Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill that was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in October 2011 by Lamar Smith (R-TX). This Act would allow the Department of Justice and copyright holders to seek court orders against websites accused of copyright infringement that would prevent online ad networks and payment facilitators from doing business with those websites. Opponents in this bill believe that this is Internet censorship. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, and Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang oppose the bill. Their letter will appear as a paid ad in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.

This past April YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen acquired link-sharing service Delicious.com from Yahoo! The two are prepared to launch a new version of Delicious.com later this year. Delicious is one of the most popular bookmarking services today. Delicious allows people to save and bookmark links from the Internet for future reference and organizing them using tags. Personally I am not a fan of Delicious as I like Google Bookmarks better.

YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley has announced that they have acquired Tap11. Tap11 is a real-time social media business intelligence platform company. This is Hurley and Chen’s second biggest acquisition within the last month. Recently they acquired Delicious from Yahoo! Tap11 will become a subsidiary of Chen and Hurley’s company AVOS.

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has sold off Delicious (formerly known as Del.icio.us) to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Hurley and Chen will continue to operate Delicious as it is for the next couple of months as users will be able to sign up for new accounts. The parent company of Delicious will now be AVOS, a company that was started by Hurley and Chen. Below is a press release about the transaction. [Yodel Anecdotal]

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is working on a new fashion project called Hlaska (Hawaii and Alaska). Hurley made several hundred million on the sale of YouTube to Google and he married the daughter of Internet billionaire Jim Clark. Hlaska sells wallets, bags, shirts, jackets, hoods, watches, belts, and other accessories. He co-founded Hlaska with Anthony Mazzei. [Forbes]

Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer science student at Stanford University that is expected to graduate in 2012. That is until he built YouTube Instant and the YouTube co-founder offered him a job through Twitter. Here’s how it all went down.

As many of you know by now, our friendly rivals at TechCrunch are building a new electronic tablet called the Crunchpad, slated to be released by this November.  Apparently Best Buy Chief Marketing Officer Barry Judge got a chance to play around with the prototype.

Judge tweeted “Just met chief blogger at Tech Crunch.  Talked about the Crunchpad and saw a prototype.  Great looking device, think it will be a real hit.”  This just tells me a couple of things.  The Crunchpad may actually have a chance against a rumored upcoming Apple tablet computer.  And this also tells me that Best Buy seems to be a bigger fan of TechCrunch than he is with Gizmodo.

An hour before Judge tweeted meeting Arrington, he tweeted that he met YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley to discuss ways to better leverage the video website.  He also asked his followers for ideas on what other retailers do to use YouTube well.  Here’s my two word answer for Judge: viral videos.  The Improv Everywhere group hit over one million views in their viral video of sending a bunch of blue shirt, khaki wearing agents into a Best Buy store.

“For me, failure is not an option.”
-Jim Clark

Co-founder of Netscape Jim Clark earned about $2 billion when his company had an IPO.  His son-in-law Chad Hurley made millions when he sold his company YouTube to Google.  And now Clark is officially married to Australian supermodel Kristy Hinze.  The wedding took place this past weekend.

Clark and Hinze’s wedding was a four-day event that took place on Richard Branson’s private Necker Island and the Virgin Gorda.  About 120 people attended the lavish affair and there was a no-shoe policy when riding on Clark’s yacht The Athena.  This is Clark’s fourth marriage and he turned 65 this past Monday.

Clark is the only man in history to have started three multi-billion dollar companies.  Clark is currently worth about $1.1 billion.

Hinze is the host of Project Runway in Australia.  She has been a model since age 14 and has graced the cover for Sports Illustrated.  Hinze is also a Victoria’s Secret model.

Hinze and Clark have been dating for several years now.  Clark was married to Forbes business reporter Nancy Rutter for 15 years.  Through the divorce, Rutter made about $100 million in cash, stocks, and bonds.  Rutter also received $24.6 million in property, $600,000 ownership stake in a Citation V jet, racehorses, furniture, and jewelry.  Hinze is 10 years younger than Clark’s own daughter.

[via NY Post]