Pierre Omidyar 
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QOTD: Not Just Another Startup
The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.
— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald
Former Maker Studios CEO Danny Zappin Buys a News Site That Covers Topics Like Danny Zappin
A YouTube trade publication gets an owner who knows the YouTube business quite intimately.
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Early Adopter: Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel
It’s a fine line between keeping your potholes filled and walls graffiti free and being a civic tattletale. Civic nuisance reporting app SeeClickFix lets you toe the line, and just got another $1.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech and Omidyar to help users keep at it.
Shhh! Google Buys Metaweb to Boost Search Results
Here’s some actual tech news that slid out during Apple’s “There’s no Antennagate” event: Google has bought Metaweb Technologies, which it describes as a start-up that “maintains an open database of things in the world.”Study Group Time: Here Are the Legal Briefs for eBay-craigslist Trial Tomorrow!
The trial begins bright and early tomorrow morning in Delaware between online auction giant eBay and Web classified kingpin craigslist. Since BoomTown is in a “Paper Chase” mood, I expect everyone to bone up on the legal issues by reading the pretrial briefs below. If not, as John Houseman, playing Professor Charles Kingfield, said so memorably: “Here is a dime. Take it, call your mother, and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer.”
Another Legal Tussle for eBay–And It's Not Skype This Time!–As Former CEO and California Guv Hopeful Whitman Kicks Off Craigslist Trial Monday
Auction giant eBay is headed to court again Monday, and for once, it has nothing to do with the litigious Skype co-founders. Instead, it’s a battle in Delaware with craigslist, the San Francisco online classified powerhouse that eBay holds a minority ownership position in. That stake is actually precisely what’s at stake. Cue the march of the eBay lawyers!
Wikipedia: "Free" as in Thanks for Your $2 Million Donation
August has been a lucrative month for the Wikimedia Foundation. Last week, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia received a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Now it has been given a $2 million grant from the Omidyar Network.
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