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- EMI Music spins Google YouTube song and dance
- Just as Internet Kings Chad Hurley and Eric Schmidt were on stage last week at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference spinning YouTube is still working on video copyright protection tools, so no need for multibillion dollar Viacom infringement claims, Hurley was also unleashing a we're copyright owners friends combo pitch in conjunction with...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Music, Google, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- YouTube: What MySpace can teach Google about copyright
- Will Google CEO Schmidt's "wait for the tools" banter on media giant Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement legal claim at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference this week be his famous last words?SEE: Google CEO tows Google line at D5Think Schmidts' recent "Big Brother" musings reflect a Google disregard...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, MySpace, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Forget Google, YouTube must pay!
- In Why Google is more dangerous than Microsoft earlier today, I signaled to John Battelle that he ought not hold his breath for Google to step up to the money plate in support of "journalism," despite the fact that Google makes oodles of dollars off of gratis news.Move over news...
- Tags: Google, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Does YouTube really help children in Africa?
- YouTube's King Hurley is determined to truly merit the world worship he receives. From Davos World Economic Forum to the U.S. Congress, Chad is universally celebrated as a world hero and he is regularly solicited as a beacon shining for the betterment of the world's fuure.In U.S. Government to YouTube: WOW! But ‘Take that stuff down’ I...
- Tags: Google, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- CBS to Google: We want YOUR audience!
- CBS is on a tear, a who needs mainstream media tear that is.After all, what's $280 million, if it brings "15 million active users to an audience hungry media company"?Beauty is in the eye of the future beholder: "Last.fm is one of the most well-established, fastest-growing online community networks out there," according...
- Tags: Google, Music, MySpace, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Can YouTube out maneuver Pentagon?
- Why is Google so cocky about the mounting multi-billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuits its YouTube faces? Because YouTube has the fans!Google CEO Eric Schmidt takes great pleasure in letting video content owners know that they need YouTube more than YouTube needs them. YouTube King Hurley also takes every opportunity to...
- Tags: Google, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- YouTube: How to win with User Generated Ads
- Is User Generated Content a panacea? Need one even ask?Nevertheless, Scott Karp headlines his reaction to a  New York Times story on one particular company's foray into the User Generated Ad game with the "news" that "User Generated Content is not a panacea."Of course not. THEREFORE, all the more opportunity for savvy companies...
- Tags: Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- YouTube on Memorial Day? Forget the ketchup
- Picnic ideas for Memorial Day? Who needs ketchup!So suggests ABC in Chicago in a handy Dos & Don'ts for the holiday celebration:"Since burgers and hot dogs don't travel well and you won't be bringing them, you don't need all the condiments like ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, etc."That won't be Memorial...
- Tags: Advertising, Culture, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-26
- Why YouTube is a losing video proposition
- The Google YouTube massive copyright infringement saga continunes, big time. BUT, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has NOT "jumped on any "let's sue YouTube bandwagon," as is cavalerily proclaimed: "YouTube just can't seem to keep those lawsuits off its back."Why are the copyright infringement lawsuits "backing up" against YouTube? Because Google's YouTube operations are...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Why YouTube, MySpace are NOT worried
- Is Facebook really the Anti-MySpace TechCrunch? Is Facebook really YouTube beware Mashable?NO, but Facebook IS a new Google. How so? SPIN, big time!From the New York Times, to the Wall Street Journal, to Fortune magazine AND to blogosphere heavyweights, Facebook has been spinning a whopping Facebook rules tale, that even Rafat Ali now...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- YouTube, MySpace, Facebook: Is the honeymoon over?
- Is Facebook really the next Google, royalty in waiting?Chad Hurley declared himself and his partner Steve Chen Internet “Kings†upon the YouTube buyout by Google for a royal ransom of $1.65 billion in GOOG.The world has since concurred, literally at least on the Chad front.From the World Economic Forum in...
- Tags: YouTube, MySpace, Google, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Google YouTube: Will Microsoft, Yahoo have last laugh?
- Robert Scoble headlines: “Google to Yahoo and Microsoft: The $1.65 billion was worth it,†as an end game conclusion to Google’s much ballyhooed Universal Search: Ahh, now you all understand what I meant when I said YouTube is a moat, not a revenue generator. By putting YouTube results into Google’s main...
- Tags: Copyright, Content, Google, Google Ads, Microsoft, Search Advertising, Video, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- YouTube copyright lawsuits mount: Who needs Google?
- The Google YouTube lawsuits for massive copyright infringement are coming at a fast and furious pace.The latest, as reported by Bloomberg News:"Google Inc.s YouTube unit was sued by David Grisman, a mandolin player who once performed with the Grateful Dead, over what he says are unauthorized postings of his music,...
- Tags: Google, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- YouTube to video artists: Wolf in sheep's clothing?
- Is all good in King Chad's YouTube Kingdom now that he agreed to share the video wealth, in his own small, very selective way?NO, both newly ordained video elite and newly dissed "non-populars," are lamenting a YouTube calculated business move that moves YouTube away from its original community spirit.The chosen video few are wondering if they are...
- Tags: Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising, Google, Uncategorized, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- U.S. Government to YouTube: WOW! But 'Take that stuff down'
- WOW! WOW! WOW!Is how Congressman Ed Markey acclaimed the "historic debut" before the United States Congress of Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder and Google stockholder:You are an historic figure, that is why so many members of Congress came today, an unprecedented high number of members, they came to see you.Yes, "King"...
- Tags: U.S. Government, YouTube Inc., Chad Hurley, Markey Thursday, U.S. Congress
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- MySpace polices video copyright: Where is Google YouTube?
- MySpace is the worlds leading lifestyle portal, as it not so modestly describes itself; The lifestyle portal is owned by an "old" media company, News Corp. YouTube is the premier entertainment destination to watch and share videos worldwide, as it not so modestly describes itself; The entertainment destination is owned...
- Tags: Web technology, video, YouTube Inc., copyright-owner, MySpace, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Google at Risk: YouTube class action lawsuit changes DMCA copyright game
- YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?So asks Proskauer Rose LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, the law firms prosecuting the action of The Football Association Premier League Limited, et. al. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., a copyright infringement class action pending in the United States...
- Tags: game, YouTube Inc., class action, William Hart, Google Inc., DMCA
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Better than YouTube? Google Testing on the Toilet!
- Whats better than than the latest Google snack-sized clip culture YouTube hit? The latest Google "episode" of Testing on the Toilet, in the eyes of some "passionate" software testers!The "Google Testing Grouplet" is a self-descibed "small band of volunteers who are passionate about software testing," at Google. In January, the...
- Tags: Culture, Enterprise, Google, Google Software Applications, Software
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- MySpace wants Photobucket? Where is Google!
- News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media FIM nears deal to buy Photobucket, is the latest M & A industry chatter/rumor, courtesy of an unidentified person, this time cited by The New York Times:Photobucket allows its users to store photos and videos and then easily drop them into their pages on prominent...
- Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Wall Street, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Search, Google Software Applications, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Google YouTube: Viral video success formula?
- What makes for a good viral video? How can You Tube clip culture success be had?Did you ever wish you could find out directly from YouTube?Rich LeFurgy, General Partner, Archer Advisors, moderating the “Content, Consumers, Community: The Balance of Control” panel today at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Digital Video Forum...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, User Generated Politics, Google Ads, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
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