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YouTube not a friend to golddiggers
Manhattan's Philip Smith, who is both an old and a rich, filed for divorce from his 25-years-younger wife Tricia Walsh-Smith, citing cruel and inhuman treatment. Smith told Walsh-Smith he would not pay her more than a prenuptial agreement had stipulated. Then Walsh-Smith went crazy and posted a video to YouTube, in which she claims Smith never had sex with despite hoarding stashes of Viagra, condoms and porn. My favorite part: When she gets Smith's assistant on the line and asks her what to do with it all. Poor bug-eyed crazy lady. The video, embedded below, got plenty of attention — about 3 million views — but in the end, hurt Walsh-Smith more than it helped. Calling her video "a calculated and callous campaign to embarrass and humiliate her husband," a judge yesterday gave Walsh-Smith 30 days to leave the former couple's Park Avenue apartment. The video: More »
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Cramer: "Apple is too dangerous until we hear about Jobs"
After giving a lower forecast for its September quarter than Wall Street expected, Apple saw its shares drop 3 percent today. TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says not to blame the numbers, but the numbskull PR move Apple made in refusing to discuss plans for Jobs's successor. "Look," Cramer says in the clip embedded below, "I thought the forecast was great. This is all about [Apple saying] Jobs's health is a 'personal matter." More »
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Sequoia investment BlueCollarOrDie dies
Investors — including top Valley VC firm Sequoia Capital — plan to kill FunnyOrDie spinoff BlueCollarOrDie, recently relaunched as Kung Fu Todd. Veteran TV producer and investor Larry Lyttle blamed the Internet for not attracting enough of the right kind of audience — people who like jokes that begin with the phrase "You might be a redneck." Lyttle told The Hollywood Reporter the site draws only 20,000 unique visitors per month. Our theory as to why is less complex even than Lyttle's: It's just not very funny. Check out "Hot Teacher," the site's "most buzzed" video and see for yourself.
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Wall Street sets bar for Yahoo's second quarter very low
During Yahoo's second-quarter earnings call today, Wall Street wants the company to report revenue growing 11 percent to $1.37 billion and about $140 million in profits. Those are low expectations, but after disappointments from Google, Microsoft and Apple, nobody expects much from a company that's been slapped around by shareholders, abused by competitors and deserted by its employees. Here's the thing about ultralow expectations on Wall Street, though: Everybody expects you to surpass them. Like the kid in this video, Yahoo must clear a higher bar than it thinks.
Mourning Becomes Electric
Heath Ledger's iPod and the microchip memorial
Aaron Eckhart and Maggie Gyllenhaal dropped by the Today Show this morning to shill a movie, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Eckhart earnestly related to host Matt Lauer a story about their deceased costar Heath Ledger which he'd told Ledger's mother — namely, that friends were passing around Ledger's iPod as a form of remembrance: More »
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Apple's legal bell tolls for thee, PsyStar
PsyStar, a Miami company, garnered quite a bit of press when they announced a cheap Intel-based desktop computer that you could use as an Apple clone running Mac OS X, in a pretty clear violation of Apple's legal restrictions on use of the operating system. So everyone was waiting for the hammer to drop — which it finally did yesterday, in the form of a complaint filed by Apple with the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. More »
The Googling
The best Google ad ever
Google has always been weak at marketing, hobbled by a cultishly engineering-centric culture that believes products should promote themselves. It worked for search, but little else. The official list of Google-branded Web services is dizzying in its me-too obscurity. Chipper house-ad videos posted on YouTube have done nothing to change this. Perhaps Google should hire The Vacationeers, makers of "The Googling"? More »
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Google-Radiohead partnership: better than Google-Yahoo
Radiohead created a music video for the song "House of Cards" without using cameras. Instead, the band used technologies called "Geometric Informatics" and "Velodyne LIDAR" to scan their heads with lasers while singing the song. In keeping with the video's futuristic, technology-of-tomorrow creation, the band today released the video not over MTV, but through Google. The result is embedded below. More »
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TV reporter vs. iPhone fans -- guess who wins?
