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Eberly College of Business computer lab at Indiana University of Pennsylvania at 8pm. I was the last person to
leave the lab, as usual. As I closed the door behind me, I saw a guy
coming in the side door of the building. There was nothing else open in
the building but the computer lab and he looked like he was in a hurry
to get there.<br />
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I said to him"I guess you're here to use the
computer lab. It closes at 8pm. It's exactly 8 now". He looked
disappointed and tried to convince me to let him in. I think he thought I
ran the computer lab.<br />
I said to him"The computer lab in the computer
science building is open till 9 but you might not make it there on time
because it's all the way on the other side of campus. I would use that
lab but I live right across the street from this one. I come here all
the time to work on my website". He suddenly got really interested.<br />
"You have a website?"he asked."What kind of website? I want to start a
website but I can't think of a website to start. Can you give me a good
idea for a website?"<br />
I said "My website is called GoGetItNow.com. It's an internet portal
that combines the free search capabilities of Yahoo, the <a href="http://ericskaggs.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-i-gave-chad-hurley-idea-for.html?showComment=1370733422397#" id="_GPLITA_2" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Click to Continue > by InstantSavings">free web</a> pages
of Geocities and the free email of Hotmail into one interface. It gets
10 million page views a day, makes $5000 a month and it's doubling every
couple of months."<br />
Now He was really excited. We
introduced ourselves to each other. He told me his name was Chad and he was a graphic arts
major on a track scholarship. We talked as we walked to the front doors
of the building.<br />
Chad persisted "I have been learning html on
my own in my spare time. If you could give me a great idea for a
website, I am sure I could make it work".<br />
We walked out the doors of Eberly and toward a yellow Jeep. "Is that your Jeep?" I said.<br />
He said "Yes" in a way that kind of implied he didn't like it.<br />
"I love it" I said. "My step dad has one just like it but his is black.
It might look better if it was black, but it is kinda cool and
different. I am driving that little red 3 series BMW over there, but I
would much rather drive an American car. That Beamer makes me feel like a
pretentious yuppie...I miss my Camaro I traded for it. I love cars, but
I can't get into Nascar. Isn't it strange how there is no formula one
racing team in America? When you make billions from this idea I give
you, you should start a formula one racing team in America."<br />
He said "That's a great idea. I will. (it is well documented that he did try to start a United States formula one race team)Now what's your idea?.<br />
I said "I will give it to you, but first, you have to promise me three
things. When you are super rich, you have to let me hang out on your
private island, ride around on your yacht, and you have to give me 1% of
the company."<br />
He said impatiently "Okay."<br />
I repeated "You promise to give me 1% of the company?"<br />
He reiterated "Yes. I promise. Now what's the idea?"<br />
I said "Now pay attention. This is the most important idea anyone will
ever give you. Just do what I say and you will be successful."<br />
Chad eagerly said "I will".<br />
I said "Okay. In the future, television and internet will become one.
People will start using their <a href="http://ericskaggs.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-i-gave-chad-hurley-idea-for.html?showComment=1370733422397#" id="_GPLITA_0" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Click to Continue > by InstantSavings">cell phones</a> like camcorders and making
videos".<br />
Chad looked confused, and for good reason. At that
time, they were just coming out with camera phones and there was a rumor
of a cell phone that could take 5 second video clips of poor quality,
but not many people knew about it except for those that kept up with
such things like myself. And television and internet were considered two
very different things back then. Despite his skepticism, I convinced
him it would happen and continued.<br />
"When they take these
videos, they are going to want to share them with friends, family and
the world. They will need a website to do that. It will be called
something whimsical like Yahoo. What's a funny thing to call a tv? I got
it. BoobTube.com." We laughed for a while and talked about how it had
the word "Boob" in it and sounded like an adult website.<br />
I said
"Take the word "Boob" out and put in another word. The website is
about people sharing videos...put a pronoun in there...conjugate the
verb...I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they, and I said "You" twice. YouTube.com. That sounds good."<br />
We said "YouTube.com" back and forth to each other a couple of times and agreed that it sounded great.<br />
It is well documented that Chad said he used boobtube, a way to
refer to television, that later became YouTube.com. I gave Chad the name
YouTube.com and used boobtube as a guide. <br />
Chad anxiously awaited the rest of my idea. He was hanging on my every word.<br />
I said "No offense, but you are on an athletic scholarship studying
graphic arts at a low level state school, so the first thing you have to
do is get a job in the .com industry. Do you have a portfolio of
graphic designs you can send to .com companies to show them that you can
design logos and graphics for them?"<br />
He said "Yes. I can put a portfolio together".<br />
I said "Find out which .com companies look like they are growing fast
and send them your portfolio".<br />
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It is well documented that Chad Hurley applied to and got a job at PayPal.com where he designed the logo.<br />
I said "When you get the job, you will need two things. You
will need to find really smart Asian and Indian guys from top level
technology oriented universities with advanced degrees in computer science
for credibility and to program the website."<br />
Chad got Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, the Asian and Indian guys to help him with the website.<br />
I said "And secondly, you will need to beg
borrow and steal money to get the website going and keep it going.
