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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Viacom to YouTube: Take down pirated clips — update Viacom asked YouTube on Friday to remove from its video-sharing site all pirated clips from Viacom-owned television networks. — "After months of ongoing discussions with YouTube and Google, it has become clear that YouTube is unwilling …
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Andy Kazeniac / Compete Blog:
Google Video + YouTube = 51% of the Video Market — What does $1.6 billion get you? An additional forty-one percent of the video website market share - just ask Google. Based on the Top 20 Video websites (as determined by U.S. visits) YouTube garnered 41% of the online video market in December.
Jim / OPML, The Harvard Book of:THE VIACOM INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT DMCA DEBACLE ABOUT YOUTUBE VIDEOS …
Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:Viacom and Google/YouTube: A temporary setback to future licensing deals
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Ramps Up Personalized Search — Google is stepping up the push into personalized search results. A new change announced today should cause many more people to take up the service. In turn, the growth of personalized search should have a dramatic impact on search marketers as the days of …
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Personally speaking — Posted by Sep Kamvar, Engineering Lead for Personalization, and Marissa Mayer, VP Search & User Experience — Google's goal has always been to give you exactly the information you want right when you want it. With the growth of the Internet and all the new information …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Silicon Valley's High-Tech Hunt for Colleague — When James Gray failed to return home from a sailing trip on Sunday night, Silicon Valley's best and brightest went out to help find him. — After all, Dr. Gray, 63, a Microsoft researcher, is one of their own.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates — In his interview with Bill Gates in Newsweek, Steven Levy pointed out that many of the new features in Windows Vista are similar to features already in Mac OS X. Gates's response: … This is fascinating. In Gates's view, Microsoft came up with these features …
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Phil Hochmuth / Network World:
Not using all of that GigE pipe? Save some energy — IEEE's Energy Efficient Ethernet looks at ways to throttle down connection speeds to save power — The IEEE wants to make idle or underutilized Ethernet connections more energy efficient, which could mean huge electrical cost savings for large enterprises.
websense.com:
Malicious Website: Super Bowl XLI / Dolphin Stadium — Websense® Security Labs™ has discovered that the official website of Dolphin Stadium has been compromised with malicious code. The Dolphin Stadium is currently experiencing a large number of visitors, as it is the home of Sunday's Super Bowl XLI.
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:Super Bowl stadium site hacked, seeded with exploits
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
"PayPerSpeech" disclosure — Next week it'll be announced that I'm keynoting at a conference planned and sponsored by PayPerPost. This is my first speech where I'm not only having my travel and expenses paid, but they are covering my salary too. That check will not go to me, but will go …
Jeremy Allaire / The Latest from Brightcove:
Share Your Video in Style - Brightcove Personal — This week we introduced some new capabilities on brightcove.com that we think you should take for spin. Dubbed 'Brightcove Personal', the features allow any end-user in the world to freely create their own channels on brightcove.com.
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Google Flatlines Again — This morning it appears that a number of Google services are having problems. We first noticed last night when our Google Analytics account wasn't reporting any new data since 9am yesterday, but Analytics is often notoriously slow in receiving updates.
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emarketer.com:
What Works, and What Doesn't, in Online Marketing — What is the word from the trenches? — In an end-of-the-year survey, ad:tech and MarketingSherpa asked online marketers what marketing tactics worked for them in 2006 and what they expected to concentrate their time and spending on in the months ahead.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Top 10 Picks From DEMO 2007 — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — DEMO 2007 has just wrapped up from Palm Desert CA. The companies that demonstrated their products covered a wide spectrum: Web apps, social networking, hardware, media, wireless, security, enterprise software and other technologies.
Smaran / TorrentFreak:
Jurassic Park 4 Script Leaked onto BitTorrent — Possibly the most popular film of the early nineties, Jurassic Park made more money at the box office than any film before it, and was only topped only by Titanic some years later. This was before the Internet, in 1993. 14 years later …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
A Difficult 2007 for Competitive VoIP? — How much worse can things get for competitive voice service providers like Vonage? Quite a bit, especially if you take into account the results of two major cable providers - Comcast and Time Warner - and the recent bundling efforts by Verizon and AT&T.
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Joshua / del.icio.us:
overdue new year's resolutions — We've been busy: since our announcement in september of our millionth signup, another half-million users have joined the fun. And because of this, we've been more quiet then I would like, and I want to apologize. — It feels that we've spent almost …
Lee Odden / Online Marketing Blog:
National Pork Board Needs to Back Off — You know those kinds of people that have nothing better to do with their time, so they have to pick on others to justify their existence? Laywers come to mind. Especially corporate lawyers. — I am a little late to the story about our friend …
