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David King / Official Google Blog:
Latest content ID tool for YouTube — A few months ago, we announced the initial development of a highly complicated technology platform — content identification tools for YouTube. Today, we are pleased to launch, in beta form, YouTube Video Identification.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google unveils YouTube antipiracy tool — BURLINGAME, Calif.—Google says it has a new system for identifying pirated video on YouTube as it gets uploaded, but the system puts the burden on movie studios and other content owners to provide YouTube copies of the content first.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
YouTube Announces Tool For Angry Copyright Holders — After many many months of saying the company was "working on it," Google has finally released the details of its tool to help angry copyright holders deal with their content being shared on YouTube. The tool doesn't sound all that surprising.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Layoffs Letter From CEO Randy Falco — More to come on this story, but AOL will lay off 2,000 employees. Here is the letter to AOL employees that went out at 11 a.m. EDT today from CEO Randy Falco: — Dear AOL colleague, — Just over a year ago, AOL embarked on an incredibly complex …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Google Reader Stats are Bulls**t (With Proof) — Google Reader stats, in case you don't know, are bulls**t. In fact, all Feedburner stats for most top blogs are bulls**t due to the effect of default feeds. Want 80,000 free subscribers? How about 200K or more? Read on.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Google's sneak attack? Adsense for Facebook — Is Google-the-Goliath sneaking into the Facebook building — via the basement? — Google is actively recruiting third-party developers with applications on Facebook to run Adsense ads within applications pages, VentureBeat has learned.
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Reuters:
Led Zeppelin to sell music online — LONDON (Reuters) - British rockers Led Zeppelin will offer their music online for the first time next month, they said on Monday. — The band, whose reunion gig in London in November prompted more than a million fans to apply for 10,000 available tickets …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Hatebook Embraces the "Evil" Side of Social Networking — We all have bad days (or weeks/months) but many of us may be wary of venting our frustrations online using Facebook, especially since our parents and bosses can now see our status updates and wall posts.
Nick / Rough Type:
Caterpillar: Web 2.0 giant — There may well be a time when Facebook, YouTube, Digg, and the other Web 2.0 fashion plates make some real money, but for the moment their results pale in comparison to those of the most unexpected beneficiary of the web's recent evolution, the industrial-age stalwart Caterpillar.
Virtual Earth:
New Live Search Maps Features Coming — At Searchification a couple of weeks back, the new features coming in Live Search Maps were shown for the first time to some press and bloggers in anticipation of the release. The bits are finally aligned and in the hands of our ops team for deployment this week.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:Live Maps to incorporate Birds Eye view into 3D maps
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Will / New Scientist Invention Blog:
Microsoft mind reading — Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind too. — The company says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Could EEGs have prevented Clippy? Microsoft taps brain scan for UI work
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phx.corporate-ir.net:
DIRECTV INVESTOR RELATIONS — DIRECTV HD(TM) Revolution Begins — DIRECTV Customers Now Have Access to Over 70 National HD Channels - Significantly More Than Any Other Television Provider In The Nation — DIRECTV (NYSE:DTV), the nation's leading satellite television service provider …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Is Scribd a Porn Document Network? — Please note that this post is NOT SAFE FOR WORK (NSFW). While I have not embedded any offending images, some of the content and links is objectionable. — One of the most popular services for bloggers is called Scribd, a so-called "YouTube for Documents".
BBC:
BBC online to go free over wi-fi — The BBC's online services will be made available free of charge at thousands of wi-fi hotspots around the UK. — The corporation has agreed a deal with wi-fi firm The Cloud, which operates 7,500 hotspots around the country.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
AdBrite: Full Page "Skip This Ad" Units Now Available for Everyone — Ad network AdBrite announced this morning that they have begun selling full-page ad units of the sort that you've no doubt seen on some of the bigger, more old-school web sites like PCMag and the New York Times.
Matt Peckham / Game On:
The Sims Creator to Become BAFTA Fellow — Games are capable of being as artistically relevant as any other medium, deal with it. That's the message the British Academy of Film and Television Arts is sending by way of inducting SimCity and The Sims creator Will Wright into BAFTA's Fellowship …
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