Finding the most bandwidth for the least amount of money will be a top
priority too because all those videos will use a lot of bandwidth."<br />
Chad got a lot of cheap bandwidth from a company in the area.<br />
I continued "Some
videos will get shared with others and they will share them and so
on. There will be exponential growth(we didn't call it viral back
then because of the negative implications). Everybody will get their 15 minutes of fame and some people will
become stars."<br />
YouTube.com did get big fast and grew exponentially as I predicted. We really started seeing how big something
like this would be. <br />
I said "It will be like everybody has their own channel on tv on the internet."<br />
YouTube.com allows users to create their own "channels" as I stated
to Chad. We marveled at the possibilities for awhile, and then got back
to reality.<br />
I said "It will take so much money to do something like this. You will
be able to make a little bit of money selling ads around the videos and
in the videos like commercials, but you won't make real money until you
sell YouTube to a company with more money than brains like Yahoo(Google
didn't exist yet), and if GoGetItNow is big enough by then, I will buy
YouTube."<br />
Chad Hurley did sell YouTube to "A company with more money than
brains". That company was called Google.com and he sold YouTube.com to
Google.com for approximately $1.65 billion. <br />
I said "It's going to take so much money, you will
need to constantly go around to venture capitalists, angel investors,
banks, and anyone you can get to listen to you to raise money, but make
sure you never give up controlling interest in YouTube. Give up
percentages of the company for money, but never so much that you lose
control of the company.<br />
Chad was able to retain 20% of the company, which was controlling
interest. Steve Chen kept 19% and Jawed Karim got a small percentage
since he left the company before it was sold. Chad was able to get
approximately $330 million for the YouTube.com idea I gave him. <br />
I continued "When you ask for money for YouTube,
you are going to have to tell them it's your idea or you won't have any
credibility. They aren't going to give you any money if you tell them I
gave you the idea. Make up a story about how you and some friends were
at a party taking videos and you wanted to share them with each other
and couldn't so you created a website to share videos with each other
called YouTube."<br />
The official story of how YouTube got started is that Chad, Steve
and Jawed were at a party taking videos with their phones and couldn't
share them with each other so they created YouTube.com. That is the
exact story I told Chad to use. It has since been discounted as untrue
by Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The actual story of how YouTube.com
started is I gave Chad Hurley the entire idea from domain name to exit
strategy. It is this story. <br />
We started talking about ways to raise
money, and I had another brainstorm. I said "You know what you will have
to do? You will have to marry a rich girl. Make a list of the richest
women in the area, start at the top and follow her around. Do whatever you have to do to get her pregnant and marry her."<br />
That was such a shocking statement, we had to stop
and think about it for a while. It really is the best way to get
rich. Get a rich girl pregnant and she will have to marry you.<br />
Despite
it sounding like a joke, we agreed he would have to do it, and it seems
like he did. He crashed a birthday party for someone he didn't know
where a woman named Kathy Clark was. They are married with two children.
