The morning’s fresh and it’s a start of a great week! Despite the thousands of layoffs and the likelihood of the state being broke, the bright side of everything is that it just means there’s a lot more people bored and online ready to try your startup. Some important stuff around the corners of the web:
- Morgan Webb — the perky producer and star that moonlights as a model and Michael Arrington crush — has decided to give up the that delightful and glamorous life of being a web star and will stop taping her quick-hit web show talking about technology and news. Instead, she’s going to focus more on her TV show on G4 network. Allen Stern of CenterNetworks points out the real loser here is Federated Media and their diminishing grasp on advertising networks.
- The country’s financial system melting down it’s time to start considering eating the rich. Besides looking ridiculously gauche in Louis Vuitton, they’re also selling their multi-million dollar mansions to their spouses for under a $100, using your taxes bailout money to buy multi-million dollar jets, sees nothing wrong with spending millions to redecorate their 1,400 square feet offices, and most importantly handing themselves billions in bonuses before collapsing. Get the Sweet Baby Ray’s ready.
- Wall Street Journal editor Julia Angwin is finally releasing her delayed book about the behind-the-scenes action at Santa Monica-based MySpace. Too busy to read? Here are the major revelations in the book: Chris DeWolfe was looking for a way to utilize his spam emailing list and ended up with the social network idea, Tom Anderson is actually a much older pervy porn site operator with yellow fever, DeWolfe also turned down buying Facebook twice for bargain prices in 2004. Add this to that book about Web 2.0 founders and Facebook that you’ll never read.
- eBay is going to sell Skype after realizing what a monumental mistake that was. About time.
- Davos World Economics Forum is next week! It’s being held at the luxurious nestled in between the frozen bosoms of the Swiss mountains. What does one do at such an event fist full of important and famous world leaders, business tycoons, and stars? If you’re Meghan Asha of NonSociety — and then Arrington beau — you would just tape yourself playing with a Rubick’s cube. If you are Rebecca McQuigg of Los Angeles and winner of the MySpace/YouTube contest, you can try to videoblog it and do the rest of us unfortunates a favor of explaining what went on. The lovely Ms. McQuigg’s entry below:
Davos Video Submission – Rebecca M.
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