YouTube - Please post video clips and lets share the ad revenue! Sounds good?

 The popular video-sharing site YouTube deleted nearly 30,000 files after a Japanese entertainment group complained of copyright infringement.
 
 YouTube's policy is to remove such clips after it receives complaints, though some have suggested that the start-up could eventually be sued, especially with Google about to buy it for $1.65 billion in stock.

 YouTube has been negotiating with leading copyright holders and has reached agreement with several letting the Web site post copyright music videos and other content in exchange for sharing ad revenue.
 
 YouTube has licensing deals with the CBS Corporation and three major recording companies — the Warner Music Group, Vivendi's Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which is a joint venture between Sony and Bertelsmann.

 "What if YouTube can share its ad revenue with every owner of video clip hosted on its site??.Booom that would solve the problem of copyright issues and being sued by corporations/individuals.
Also, wont YouTube be worth 100's of billions then?? Something to think about YouTube"

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Sam & Max game from Telltale this time

Sam, a trench-coated hound dog, and Max, his psychopathically violent rabbit partner, are comic book characters created by Steve Purcell. In 1993 they starred in a hilarious adventure game from Lucas Arts called Sam & Max Hit the Road. Fans of the original were thrilled a decade later when Lucas Arts announced a sequel, and shocked when the game was canceled near completion simply because Lucas Arts had lost faith in the adventure game genre.

This upset a number of longtime Lucas Arts employees, who flew the coop to form Telltale Games. Telltale’s attempts to buy the unfinished Sam & Max game from Lucas Arts fell through, but they did manage to buy the rights from Purcell to make a new game. The end product, Sam & Max Episode 1: Culture Shock, fulfills the previously dashed hopes of Sam & Max fans.

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Video Recording on an IPOD

Add Video recording to IPOD and the stage is all set for a multi purpose gadget that can live up to our dream!
With every such development we see around it makes more and more sense for Google to have bought Youtube for millions or should i say billion

Till date there's been no gadget that combines an IPOD with a high quality video recorder. There have been lot of products trying to fit this bill. To name a few Dish Network, which is promoting a stream of Pocket Dish players. Resembles IPOD to a great extent at least feature wise , Comes with an external recording unit(DVR system) which is WIFI enabled(so that you can wirelessly transfer your recorded vidoes from your recording unit to your pocket player.)
Sounds a good deal for under 400$(for a 30Gig player + recodring unit)?
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IT Sub-Contracting: Money for no efforts?
These days it is second nature for the Deloittes, Accentures, and BearingPoints to outsource their application development and/or support tasks to smaller software solution providers or sub-contractors.

By the virtue of the term – sub-contractor – one might think that sub-contractors are bound by a contract that would guarantee their tenure; if not their passion for the project. The caveat to this thought is that the vendor can only be held accountable, and not the employee who works for that vendor. This is due to the inherent nature of the sub-contractor business model. And therefore it has been realised that most vendors can be treated as trusted solution providers but very few as trusted business allies.

Managing sub-contractor teams can be a complex task by itself; leave alone the delivery aspect. At times, there can be more give than take to get a simple job done. Since they are really nonemployees , traditional retention strategies cannot be applied here. Also it has been observed that due to visa restrictions, many sub-contractors chose to stick with their companies, despite lower pay. The moment they get their green cards, it becomes extremely difficult to retain them.

Focusing on what managers can control, here are five rules that have proven to be beneficial while managing sub-contractors:
more its not always that easy !!