Friday Free Business Ideas: YouTube scraping

December 29th, 2006 9 Comments Noah

Joe Suh from My Church emailed me this interesting business idea to share with you.

Hosting videos is bandwidth and cost intensive, so let Youtube worry about those costs. In the meantime, aggregate and embed their popular videos on your own website and surround them with google adsense.
Sites have already started to exploit this:
http://www.viralvideochart.com
http://nbajunkie.com
http://www.videobomb.com
http://cyber-knowledge.net/videos/videos.php
But [...]

Noah’s 2007 Somewhat Likely Predictions

December 28th, 2006 22 Comments Noah

Mashable called me out so now I have to write something smart about what is going to happen next year.

1- Google will acquire more companies. I know you know but it is an easy one to say. Also, their stock price will come down so everyone who didn’t get a chance to buy it can [...]

Book Review: Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich

December 27th, 2006 6 Comments Noah

Quickly becoming one of my new favorite authors, Ben Mezrich writes another tale about Ivy league students doing amazing things. This is a tale about a Princeton student taking an uncertain Japanese job over a traditional NYC banking gig. It chronicles his experience with one of the biggest trades ever, Geisha houses and dealing with [...]

User Generated Tuesday: How to Be Fearless

December 26th, 2006 2 Comments Noah

This post is part of User Generated Tuesdays. If you want to be read by 1,000 new friends please go here. This is written by Adam Jusko, who founded search site Bessed and blogs at Adam Jusko’s Bessed Blog.
Last week Noah wrote about Richard Branson’s book Losing My Virginity. I commented to him that [...]

Happy Holidays from Team Renkoo

December 25th, 2006 No Comments Noah

The godfather gets whatever he wants;)

Where is Chartreuse?

December 23rd, 2006 4 Comments Noah

Update:
I thought the provocative pictures would indicate who I meant;) His new site is gone and no updates on his old site, anybody know what’s up?