Web 2.0 Kickbacks
YouTube is accepting applications for creators of popular videos who want some Google AdSense money. Sharepic is paying uploaders of pictures 22 cents per 1000 image views.
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=TjbF_qRdIyM
http://www.shareapic.net/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/shareapic-pays-you-to-host-pictures/
Cell Phone Nation
One in eight households have cell phones but do not have a landline. Young, poor, males, and Hispanics are likelier to have wireless service.
http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=023000YMWFRG&nl=8
New York Broadband
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer appointed a new panel called the New York State Council for Universal Broadband to look into ways to get wireless access to remote and underserved areas.
http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=023000SXHVBX&nl=8
Linked into LinkedIn
LinkedIn announces widget initiative Intelligent Apps, or InApps. LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye says they’ll be more discerning with widgets than Facebook is. Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg bathed himself in hundred dollar bills.
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0220020SE7MO&nl=5
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/09/linkedin-api-and-new-homepage-drawing-near/
Local Mobile
Media Post has an interesting column about the need for localized mobile ads, a piece inspired by sitting outside department store fitting rooms and waiting for women. No, really, it is.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_send_date=2007-12-11&art_type=38
Blog Scouting
Want to know who’s saying what about us? Get a “scout” from Scout Labs.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/11/track-blog-reactions-to-your-brands-with-scout-labs/
http://www.scoutlabs.com/
Dell Tablet
Dell unveiled it’s Lattitude XT tablet PC that apparently can tell which finger really meant to touch it.
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=023001IEYV3X&nl=5
LA’s Geek Scene
Los Angeles is 2nd in the country in technology venture capital behind only Silicon Valley. Which means… geek parties! Huzzah!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/business/newsletter/la-fi-techla11dec11,0,2691853.story?coll=la-entertainment-intheloop
http://barcamp.org/BarCampLosAngelesGeek