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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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BBC:
YouTube rolls out filtering tools — Video site YouTube is launching filtering tools to clamp down on the sharing of video without permission. — The tools, called Video Identification, will block copyright material from appearing and spreading on the site.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:Google Takes Step on Video Copyrights
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MediaBytes with Shelly …
Rafe Blandford / All About Symbian:
S60 Touch Interface Launched — Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia showed S60 running with a touch interface. The touch interface will support both finger and stylus input, has full multi lingual support, has support for tactile feedback (haptics) and is backwardly compatible with the existing S60 platform.
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Nokia:
S60 smartphone software evolves to enrich the user experience — Expanding the platform with intuitive touch user interface, sensor technologies and complete web video experience — Symbian Smartphone Show, London, UK - As Internet is entering into the core of mobile experiences …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Releases New Search Services for Internet and Mobile Customers — Latest releases complete fall updates for Live Search service, including voice search and location-aware technology. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the final updates to the fall release of its Live Search service …
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Virtual Earth:New Live Search Maps Features Coming
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James Fee GIS Blog, Download Squad, Brandon LeBlanc, O'Reilly Radar and The Last Podcast
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:Live Maps to incorporate Birds Eye view into 3D maps
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Virtual Earth
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
iTunes Plus DRM-free tracks expanding, dropping to 99 cents — It's been a while since Apple launched iTunes Plus, its version of DRM-free tracks sold through the iTunes Store. Only EMI tracks were sold as 256kbps, DRM-free AAC files through the iTunes Store in May, and in June …
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CrunchGear, Download Squad, TechCrunch, Contentinople, Gadget Lab, ParisLemon, Gizmodo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Smalltalk Tidbits …, The Apple Blog, Mashable! and Digg
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Layoffs Memo: BoomTown Decodes the Memo, So You Don't Have To! — Yesterday, BoomTown broke the official news that 2,000 employees (out of 10,000 worldwide) would be made redundant at AOL. — Sure, we've asked for the obligatory on-the-record interview with CEO Randy Falco (pictured here) …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
50x Faster Than BitTorrent: I Want — Thomas Crampton interviews Ogilvy China's Kaiser Kuo on the current state of web development in China in the video above. It's interesting in its entirity as they discuss the growing wave of Web 2. development in China, but of particular note …
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.
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple says iPhone complies with eco standards — The iPhone meets the restrictions placed on hazardous substances, Apple said in the wake of a Greenpeace report published on Monday. — "Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS [Restriction of Hazardous Substances] …
Fresh Creation:
Switchbike - I Want One — During Holland Innovation I ran into an incredible bike made by Ron de Jong: the Switchbike. The bicycle can be used in two different settings: 1) as a regular city bike, 2) as a recumbent bike. You can simply switch from one setting to the other by turning the left handle on the steering.
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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Valleywag, Facebook Observer, WebProNews, The Gong Show, Mashable!, Epicenter, Clickety Clack and Lorcan Dempsey's weblog
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Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
YuMe, Blinkx latest video ad companies to make splash — With all the video content online, the video advertising market is booming. Investors are still placing bets on new companies, and existing companies are getting more aggressive with ad techniques. — The latest company to raise money …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Facebook, the Quant Fund Meltdown, and the Techmeme Leaderboard — There's always a risk of self-fulfilling prophecies in social media. Sites or applications become popular, and then stay popular because they are popular. This may be a key to the unusually high concentration …
Karl / DSLreports:
DirecTV Hits 72 HD Channels - Still insists 100 by year's end... With the addition of six new channels today (including Cartoon Network and Fox Business Channel) DirecTV says they're now offering 72 HD channels. The company continues to promise they'll offer 100 HD channels by the end of the year …
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