Internet startups - a little gossip, lots of reports

Raul Rivers

09 September 2008

The meeting, which runs thru Wed. at the Design Center Concourse, is produced by Michael Arrington, founder of the TechCrunch blog, and Jason Calacanis, a serial Net entrepreneur. Here's the plot, er, business plan : 3 politically wrong animated teens poke fun at celebs and pop culture. Kutcher, who is married to actress Demi Moore, is legendary for his work on "That '70s Show" and "Punk'd.". Cash from online advertisements and product placement is anticipated to support the site. In an interview with The Tech Chronicles, Kutcher stated that he has worked intensely over the last 8 months on the site, which is an element of the Hollywood production company he co-founded, Katalyst Media. "I understand how to create funny videos and pop culture engagement, but I do not know about technology," Kutcher related. As a frequent target of paparazzi, Kutcher asserted he is sensitive to going overboard with the gossip coverage on his site. But he added that celebs like Britney Spears who put themselves in the eye of the public are going to be targets. Folks who need to keep their youngsters away from pretentious humor might consider carefully about letting them loose on BlahGirls. Kutcher concluded that folks should exercise their discretion, but expounded the site is on par with network TV re content. An end point to microfilm Research during my varsity years all too frequently meant scouring papers in the library's musty microfilm room. By the end of the day, I usually felt dizzy from scanning the blurry pictures. Google is now bringing an analogous, even tho less complicated, experience to the Net by making scanned copies of papers available online. The drive, articulated Mon. , brings papers that predate the digital time to the Net . "It's truly huge," recounted Marissa Mayer, Google's vice chairman of search and user experience. "We're branching into a new form of content.". Users who search Google Stories repository for a subject like "Americans walk on moon" can see the original article from 1969 in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, as an example. In 2006, Google started making paper archives available, but just in digital form. Users could read the text but could not access copies of the original papers. Naturally, not each paper - especially the little ones - has digitised its repository. Google has partnered with approximately one hundred papers as an element of this program. Like its book search program, Google is hand-scanning papers and, in a number of cases, microfilm.

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