Kathy Clark is the heiress to the Silicon Graphics fortune and her
father was on the Forbes list of the riches people. He is also a venture
capitalist and I don't think YouTube.com would've made it through the
lean years without the help of Kathy Clark and her billionaire venture
capitalist father.<br />
By now, it was 9pm and all the computer labs
were closed on campus. Chad needed to find a list of .com companies to
send his portfolio to and a list of rich women to marry, so I said "The
only thing that is still open where you can get that kind of information
is the Giant Eagle grocery store magazine rack. Go to Giant Eagle and
get the Forbes list of the richest people magazine to find a rich girl
to marry and one of those Wired magazines with a list
of the fastest growing .com's to get a job at".<br />
It is well documented that Chad Hurley found PayPal.com, his first
job after college with a .com company, from a Wired magazine. <br />
After the
excitement of our conversation, I asked him where he hangs out
in Indiana. He said he doesn't really go out much. They have parties
in the cross country house. I asked him when
he is graduating from IUP and he said he was graduating this semester
and was just back to pick up the last of his things. He didn't want to
hang out with me. He wanted to go to Giant Eagle and get started on
YouTube. I reiterated the promise he made to give me 1%, he agreed he
would fulfill his promise, and we parted ways.<br />
I never thought much about Chad, the YouTube.com idea I gave him
and the 1% he promised me after that. I just worked really hard on
GoGetItNow until two things happened
that ended my dream. First, as I was trying to take GoGetItNow public,
the .com bubble burst. Smith Barney called me a week before the meeting
with them to go public and said they had to reevaluate .com's and
basically, they weren't interested anymore.<br />
Then, my website went down. I
called my server administrator, Chris, at Cyberwurx, and he said it was
on Network Solution's end. I called Network Solutions and after getting
bounced around from one person to another, someone said "rogue call
center workers" at their India office were cancelling domain names that
were popular and renewing them privately. The company that took
GoGetItNow is still in existence. It is called ITSSN.com. There was a class
action lawsuit, but I don't believe it went anywhere because I don't think anyone knew who stole all
the domain names and they couldn't be extradited.<br />
I let
my dream die and went back to college using grants and loans from FAFSA.
I went on to become a stock broker for Merrill Lynch, got laid off, and
became a Social Worker and got laid off. I reentered the .com world
recently after sharing some of my ideas with friends who encouraged me,
but had no credibility, so venture capitalists wouldn't help me.<br />
I was talking to some folks at Alphalab, an internet incubator on the
South Side of Pittsburgh about how I
gave Chad Hurley the idea for YouTube.com and how Chad sold it about 10
years after I
gave him the idea for $1.65 billion. They suggested I get in
touch with Chad. I was a little confused as to why I hadn't tried to
contact Chad before. He knows I have good ideas and promised me what
amounts to about $16.5 million. Why was I trying to get backing for my
new ideas from people that didn't know how good my ideas are and don't
owe me $16.5 million?<br />
For the first time in 10 years, I tried to
contact Chad. I connected with him on Twitter and I was blocked. I tried
to friend him on Facebook. I was blocked again. I found his phone number and
talked to his housekeeper, I think her name was Anne, for about a half
an hour. She was very nice and said Chad would definitely want to talk
to me about my new ideas. I emailed Chad at all his email addresses. I applied for jobs
at Google, YouTube, Avos, Delicious and all the companies Chad was
involved with. I never got a response.<br />
I emailed Roelof
Botha, one of the first venture capitalists to back YouTube.com. I don't
think he believed me when I emailed the story of my involvement with
YouTube. He thanked me for
the "color" in the email I sent him. I don't think he believed me or wanted to believe me. <br />
Chad never contacted me in any way. I searched
the internet to see if there was any mention of me and YouTube. I found
an old newspaper clipping that said YouTube was a play on words from
BoobTube. That's how I came up with the name. I found the story I told
Chad to tell people about how he and some friends were taking videos at a
party and couldn't share them with each other so he created a website
with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim called YouTube. There was no mention of
me and why would there be? I told Chad he would have to lie and he did.<br />
My searching led me to a guy named Herb that said he invented
YouTube and we messaged each other for a while on YouTube. I found out
Herb had an attorney in
Pittsburgh. The attorney met with me and said he couldn't
represent me because they already represented Herb. I said "Why would
you represent somebody who lied and not me when I am telling the truth?"
