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Fox's Piracy Czar Subpoenas YouTube over Pirated "24" and "Simpsons" Episodes — D'oh! Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed YouTube to reveal the identity of users who uploaded four episodes of the TV series "24" and twelve episodes of "The Simpsons," Google Watch has learned. — The subpoena reads, in part:
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The Web Celeb 25 — THE FACE OF FAME IS CHANGING. The ranks of the world's celebrities used to be dominated by millionaire actors, athletes and musicians, but the Internet has leveled the playing field. A kid with a video camera has access to as large an audience as the biggest Hollywood star.
Karen / Official Google Blog:
A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube — Posted by Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management — In November, we officially closed our acquisition of YouTube, and since then we've received a number of questions about what will happen next. The summary is that Google Video …
AdAge:
Shifting out of print — While the story of magazines' ongoing battle to adapt to the web world is well-documented, the untold story is of Detroit's beleaguered carmakers, long pillars of print advertising, which are cutting their costs and, when they are spending, often seek more direct …
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Editor James O'Shea unveils Web initiative at Times — Los Angeles Times Editor James E. O'Shea unveiled a major initiative this morning designed to expand the audience and revenue generated by the newspaper's website, saying the newspaper is in "a fight to recoup threatened revenue that finances our news gathering."
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Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:LA Times Reorganizes As 24/7 Newsroom; Meshing Online and Print …
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Brian Lam / gizmodo.com:
Go Canada: iPhone Confirmed on Rogers Wireless — iPhone confirmed for Canada, by a customer service email. — Availability and pricing aren't set in stone, yet. But you can bet your buttocks it'll be after we get ours in the USA. Go USA! Thanks Curtis! — BRIAN LAM — iPhone [Gizmodo]
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Stream of Movies, Sort of Free — If there's one sure thing about the future, it's that it always takes longer to arrive than you think it will. — Here we are in 2007, and the interstellar space travel depicted in "2001" is still a sci-fi fantasy. Heck, we haven't even reached the society of mind control imagined in "1984."
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Matt McGee / Small Business SEM:
Disagreeing with Danny on the value of Social Media Sites — Today on Search Engine Land, Danny made what I think is a pretty bold statement about the value of optimizing/using social media sites as marketing tools: … Reaction: Not for most small businesses. No way. No how.
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Life Is Complicated — My goodness, even CNN picked up the story about Microsoft trying to retain Rick Jelliffe to update the Wikipedia articles on ODF and OOXML for them, just as the ISO process around OOXML is getting in gear. This raises complicated issues about document formats …
BetaNews:
Free T-Mobile Hotspot for Vista Users — As part of its promotional efforts surrounding the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft said Wednesday that for 90 days after the debut of the next-generation operating system, customers would be able to use T-Mobile Hotspot Wi-Fi for free on laptops running Vista.
english.chosun.com:
Microsoft Vista to Cause Confusion for Korean Net Users — When Microsoft releases its next-generation Windows operating system in Korea next week, local Internet users will find that it doesn't work with many of their favorite Web sites. A Hangul version of the new OS, called Vista …
Brad / The BRAD BLOG:
DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINE KEY COPIED FROM PHOTO AT COMPANY'S OWN ONLINE STORE! — Ed Note: Several important updates now added to the end of the story... Good lord in heaven. How dumb are these guys at Diebold?! Can you believe the United States has actually entrusted them to build …
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck.com File-Sharing News …:
Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD — The next generation of optical disc technology holds the promise to change the way we interact with and store digital media. Perhaps the most exciting change is the arrival of High Definition (HD) video, with its glorious 1920x1080 pixel resolution.
Matt Wilson / Solution Watch:
Bubbl.us: Simple Effective Idea Organization — Diagrams on paper are cool, but diagrams on the internet are cooler. This is where Bubbl.us comes into play. Bubbl.us is a mind-mapping product aimed towards literally anyone who needs help organizing their thoughts or any untidy information.
Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
Skype had a better Q4-2006 — Per the pre-conference call, Skype: — 164% YOY growth net revenues … 129% YOY growth registered users: More than 380 thousand new users every day in Q4. … Other highlights
Peter Kafka / Forbes:
Murdoch 2.0 — MySpace was just the start. Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants are betting big on the Internet. — Amy Joan Borka is 24 years old, lives in Burnsville, Minn. and got married last fall. She is expecting her first child in April. And, as she explains in her MySpace profile …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
OEM pricing for Windows Vista comes into focus — When the retail pricing for Windows Vista was announced, the hardest of the hardcore knew that the real deal was in OEM pricing. Many PC vendors such as Newegg offer so-called "OEM bundles," which are heavily discounted versions of retail software …
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