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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube — A profitless Web site started by three 20-somethings after a late-night dinner party is sold for more than a billion dollars, instantly turning dozens of its employees into paper millionaires. It sounds like a tale from the late 1990's dot-com bubble, but it happened yesterday.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Recapping Coverage Of Google's Acquisition Of YouTube — I don't have a ton to say about the Google acquisition of YouTube. That's because to me, it's more an eyeball landgrab than a search development. There's no doubt people search for video on YouTube, and getting the leading property will help Google.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Google makes video play with YouTube buy — update Google has agreed to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the companies announced Monday. — The deal, which had been rumored for days, will dramatically improve Google's video-sharing service …
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:Paradigm shift: What Google didn't buy
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Jennifer Hakes / Google:
Google Signs Agreement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT to Give Users Access to Expansive Catalog of Music Videos — Ad-supported video models give users unparalleled access to SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT's content online and creates new monetization opportunities
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Jennifer Hakes / Google:
Google and Warner Music Group Announce Agreement to Offer Google Video Users WMG's Music Video Content — Ad-supported video model provides Warner Music Group with content monetization opportunities and unmatched distribution in the online world — Google developing technology to enable user-generated content
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Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Ray Noorda, The CEO Who Led Novell To LAN Dominance, Dies At 82 — Noorda led Novell from 17 employees to 12,000. But he failed in attempts to provide an alternative to Microsoft Office — Ray Noorda, the son of Dutch immigrants who drove Novell Netware to become the dominant local area …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
A look at Firefox 2.0 RC2 — Changes in RC2 — The official release of Firefox 2.0 is right around the corner and the second release candidate (RC2) was made available last week. Release candidates provide insight into the features and functionality that will be available in the final release.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What if Microsoft bought YouTube? — What if the "crazy folk" who bought YouTube were actually at Microsoft? What would that have caused? I've been thinking about that while driving Patrick home. Now Maryam is driving and I get to write you my thoughts from HWY 1 near Pacifica.
James Enck / EuroTelcoblog:
Ten things I hate about you — Last Wednesday the organizers of the Telco 2.0 event were kind enough to give me the opening presentation slot on day one, which was intended to set the scene for a lot of what was to follow. In the run-up to the event, I had thought long and hard about what sort …
Chris Roper / IGN:
Guitar Hero II Final Tracklist Revealed — It's official: From Aerosmith to the Rolling Stones to RATM, all 40 licensed tracks unveiled. — After a year of wishlists, speculation and even a bit of "slipped" information, RedOctane finally has revealed to us the final licensed tracklist for Guitar Hero II.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
SmallTown.com: Small Town Reviews, in Flash — Almost a year after taking $3 million in funding from Menlo Park's Formative Ventures, SmallTown.com is launching its Flash site for small town local reviews tonight. I personally find this much Flash annoying but the site might catch on with users who like the look and feel.
useit.com:
Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute … All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background.
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
U.N. Enlists Internet Star for Antipoverty Pitch — The Likes of Lonelygirl15 — Are Sought for Service Ads; — Risk of Using Web Producers — The United Nations is hoping a lonely girl can help it fight poverty. — The U.N. has enlisted the star of hugely popular Web video series LonelyGirl15 …
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks:
YouTube and Sequoia Go Long Google Stock — Henry Blodget submits: Gold stars to YouTube, Google, and their respective investment bankers for how they handled this one... Settle on basic deal terms and a provisional price, leak details so the market has a couple of days to chew on the idea …
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Web use overtakes newspapers — The time European consumers spend online has, for the first time, overtaken the hours they devote to newspapers and magazines, a study revealed. — But the growth of new media is expanding total media consumption rather than simply cannibalising print and television.
Jemima / paidContent.org:
@ Mipcom: Piracy Is A Business Model, Says Disney Co-Chair Anne Sweeney — So this is the first day's keynote by Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group. Ultra-slick corporate stuff, but some good next-step observations about the industry.
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