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- 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
- Will Google follow Viacom's lead?
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauds Viacom today for standing up for upfront “fair use” rights of YouTubers.Responding to Viacoms willingness to take steps to protect the free speech rights of those who post videos to YouTube and similar video sharing sites, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and Stanford Law Schools...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Legal, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Google buyouts are BAD business
- Will the real Google PLEASE stand-up! Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company are saying some wild and “crazy” things, literally.I heard Schmidt tell Wall Street last month that it is still “unclear” how revenue will be generated from its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube while nevertheless expressing supreme confidence...
- Tags: YouTube, Venture Capital, VC, Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Will defendant Google bite the copyright infringement bullet?
- GOOGLE HEADS: YouTube seized the opportunities digital technology provides to obtain creative works legally. GOOGLE TAILS: YouTube sought its fortunes by brazenly exploiting the infringing potential of digital technology.Which way will the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York $1 billion ‘coin toss” fall?On September...
- Tags: Network technology, TVs, YouTube Inc., Digimarc Corp., Google Inc., DWM, Bruce Davis
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Viacom vs. Google's YouTube: Fuggedaboutit?
- Just days before Google announced its acquisition of YouTube, Om Malik famously put forth his pronouncement on the likelihood of such a merger happening: “YouTube, Google …fuggedaboutit.” Nevertheless, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were soon dancing in their own broadcast-yourself clip-culture video, giddily celebrating the $1.65 billion...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Om Malik, Viacom Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Google vs Old Media: Who needs YouTube?
- Who needs YouTube? That is the $1.65 billion dollar online video question. Google CEO Eric Schmidt confidently let it be known this week that every mainstream professional video content producer does, in very Googley take it or leave it terms. Vicaom does not believe it needs YouTube, however,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, Video, YouTube, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- YouTube: What Google CEO Eric Schmidt really thinks
- I feel as if I have been traversing the country with Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week! Yesterday I enjoyed lunch with him during his address to the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion advertising opportunity”). I spent...
- Tags: Wall Street, Search Advertising, Metrics, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Television, TV, Brands, YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Media, Web 2.0, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- YouTube makes deal with BBC: Who wins?
- The two Internet kings—Google and YouTube—were unusually restrained in announcing “BBC and YouTube partner to bring short-form BBC online content to online audiences.”Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, did offer the typical “ground-breaking partnership” exclamation, however.How ground breaking? Not very from the YouTube side.AUTHORIZED CONTENT ON YOUTUBE: The non-exclusive partnership...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Why Google needs Viacom, big time!
- John Battelle to Big Media on Googles YouTube: “Forget the deal.” Battelle’s latest “old media doesn’t get it” piece is a rambling follow-up to a Mark Cuban verdict that old media hasn’t figured things out, YouTube things that is. Battelle’s confidence in his lack of confidence in mega...
- Tags: Advertising, Brands, Content, Copyright, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Movies, ROI, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- YouTube scores NBA deal
- Do you dream about being the next Michael Jordan? You can have your basketball shot at clip-culture fame courtesy of the NBA and YouTube:“Post Up the NBA” debuts on the new “NBA Channel” on YouTube to “provide fans around the world and the entire YouTube community with the opportunity to...
- Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube, Video, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Google, Search, Advertising, Web 2.0, Media
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Google: Why TV networks will trump YouTube
- It is a mainstream media irony when the very old print media guard characterizes the broadcast old media guard as merely “posturing” before the mighty, inexorable Google. While the “old gray lady” strives to maintain an apparent “balanced” discussion of Viacom and NBC and News Corp. versus Google, Richard...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Search, Search Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- Google YouTube 'victims' championed by Chilling Effects, EFF, Harvard Law School
- The Super Bowl put forth a super opportunity for Wendy Seltzer, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.Seltzer acknowledged at her blog:I snipped the copyright warning out of the weekends Super Bowl broadcast as an example for my copyright class of how far copyright claimants exaggerate...
- Tags: Google, Google Software Applications, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- Universal Music vs. MySpace, Grouper, Bolt, YouTube?
- Is today a landmark day for rights holders in the world of online video? Early this morning I noted “Google’s $1.65 billion DMCA gamble” asking “Does Google’s YouTube facilitate the theft of copyright content?” Universal Music Group has sued MySpace, Grouper, Bolt…but not YouTube.Will Google soon be asked...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Movies, Music, ROI, Television, TV, Universal Music Group, User-Generated Content, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Google's $1.65 billion DMCA gamble
- Does Google’s YouTube facilitate the theft of copyright content? Perhaps, as I discussed over the weekend in “YouTube riches: Social video production or social video pirating?” Google is undoubtedly considering the ramifications of news out today that veteran video sharing site Bolt is negotiating a multi-million dollar settlement with...
- Tags: Business Models, Legal, Google, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Music, Social Networking, Metrics, Universal Music Group, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- YouTube riches: Social video production or social video pirating?
- Nicholas Carr underscores that YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each pulled down about a third of a billion dollars in selling their video-sharing company to the search giant Google, asserting they “came by their windfall fair and square.”How so? “They built a better mousetrap,” says Carr.Perhaps, but what...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Search, Google, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- YouTube: NOT future of media?
- Does the future of YouTube portend the future of media? YouTube was not present at the 2007 Media Summit in New York City this week, but it was on everyone’s mind. YouTube may be following in corporate parent Google’s industry conference strategy: Minimal (non-guaranteed) presence. Rare is the...
- Tags: Business Models, Media, Google, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Movies, Social Networking, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- YouTube: Are YouTubers at risk?
- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School strives to “pioneer” the development of cyberspace. The Center’s pioneering efforts include “advocacy”:We engage in targeted efforts to effect law reform where we deem such activism to be necessary, both domestically and internationally, to protect and foster openness on...
- Tags: Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- YouTube: Will TV networks call Google's bluff?
- NBC, Viacom, Fox…will they ever put their money where their mouths are? Jeff Zucker officially took over the reigns of NBC Universal. His first order of business? A public but cordial wrist slap of Google’s YouTube. Zucker’s verbal “rebuff” of YouTube follows in the video footsteps of Viacom’s...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, Video, YouTube, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Why Google will lose its multi-billion dollar video bet
- In the immortal words of presidential candidate Ronald Regan to President Jimmy Carter “There you go again.” Google is at it again, big time, $1.65 billion worth. Google’s YouTube copyright owner be damned DMCA umbrella philosophy inspires a YouTuber “broadcast yourself” by uploading pirated videos owned by television...
- Tags: Advertising, Search, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Search Advertising, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc., television network
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Google vs. Viacom: Good cop, bad cop?
- The “Online video game: ‘technically illegal’ musical chairs” continues. I presented and analyzed at length yesterday the Google YouTube video game with television networks in “Who needs Google? CBS vs. Viacom vs. NBC.”Fair or not fair, safe or not safe? The “fair use,” “safe harbor,” online video game is becoming...
- Tags: Advertising, Business Models, Google, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, Legal, ROI, Television, TV, Viacom Inc., Video, YouTube, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-04
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