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	Citing a need to up it’s online “street cred”, entertainment behemoth Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired worldwide, exclusive distribution rights to Rocketboom, one of … (more…)
	Paris Prez Parody Boasts Bold Plan Paris Hilton’s plunge into presidential politics prompted over 5 million views in the first 24 hours alone…but not to her website. No, Paris posted … (more…)
	Flash! Despair.com Offers “More” Dateline: July 15, 2008 The bewildering folks at Despair.com can be counted on for two things—demotivation and occasional inspiration. On the inspirational tip, Despair.com is now … (more…)
	HappySlip Celebrates Its 50th! Dateline: May 20, 2008 It’s official! HappySlip is now 50 posts into its Internet career. Veteran online performer, Internet celebrity and HappySlip.com … (more…)
	Apple TV– Take 2 Apple released its long-awaited Apple TV Take 2 software update yesterday, despite having announced just two weeks ago that the company wasn’t ready to … (more…)
	Court Says “Yes” to Google Nudity A San Francisco federal appeals court ruled today that nude thumbnails used by Google did not infringe upon the copyrights of adult publisher Perfect10.com. … (more…)
	WallStrip Catches CBS’s Eye WallStrip, the daily video web log where “stock culture meets pop culture”, has fallen under the covetous CBS eye. In a deal … (more…)
	You Go211.com, Mr. ‘Boarding Legend Hosoi! Go211.com, the premier action sports social networking and online video site, announced today that skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi has … (more…)
	US Military Sacks YouTube Citing bandwidth priorities, the U.S. Department of Defense has decreed that its soldiers will now be blocked from surfing YouTube. Also citing … (more…)
	Spike Lee is Babelgum’s Inside Man First indie director Spike Lee lent his name to a contest at LiveMansion.com. Now he’s backing the online, video entertainment venture … (more…)
	Congress Takes Down YouTube Kara Rowland of the Washington Times has an excellent article detailing a recent meeting of the House Energy and Commerce telecommunications and the … (more…)
	Break.com Twisted By “The I-Killer” The production company behind the Saw franchise, Twisted Pictures, has signed one of the most impressive online deals since, well, a … (more…)
	PrezVid Joins WashPost The Washington Post’s online group, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, relaunched several weeks ago with a blunt new stance on online video: they like it. So it … (more…)
	More Juice for Joost Joost, the Web online entertainment site that stole YouTube’s thunder last winter by scoring the Viacom content library, has raised $45 million from Sequioa … (more…)
	Simon & Schuster Books the Web “Readers have long hungered for greater contact and more information about authors,” says Sue Fleming, Vice President, Online and Consumer … (more…)
	Obama Jilts Supporter, Loses 160,000 MySpace Friends For more than two years, LA-based Barack Obama supporter Joe Anthony has created, nurtured and grown the Obama MySpace page. Barack’s team was … (more…)
	Jim Gilmore’s Online 2008 Prez Bid This just in from his MySpace page, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore will officially announce Thursday as a 2008 candidate for President of … (more…)
	National Geographic Blinx Blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with the National Geographic Channel, a television network committed to providing the … (more…)
	Mark Burnett Plans Political, Web “Survivor” The reality TV maven has proposed a MySpace-based political contest called Independent, where users will submit videos to become “candidates” and then will “run” … (more…)
	Candidates to Debate Online Presidential hopefuls will participate in two online debates — one for each party — later this year. Moderated by longtime PBS host Charlie Rose, … (more…)
	ROO Beefs Up MTV Online Player MTV Networks, and Internet video specialist ROO, today announced a partnership to offer a best-in-breed video player and customizable video channels to the more … (more…)
	Traffic Plummets at Bud.TV According to an AdAge article published today, Anheuser-Busch’s online, broadband channel Bud.tv, saw traffic to its site drop by 40% in March, compared … (more…)
	Web Radio Circles the Wagons As reported by SiteSurfin’ on March 2nd, the Copyright Royalty Board recently ruled to change the framework for paying royalties for songs streamed … (more…)
	The Plot to Topple WebMD Chris Cole wrote a great article detailing the strategic launch of multiple medical websites contending to knock WebMD off its throne. Even more … (more…)
	Google To Tighten Privacy Google announced the adoption of new privacy measures aimed at making it more difficult to bridge online search requests with the people making those … (more…)

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Minushi

Canadian animator Tyler Gibb took four years to write, draw and animate Minushi, an epic …
Design-e2.com: Saving the Earth, Beautifully

Design was originally the web-exclusive complement to a six-episode, PBS television series that originally aired in …
The Guild: Gamers Not Keeping It Real

The Guild is a comedy webisodic created by Felicia Day. An actor/writer/producer/gamer, Felicia plays Codex, …
Kids Health Galaxy

Do you have a child who needs to spend some time in the hospital? Well then …
Half Of Us: The Audacity of Hope

If you know of a college-aged man or woman suffering from depression, I urge you to surf …