Andrew Baron

"It's great for kids....in their 30's and 4o's." - Andrew Baron

"Update! This woman had her child removed from her custody." - Andrew Baron

"If you are looking for a name and need a little inspiration, consider perusing "Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names": http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~b..." - Andrew Baron

"Related: just noticed this article which came out today: http://online.wsj.com/article/... I am also using Libyan Spyder in Tripoli for meme.ly and was caught with a renewal scare just the other day. All of Libyan Spider DNS and web dedicated servers, including their own website were shut down on March 31, 2011 without any prior contact or warning. This was due to the UN/US sanctions on Libya. But sanctions only apply to governmental entities and Libyan Spider is not affiliated with the government, so it was soon restored." - Andrew Baron

"Absolutely. They will get more resources and the quality and value of everyones efforts are expected to go way up. Isnt it awesome to have a service like Know Your Meme be free? Rocketboom is totally free too if you can believe it. Also check out http://mag.ma a free ad free service, how about that?" - Andrew Baron

"Thanks! The reason why I'm the most psyched for the sale is because I know that they have great resources, and care deeply about the site. Wait till you see what they can do with it once they put some real umph behind it." - Andrew Baron

"The one big misunderstanding here I think is that YT is not into NNN to produce original videos -- NNN is really just a talent agency and that's what YT is buying here: the ability to manage filmmakers and partners, at scale. YouTube is likely going to stay far away from content creation." - Andrew Baron

"Jay, this is the same graph I sent to you over a month ago regarding your ongoing interest in investing in Rocketboom. But now that you mention it, point well taken. It sounds like MDC is in a good position with fresh resources amidst an apt market, here's to a rising tide in 2011 for all." - Andrew Baron

"Haters ganna hate." - Andrew Baron

"To my knowledge, we have obtained the largest licensing deals in the industry and perhaps along with NNN and TWiT (as someone mentioned above), we obtain the largest sponsorship and partnership deals in the industry. The only difference with Rocketboom is that we dont have an ad department working on it full time. We have 1/2 a person's worth. Not a hard thing to scale an ad department. [Aside: Ryan is just personally bitter because he writes for Valleywag, I mean Newtevee, and missed the angle of this story. This article says nothing about monetizing, it's about investment. Ryan follows me around trolling for view counts and it's starting to get kinda annoying :/ ]" - Andrew Baron

"Thanks Bill! I wouldn't say we created a new medium, but it's been awesome to be a part of it and I'm sure we'll continue to be involved as the space evolves." - Andrew Baron

"Its interesting that not a single TV box has an interface that allows you to actually watch something when you turn it on. Lean back tv is about turning it on and starting to watch. On all of the iTVs, you gatta do all kinds of gearing up to watching something. Then when you want to watch something else, its like you have to gear up to watch that too. Why not just have the content start playing and then flip through your content selection? It would prolly make for a better start to this long transition of moving to tv over i.p." - Andrew Baron

"BTW, Greg, Kenyatta and I just went back through and refigured a significantly higher number, and it growing -- its actually nearing 300M right at the moment. Back in the good ol days, we started on a university server, then after too much crashing from the Tsunami videos, we eventually moved over to Datagram. Now we use Amazon." - Andrew Baron

"Thanks DMD, much appreciated! As an aside, here is a rundown of the evolution of file format useage on Rocketboom: MPEG4 Quicktime in Oct 2004 WMV in Oct 2004 3gp in May 2005 MPEG2 for TiVo in Dec 2005 (this was like going backwards to old school TV on the net) MP4 for PSP in Feb 2006 WMV-hi res in Feb 2006 H.264 720p in July 2007 Flash in Sept 2007 H.264 1080i in Aug 2008" - Andrew Baron

"Do you mean like Quicktime Streaming? http://www.apple.com/br..." - Andrew Baron

"I wanted to post it three times or even four but refrained." - Andrew Baron

"Let me know if you need any supporting data on the defamation part." - Andrew Baron