He indicated it was simply a conflict of interests, but I should
continue to
try to reach Chad. I was never able to reach him.<br />
It was suggested that I document my story or even write a book by some filmmakers
so that is what I am doing.<br />
The rest of this book is about
what Chad did after our conversation outside the Eberly
College of Business computer lab at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. <br />
My hope is that Chad will fulfill his promise and give me the 1% or
approximately $16.5 million he promised me. If he does fulfill his
promise, we can work together on the other projects I have ideas
for and I may even take the real story, this story, off the internet
to protect Chad's reputation. If Chad doesn't want to work with me,
maybe this would make a nice documentary in the style of "Social
Network" and maybe I will get what was promised to me anyways.<br />
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Everyone has ideas...cheese in pizza crust, Doritos tacos...but
have you ever come up with a world changing billion dollar idea, got a
promise of 1% and not had it fulfilled? I did.<br />
It's funny how sometimes life comes down to one defining
moment...an epiphany...divine intervention. Do you make a left or a
right? One path leads to success beyond your wildest dreams. The other
leads to disaster. It's time for the truth to be told.<br />
My defining moment...the one that makes me who I am today...was a
two hour conversation I had with a guy named Chad Hurley, the co-founder
of YouTube.com in the late 90's at Eberly College of Business outside
the computer lab.<br />
I got out of the military a few years before and had gone back to
college at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I was supposed to be
taking classes, but I found out that I was not eligible for the G.I.
Bill I was promised. Sergeant Vincent, our First Sergeant, lied to my
face and told me I would get it to get me out of the military. So I
moved in to an off campus dormitory called Mcgregor hall until I could
figure out how to get the G. I. Bill I was promised. It was the least
expensive living arrangements I could find and for good reason. It was
little more than a cockroach and rat infested hellhole. The only good
thing about it was that it was directly across the street from the newly
erected Eberly College of Business. The computer lab in Eberly had the
best facilities on campus.<br />
There was a lot of talk about people <a href="http://ericskaggs.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-i-gave-chad-hurley-idea-for.html?showComment=1370733422397#" id="_GPLITA_1" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Click to Continue > by InstantSavings">starting websites</a>
out of their dorm rooms and garages and getting rich and until I could
figure out how to pay for college, I would go over to the computer lab
and work on being a .com billionaire. The only problem was I knew
nothing about computers.<br />
My first computer was a Packard Bell I got for Christmas ten years
earlier when I was about 14 years old. I hooked up my Prodigy internet
to the phone line in our house and stayed online for the whole month. We
got a $500 phone bill that month, and my mom put the computer in a
closet and locked it. We didn't know that the 30 days of free internet
service didn't include the dial up phone service calling a long distance
number.<br />
So ten years later when I was about 24, I asked my uncle who worked
at IBM if he could get me a cheap computer. He got me an employee
discount on a top of the line IBM desktop computer. It was awesome. It
was jet black and the floppy disk drives popped up from under the
monitor when you pressed down on them. Unfortunately, I was too poor and
cheap to get internet access, so I would go over to Eberly's computer
lab every day and learn how to be a .com billionaire.<br />
Right around that time in the mid 90's, my mom was making a lot of
money with .com stocks and tried to convince me to invest in some .com
companies, but I noticed the .com companies weren't and never planned to
make any money. People were just throwing money at .com companies. I
wanted to have money thrown at me like that. I didn't want to just
invest in stocks.<br />
There was a steep learning curve for someone who hadn't used a
computer in 10 years. It took me a long time to figure out how to
register a domain name. Back then, you had to go to Network Solutions
and pay $45 a year for a domain name. That seemed really expensive to
me, so I got free websites at Geocities and Angelfire.<br />
I noticed a major problem with the internet. Every time I tried to
search the internet on Yahoo, check my email on Hotmail and work on my
free web pages at Geocities and Angelfire, I had to open four windows
and the computer would freeze up, so I made a website that was a
combination of the search capabilities of Yahoo, the free email of
Hotmail, and the free web pages of Geocities.<br />
It got fairly popular, so I decided to register a domain name. I
called it GoGetItNow.com. The search box was from a company called
Search Traffic. They paid me 5 cents a search. The email was from a
company called Big Mailbox and the free web pages were from a company
