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Online video advertising start-ups are increasingly focused on helping monetize professionally produced content, seemingly turning their back on user generated videos. What about the loads of sites paying to host their users’ uploads and looking for a way to earn a dime? Is it advertiser discomfort the real reason behind this apathy or is [...]

Trust Apple to turn something as mundane as a phone plan into a marketing coup.
Apple and AT&T have announced three calling plans to match with the iPhone, which is all set to launch at the end of the week. The three tier plans are $59.99 for 450 minutes, $79.99 for 900 minutes and $99.99 for [...]

Jay originally published his piece on Start-Up Review, here. We welcome this adaptation of his popular case study for Found|READ.

YouTube’s success is an example of what happens when entrepreneurs stumble on the right idea at just the right time, but I suspect that most companies miss the time window slightly and have to adjust. Elance […]

First Germany, now Portugal – looks like Vodafone, world’s largest mobile company is pretty serious about becoming a broadband player as well. The company has launched an ADSL 2+ service in Portugal, called Vodafone Casa Duplex ADSL. Interestingly, the company offers those who sign-up an HSDPA modem that they can use for free, just so […]

Update: LinkedIn is heading towards an IPO, hires ex-TiVo CFO as its CFO.

Different strokes for different social networking folks… while Facebook and LinkedIn are going the API route, trying to become platforms for others to build applications, Xing, a Hamburg, Germany-based business social network is focusing on its original premise: networking. Not that they don’t […]

Let it sing

Let it die

…

Maintain a little

(take the cynical saint to the stake and burn it)

… Its radio radio silence silence.
… Harvey Danger, Radio Silence.

The Internet community is protesting the radio royalty charge increases that threatens many small webcasters by going silent today. Yahoo Music Is Silent. So is Pandora. Is the protest justified?