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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 …
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Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:Google Video Searches YouTube Videos
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Mashable!
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Not All Traffic Is Created Equal — We all bow down to the gods of traffic, but the reality is that not all traffic is created equal. Perhaps if you're selling junk pages views to an ad network for rock-bottom prices, it's all the same, but for most pages on most "quality" content sites …
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Garrett French / Search Engine Journal:Branded Content and Targeting Your Social Media Marketing Initiatives
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Small Business SEM
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Forbes Thinks Web Photographers Don't Matter — The Web Celeb 25 - Forbes.com It was interesting for me today to see an article out from Forbes celebrating the Web Celeb 25. I like the article a lot and several of the people that I think deserve to be on this list are (Robert, Mike, Om …
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Laughing Squid
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Forbes:
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.
Gizmodo:
First Review: LG BH100 Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Player (Verdict: Format War Still Blazing) — We got the LG BH100 in the mail yesterday. It does what claims to do — be the very first high definition disc player that is compatible with both Blu-ray and HD-DVD. But don't waive the white flag in the format war quite yet.
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Thomas Mennecke / Slyck.com File-Sharing News …:Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD
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CrunchGear, WesleyTech.com, Gadget Lab, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, TechSpot, digg and Slashdot
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 …
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Hollywood Reporter:
Fox seeks YouTube user's identity — 20th Century Fox served YouTube with a subpoena Wednesday, demanding that the Google-owned viral-video site disclose the identity of a user who uploaded copies of entire recent episodes of "24" and "The Simpsons." — The subpoena, which first came …
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Google Watch, Gizmodo, Reel Pop, CrunchGear, PaidContent and Lost Remote
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Make Your iTunes Library Mobile — Avvenu has a new product that allows you to listen to your iTunes music connection from any web browser on a Windows PC, Mac, or Windows Mobile 5 smartphone. MobileCrunch covered an early version of the product that only worked on Windows Mobile phones here.
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]
TheStreet.com:
TheStreet.com TV Recap: Tech Signs — Recent action suggests we might be seeing a respite in the tech selling spurt, Jim Cramer said on TheStreet.com TV's Wall St. Confidential video Wednesday. — But don't get your hopes up. — "We're in a glass-half-full mode in tech because the shorts pressed …
CNET News.com:
HP accused of spying on Dell's printer plans — A former Hewlett-Packard executive accused by the company of stealing trade secrets is now saying that he was instructed by the company's management to spy on rival Dell. — Karl Kamb Jr., previously HP's vice president of business development and strategy …
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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A VC
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 …
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 …
Three Speech:
PS3 UK/EUROPEAN LAUNCH CONFIRMED FOR MARCH 23 2007 — Instead of carving this up into a news story, we thought Three Speech regulars would rather get to see the press release verbatim: — STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY 24th JANUARY GMT — PS3 to Launch in UK on 23rd March 2007
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
James Kim Memorial Fund Charity Raffle — Stephen (aka TiVoStephen, aka Director of TiVoCast Operations) and I were deeply moved by the Kim family ordeal and the tragic death of James while trying to find help for his wife and children. I thought it would be worthwhile to leverage ZNF …