called Free Community. They split the banner ads on the top of the web
pages with me 50/50 and let me configure the accounts so that your email
and web pages were the same username like gogetitnow.com/username and
username@gogetitnow.com.<br />
GoGetItNow.com was a pretty revolutionary concept and, as far as I
knew, there was nothing else like it at the time. It caught on quickly
and after a few years, I was getting as many as 10 million page views a
day making as much as $5000 a month and it was doubling every couple of
months. It was right around that time that I met Chad Hurley about 5
years before he became the co-founder of YouTube.com.<br />
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When Chad Hurley and Eric Skaggs parted ways that one fateful day
in the late 90's outside Eberly College of Business at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, Chad knew he was on a mission of epic
proportions...but it would have to start now.<br />
Chad went to the track house and packed the rest of his things into
his Jeep and headed to the Giant Eagle magazine rack. He got the Forbes
magazine with the list of the richest people in it and a business
magazine with the top internet companies in it. He headed home to a
little suburb outside Reading, PA and made two lists...a list of the
richest single women and a list of the top internet companies. He got
his portfolio and resume together and sent them to all the top internet
companies, and put the list of the richest single women away for later.<br />
Nobody was responding to his portfolio until, one day, a company
called PayPal called him for an interview. They wanted him to design
them a logo. He got started right away. He sent them his logo and PayPal
loved it. They offered him a job and he took it. It wasn't Chad's first
choice on his list of places to work, but it was the only offer he got.<br />
Chad loaded up his Jeep and headed to Silicon Valley. Chad met
Steve Chen and Jawed Karim at PayPal. They put Chad's logo up on Paypal.<br />
Later, they would work together on Chad's YouTube idea. The first
part of the plan Eric Skaggs gave Chad Hurley was working perfectly.<br />
Chad went to a birthday party and met Kathy Clark. She was the
daughter of Jim Clark, one of the richest men in the world and the CEO
of Silicon Graphic. He married her and had two children. Please help me
with the research by leaving comments, questions and suggestions and
please subscribe and check out some of my websites. Thank you, Eric
Skaggs, <a href="http://ericskaggs.com/">EricSkaggs.com</a> , <a href="http://theyoutubeguy.com/">TheYouTubeGuy.com</a> , <a href="http://iinventedyoutube.com/">IInventedYouTube.com</a> , <a href="http://3dyoutube.com/">3DYouTube.com</a> , <a href="http://buckget.com/">BuckGet.com</a><br />
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Eric Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08308928705761332222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009659996321204046.post-49085543113681833692013-02-23T09:09:00.001-08:002013-02-23T09:09:52.378-08:00Secret Finally Revealed! How YouTube REALLY got started!<p>How I gave Chad Hurley the idea for YouTube.com http://ericskaggs.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-i-gave-chad-hurley-idea-for.html</p>
Eric Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08308928705761332222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009659996321204046.post-31194967559171555112013-01-07T14:29:00.004-08:002013-01-07T14:29:40.100-08:00How We Met I was sitting in my regular spot at Tom's Diner on the South
Side of Pittsburgh writing in my journal and drinking coffee when a very
handsome man walked in and sat at the counter next to me. When the
waitresses saw him, they yelled in unison"Debbie Downer!" One of the
waitresses went over to him and asked him if he had found a girlfriend
yet. I felt my heart skip a beat in anticipation of the answer. He sadly
said "Not yet". I hoped he would talk to me. After he ordered his
breakfast, he watched tv for awhile, but I could sense he was building
up the courage to say something to me. Finally, he said "What are you
writing?" I said "Just some random thoughts and ideas". He seemed very
interested and asked if I was a writer. I said "Not really, but I like
to write". He asked me if he could read something I had written. I never
let people read the things I write, but I trusted him for some reason. I
handed him my journal and asked him to read what I had just written
only. He read it half out loud and with wide eyed excitement and when he
finished, he said "I think you are really talented and you should do
something with this". We talked for about a half an hour while he
finished his breakfast and we exchanged names and phone numbers before
he left. His name was Eric. The next day, I got a call from the handsome
stranger, but I was afraid to answer. Then he followed it up with a
text that said"Do you want to come over and swim in my pool?" It was a
good suggestion since it was a very hot summer day, but I didn't feel
comfortable wearing a bathing suit in front of the handsome stranger, so
I didn't respond.<br />
I never heard from or saw him again...for
about a year. And then one day I was playing basketball and stopped
