Levandowski sold two companies to Google for $120M, while still being a Google employee.. That's where the funny money comes from.

It is very slow though! WebGL has a long ways to go..

(Macbook Pro with VGA and 8gb RAM)

Huh, it seems really smooth on my macbook air, using FF6 nightlies.

No problem in Safari 5, on a 2010 15" macbook

You probably do not have GPU enabled. about:gpu might tell you why.

Meh. All I get is "37Signals?".

This might explain it for you: http://www.quora.com/Is-37signals-a-lifestyle-company-Why

Oooooooh! I get it now. According to this death-clock, my larger than small but smaller than medium company that is making very good money is a lifestyle company, like 37signals is. Actually, that's true! But do me a favor, don't tell anyone that. Please don't tell my hard-working and talented employees, for whom I am very grateful. Please don't tell my friends and siblings or my vendors. Let's just keep this between you and I. Thanks!

Yea, I don't think there are 50 sites out there that could boast those numbers.

Smokinn got it right. Stats that doesn't appear, we stream 1.2Billions videos/month (doesn't count embedded content).

What sort of infrastructure/hw/server software to you use for streaming?

Can you reveal any $ numbers; e.g. CPM, conversions to paid accounts, anything?

I am not affiliate with Manwin but found the article that was submitted here recently insightful. It partly deals with their operations:

The Geek-Kings of Smut http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/70985/

If you can't monetize a billion pageviews in ways other than Reddit Gold, you've got to be kidding me.

reddit has a self-serve advertising system that's been in place longer than reddit gold.

Do you have any suggestions?

TimesSkimmer was very good when it came out. But gradually, it has become very slow and somewhat unusable. I definitely think the Chrome version is much far ahead of the Skimmer. Skimmer used to open the article in an iFrame, which spoils the entire motive of decluttering. There were also needless animations that made it a bit slow. Plus the lack of any social functionality that made sharing articles difficult. I really like that they took care of all of these issues in the Chrome version!

FOXCONN

Good catch, updated title. Thanks.

Tangential question, does anybody know the song used in the commercial in the bottom video?

le sans culotte - 'Allo 'Allo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fb5uxIWPfg