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Filed under: Business, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Mulletocracy : Business in the front, party in the rear

User generated content is all the rage, but only the best user generated content is worthy of real ad sales. So what's a user-gen web startup like Digg, Youtube or Myspace to do? Let the users fight, argue and generally make asses of themselves in the back room, while pro-level editors keep the front page all nice and shiny.

Buzz feed points out a string of articles on this phenomenon and explains, "The mullet strategy is here to stay because the best way for web companies to grow traffic is to let the users have control, but the best way to sell advertising is a slick, pretty front page where corporate sponsors can wistfully admire their brands."

If you'll pardon us, we're going out back to shave our heads.

Filed under: Video, Web services, Microsoft

MSN Video update looks a lot like MSN Soapbox

MSN Video
As of today, Microsoft is officially running 3 separate video site with internet video clips. Soapbox is Microsoft's site for user generated video (it's currently only available with a Windows Live login), and MSN Video is a site for professionally produced clips.

Then there's MSN Video's redesigned page, which looks a lot like a cross between the two. It's lacking in user-generated content, but has the look and feel of Soapbox. The primary thing you can do with Soapbox and the redesigned MSN Video site that you can't do with the old site (or YouTube, for that matter), is search for videos without leaving the current page.

That means if you're playing a video in your browser window, it'll keep playing while you search for other videos to watch next.

[via Mashable]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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