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Via Jason Calacanis, thanks to Mahalo Daily for compressing Steve Jobs’ 2008 MacWorld Keynote into 60 seconds, I have just saved 89 minutes of my life! Yes, it is better and better.

SMH: As rumoured, Google bought online video sharing site YouTube for 1.65 billion USD. I have to double check to ensure it is not a fake post. Looks like it is going well for them. Well, it will finally stop all the nay-sayers, like me. Update: Press release from Google.

The answer is, you might be able to buy YouTube, and some even claimed that it is cheap. However, who would have 1.6B USD lying around, and who would be able to handle all all these lawsuits that will surely follow after the acquisition? Who else but Google alone? I still can’t see how a [...]

Mark Cuban knows what he is talking about: Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, also said YouTube would eventually be “sued into oblivion” because of copyright violations. “They are just breaking the law,” Cuban told a group of advertisers in New York. “The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet [...]

YouTube: White & Nerdy (Weird Al) — this new video is just funny, and even got a Wikipedia entry for it. Here’s the lyrics. Well, I gotta say I am glad that I am not white nor nerdy :) My other favourite Weird Al MTV is Saga Begins. Saw it 6 years ago, and you [...]