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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Here Comes the Money: YouTube Videos Coming to AdSense — According to early reports from the Associated Press and Variety, Google is set to make a major announcement tomorrow concerning YouTube integration with AdSense. Selected YouTube videos will be available to AdSense publishers and will appear wrapped in banner ads.
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Michael Liedtke / NEWS.com.au:
Google to show YouTube videos on other websites — Decrease Increase - — Submit comment: — GOOGLE will begin showing YouTube videos on thousands of other websites, hoping to profit from ads attached to the clips. — The expansion, to be announced later today …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Plans Service to Allow Advertisers to Use Material from YouTube Videos — Google is taking the first steps toward turning its powerful advertising network, which places ads on hundreds of thousands of Internet sites, into a system for distributing content — and more ads — across the Web.
Ryan Hayward / Inside AdSense:
Introducing video units — AdSense isn't just for ads anymore; it's also a place to get video content for your site — and earn extra revenue at the same time. — We're excited about the launch of video units — a new way to enrich your site with quality, relevant video content in an embedded, customizable player.
Charlene Li / Groundswell:
Facebook Flyer test results — I was preparing for my Graphing Social Patterns speech on Facebook marketing last night and decided to try out Facebook Flyers, which allows members to create their own little display ads that shows up in the left navigation bar.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:Graphing social patterns with Linkedin's Reid Hoffman
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Terrence Russell / Epicenter:Graphing Social Patterns: Fun With Panelist Snark!
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Terrence Russell / Epicenter:Graphing Social Patterns: What Happens When Users Grow Up?
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google: How High Can It Go? — Google (GOOG) crossed the $600-a-share threshold today, giving it a market capitalization of around $188.1 billion. The big questions is, how high can it go? $750, $1,000 or (shudder) $2,000 a share? — Here is what $188 billion buys you:
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Mark Simon / Search Insider:Is The Online Ad Industry Partying Like It's 1999?
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Facebook's fbFund Takes a Mulligan - Requires All Applications to be Resubmitted — When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his new application developer grant program, fbFund, at TechCrunch40, everyone clapped (including me). I did have some concerns immediately and one of them was right …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone, iPod touch v1.1.1 jailbroken, apps ported and running — Well lookey see here, sounds like v1.1.1 isn't all doom and gloom after all. The iPhone dev community's apparently not only moved past accessing the nigh-unbreakable file system protections Apple implemented in the latest iPhone …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Burn: Nine Inch Nails Dumps Record Labels, Going Direct to Fans — Hear that? It's the RIAA quaking in their diamond-coated boots as yet another A-list band gives labels the finger: Pretty hate machine Trent Reznor announced today that "as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent …
CEO / This is going to be BIG.:
Twitter Prepping its Mobile Ad Units? It was bound to happen eventually... While everyone is talking about Google and mobile advertising, has anyone else noticed the emergence of "Tips" on their Twitter mobile notifications? This is surely the precursor to mobile SMS keyword ads from Twitter.
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Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Web companies eye market for local ads — Online players are courting mom-and-pop businesses as consumers turn to the Internet to find services in their neighborhoods. — SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to finding local products and services, consumers are increasingly letting their fingers do the clicking.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Acquisition No. 2 For Sugar Inc.: Coutorture — Sugar Inc., hot off their first acquisition (ShopStyle) two weeks ago, is announcing their second deal tonight - the purchase of fashion blog network Coutorture. Deal size is not being announced, but it was a mix of cash and stock.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Sugar trying to rollup women's content sites, buys Coutorture
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Announcing a preliminary iPhone 1.1.1 Jailbreak — The iPhone/iTouch Dev guys have been hard at work for weeks and have finally managed to jailbreak 1.1.1. Right now, they're nowhere near releasing a general-use tool but the first steps have been made. Congratulations to dinopio, asap18 …
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie — I'm a big YouTube fan. — We can thank YouTube for cutting the gordian knot of video codecs. Instead of futzing around with codecs and media players, YouTube's universal, Flash-based web video "just works". After all this time, it turns out the killer app …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition — Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace — If it's not about MySpace and Facebook, then the breathless buzz that surrounds online social networking often gravitates …
