Patreon Is a Recurring Tip Jar for Fans Who Love Everything You Make

Jack Conte of Pomplamoose has a different take on paid subscriptions.
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Google’s Mobile Game Ingress Finds a Passionate Following

“It’s like the real-world socializing of Foursquare merged with World of Warcraft,” explained Ingress creator John Hanke in a recent interview.
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News Byte

Former YouTube and Twitter Product Heads Acknowledge They’re Teaming Up

After a well-founded Fortune report today that former YouTube VP product Hunter Walk was teaming up with former Twitter VP product Satya Patel to start a small venture capital fund called Homebrew, both men addressed the news, sort of. Patel said he and Walk were “working on some new projects” and Walk posted a goodbye-to-Google-after-nine-years note on his blog.

Ambitious Startup Wish Aims to Outsmart the Business of Online Shopping

A young startup wants to create a Google-ified version of Amazon.
Wish co-founders Peter Szulczewski and Danny Zhang

Microsoft: Google Is (Still) Blocking Us From Building YouTube for Windows Phone

Microsoft is trying to put a little public antitrust pressure on Google.
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Pakistan Unblocks and Reblocks YouTube, Just Long Enough to Watch “One Pound Fish”

Among many reasons to want to watch videos on YouTube, one of the most pressing in Pakistan was to see the viral sensation Muhammad Shahid Nazir.
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The Story of Dropcam, a Little Hardware Start-Up With Its Head in the Cloud (Video)

A tale of dog poop, big data and a lovable tortoise.
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Ad Nauseam at Your Service: Tumblr Will “Live-GIF” the Presidential Debates

Brace yourself for silent moving pictures of the candidates moving their mouths and waving their arms.
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YouTube Star Michelle Phan Launches Beauty Community Site Ipsy

Phan started posting videos on YouTube in 2007 and they’ve been seen more than 635 million times, so she’s not the typical celebrity endorsement.
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White House Asks YouTube to Review Anti-Muslim Video; YouTube Says It Already Did

This was more of a public comment than a formal takedown request.
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Six Years Later, “Noah K. Everyday” Gets a Sequel

Why Google Bought Frommer’s (For Nothing)

And for Google X’s Next Trick, It Will Identify Cat Videos

Google’s Most Active Big Brother Is the U.S. Government

Flickr, Behance, Vimeo and YouTube Add New Pinterest Attribution Tool

YouTube Co-Founders Hit Up Google Ventures and NEA for AVOS Series A

Google Q1 Earnings: “Velocity, Execution and Focus”

Hulu’s Jason Kilar: We — And I — Are Here for the Long Haul

Yelp, YouTube and 23andMe Co-Founders All Working on New Start-Ups

Mahalo Lays Off 25 Percent for Shift to Apps From Video

Michelle Obama Sends Her First Tweet