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User generated content bubble popping: User generated content bubble poppingVideoEgg not closing doorsJust to be clear, VideoEgg is not closing its doors. Our business is alive and well.For more than a year we have been refocusing our business from hosting and streaming videos to building our ad technologies and advertising network. This has been widely...; Tags: User-Generated Content; Discussion threads 2008-04-02
Social networks: what goes out, what goes in: "Social Networking 3.0" was on the agenda this afternoon at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. This one was a "must watch" for me, as will be Dan Farber's later today on "The Democratization of Media." You can follow along with the conference's live Webcast here.Moderator Charlene Li, senior analyst...; Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, Podcasting, Live Web, Identity, Copyright, Conferences, Collaboration, Attention; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Embedding a headache: Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today picked my brain for his article at the Blog Herald examining the Copyright Risks in Embedding YouTube Clips: [W]ith the read/write Web comes a whole new set of challenges. As we begin to share one anotherâ€™s content like never before, it is not enough to...; Tags: Video, User generated content, Trust, DMCA, Copyright, Collaboration, Blogging; Blog posts 2007-07-09
Why I'm buying an iPhone: As if anyone needed to list more reasons to buy an iPhone. But I haven't seen anyone save Steve Gillmor write about most of the reasons I'll be buying this device, so here they are.By consolidating phone, contacts, email, music, podcasts, video, and Web in a single device, the...; Tags: Attention, Copyright, DMCA, Gadgets, User generated content, Video; Blog posts 2007-06-28
Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media: There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel I moderated this morning, captioned Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media? The answer was resoundingly "no," and the converse also...; Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences; Blog posts 2007-06-20

Section 230 as safe harbor for case-based identity systems?: Tags: User generated content, Trust, Social networking, Search, Lawsuits, Identity, Attention; Blog posts 2007-06-10
The story of Web 2.0 and SOA continues - Part 1: It's nearly the middle of 2007 already and I've had occasion to sit down and look at where Web 2.0 and SOA software models have evolved lately. Partly it's because we're now seeing some of the bigger software companies seriously embrace lightweight SOA recently, and it's also because we're...; Tags: Ajax, Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Collective Intelligence, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Governance, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SOA, SOAP, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), WS-*; Blog posts 2007-05-17
Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst: Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...; Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation; Blog posts 2007-05-05
Hollywood execs still cautious about user generated content: Not every Hollywood studio or entertainment giant looks at YouTube as a kind of video pirate ship. "YouTube is a great marketing platform. A lot of the time my producers and writer are submitting [video] to the site," said Stefanie Henning, senior vice president of Fox Television Studios."YouTube is a...; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-05-02
Digg and cracking HD-DVD: Reimerdes comes to social news: Techmeme is all a-flutter, and my ZDNet colleagues have been right on top of the Digg/HD-DVD crack story. Heres my quick take on things, as I run off to OnHollywood where Kevin Rose spoke this morning:Nothing says Digg has to respond to a mere demand letter under any circumstances....; Tags: Voice, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Blogging; Blog posts 2007-05-02
Supernova: will intellectual property kill social media?: Kevin Werbach just posted the draft agenda for the upcoming Supernova conference. Ill be moderating a session at the Challenge Day on June 20 titled "Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media?," and weve confirmed the following stellar panel to take on this topic:EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von...; Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences; Blog posts 2007-04-23
User, generated, and content: The names we give things are some times unfortunate. Take "user generated content," for example. Doc Searls has argued that this is stupid for a variety of reasons. I was listening to Tom Parrish interview Dave Evans on IT Conversations this morning and had some...; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-04-17
Perfect 10 v. CCBill: "direct financial benefit" means infringing material must draw users, says Ninth Circuit: Late last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals came out with an important decision, Perfect 10 v. CCBill PDF, that required it to interpret and apply both the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — two of the most important U.S. provisions...; Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, Live Web, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright; Blog posts 2007-04-13
Tags are conversations: On YouTube that is, even among Presidential hopefuls. Check out Joe "First Post" Bidens response to JD Lasica. Terrific work, Jeff, keep wielding that microphone and encouraging folks to speak into theirs.; Tags: Video, User generated content, Tags, Free speech; Blog posts 2007-04-04
More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge: The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well...; Tags: Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Business Process Management, Architecture of Participation, Blogs, Business Models, Wikis, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Two-Way Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, SOA, RSS, Open APIs, Mashups, Lightweight Service Models, Hype, Governance, Global SOA, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups; Blog posts 2007-04-03
Viacom v. YouTube represents a watershed moment in video policy: Point 1 about Viacom v. YouTube: There is no calling how this case will come out if/as the parties pursue it through the federal courts — Declan McCullagh: Section 512 says Web site operators must not "receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing...; Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), video, Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc.; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler?: Blogger Euan Semple recently highlighted a key point about Enterprise 2.0 adoption that ZDNets own Dan Farber also found worthy of note over the weekend. And that is that Enterprise 2.0 will happen in your organization entirely by itself, whether you encourage it, discourage it, or even consign it...; Tags: Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Web, Wiki; Blog posts 2007-03-12
Podcast on the law of business communities: The conference call Mike Madison and I recorded earlier this week in anticipation of our session at Community 2.0 more here and here is now available as part of the Bag and Baggage Podcast or from the Future of Communities blog. We talked about: Defining community and loosely-joined...; Tags: Attention, Blogging, Collaboration, Compliance, Conferences, Copyright, Defamation, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, Trademark, User generated content, Virtual worlds, Voice; Blog posts 2007-03-09
Counter-notification intelligence (or, getting your wrongly removed clip back on YouTube): Lawyer, assistant professor, and Chilling Effects founder Wendy Seltzer chronicles the process of combating an overreaching DMCA takedown notice, and gets her initially removed clip, a Superbowl excerpt highlighting the NFLs copyright notice, restored. Nothing like coming out swinging. In order, from Wendy:2/8/07, My First YouTube: Superbowl...; Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, DMCA, Free speech, Copyright; Blog posts 2007-03-08
More organizations shift to Web 2.0 while IT departments remain wary: A couple of recent announcements from two large, very well-known organizations provides an interesting data point on how Web 2.0 is affecting the product designs and business processes of otherwise very traditional institutions. Both USA Today and the U.S. Patent and Trademark office have recently unveiled strategies for letting...; Tags: Architecture of Participation, Business Models, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Web 2.0, Governance, Social Media, Social Software, Two-Way Web, User Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-08