Back 9 links: Retired director Steven Soderbergh has some T-shirts to sell you

Links that got us thinking on Thursday, May 23:

1. Steven Soderbergh wants to sell you T-shirts.
2. Super coder or super manager? Here's why your top geek can't be both.
3. How one freelancer jumped from anonymity to The New York Times.
4. Analytics is not a strategy.
5. Reality television is the new family television.
6. Five ways to get better engagement on your company's LinkedIn page.
7. Why your company should
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Auctioning .art: New domains could sell for tens of millions in the summer of the dot

Great art has always been valuable, but the word “art” itself may never have been more valuable than it will be this summer.

The right to distribute some of the most attractive new “top-level domains,” including website addresses ending in .art and .sale, could soon be auctioned off for upwards of tens of millions of dollars each.

The agency charged with overseeing the names used in  ...

Vice Media's advice to old media: Go where the story is

Vice Media founder Shane Smith would seem to be the ultimate new media insurgent. His company has grown from free magazine in Montreal that was part of a government jobs program to a global media brand with its own HBO program. Its website alone does about four million visitors per month.

But what Vice does isn’t so complicated, Smith said at New York Internet Week.

"We're like any other media  ...

How the richest models did it (Video)

For supermodels, the race to the top is not necessarily to the sexiest or the sultriest. They must also be smart, communicative and in with the right people (read: Vogue editor Anna Wintour who can place them on the cover).

That’s the verdict from Ivan Bart, senior vice president and managing director of IMG Models, who spoke to Bloomberg TV based on his own experiences with the richest models,  ...

Persona non grata at Apple, Appgratis moves in with more confident Google

Less than a month ago, app discovery app Appgratis was booted by Apple for supposedly violating two App Store guidelines. Now that same app is available on Google Play, and the company’s founder says it’s all part of the plan.

“What happened with Apple only cleared more engineering time for us,” Simon Dawlat told Upstart Business Journal today in an email. “Given what Google announced  ...

TechStars startup Jebbit grows up, goes off-campus

Jebbit, a member of the current TechStars Boston accelerator class, is expanding its online advertising service to target segments beyond college students, co-founder and CEO Thomas Coburn said in an interview.

The company planned to announce the expansion as part of the TechStars Boston Demo Day, being held at the House of Blues in Boston.

To date, Jebbit has offered a Web service for consumer  ...

Friends won't let friends party without upstart device, Alcohoot

A Wingate University student has developed a smartphone version of the Breathalyzer and is ready to start marketing it.

The device, called the Alcohoot, can connect to an Android phone, iPhone or iPad, says Ben Biron, chief marketing officer of the startup venture. Users breathe into the Alcohoot to measure their blood-alcohol concentration.

“Our biggest goal is to make this product a  ...