And the best place to steal the Mayweather vs. Ortiz PPV stream is?

Twitter!

In under 30 seconds we were able to find links to tonights big fight. 

Where couldn't we find it? On Justin.TV, which has traditionally been the best place to find stolen streams of pay-per-view content. Perhaps the feds seizing famed streaming site ATDHE.net earlier this year had an impact on Justin's policing efforts.

We did, however, find a lot of streams on Justin.TV claiming to have the big fight, but they were all fakes with lots of premium pre-roll advertising from brands like DHL and the movie Hanna (which was awesome btw). 

UStream has been very vigilant about stolen content. In a year or so of monitoring stolen streams we've never been able to find them on UStream. 

Of course we understand that Twitter is not...

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Clever DailyMail "Get the Look" Feature Feels Deceptive If Not Illegal

We were on the DailyMail the other day reading celebrity gossip and noticed that many of the celebrity stories had a Macy's "get the look" promotion that popped up on mouse hover. Annoying in the short term, but actually interesting after realizing they were giving you the brands celebrities were wearing!

Or are they?

Correct us if we're wrong, but doesn't trying a celebrity and their outfit to commerce constitute an endorsement, and aren't endorsements supposed to be paid and disclosed? Well, this doesn't feel like it was paid OR disclosed. After looking at this for ten minutes we noticed the tiniest of disclaimers written in light grey that read:

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Sweet: Email Assistant to Keep Your Address Book Up-to-date

WriteThat.Name is a horrible brand name for an amazing service that automatically updates your Gmail contacts based on signature files. It costs $20 a year and is a feature that Google and other email systems should steal -- umm...iterate on -- quickly.

WriteThat.Name recognizes signatures in an email -- works on Gmail, Google Apps and Google contacts - and extracts the contact information to update your address book. Users can manually confirm each contact or simply select automatic updates. WriteThat.Name also sends daily reports with address book updates.

The service is free to try for one month. It costs...

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iPhone App of the Week: Band Of The Day (Video)

[ Video courtesy of Robert Scoble. ]

Band Of The Day, a music discovery app for the iPhone created by 955 Dreams, is the app of the week on iTunes.

The app, which just launched this week, introduces a new artist every day to users and features original exclusive content. The UI lets users...

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Leak: Zappos CEO Gives Employees Free Private Jet Service

[ Interior of the Phenom 100 aircraft. Photo courtesy of JetSuite. ]

The Launch Team just received the most awesome leaked memo ever. Tony Hsieh is offering his employees free private jet service courtesy of JetSuite, a company he just invested in that uses the new Phenom 100 planes. These aircrafts have a low enough operating cost for it to cost JetSuite members just $4K an hour to operate. Typically private jet services, for those of you who are not in the know, starts at $5K an hour but quickly jumps with all kinds of fuel and taxiing surcharges. Jetsuite guarantees their $4K hourly rate.

Here is the leaked memo: 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:02:13 +0000
From: Tony Hsieh 
To: DL LVTeam 
Subject: JetSuite - a new Zappos employee benefit

"Some of you may have heard that I recently made an investment in and joined the board of directors of a private jet company called JetSuite:

 http://jetsuite.com/

The normal cost to fly private on JetSuite is $4000/hour (or less).

Just like we have markdowns at Zappos and 6pm for unsold inventory, JetSuite occasionally has empty planes...

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