the hwang spot

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Yuri Milner, a huge-name VC, offered a proposal to Y Combinator start-ups they couldn’t refuse.

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BlueTunes.net, a service started by Dukies in my class that lets you upload and access your music from anywhere, recently got second life from MiMedia.

Congrats, keep up the solid work.

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The collapse of the music industry visualized by Bain.

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Do I hear $75 billion next week?

A valid question after Facebook increased its valuation by 20 billion…in one month.

In my opinion, the bubble’s about to burst. $70 billion is kind of crazy, when they only made $2 billion in revenues in the past year.

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Usually, the TechCrunch40 is pretty legit ( see: Mint), but Woome is ridiculous. The premise, speed-date as fast as possible through online video chat, as in the photo above.

The problem? Hot women message you literally instantly. Which screams “SCAM,” especially when your uploaded picture is a horse.

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A check-up of how our favorite website is doing. 

Yep, healthy.

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Last week Tumblr did 1.2 billion impressions, or pageviews, and it is adding 250 million every week. Just think about that for a second. Over the last 30 days, that came to 4.2 billion pageviews.

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Brilliant Google. They’ve been trying to enter the social networking space for a while, but Facebook was putting up a brutal fight. So they did what everyone does: they are a platform for other applications, not the actual network. Think of it as the app store, and now Facebook/Twitter is relegated as their app.

Thus, they don’t fight an uphill battle and instead have incorporated them.

Again, brilliant.

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Glad to see Redbox learning from now-defunct Blockbuster’s mistakes.

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Few people turn down $100 million. Unless you’re ex-Facebooker and current Path CEO Dave Morin (seen above with his Google marketing whiz girlfriend). Then $100 million from big companies is .

Path makes picture sharing secure and easy. So that all moments in life (like the picture above) gets chronicled with your network.