Copyright Infringement Continues To Pay: $4 million For Crunchyroll
Copyright Infringement Continues To Pay: $4 million For Crunchyroll
San Francisco based Crunchyroll, a sort of YouTube for anime and other mostly Asian video content, raised a $4 million round of financing led by Venrock Associates, with partner David Siminoff joining the board of directors. The company, which launched in the summer of 2006, was founded by three HotOrNot employees. Our sources tell us […]
Attention thieves; keeping you from living a ?FOOCamp life??
Last week when I was talking with Linda Stone I told her that I tried to live a “FooCamp Life.”
What’s FOOCamp? That’s Tim O’Reilly’s annual campout where he invites about 300 “Friends Of O’Reilly” to O’Reilly’s headquarters in Sebastapol, CA, for a campout. I was invited for the first two years, then haven’t been […]
Freshtopia.net - Valentine’s Day
This episode we take you on a quick and dirty (and occasionally bloody) history of Valentine?s Day. The story of this holiday and its patron saint is still a bit of a mystery. From Roman pagan festivals Lupercalia, to saintly love letters sent from the joint, the truth behind the origins of Saint […]
Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta
Fav.or.it, a new RSS reader with integrated commenting and community features, has launched its public beta. One of the more notable features of Fav.or.it is the ability for users to make comments on blog posts from within the reader, which will also appear on the actual blog they came from. What this means […]