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DOD turns off access to YouTube, MySpace, Pandora

Soldiers stationed overseas wont be watching their favorite YouTube videos anytime soon. The Department of Defense has announced it will begin blocking 12 popular websites in order to protect information and reduce drag on the departments networks, reports the Associated Press. "This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network...

Tags: Defense, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Politicians struggle to make Net impact

While presidential candidates are trying their best to stay hip with the Internet, with blogs, social networking, YouTube videos, and SecondLife spaces, theyre not quiting "getting" the heart of Internet culture, Reuters says. "They havent been very innovative," said Professor Helen Margetts, director of research at the Oxford...

Tags: International, Elections, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Gingrich takes to YouTube for mea culpa over Spanish comment

How does a politician get his foot out of his mouth these days? Well, Newt Gingrich, a long-shot contender for the Republican nomination for president - who decried bilingual education as "the language of living in the ghetto - is trying YouTube, The Washington Post reports. The "Mensaje de...

Tags: Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-09

YouTube turns on political channels

With all those candidates and other politicians using YouTube to spread the word, the Google-owned site has created a channel to make it easier to find the latest message. The editor, one Steve, blogs on the site: Ill be working as YouTubes News & Politics Editor...

Tags: Government technology, Elections

Blog posts 2007-03-06

NYC wants a YouTube: 911

Call it 911 2.0. Well, maybe thats a little awkward but the idea is right. New York City wants to change its 911 system so that citizens can upload digital photos and video, mostly from cellphones, Newsday reports. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous...

Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Web, Emergency, cell phone

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Campaign 08: Internet video is at the center

You will hear a thousand times over the next two years that in 2008 the role of Internet video will be unprecedented. Not just because campaigns are posting videos of the candidates speaking their carefully written announcements into a camera. But because some campaign managers really get the power and...

Tags: Government technology, Elections, video

Blog posts 2007-01-22

John Edwards already pushing the edge of YouTube campaign

In 2006, political campaigns got hip to YouTube, with every campaign following its opponent around with video cameras, hoping to generate another "Macaca" moment - pure political gold in which a leading candidate says something so incredibly stupid and racist that everyone knows he just threw a victory away. ...

Tags: Blogging, YouTube Inc., John Edwards, blogger

Blog posts 2007-01-08

Cops post vid on YouTube; suspect turns himself in

Is there anything YouTube isnt good for? If so, take crime identification off the list. Canadian police recently posted a surveillance video on YouTube, looking for help in identifying the shooter in a nightclub shooting, Reuters reports. Police in the Southern Ontario city of Hamilton said on Thursday that...

Tags: video, YouTube Inc., Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, Government technology

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Cellphones, YouTube expose government abuse

YouTube is about more than exploding bottles of Pepsi, political gotcha video and segments from The Daily Show. Among the videos being shared are documentary evidence of police and other official misconduct and the speed with which Internet services like YouTube enable the dissemination of such evidence is providing an...

Tags: Government technology, International, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-15

Now on YouTube: Attack ads and rebuttals

One cool thing about YouTube is that practically every campaign posts its campaign ads on the site. And of course debate videos and the like are there too. So when you hear about a controversial campaign - like the debate over an attack ad on Democrat Harold Ford in Tennessee,...

Tags: Government technology, Elections, advertisement

Blog posts 2006-11-06

Additional Resources

A Modest Privacy Proposal

The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Judge+on+privacy%3A+Computer+code+trumps+the+law

Judge+on+privacy%3A+Computer+code+trumps+the+lawWhat does Google and Yahoo have to do with the issue?So according to another IDIOT judge, the messenger is at fault for the illegal dealings of a crook. Not to mention that neither Yahoo or Google have anything to do with the mod of PS3 chips in Australia.Since when...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Insurance, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

ZDNet 2007: What the tag cloud tells us

Our engineering team put ZDNet blogs through a cloud tag blender to render a weighted list of top topics for 2008. In an age when the consumer and enterprise worlds are colliding but no exploding, Google, iPhone, Apple and Microsoft captured the big buzz of the year in our blogs....

Tags: Web, Network, Enterprise Software, Blog, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Blogging, Virtualization, Social Networking, Internet, Marketing, Hardware, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Is SaaS legitimate open source?

Is SaaS legitimate open source?Is Google evil?Thanks Dana,I wondering how long it was going to take for someone to see through this scam. "Hypocrite" was the correct choice of words. Here's my view:The Tip of the Iceberg Google's "do no evil" slogan sucked in millions and millions of people worldwide....

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), open source, software-as-a-service, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Lyrics sites out of tune with copyrights

Lyrics sites out of tune with copyrightsIt just has to end somewhere....This whole mine Mine MINE! thing is just outta control.Take your ball and go home. Frankly, I don't give a damn any more.Google supporting copyright infringersThe songwriters are not the only folks who have this claim. My research...

Tags: songwriter, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

No iPhone for me, thanks to AT&T!

Not content to simply spy on Americans without a warrant, AT&T has taken a bold move forward and decided to work with the MPAA and RIAA two of the most hated organizations on the planet, to eliminate copyrighted materials being transmitted between parties on their network.Tip o' the hat to...

Tags: Apple, Copyright, DRM, Internet Companies, VOIP, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-06-14

War: Unfiltered

"There's never been a war fought in this environment before," Donald Rumsfeld [said.] "Today we are fighting the first war in the era of e-mail, blogs, BlackBerries, instant messaging, digital cameras, the Internet...The U.S. government still functions as a five-and-dime store in an eBay world." To hear the Defense...

Tags: video

Blog posts 2006-08-29