Los Angeles TV reporter Eric Spillman ignores his anchorwoman's warnings Noooooo and sets up to ask iPhone line-standers if they've ever seen a woman naked. The crowd turns on Spillman and his pathetic BlackBerry.
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Jimmy Wales, cult leader
Later this week, Wikipedia is holding its annual, aptly named Wikimania conference in Alexandria, Egypt. Want a preview? Check out this video of Jimmy Wales, cofounder of the world's largest volunteer-run, sneeringly incompetent bureaucracy, playing games with attendees of Foo Camp, a nerdfest held over the weekend in a semirural spot north of San Francisco. Not everyone thinks Wikimania is the same kind of innocent fun: There's talk of a boycott over Egypt's horrid human-rights policies and Internet censorship. More »
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Timothy Dalton appears in first look at StrikeTV's programming
Finally, an online video outfit from Hollywood professionals that looks like it might produce more than one hit! Harry Shearer's MyDamnChannel has "You Suck at Photoshop", FunnyOrDie is still resting on the laurel's of "The Landlord", IBeatYou can't beat anyone without Jessica Alba staring into the camera, and IFC's best semi-pro production, "Young American Bodies," just happens to have lots of nudity. Enter StrikeTV, an idea that came together on the picket lines during the writers' strike and has more professional writer-producer-directors (AKA "multihyphenates") on board than the lot of them. Add name-brand draws like former James Bond Timothy Dalton, übercute Mindy Kaling from The Office and none other than Bob Newhart and they may just have something.
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A firsthand view of Apple's iPhone chaos
NEW YORK — Apple Store employees are a little tense today. They got nine hours of training preparing for today's iPhone 3G launch. Then there was all the press and hoopla when the day finally began. (I overheard two of them complaining about it: "I felt like I was going to vomit," one said. The other: "I felt like was as going to vomit too!") Then there was the crowd control. Then the iTunes Store, required to activate phones and thereby complete sales, went down. I snuck a hidden camera into the Fifth Avenue Apple Store and surveyed the chaos. Roll the clip. Meanwhile, here's a reader's account of an experience at an Apple Store in Walnut Creek, California: More »
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How long is the iPhone line? This long
NEW YORK — To get to the front of the line for the 3G iPhone here at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store takes about two hours of waiting from back to front. All for a device that probably won't work until tomorrow, thanks to a crash of Apple's activation system. It's much quicker — about two minutes — to just walk from the front to the back. Play the clip to ogle the desperate iPhone-seeking horde.
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CNBC's Becky Quick joins long line of women emailing Jimmy Wales
Call it a strange attraction: Women whose Wikipedia entries aren't to their liking just can't seem to resist taking their case to the site's stubbly cofounder, Jimmy Wales. Even CNBC's Becky Quick struck up a correspondence, she admits in this clip. Unlike Canadian television commentator Rachel Marsden, whose call for help turned into a sexual fling, Quick is married.
4:40 PM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Owen Thomas
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How to piss off Jimmy Wales
Watch Jimmy Wales's face as he's introduced in a segment for this morning's episode of Squawk Box on CNBC. Wales has long claimed to be Wikipedia's sole founder — a fact disputed by Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's cofounder. As CNBC's Joe Kernen matter-of-factly describes Wales as the site's cofounder, Wales furrows his brows, starts to open his mouth, darts his eyes back and forth, and then swallows his pride. You can just see him writing a blog post about it in his head.
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Jimmy Wales namedrops Richard Branson on CNBC
One of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's most charming personality traits is his relentless starfucking. It's a tendency that's exacerbated by his role as spiritual leader of the world's most comprehensive collection of inconsequentially inaccurate details about famous peoples' lives. On CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, note Wales's body language — the shoulder roll, the falsely modest talking-into-his-coffee-cup maneuver — as he chats up New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, making sure to remind viewers that he's totally BFF with Virgin founder Richard Branson.
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