On The Market: 730 Acres in Malibu Near Pepperdine University Being Sold By Movie Director James Cameron

Famed film director James Cameron is selling 730 acres of ranch land in the Malibu, CA area for a reported 25 million dollars. Mr. Cameron originally bought the land in smaller parcels to create a vast ranch called “Tranquility Base” for himself and his family. He had the site completed by 2000, but has since decided to focus on filmmaking instead of developing real estate.

The property is mostly pastureland adjacent to Pepperdine University. It has views of both the Malibu coastline and the Santa Monica Bay. The site is accessed by Puerco Canyon Road off Pacific Coast Highway. To view this property, visit the listing on the CB Richard Ellis website by clicking here.

Now There's Even MORE to Watch on YouTube!

Google Inc.'s YouTube confirmed a Wall Street Journal story that it has reached a revenue-sharing deal with Hearst-Argyle Television in which local TV stations will be paid when users of the video-sharing site watch their programming. This marks the first time the video-sharing site has paid for local TV content.

Under terms of the deal, YouTube will offer programming from stations in Sacramento, Calif., Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Manchester, N.H. The channels will feature news, weather, entertainment, local high school football and basketball content as well as original local programming.

Since Google bought YouTube last October for $1.65 billion, the companies have been bombarded with legal complaints over the use of copyrighted works on the popular video-sharing site and they have been busy signing deals to pre-empt further legal battles

Google struck a deal with EMI Group last week that will allow it to show the record label's collection of music videos and artist performances on YouTube. Before that deal Google had successfully negotiated licensing deals with Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, CBS and the BBC making the world's major music companies official YouTube partners.
For Web surfers, this deal will allow YouTube users not only to watch and play authorized professionally produced music videos and recordings from EMI artists, but also to incorporate elements of these videos in YouTube users own user-generated content.

The record label will rely on YouTube's content management tools to track EMI content and compensate its artists and police copyright infringements.

You Tube's Even Taught Me Some New Tricks!

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The New $85 Computer!

The computer industry is constantly producing faster, smaller, cooler machines in an attempt to get you to shell out big bucks. And while some people are willing (and able) to pay upwards of $1,000 for a PC, what about the rest of us? Do we really need, or want, all of the the bells and whistles crammed into today's PCs? I don't know about you, but in an average month I probably use less than half of the applications my computer is capable of.

The average consumer spends around $741 on a personal computer today - signifigantly less than the $912 we spent three years ago according to the Consumer Electronics Association. Surprising, considering advances in technology mean new PCs have more processing power, memory and other features than ever before.

Truth be told, most consumers don't really need to upgrade. A bare-bones computer suits them just fine - and they can now get one for as little as $85.

That unbelievable price is is for Norhtec's Microclient JrSX, a desktop PC the size of a large novel. Now, the Microclient is not a hugely powerful PC; it has only 128 megabytes of RAM and a 300-megahertz processor. It does not come with the extras - like a keyboard or monitor (although these items can be purchased fairly cheaply on sites like Amazon.com) and instead of a hard drive, it's designed to store data on flash cards.

Interested? You can get more information and purchase one on the Norhtec website.

Google Maps Hits the Streets

Recently at the Where 2.0 conference, Google announced it has rolled out city level street view in several metropolitan areas, including San Francisco ( e.g., a search for " 94111").

Unlike Microsoft Virtual Earth's Birds Eye photos, which are shot from low flying aircraft, Google's imagery gives you an immediate on-the-ground perspective and using a nifty Flash interface actually allows you to navigate the streets in a nearly 3D environment.

Clearly, this has great application in real estate, as you will now be able to scope out a potential neighborhood or property from the ground up. Of course, it still doesn't beat seeing it in real life - but becomes another handy way to narrow down search results.

It remains to be seen whether Google will roll out this feature to its API users (Trulia et al.) or if it'll keep this card close to its chest.

Also at Where 2.0, Google announced Mapplets, widget-like applications that you can add your Google Maps searches and create your own customized Maps pages. There's already a pretty substantial Real Estate Mapplets Gallery that includes contributions from Zillow, Propsmart and others. You can see what a Mapplet enabled page would look like at Google Maps.

Paris Hilton Begins Three Week Jail Sentence

Mere hours after strolling down the red carpet in a strapless black dress, Paris Hilton traded her designer duds for a jail-issued jumpsuit.

The 26-year-old heiress entered the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood just after 11:30 p.m. Sunday to begin serving her three week sentence for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

At the MTV Movie Awards earlier that day, she briefly spoke to reporters about her sentence. "I am trying to be strong right now," Hilton said. "I'm really scared but I'm ready to face my sentence."

Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Sheriff's office said Hilton was obliging. "Her demeanor was helpful. She was focused, she was cooperative," he said.

Hilton turned herself in a little after 10:30 p.m. and was escorted to the all women's facility in Lynwood. There she was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, medically screened and issued an orange top and pants. Hilton's booking photo, shown on the left, revealed the heiress in what seemed to be a V-neck shirt, eye makeup and lip gloss with her hair draped over one shoulder.

That same night, the "Simple Life" star was given her first meal: cereal, bread and juice. She will be housed in the "special needs" unit of the 13-year-old jail and will be separate from most of its 2,200 inmates. The unit contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates. Hilton's cell has two bunks, a table, a sink, a toilet and a small windowand she will not have a cellmate.

Hilton will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the communal telephone (no cell phones or BlackBerrys are permitted in the facility, even for visitors).

The jail is a two-story concrete building next to train tracks and beneath a bustling freeway. It has been an all-female facility since March 2006 and is located in an industrial area about 12 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Hilton said Sunday, "I did have a choice to go to a pay jail, but I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I'm not and that's why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it and I'm going to be treated like everyone else. I'm going to do the time, I'm going to do it the right way."

She was sentenced May 4 and Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ruled that she would not be allowed any work release, furloughs or use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail.

In the past, stars have been allowed to do their time in a jail of their choosing, paying a daily room-and-board fee to the smaller jails, which afford them more privacy and comfort. Zsa Zsa Gabor, for example, paid $85 a day and served three days behind bars in 1990 at the El Segundo jail near the Los Angeles International Airport.

Hilton arrived in an unmarked sport utility vehicle with her mother, Kathy, on Sunday in front of about a dozen photographers and television crews staked out at the Lynwood facility.

Hilton's publicist, Elliot Mintz, said he spoke with Kathy Hilton after she returned from the jail. "She told me it was very emotional," Mintz said. "She also said that she feels this will be a time when Paris will be able to think and reflect and to spend time alone to learn from the experience because in Paris' life she's never alone -- there's always a constant chatter around her."

Officers arrested Hilton in Hollywood on Sept. 7. In January, she pleaded no contest to the reckless-driving charge and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines. She was pulled over by California Highway Patrol on Jan. 15. Officers informed Hilton she was driving on a suspended license and she signed a document acknowledging she was not to drive. She then was pulled over by sheriff's deputies on Feb. 27, at which time she was charged with violating her probation.

Plane Crashes into 3 Upland Homes

UPLAND, Calif. - A twin-engine plane lost power and slammed into homes today while approaching Cable Airport in Upland for landing. The plane came to a rest atop a garage and there was no fire. A wing is atop the roof of another home. There were minor to moderate injuries reported but no fatalities. The Piper Seneca was approaching the airport when it lost power and crashed into three homes on Blossom Circle. Weather doesn't appear to have been a factor. It was sunny with no clouds or fog.

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