, and AOL Television). He joins a growing list of the old guard departing the company ( Bill Wilson , David Liu , Ted Cahall , Grant Cerny ) in the wake of Armstrong's new hires. 
Share:  There's been a lot of churn in <span class="company">AOL</span>'s executive and employee ranks since Tim Armstrong became CEO. The latest exec to head for the door is 9 year veteran Mike Rich, who is the senior VP in charge of <span class="company">AOL</span> Entertainment (which includes <span class="company">AOL</span> Music, Moviefone, and <span class="company">AOL</span> Television). He joins a growing list of the old guard departing the company ( Bill Wilson , David Liu , Ted Cahall , Grant Cerny ) in the wake of Armstrong's new hires. Tweet this 

"Collapsible comments.". "Allow me to "star" or "favorite" a buzz to read later just like Gmail, Google Reader, Google Groups and Twitter.". "Fix the Twitter feed so they update in realtime instead of hours later in giant batches.". "A "ReBuzz" button that forwards someone else's buzz (including links, photo's, etc but not reactions) to your followers with a @reference to the original poster.". "Move "Mute this post" from the menu to the Buzz item itself (e.g.: next to ‘Like' etc.).". "Buzz filter. Some people may not be interested in posts coming from certain sources (e.g. Twitter). It would be nice to have a simple way of filtering those out.". "Labels. 
Share:  "Collapsible comments.". "Allow me to "star" or "favorite" a buzz to read later just like Gmail, Google Reader, Google Groups and <span class="company">Twitter</span>.". "Fix the <span class="company">Twitter</span> feed so they update in realtime instead of hours later in giant batches.". "A "ReBuzz" button that forwards someone else's buzz (including links, photo's, etc but not reactions) to your followers with a @reference to the original poster.". "Move "Mute this post" from the menu to the Buzz item itself (e.g.: next to ‘Like' etc.).". "Buzz filter. Some people may not be interested in posts coming from certain sources (e.g. <span class="company">Twitter</span>). It would be nice to have a simple way of filtering those out.". "Labels. Tweet this 

Document sharing site Scribd launched three years ago with the idea of making PDFs and other text documents more Web friendly. Now three years later, the site stores more than 10 million documents, which in turn have been embedded more than 10 million times across the Web. Scribd says it reaches more than 50 million people a month worldwide ( Quantcast ). 
Share:  Document sharing site <span class="company">Scribd</span> launched three years ago with the idea of making PDFs and other text documents more Web friendly. Now three years later, the site stores more than 10 million documents, which in turn have been embedded more than 10 million times across the Web. <span class="company">Scribd</span> says it reaches more than 50 million people a month worldwide ( Quantcast ). Tweet this