into a local pool hall to visit some friends. The handsome stranger came
in with an extremely tall friend of his. He came over to me and asked
if we could play basketball. I said sure. I handed him my basketball and
we went to the park. He was not very good at basketball but his tall
friend was. We played horse and pig for awhile and we once again
introduced ourselves to eachother. I looked much different than I had
when we first met and he didn't recognize me. We exchanged names and
phone numbers again and that very night, I lost my phone and had to get
another phone number, but this time, he looked me up on facebook and
sent me a message with his phone number. I called him and talked briefly
about how I lost my phone, but we didn't connect the way we had the
first time we met and I was a little bothered that he didn't remember me
from before.<br />
I never heard from or saw him again...for about
a year. And then I started noticing he and his tall friend had a
pattern. They would go to the spelling bee at Lava Lounge on Monday
nights and rock 'n' roll bingo at Tiki Lounge on Tuesday nights, so I
would go to those places in the hopes that he would talk to me again. He
would say hi occasionally and sometimes he would say he thought he
recognized me, but I was too shy to say much back, and he would
invariably move on to talk to his other friends. One time, we had a
chance to have a bit of a longer conversation, and I mentioned that we
had met years earlier without going into detail. He asked if I wanted to
go to his house to watch movies and have a steak. I don't care for
movies or steak, but I really liked him, so I said sure. We watched some
movies and had a really nice steak dinner in his little studio
apartment on the river and then I said thank you and told him I would
catch the bus home. I was about 10 miles from my house, but I felt like
walking, so I did. Eventually, he stopped going to the spelling bee and
tiki lounge.<br />
I never heard from or saw him again...for about a
year. And then, one day, I thought of him and our nice dinner and a
movie night, and I drove to his house at 5 in the morning. I couldn't
remember his apartment number, so I was afraid to ring the doorbell.
Since I lost another phone, I wasn't sure how to get in touch with him.
Then I remembered the facebook message he sent me with his phone number
in it. I went to a local copy store that had computer time for rent that
opened at 7am and looked for the message from years earlier and found
it. I called him at 8am and built up the courage to leave him a message.
He called me back at 11am on his first break from work. He was really
excited to hear from me and wanted to come to my house after work. I
gave him my address. He came over at 5:30pm. He was wearing a nice suit
jacket and looked even better than I had remembered. We laughed and
talked for hours on my porch and reminisced about all the times we had
met. We decided this time we wouldn't lose touch. He came over after
work every day after that. I started having trouble with my roommate and
he suggested I come stay with him. I went to his house and after
awhile, we developed a very strong close bond. We decided very quickly
to be boyfriend and girlfriend and we started making plans for me to
move out of my house and in with him officially. He encouraged me to
start writing again and I encouraged him to pursue his dreams with his
internet business. We have been together now for about 6 months and I
have never been happier. One day, Eric asked me if I could remember how
we met. He loved the story of missed connections so much he asked me to
write it down for him. He wanted more people to read it, so he started
me a website and a blog and this is the story of how we met.Eric Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08308928705761332222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009659996321204046.post-69118879278709600242012-12-05T06:02:00.001-08:002012-12-05T06:02:52.958-08:00BuckGet.com - Make Money for Searching the Internet!<div><p><a href="http://instagr.am/p/S22lBqiRqW/">http://instagr.am/p/S22lBqiRqW/</a><br>
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</div>Eric Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08308928705761332222noreply@blogger.com0North Braddock, North Braddock40.398956 -79.84088tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009659996321204046.post-84109706293570729182012-11-30T09:50:00.001-08:002013-03-11T00:14:03.855-07:00What is the creator of YouTube.com doing now? BuckGet.com - Make money for searching the internet<div><p>Check out BuckGet.com (100 Grant Ave Apt 200, Duquesne) on @foursquare: http://4sq.com/Yyd2Wg</p>
</div>Eric Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08308928705761332222noreply@blogger.com0North Versailles, North Versailles40.37979 -79.809494tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009659996321204046.post-37803172471669844732012-11-28T18:21:00.001-08:002012-11-28T18:22:49.577-08:00BuckGet.com - Make Money For Searching The Internet<div><p>Check out BuckGet.com - Make Money For Searching The Internet! (100 Grant Ave Apt 202, Duquesne) on @foursquare: http://4sq.com/V41of7</p>
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