Kicking off a thread on Hacker News about how to sell a business, Emmett Shear, CTO of live-video startup Justin.tv, accidentally typed the name of his current employer instead of his previous company, Kiko Calendar, which was sold on eBay for $250,000. A sign the company is desperately looking for the exit? Who knows. But it certainly doesn't help to answer part of the original question about flipping a startup:

Heads-up, entrepreneurs. Ready to sell your startup? Reconnect with every contact you have at Fox Interactive. Rupert Murdoch is about to go on a shopping spree. [Financial Times]

As if he hasn't already made enough money from Google, Blogger founder Evan Williams cashed in from today's sale of presentation software startup Zenter. [evhead]

Google News is re-indexing some Fast Company articles from the turn of the century, so classic articles like "Built to Flip" have turned up in news alerts as if they came out this morning. Reading this stuff is like pawing through National Geographics from the 50s — the customs are strange, the references archaic, the topless shots of natives disappointing. For instance:

Among all the Web 2.0 flipmeat, blog search engine Technorati stood out as a winner with a real potential for profit. So why is it behaving like a dying startup?

"With all the 2.0 hype, I think it's unfair to unanimously declare all new Internet startups as 100% junk. It can't be much more than 95%." The blogger at cynical site Dead2.0 thus introduces an impressive how-to for businesses that want to make the magic 5% cut. Here's Dead2.0's list (minus the insightful explanations) with the sites we think should listen up.

Not that you care about one startup buying another, especially when it's already on that ubiquitous Web 2.0 blog TechCrunch, but RSS marketing network Feedburner bought blog analytic company Blogbeat. Blogbeat's homepage has a rundown of the deal. (We previously thought Feedburner bought Nooked, as posted here.)

A few readers say Nooked isn't the lucky little company to get snapped up by RSS marketing powerhouse Feedburner, despite an earlier report. It's actually buying a US startup that was once close to a deal with Yahoo.

Update: Rumor disconfirmed — this was a bum tip.

"I was walking down Valencia Street," says a friend of Valleywag. "Some dude on his phone, yacking. I walked closer to listen, and I heard, 'Feedburner will announce an acquisition.'"

PaidContent blogger Rafat Ali has more details on NBC's purchase of Tribe.net (broken by Valleywag last week). Ali says the social site sold for under $50 million — not quite the $500 million-plus that News Corp paid for third-generation social site MySpace last year.

Whoa, dude! Tribe, the social network preferred by Bay Area hippies and ravers, may be a damsel in distress as reported, says a tipster, but NBC is swooping down to whisk Tribe to its castle in the media sky.

Every now and then, a rumored deal actually sounds smart and strategic. Most of Yahoo's deals are like that: Yahoo's purchases of Upcoming.org, Del.icio.us, and Flickr make sense, and the only question is why the bought properties aren't already tied into the front page.

• YouTube, the biggest independent Web 2.0 firm that needs a lucrative deal like a hooker needs a free clinic, wins distribution of NBC shows. After NBC's SNL clip "Lazy Sunday" went viral on YouTube (and got yanked), the network finally realized that its viewers all moved to the Internet. [Washington Post]

Got a single-featured startup? Done pretending you have the revenue to go public? Dot-commers, forget about selling your flipmeat to the usual Web 2.0 carnivores. The classic consolidaters of the industry are back in business.

The TechCrunch effect: getting covered on Michael Arrington's tech blog makes business boom, it gets you into parties, it makes jerk-off Valley men treat your modeling site like a San Jose strip club. The owner of Solomodels.com wrote Valleywag this letter:

Valleywag's cyborg brother Gizmodo chatted with Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube. The video site just took $8 mil from Sequoia Capital, refueling buyout rumors. Hurley danced a decent two-step around the million-dollar question.

The New York Times goes cuckoo for oo's today. John Markoff holds a debutante ball for Webaroo while Bob Tedeschi plays catch-up with Squidoo. And the Times could oo and ah at a different startup every day at this rate:

Internet forum Ask MetaFilter provides today's blind item. "Anonymous" asked last night:

TechCrunch scooped the Fox purchase of newroo (yet another customized-news-page service) yesterday, ending guessing over whom Fox bought at the Under the Radar event. So newroo has either cut a deal to use the tech blog as its PR arm, or they figure another Arrington scoop is inevitable, 'cause this is the company's launch announcement plan as stated on its home page: