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- 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
- Chasing Google Patents: What's the real deal?
- Word is “out” about the latest Google “plans,” so says “The Guardian,” thanks to a patent filing “scoop.”Publicly filed Google patent applications are seductive, holding the allure of an “inside” look at what Google is REALLY up to. But alas, the very public, accessible to anyone, filings do not provide...
- Tags: Google, Google Software Applications, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Google privacy jungle: Where is YOUR data? Don't ask!
- "Google CEO wants your personal information" I underscored in reporting Google’s announced claim of “taking steps to further improve our privacy practices” two months ago.The touted Google privacy “step” at the time was that user search data will be “much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- 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
- Google CEO sends mixed messages to investors, again
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt addressed the Wall Street investment analyst community last month for the Google quarterly earnings reporting ritual; He also addressed the companys own investors today for the Google annual shareholder meeting ritual .What a difference three weeks makes? Or, more aptly, which Google story is the real...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., advertisement, core business, shareholder
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- NY to Google: Stop trapping consumer data, or no DoubleClick merger
- Has Google CEO Eric Schmidt finally met his match in New York state Governor Eliot Spitzer?Schmidt feigns scant concern over Viacoms $1 billion lawsuit claiming "massive copyright fringement" following the Google $1.65 billion stock buyout of YouTube. Will the chief Googler also "dismiss" the efforts of Spitzers administration to call...
- Tags: Advertising, DoubleClick, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Privacy, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Google Analytics: Should Google be minding YOUR Web business?
- Google is doing a full court press for “V2” of Google Analytics. Occam’s Razor blog by Avinash Kaushik, an “independent consultant” and author of “Web Analytics, an hour a day”:Version 2 is so radically different and provides such a compelling value proposition to users of web analytics that I...
- Tags: Metrics, Google Software Applications, Google, Enterprise
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Google News Flash: Google.com SERPs get News, and images!
- Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. Schmidt I said exactly one month ago.Google News is indeed NOT newspaper driven, I reiterate: Google News is Google driven, Google.com that is.Poor Sam Zell I noted last month: The blogosphere has been quick to come to Google’s defense by suggesting that...
- Tags: Media, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Sling Media to Old Media: 'Can't we all just get along?'
- Sling Media, Inc. is a “different kind of consumer electronics company.”What kind? “One thats working to demystify convergence technologies and to create empowering experiences for the digital media consumer,” according to Sling Media. Jason Hirschhorn, President, Sling Media Entertainment Group, addressed the Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB Leadership Forum on Digital...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, TV, Television, Media, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- News to know: Zimbra's big deal; Dell and Novell; Vista's hidden tool
- Notable headlines:Dan Farber: Comcast goes with Zimbra for new collaboration suite. David Berlind: Zimbras Scott Dietzen Unplugged: Comcast deal puts Zimbra in the big leagues now. News story.AP: Dell Signs on With Microsoft, Novell.Dan Farber: Massive IBM U.S. Global Services layoff on the horizon? Sphere focuses search on time and...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Google's YouTube: Is NBC copyright lawsuit near?
- Will NBC be the next major media company to sue Google’s YouTube for “massive copyright infringement”? YouTube: What is NBC’s end game? I asked in January, citing Rick Cotton, NBC Universal general counsel, on the NBC-YouTube “difficult balancing act.”YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed? is the latest...
- Tags: YouTube, Legal, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?
- "HAS YOUR COPYRIGHT BEEN INFRINGED BY YOUTUBE?"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 District Court...
- Tags: YouTube, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- How YouTube lost its video soul, big time
- Can YouTube make revenue sharing work? I asked in January, upon the worldwide transmission of King Hurleys’ snack-sized (87 seconds) utterance straight from an elevator bank in Davos, Switzerland.The Chad Hurley induced euphoria over power to the people, monetary power to the supposedly “little” video people that is, caused many...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Google's YouTube divides community: Advertising rules, not users
- Google’s YouTube blog post headline says it all: “YouTube elevates most popular users to partners.”There goes Chad’s pet “community”?While Google YouTube will undoubtedly be lauded for “finally recognizing” the hard work of dedicated YouTuber legitimate uploaders, the video sharing picture is not as pretty as it is painted.YouTube on its...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Google showdown: Can Barry Diller win IAC search advertising war?
- Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST! I said earlier this week.Barry Diller, King of the IAC search and advertising empire, does have royal designs of his own, nevertheless.CEO Diller has set in motion a series of initiatives within his integrated conglomerate of Web properties fueling an...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, Google Ads, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Google Apps goes Enterprise Professional: $5000 please
- Does Google offer professional services? No. So says Google.Why not?: Google does not offer professional services because our enterprise products are so easy to set-up and configure that customers do not generally need consulting services from Google.So says Google. Google “customers,” however, are not in unanimous agreement.(see Is Google Office...
- Tags: Google Software Applications, Google Apps, Google, Enterprise, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Google gets VERY personal: Can we be friends?
- Did you know that a search engine could be your “friend”?Not just any search engine is capable of such intimacy though, it must be a Googley one, the new “iGoogle” one in fact.If cheery Marissa Mayer is doing the introductions, than you know its going to be Googley good.Google’s vice...
- Tags: User-Generated Content, Google Ads, Google, AdWords, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Why Google threatens Internet, not Viacom
- Aaron Cohen, Bolt CEO, told me in February that the DMCA puts an “undue burden on copyright holders to enforce their copyrights.”He also told me that “companies that use safe harbor to host a significant amount of copyright material risk litigation.”(Universal Music vs. MySpace, Grouper, Bolt, YouTube?)Right, on both counts....
- Tags: YouTube, Google, Copyright, Video, Content
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- How Google loses in Microsoft Office battle, big time
- Why does Google CEO Eric Schmidt take panes to publicly downplay Google Apps versus Microsoft, while encouraging Googlers to take to the field for Google vs. Microsoft Office, big time?After all, neither Schmidt or the company he leads are known for their modesty: Google is determined to “organize” ALL the...
- Tags: Google, Google Apps, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Google accuses Viacom of 'Unclean Hands': Demands day in court!
- Google returned the legal volley to Viacom today, filing an official response with U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York to Viacom’s March 13 lawsuit which alleges massive intentional copyright infringement of Viacoms entertainment properties.Viacom seeks more than $1 billion in damages, as well as an injunction...
- Tags: Content, Copyright, Google, Legal
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
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