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Who doesn’t love being right? Two weeks ago, we wrote that online video sharing platform Revver was looking at a fairly bleak and short future.

Our good friend Wendy Davis at MediaPost confirms today in her Just an Online Minute column that they are shopping themselves, and at quite a bargain.

According to Wendy….

The Los Angeles-based Revver is seeking between $300,000 and $500,000, as well as assumption of around $1 million in debt, CNET reports. Additionally, staff reportedly has shrunk to half of what it was in 2006.

As I’ve written extensively,…

Great video thats nearing two million views in less than a week.

Improv Everywhere pulls some fantastically creative stunts in and around New York City. I started following their pranks a few years ago after they showed up at the Mercury Lounge as superfans of a young band, the Ghosts of Pasha. Be sure to check out the rest of their online videos on their site.

Also, the popularity of their two latest pranks has generated a ton of traffic to their site. Consider donating to their cause so they can continue to…

China’s balancing act between free market and Communist political control continues as the country keeps up its rhetoric and oversight of online video while publicly stating that the government will not interfere with existing operations.

Of course, governmental oversight means that should meaningful and potentially harmful political statements be made which are perceived as a threat to Chinese governmental organizations or officials, it is subject to censorship.

And censorship has more than one form. China’s broad statement prohibiting content “which damages China’s unity and sovereignty; harms ethnic solidarity; promotes superstition; portrays violence, pornography,…