Corvaith - Slashdot User

+ - Which domain name registrar do you recommend?

Submitted by

Futurepower(R)

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @12:09PM

Futurepower(R) writes "GoDaddy.com, the domain name registrar, has been in the news a lot recently. Can you recommend a registrar that has better policies and fewer ads?"

+ - YouTube to pay for User Generated Content

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27, 2007 @09:54AM

An anonymous reader writes "Speaking at the World Economic Forum, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has revealed that the company plans to financially compensate users who produce and upload their content. With Google's purchase of YouTube last year, followed by more aggressive attempts to monetize the site (such as the deal struck with Verizon Wireless), it was inevitable that YouTube would come under pressure to share some of those fruits with ordinary users. But why didn't YouTube pay its users from the start? Hurley says: "We didn't want to build a system that was motivated by monetary reward. We wanted to really build a true community around video. When you start out with giving money to people from day one, the people you do attract will just switch to the next provider who's paying more. We're at a scale now that we feel we can do that and still have a true community around video.""

Comment: Which CSU? (Score 4, Insightful) 298

by Corvaith on Sunday December 24, 2006 @01:58AM (#17351888) Attached to: College Freshmen Struggle With Tech Literacy

Is it really too much to ask to actually write out the full names of universities? I realize it's a short way into the article, but seriously. I live in Ohio. CSU is Cleveland State, to me. KSU is Kent State. Elsewhere, KSU might be Kansas State (and is, as far as domains go), and CSU is apparently California... but especially as summaries go, I can't psychically know that you mean California. USC is more commonly the University of Southern California... but it's also the University of South Carolina.

Nobody's fingers are at risk of falling off from those few additional letters, are they?

I know, it's not *that* important, but it makes me peevish.