YouTube Crackpot: Domain or STFU

Herbert Elwood Gilliland III claims he gave YouTube founder Chad Hurley the original idea for the video-sharing site. Now, two years after Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, he demands a million dollars in compensation.

What a crackpot. If he really thought up YouTube, then he should have registered the domain YouTube.com. If you don’t believe in an idea enough to spend a lousy ten bucks on it, then you deserve no credit for it. You certainly don’t deserve a million dollars for it.

I have three words for this guy: domain or STFU. Click here to continue reading “YouTube Crackpot: Domain or STFU”…

will.i.am – It’s a New Day

From Twitter to Flickr to YouTube, from your Xbox 360 to Google headquarters, US President-Elect Barack Obama is America’s first Internet President.

Even odes to Obama celebrate his level of engagement with the online media. The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am tapped into mashup culture for his song in support of Obama, Yes We Can. Now he incorporates Web interface elements and webcam angles into the video for his song celebrating Obama’s victory, It’s a New Day. Click here to continue reading “will.i.am – It’s a New Day”…