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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube — A profitless Web site started by three 20-somethings after a late-night dinner party is sold for more than a billion dollars, instantly turning dozens of its employees into paper millionaires. It sounds like a tale from the late 1990's dot-com bubble, but it happened yesterday.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Recapping Coverage Of Google's Acquisition Of YouTube — I don't have a ton to say about the Google acquisition of YouTube. That's because to me, it's more an eyeball landgrab than a search development. There's no doubt people search for video on YouTube, and getting the leading property will help Google.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Google makes video play with YouTube buy — update Google has agreed to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the companies announced Monday. — The deal, which had been rumored for days, will dramatically improve Google's video-sharing service …
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:Paradigm shift: What Google didn't buy
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Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:Google and YouTube: Pig in a poke?
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Jennifer Hakes / Google:
Google Signs Agreement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT to Give Users Access to Expansive Catalog of Music Videos — Ad-supported video models give users unparalleled access to SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT's content online and creates new monetization opportunities
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Jennifer Hakes / Google:
Google and Warner Music Group Announce Agreement to Offer Google Video Users WMG's Music Video Content — Ad-supported video model provides Warner Music Group with content monetization opportunities and unmatched distribution in the online world — Google developing technology to enable user-generated content
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
A look at Firefox 2.0 RC2 — Changes in RC2 — The official release of Firefox 2.0 is right around the corner and the second release candidate (RC2) was made available last week. Release candidates provide insight into the features and functionality that will be available in the final release.
James Enck / EuroTelcoblog:
Ten things I hate about you — Last Wednesday the organizers of the Telco 2.0 event were kind enough to give me the opening presentation slot on day one, which was intended to set the scene for a lot of what was to follow. In the run-up to the event, I had thought long and hard about what sort …
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
VeriLAN Shuts Down — Portland-based wireless ISP sends out note about terminating its business: The Oregon firm has bid on a number of recent metro-scale and larger wireless projects, reaching the final three in the Wireless Silicon Valley RFP process a few weeks ago.
Chris Roper / IGN:
Guitar Hero II Final Tracklist Revealed — It's official: From Aerosmith to the Rolling Stones to RATM, all 40 licensed tracks unveiled. — After a year of wishlists, speculation and even a bit of "slipped" information, RedOctane finally has revealed to us the final licensed tracklist for Guitar Hero II.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
SmallTown.com: Small Town Reviews, in Flash — Almost a year after taking $3 million in funding from Menlo Park's Formative Ventures, SmallTown.com is launching its Flash site for small town local reviews tonight. I personally find this much Flash annoying but the site might catch on with users who like the look and feel.
useit.com:
Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute … All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background.
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
U.N. Enlists Internet Star for Antipoverty Pitch — The Likes of Lonelygirl15 — Are Sought for Service Ads; — Risk of Using Web Producers — The United Nations is hoping a lonely girl can help it fight poverty. — The U.N. has enlisted the star of hugely popular Web video series LonelyGirl15 …
J Mark Lytle / Digital World Tokyo:
Samsung's 10-megapixel cellphone in your (Korean) face — Remember that show-off from Samsung bragging about his 10-megapixel cellphone last March? Well, it's finally on sale in Korea (as of today) and it's one hell of an attention seeker. — As well as the huge pixel count …
Jemima / paidContent.org:
@ Mipcom: Piracy Is A Business Model, Says Disney Co-Chair Anne Sweeney — So this is the first day's keynote by Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group. Ultra-slick corporate stuff, but some good next-step observations about the industry.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Psychoanalyzing Goobe — Google, in its first 7 years, was an arrogant, brilliant company. Acquisitions were about small teams and their standout technology. But as Google grew it must have found itself up on a high pedestal, out of reach of just about any kind of normal business deal.
Nick / Rough Type:
A glass house — Michael Arrington, founder of the popular technology news blog TechCrunch, traveled to Washington, DC, last weekend to participate in a panel discussion at the annual conference of the Online News Association. He apparently used the occasion to excoriate newspapers …
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