For Your Imagination, probably the coolest company in New York, produces original web shows like The Patrice O’Neal Show - Coming Soon! and The Shirtless Apprentice. But their real pioneering role may be in figuring out the economics of web video for content producers.

Tonight For Your Imagination is hosting the monthly Video 2.0 meetup.

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Version 1.0 of DesktopTwo will be released in the next few weeks according to Sapotek’s CEO Joshua Rand. A beta version of the virtual desktop software has been available for the last year. Rand’s startup is wrapping up a major migration to replace Linux with Solaris.

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After talking to many startups over the last year YouTube picked their best ideas and came up with these overlay ads, similar to what VideoEgg and New York-based ScanScout have developed. Apologies for the whiny guitar band.

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AdScam last Friday reported the rumor that DraftFCB had fired their longtime CFO Bob Oates.

That is remarkable news in light of the financial mess at holding company Interpublic and the Julie Roehm/Wal-Mart scandal late last year, but there’s still no mention of Oates firing in traditional trade publications AdAge and Adweek.

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Everybody’s doing it and so are UpNext and HeyCosmo. Both startups announced yesterday at Web2NewYork they are working on Facebook apps.

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Aaron Bollinger just emailed me KickApps has received ‘a big new round of financing’. The white label social networking platform received $11 million from SoftBank Capital and return backers Prism VentureWorks and Spark Capital.

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KickApps seems to be preparing a Fall marketing offensive. The New York-based hosted social media platform hired Michael Chin to lead its growing marketing department. Previously Chin was a business development executive at tech-focused PR firm Bite Communications.

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