http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:15:58 +0000 http://www.megite.com/twopointouch/1257671169/1#item_1 021ec2c662b7ee65560210cb9a6c9ee2 Executives from Tudou—one of two companies left fighting it out to be the YouTube of China—were in San Francisco earlier this week to meet with investors and do a little schmoozing. I met up with CEO Gary Wang and COO Sam Lai, who already raised some $85 million from Granite Global Ventures and General Catalyst Partners, and they swore they ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:00:22 +0000 http://www.megite.com/twopointouch/1257671169/1#item_2 7de33acf420a28fdcf9d2f9b5f6d7a4a An easy-to-use windows software to download youtube music HD/HQ videos and convert them to MP3, AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP formats. 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(Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:13:01 +0000 http://www.megite.com/twopointouch/1257671169/1#item_5 e8e984d3e26fdabdc730c9017503408f Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports of lines elsewhere, I failed — the Verizon store in Palo Alto was a ghost town, as was the Best Buy down the street. Some commenters took my story ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:21:06 +0000 http://www.megite.com/twopointouch/1257671169/1#item_6 a79bf117806dc3b687758467264ce7d3 Last month, Apple rejected the Someecards iPhone app because it contained satirical comedy about public figures. After attempting to make their case and getting stonewalled, Someecards eventually gave into Apple and removed the offending cards which made fun of Hitler and Roman Polanski, among others. Apple swiftly approved the app and all was ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:00:23 PST http://www.megite.com/twopointouch/1257671169/1#item_7 e895754f46265483441183cfb2a3818e Lolcats, lolhamsters and funny pictures - What a cat really sees when it looks at a small rodent (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:53:46 +0000 http://www.megite.com/twopointouch/1257671169/1#item_8 0a5349cc0e1d519544bc8745b8ebbb01 The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition , our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is gaining momentum. We’ve had 300,000+ nominations made for 60,000+ individuals, companies, websites and applications. If you haven’t nominated yet – and you can nominate once per category per day – now’s ... 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