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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

How Google has jumped the shark, big time

Is Google getting defensive?When the Googler in Chief takes to competitor trash talking in public, its well-honed Googley public goodwill strategy is at risk. Google will be a monopoly I predicted earlier in the month. Upon the Google announcement of its acquisition of DoubleClick Friday, I underscored: Google: $3.1...

Tags: youtube, wall street, video, microsoft, legal, google software applications, google, copyright, business models, advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-17

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

Google's big, bad risk

The real story in Yahoo’s feather in the cap multi-year exclusive sponsored search and contextual ads agreement with Viacom Web properties announced today? No, it is not that it is a $1 billion YouTube lawsuit slap in the face to Google, it is that it puts Google’s entire raison...

Tags: youtube, self-promotion, search advertising, search, internet data, google software applications, google ads, google, culture, copyright, content, business models, advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-10

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

Google news and views: Google hacking, domains and job interviews

NEW Digital Markets Series: Google News and ViewsNoteworthy Google links from all around the World Wide Web!A New Googely Hire, pre-indoctrinatedMark Pilgrim, "Two visions," 3/19/07There are two basic visions of the future of the Web, and one of them is wrong. Im going to work on the right one for...

Tags: youtube, yellow pages, yahoo, web 2.0, video, google software applications, google, culture, advertising

Blog posts 2007-03-30

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 searches for TV ad dollars

Google is extremely confident, in itself. Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes in the “Power Law Distribution,” how it powers Google’s success, in particular. I heard Schmidt proclaim to Bear Stearns earlier this week a Google YouTube invincibility: “With only a small number of online video winners feasible, other players...

Tags: tvs, tv & home theater, google search, google inc., tv, advertisement

Blog posts 2007-03-10

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

Why Google will never pay for content

I hold an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. No MBA necessary, however, to grasp the American way, the American capitalist way that is: You get what you pay for! Why then does Wall Street darling, $140 billion market cap, 29% profit margin Google wantonly “make...

Tags: advertising, brands, business models, click fraud, content, copyright, google, google software applications, marketing, profits, roi, search, search advertising, video, wall street, web 2.0, youtube

Blog posts 2007-03-06

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 Television: Sell TV ads for Google!

Last August I announced "Google CEO wants $74 billion TV ad market":Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes television viewers should not have to stand for TV commercials that are “a waste of your time.” Schmidt is frustrated that “When you watch the television you see ads that are clearly not targeted...

Tags: google, google software applications, television, tv, youtube

Blog posts 2007-02-25

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

Viacom to Google: We're NOT bluffing!

“Is Joost old medias answer to YouTube?” asks fellow ZDNet blogger Larry Dignan. Philippe Dauman, Viacom CEO declares:Were extremely pleased to be working with Joost, and couldnt be prouder to be a key partner in the launch of the next generation in broadband video technology. We have the number one...

Tags: television, google software applications, copyright, google, user-generated content, social web, video, youtube, tv, legal

Blog posts 2007-02-20

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