Video editing and sharing site Jumpcut is now a part of Yahoo Social Media after flickr (photo sharing) and del.icio.us (social bookmarking).
So we now have Google Video, Microsoft Live SoapBox, Yahoo Jumpcut. Who will acquire YouTube?

The Pinoy blogging community is slowing down because of SMART/PLDT’s fixed wireless broadband service troubles. But since I’m using the Vibe Tipid version that goes well with my already slow and old computer, I’m used to the usual lag. I just woke up and realized that I haven’t really published a page using Google Page Creator yet. Tough luck the slow connection + slow computer combo won’t budge. So I had to restart the self assembled machine.
Lucky me I found where they had relocated Hunt’s SnackPack Chocolate Caramel Pudding at …

First we had SpiralFrog + Universal Music, then we have MySpace + Snocap. Now we have YouTube + Warner Music.
Deal Puts Videos And Music Legally On YouTube
The deal allows millions of people who upload their homemade videos to YouTube to license an array of Warner Music’s songs.
TechWeb [article]
by Laurie Sullivan
Sep 18, 2006 03:10 PM
Music from Paul Simon, Madonna and Red Hot Chili Peppers will become legally available on the YouTube Inc. Web site. Warner Music Group Corp. said Monday it stuck a deal with the video-hosting Web site to distribute …

MySpace will using Snocap technology to sell music from independent bands that already have their pages on the number one social networking site. Pricing will be up to the sellers. Music makers had been asking iTunes this option, but Apple is sticking with its 99-cent pricing.
MySpace will sell music in MP3 format and that may be the reason why the big labels aren’t joining yet. MP3 does not come with protection but it’s the most popular format available today. PayPal will be the payment facility.
Read it here.
Since PayPal does …

Google’s Related Links for videos isn’t that good yet, so here are some videos you might want to check that appear on the bar above (temporarily turned off).
Philippines
pinoy
Philippines entertainment
pinoy entertainment
Philippine Idol
I had been wishing since last year that GMA-7 would upload its content to Google Video, but until now, they haven’t even tried. Too bad. Or did they, already?
GMA-7 videos

Download music for free the legal way. That’s what Spiralfrog will offer starting December 2006. So what’s new? The songs will come from albums released by major labels like the Universal Music Group (UMG). Ads will make up for the free downloads. SpiralFrog’s advertising-supported service might be accessible only in the US and Canada. More here.

By Alicia Chang (AP) here
An experimental inflatable spacecraft bankrolled by real estate magnate Robert Bigelow rocketed into orbit yesterday to test technology that could be used to fulfil his dream of building a commercial space station.
The Genesis I satellite flew aboard a converted Cold War ballistic missile from Russia’s southern Ural Mountains. It was boosted about 500 kilometres above Earth minutes after launch, according to the Russian Strategic Missile Forces.
The launch was a first for the startup Bigelow Aerospace, founded by Bigelow, owner of the Budget Suites of America hotel …

A new scientific breakthrough may lead to women in future being able to produce sperm.
Scientists in England have turned stem cells from am embryo into sperm which are capable of producing offspring.
The breakthrough is likely to lead to new advances in treating male infertility and even the possibility that women could manufacture sperm.
The researchers at Newcastle University say that the advance, when developed further, could help men with certain types of infertility to become fertile and even one day could enable a lesbian couple to have children that genetically would …

Writely (word processor) > dito
Google Spreadsheets (spreadsheets) > dito
Picasa Web Album (photo album) > dito
SketchUp (3D modelling) > dito

I thought it would be something like Google Currency or Google Cash, but it’s going to be GBuy. The focus would be on the purchasing rather than the money used.
So it’s going to be Google GBuy vs. eBay PayPal. Will GBuy allow consumers from outside of PayPal’s coverage (PayPal snobs some countries like the Philippines)?