Two years ago, former Googlers Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman launched Howcast, a site filled with originally-produced how-to videos on everything from "How to Ice Skate" to "How ...

Founded in 2008, this brainchild of a few former Google employees is unique in the way it delivers basic content--and how it plans to make money.

Howcast co-founder Jason Liebman approached the problem by making a small fortune online, then picking up a Soho loft for a cool $6.5 million, according to city records.

Howcast, the instructional video site founded by three ex-Googlers, today announced that it has formed distribution agreements with AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv.