(10/13/08)

While out job hunting yesterday, I walked by Starbucks and low and behold, Matt Costa was sitting outside.  I went up and shook his hand and told him how much I love his music.

I wanted to meet him before I died.  Mission Accomplished.

No, but Google and Yahoo are in talks to incorporate the Google Ad-Sense Advertising techniques to the Yahoo search engines and other Yahoo owned programs.  Currently Google is responsible for 70% of all advertisements put out online.  Yahoo owns about 20%, while the other 10% is made up of individual advertising firms.

Vice President of Google, Omid Kordestani, stated that Google already provides a similar service to Ask.com and AOL.  This means that Google would be responsible for all advertising on Ask, AOL and Yahoo, the three largest search engines excluding Google of course.

Yahoo states “Advertisers will pay Google directly for each click on Google paid search results appearing on Yahoo owned and operated network or certain affiliate sites. Google will share a percentage of such revenue with Yahoo”.

The only problem that arises here is the issue of a monopoly.  Microsoft is Google’s biggest threat.  Microsoft is willing to take Google to court, on the premise that Google is becoming a monopoly, and that it owns more than 90% of all advertising from the internet.  Google’s position is that it is the internet, and advertising, and that they aren’t technically a monopoly yet, since 10% is still unaccounted for.

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As we all know, Disney’s Animation division, Pixar is the new leading company for animated films.  It is almost impossible these days to put out a successful animated film without it coming out of Pixar.

In 2006, The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar for the unheard of amount of $7.4 billion dollars.  This put John Lasseter as the Top Executive earning $2.9 million annually.

The Disney-Pixar merge is a relief to Lasseter.  Inspired by Disney Movies as a child, Lasseter aspired to be a Disney animator.  He was admitted and graduated from Disney affiliated “California Institute of the Arts”.  Upon graduation, he was hired to work as a Disney Animator.

Upon the dawn of three dimentional animation in the 80’s, Pixar was undergoing Company shifting.  Steve Job, CEO of Apple, actually bought out Pixar from George Lucas, creator of Star Wars.  Upon Apple’s purchase, Lasseter made the dicision to move with the future and join Pixar.

Ever since the day Lasseter joined Pixar, the incoporation of new technology and the acient form of story telling has been phenominal.  Every single Pixar animated feature film, has been a gian Blockbuster.

Wall-e was Pixar’s last achievement, which extended Pixar’s fan base beyond belief.  All Disney, Pixar, Animators, and Technology fans await Pixar’s next masterpeice.

Paul Leonard Newman passed away September 26th, 2008, and in remberance of his contribution to film history, here is a list of works Paul was associated with;

-Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)

-The Color of Money (1986)

-The Sting (1973)

-The MacKintosh Man (1973)

-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

-Cool Hand Luke (1967)

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