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Local entrepreneur Monica Yoo, sister of serial entrepreneur and Natuba founder Richard Yoo, has just launched her first venture, Bubblevine, a marketplace for college students within a school commuinity to buy and sell stuff to fellow students in a safe and comfortable environment: campus.
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Bubblevine is free for students and only for students (you need a college email address to join). The intent is to develop a micro-local marketplace on campus so non-students are excluded from buying or selling items. READ THE REST

To see a list of participating universities, click here.

60 Minutes reports on how Dallas County is reviewing many of its inmates cases because the former DA, Henry Wade and his team, really, really liked to prosecute:

The investigation of the Wade legacy picked up speed last year when Craig Watkins became the district attorney in Dallas-the first black D.A. in the history of Texas. His office is now spending $400,000 a year looking back at old cases.

“We have a responsibility to go back and right the wrongs of the past and free the innocent,” Watkins tells Pelley.

“You know, some people say that you’re wasting time and money that you’re looking back at these old cases when you’re sitting in the middle of the city that has the highest crime rate in the nation,” Pelley remarks.

“You know, I disagree with that,” Watkins says. “The job of the district attorney is to seek justice. And when justice has failed, then we have to fix it.” READ THE REST

I told you I would be declared the best Houston TV web producer. Why? Because I unleash cheerleader content like no one’s business.

This week we’re letting you choose the next Houston Texans cheerleader. That’s right, you are voting to fill the 35th spot on the team. That’s the only one still empty.

I’ve been building this web section for days. I even broke my no Flash animation rule. In my opinion, Flash doesn’t belong on TV news sites. But this is a fun section so why not. I flashed it up like a dancer using jazz hands.

GO MEET THE THREE CHEERLEADER FINALISTS AND VOTE

Keep going back because I am having the finalists blog. Plus I’m going to their homes, their work and shooting web only video interviews in a personal setting. Those videos should be up when I edit them. So new content goes up each day if you are interested.

Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane looks like he is in a position to keep The Griffins on television for a bit longer:

After a long and, er, drawn-out, negotiation period, 20th Century Fox TV has signed Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane to what may be the highest paying deal ever for a writer/producer.

Reportedly worth more than $100 million, the agreement between 20th and McFarlane keeps him at the studio through 2012.

The new contract covers McFarlane’s work both on Fox’s Family Guy and American Dad, as well as the upcoming Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show. READ THE REST

(Image courtesy of Flickr user Chichu)

Status: Looking for Work on Facebook
Social-networking sites are becoming, for some users, platforms from which to network for job leads, to forge professional contacts or even to announce to friends that you are out of work.

Steve Jobs Stakes Out the TV Den
Apple announced deals with 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment, among others, to sell movies for download on iTunes on the same day they are released on DVD.

Time Warner Refocusing With Move to Spin Off Cable
Time Warner said it would completely spin off its cable company, essentially shedding the pipes that have underpinned much of the company’s fortune.

AT&T Launches TV Service on New Phones, Rivaling Verizon
AT&T Inc. is launching its new video service for cell phones Sunday on two phones, and will charge $15 per month for 10 channels.

iDo
With online polling, brides-to-be are turning to a new type of wedding planner — a few hundred of their closest friends.

Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll … Uh …
Decaying brains, or the fear thereof, have inspired a mini-industry of brain health products — not just supplements like coenzyme Q10, ginseng and bacopa, but computer-based fitter-brain products as well.

The Newspaper.com has the fast news about speed limits going up in Dallas:

In Dallas, the North Texas Tollway Authority plans to increase the maximum speed limit on large stretches of the Bush Turnpike and Dallas North Tollway from 60 to 70 MPH. A series of investigative reports by WFAA-TV over the past six months had revealed that the authority violated state laws requiring that speed limits be set according to recognized engineering safety standards. The authority never conducted any such studies.

The artificially low speed limits turned the 22.5 miles of toll road into a bonanza for the cities in their path, including Dallas, Frisco, Garland, Irving and Plano. With just four miles of toll road under its jurisdiction, Irving police issued $375,000 worth of tickets in a year. Garland with only two miles of road generated $400,000 in revenue, WFAA reported. READ THE REST

Download Nine Inch Nails New Album For Free
Nine Inch Nails have released an unexpected new studio album ‘The Slip‘ for free download through their website.

NINE INCH NAILS’ NEW TRACK “ECHOPLEX”
the new Nine Inch Nails track “Echoplex,” which Trent Reznor just released for free download via iLike.

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Perform On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The reunited STONE TEMPLE PILOTS performed on last night’s (May 1) edition of ABC-TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”. Watch footage of their appearance.

Mick Jagger Wanted Role In A Clockwork Orange
Members from rock and roll music’s two biggest bands wanted to contribute to the movie A Clockwork Orange, according to a letter from the film’s executive producer.

VAN HALEN: Pro-Shot Footage From Dallas Posted Online
Dallas, Texas TV station TXA 21 has posted professionally filmed video footage of VAN HALEN performing the classic song “You Really Got Me” on April 24, 2008 in Dallas.

SERJ TANKIAN Performs ‘Sky Is Over’ On ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’
SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian was the musical guest on last night’s (Thursday, May 1) episode of NBC-TV’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”.

METALLICA: New Rehearsal Footage Available
Video footage of METALLICA rehearsing the classic song “Creeping Death” in preparation for the band’s upcoming spring/summer tour dates can be viewed.

METALLICA’s ‘Mission’ Launch Date Announced
METALLICA’s recently announced web site — MissionMetallica.com — where the band says it will offer fans a chance to “experience the [group’s] new album before it’s done,” is scheduled to go “live” on May 12.

JUDAS PRIEST Single ‘Nostradamus’ Blows Up With ReverbNation Widget
The TuneWidget was initially placed on only four web sites but allowed fans to grab it and embed it on their MySpace pages and blogs, leading to over 200,000 impressions on launch day alone.

(Image courtesy of Flickr user ReTodd)

Former Pink Floyd bassist and singer, Roger Waters, played Houston Sunday night making it one of his four US shows. Houston was lucky (he played The Woodlands Pavilion for those keeping score).

What a phenomenal concert. Waters and his band played many Pink Floyd hits and the entire Dark Side of the Moon album. Yes, the entire album. I counted at least 11 musicians/singers on stage to pull that off.

The sound was amazing, the interactive stage show show was out of this world and the fact that you are watching a rock legend doesn’t hurt things either. It had to be my second best concert ever coming in behind the Rolling Stones. It’s hard to beat them when they roll a stage into the middle of the venue.

The images I have here are of the pig. You might have heard a previous version of this inflatable prop flew off from Waters’ Coachella set only to be recovered in pieces. Well, here is proof that Roger has a backup pig or can pick up the phone and get another one delivered quickly.

If you ever have a chance to see Roger Waters in concert, save up your money and buy a ticket. It is worth it.

- Houston Press review
- Chron review
- Roger’s Pig Takes Off Again

After the Super Bowl rolled into Houston, Philippe Tanguy made a business out of turning rich people’s fantasies into reality.

Kind of like Fantasy Island without the actual island part and no Tattoo either.

(Image courtesy Flickr user sluggerwv)

Here is a site that lists every day’s Final Jeopardy question in video form, right from the television show.

(Thanks Ed!)

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