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User-generated Content: The production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. Mostly available on the Web via blogs and wikis, user-generated content...; Full User-generated Content Definition >>

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MySpace Friends: Rupert Murdoch is NOT the boss!: Rupert Murdoch is not the boss of me!So believes Eli Pariser, Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action, and he wants fellow civic organizers to believe the same.In a joint panel appearance today with MySpace Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, Jeff Berman, at the Personal Democracy Forum underway in New York...; Tags: YouTube, User-Generated Content, Social Networking, MySpace; Blog posts 2007-05-18
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
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
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

Web 2.0 Social Media: Voyeurs rule, not amateurs!: In my “Social Freeloaders” User Generated Content UGC series last year. I created a Web 2.0: Top five social risks list to evaluate the sustainability, or not, of UGC based models. In asking Social freeloaders: Is there a collective wisdom and can the Web obtain it? last June, I used...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Google, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-28
YouTube BAD, Wikipedia GOOD: UK Education Secretary: The UK Education Secretary has a love hate relationship with the open internet: He loves Wikipedia, but hates YouTube.Speaking at the annual conference of the National Association of Schoolteachers and Union of Women Teachers NASWUT in Belfast last week, Alan Johnson extolled the Internet as “an incredible force for good...; Tags: YouTube, Wikipedia, Video, User-Generated Content, Google; Blog posts 2007-04-15
YouTube gets religion: Matzoh Balls and Chocolate Bunnies: What is part of organizing all the worlds information? Celebrating the holidays YouTube style!PASSOVER/PESACH 2007: MATZA BALL RAP! by Giving Tree Productions, described as "hysterical rap to the music of baby got back by sir mix a lot."Anita C. Rich comments: "Nice, makes me want to get up and have...; Tags: YouTube, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-05
Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?: Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-04-05
YouTube: Why Google is running scared: Google’s trademark Googley super confidence is no where to be seen in its in-house litigation counsel’s blustery quid pro quo Washington Post retort to Viacom general counsel Michael Fricklas’s prior op-ed.While defiant, Michael Kwun is pithy, to a fault. It is ironic that his indignant “reply” to Viacom reads more...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-03-30
Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets!: Readers of this Digital Markets Blog know I am passionate about two things:Google and Web 2.0!To complement my ongoing, in-depth, exclusive reporting and analysis of all things Google and Web 2.0, I am authoring two new series going forward:1) Web 2.0 Showcase and 2) Google News and ViewsWeb 2.0 Showcase...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Media, Google, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-03-30
Web 2.0 video showcase: Acceptable.tv, Brightcove, Payoneer: UPDATE: Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets! First Issue: NY Video 2.0 March Meetup Presentations at Columbia UniversityMTV Networks: Kenny Miller, EVP & Creative Director, Global Digital MediaBrightcove: Tony Dunaif, VP, Content PartnershipsPayoneer: Yuval Tal, FounderMTV Networkss Acceptble.TV: Kenny Miller“When watching isn’t enough, take control”...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, TV, Television, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-03-30
John Edwards on DVD: Greatest hit in Iowa?: Edition number 30 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Are Amazon, Netflix, Columbia House shipping thousands of DVDs to Iowans? Perhaps. The DVD retailers and renters, however, are facing competition this week, not-for-profit DVD competition, from the John Edwards...; Tags: Consumer electronics, HEALTHCARE, DVD, John Edwards, Iowa, Digital Markets, health care, health; Blog posts 2007-03-09
NBA video highlight mixer: Fans are in control!: AT NBA.com, fans users are really in control, of their own “NBA movie”!Get media, mix movies, share, the NBA Fan Voice declares. Steve Grimes, Vice President of Interactive Services for NBA Entertainment:The NBA.com Highlight Mixer provides our fans with easy-to-use editing tools along with the broadest selection and highest quality...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; 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
Web 2.0: Are Cisco, News Corp., Viacom, Gannett really clueless?: In the Web 2.0 social networking “users are in control” world, mega corporations must be feeling we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t! I polled a few weeks back “Poor Google?,” noting a string of setbacks and a underwhelming 2007 beginning. Google, of course, is “everyone’s favorite...; Tags: Newspapers, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Video, YouTube, Content, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Culture, Google, Enterprise, Web 2.0, Usability, Media; Blog posts 2007-03-05
YouTube: Presidential candidates cool in 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008: Edition number 27 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Did you ever want an online place where you could go to watch all the slick presidential campaign videos produced by the candidates?YouTube to the rescue: A “You Choose ‘08” channel...; Tags: Social Software, President Clinton, John Edwards, Presidential Race, Political Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Politics, User Generated Politics, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking; Blog posts 2007-03-01
Google: Hollywood vs. YouTube video games: Will the Google-YouTube-Copyright Holders video game ever end?Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscars via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips, Variety stated yesterday.I just relived...; Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-28
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
Web 2.0: Does 'old media' get it?: MySpace and Facebook are typically categorized together as “social networking” Websites. Facebook, however, makes a clear distinction between its business and that of MySpace. I chatted with Dan Rose, Vice President, about the Facebook business model at the recent Media Summit in New York City, He underscored to...; Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Facebook, Google, Google Software Applications, Media, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-25