Who says the Zune isn’t worth anything? Earlier this month 15-year-old Hansup Yoon cashed out by selling his Zune-centric community web site, aptly called ZuneBoards, to the tune of $62,000 on SitePoint’s Marketplace. Yoon, who lives in Fullerton, California, started his site just under 2 years ago and grew it to 60,000 members and more than 270,000 posts. ZuneBoards was bringing in about $1,000 per month from AdSense and Tribal Fusion ads when he put it up for sale on SitePoint....

Spam on Twitter has apparently become a fairly large problem. I’ve never really noticed it, but I also only have a couple of hundred followers, so maybe I’m not visible enough to be a target. Before its founder got disillusioned by Twitter’s downtime woes, the unofficial Twitter Blacklist site identified 561 known Twitter spammers — most of whom have been removed...

One JavaScript statement that rarely surfaces in the wild is throw(). The throw statement allows you to throw a formal error — sending details of the error to the browser’s error console — and halting further execution of the script....

While everyone else is running away from the newspaper business, Yahoo! is running straight at it. According to an interesting profile that the AFP has up today, Yahoo! is planning to lean on its huge global audience of over 500 million people to build out its own original news reporting arm.

The site has already landed some huge interviews — including one with South Korean president Lee Myung-bak, US president George W. Bush’s first online interview, and one with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “We get these interviews because we have this global audience of 500 million viewers,” Jessica Barron, the site’s director of editorial programming, told the AFP...

So… did ya miss me? I had an awesome holiday, and have come back to an overflowing feed reader. Although I may touch on some of the big things that happened while I was away, I’m going to concentrate on the current week – otherwise this post would take you an hour to read and me all day to write!...

In light of a mini-controversy set off this morning when the founder of a web startup apparently violated SEC laws when he sent out a Twitter message looking for investors, The Globe and Mail’s Matthew Ingram wonders why can’t we raise money from the crowd for startups?

“Why couldn’t someone ‘crowd-source’ a financing for a startup?” he asks. “Why not allow blogs and social networks to play a part in the raising of money? It’s not as though millions of people haven’t been just as impoverished by ‘qualified’ investments and prospectuses as they could ever be by investing in a Twitter financing. Why do we need the government protecting us from ourselves?”...

A couple of days ago I was chatting with SitePoint’s Managing Editor Matt Magain over instant messenger. That’s a daily occurrence, but what made this chat a bit different than usual is that it was about 3am in Australia where Matt is located. What was he doing up so late? Clearing out his email inbox.

If that sounds like a familiar scenario — it does to me — then you too might be an email addict. The results from AOL’s fourth annual email addiction survey revealed that Americans, at least, are a nation of email addicts, and it’s getting worse. We’d be willing to bet that the same is true in many wired nations.

Almost 11 months after Delicious revealed screen shots of its redesign, the new site is finally live. Del.icio.us now redirects to delicious.com, as well, which the site says is to deal with the “zillion different confusions and misspellings of ‘del.icio.us’” they have seen over the years.

According to the Delicious blog, in addition to the major design overhaul, the site will also now be faster due to a shiny new back end, and they’ve improved search.