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How do we rate YouTube Play? We've been struggling to answer that question since last night, when we attended the opening at the Guggenheim and got our first look at the 25 videos chosen for the exhibition. Culled from over 23,000 submissions worldwide and narrowed to a shortlist of 125, the final 25 were picked by a rock-star jury of artists, designers and filmmakers. To say it bluntly, the show ...

The shortlist for YouTube Play, the joint venture by the Guggenheim and YouTube to create a "biennial" of amateur video art, has been announced. We're not sure, though, what criteria the museum used to pick the 125 videos from the over 23,000 submitted, or how the distinguished panel of judges will narrow those 125 down to the 20 designated for exhibition at the Guggenheim's various outposts. ...

The Webbys are where viral video creators and Web entrepreneurs get to rub elbows with the likes of Al Gore and Isabella Rossellini. The winners of the 2010 Webby Awards, which will be held on June 14th, have already been announced, and we can't say we're surprised by many of the choices. Roger Ebert will be receiving an award for "raising the bar for online journalism," and the committee ...

The great twenty-something dream of starting a band, getting discovered, and selling millions of records before de-evolving at a ripe old age into rock-and-roll shame is still alive and well, especially if you take a look at the indie music scene. During SXSW this year, YouTube announced a new flavor of its existing Partner Program and is calling it Musicians Wanted. The project aims to tap into ...

Highlights form this morning's other big tech headlines.... Forbes has released its Croesus rankings of the world's wealthiest billionaires, and the list includes an impressive team of nerd all-stars, including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and Steve Ballmer. He may not own the overall top billionaire spot anymore (that honor going to Carlos Slim), but Bill Gates still leads the tech rankings ...