Entries from July 2006 ↓

YouTube’s “we own your content” policy raises eyebrows

“…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business… in any media formats and through any media channels.”

via Wired

mySpace, Web 2.0 and public relations

5 Reasons I watch YouTube more than TV

I don’t even watch TV anymore. I watch YouTube. Here are ten commercial-free examples why.

1 - UnflinchingTriumph

2 - Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager

3 - Human Space Invaders

4 - Simpson’s Voices

5 - Evolution of Dance

Web 2.0 venture capital news

Web 2.0 raising the ante?

Are Web 2.0 companies spurring a possible bubble 2.0?

Rubert Murdoch paid $580 million for MySpace.com last year. That was a deal, but what about the money that is being thrown at these companies hoping for a similar result?

Facebook - raised $38 million in funding (That one I see being a homerun. They gather so much information about college-age kids that the data alone is worth millions. Although . . . they have turned down an offer for $750 million hoping to fetch $2 billion).

Bebo - raised $15 million, TagWorld - $7.5 million, Tagged.com - $7 million. Habbo - $7.7 million, but it’s still not like the money tossed around in the ’90s . . . more at FastCompany.

Producer Revolution - Legacy Event

This is a commercial for a Legacy event to remember the three who died in a plane crash last month.

Pitch letter: a delicious reinvention

How to get on David Letterman

You would think it would be nearly impossible for a public relations firm to get on the Late Show with David Letterman, but apparently dreams do come true.

Capstrat, a Raleigh, North Carolina public relations firm did exactly that by sending Letterman’s producers a YouTube video of the Capstrat team building a mosaic of Albert Einstein out of 2,000 post-it notes. They had to tear down their Elvis mosaic firs, but they got on Letterman when they suggested building a mosaic of Letterman producer Biff Henderson. Watch.