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BitTorrent President Steps Down To Form New Venture With YouTube Co-Founder

Authored by Jay Baage on November 6, 2008 - 12:28pm.

San Francisco - BitTorrent Co-Founder Ashwin Navin is stepping down as President to focus on a new tech incubator he is launching along with a few other high-profile tech entrepreneurs. According to a note Ashwin sent out yesterday, he has partnered with YouTube's Steve Chen, MySpace's Aber Whitcomb and HotOrNot's Jim Young and purchased a small building in the Mission District of San Francisco where they intend to build "a physical environment conducive to innovation, collaboration and company formation."

Report: Photo-rating Site HotOrNot Sold for $20 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 12, 2008 - 8:05am.

San Francisco - HotOrNot, the popular site where users can rate photos other users submit of themselves, has been acquired by an investor group connected with Avid Life Media for a reported $20 million, according to TechCrunch.

The Official Rules of the HotOrNot Drinking Game

Authored by Scott Goldberg on August 21, 2007 - 2:36pm.

Here’s how HotOrNot works: You rate a photo of a male or female on a scale of 1-10, but you don’t see the average rating until the next photo, which automatically appears after you vote. You also see how many votes have been cast, and how many minutes (or hours) it’s been since the person who posted it has checked his or her score. The site’s business strategy – like it or not, agree with it or not – is highly effective. HotOrNot has, according to Alexa, an incomprehensible 10.4 pages viewed per visitor (something you’ll come to understand after giving it a try). The site’s also, according to Alexa, the 286th most popular in the US. But what many don’t know about is the HotOrNot Drinking Game (detailed below), soon to be a worldwide phenomenon as it emerges from underground status. Here are the rules: