Cyrus Evanado, also known as Cy Style, is a Front-End Web Developer passionate about art whether it is fashion, music, or visual creativity. With the power of technology, Cyrus developed an interest and expertise in web and interactive media design and development, graphic design, motion graphics, and short animation. Cyrus will transform your project from [...]

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Today Google’s doodle entitled Unexplained Phenomenon is creating some strange trends in search.  The image links to a search for “Unexplained Phenomenon” and features a UFO beaming up an O from the Google Name.  Being the top hit for the most searched term on Google is bouncing from Site to Site as the day tracks [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

iCarly and Sam have fashion and style all of their own.  But if you want to dress and undress them then the iCarly.com Dress Up Game is where it’s at.  Only, it isn’t there any more. Instead it is replaced with this picture of a woman biting a brick.

Miranda Cosgrove is certainly a sexy [...]

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Remember the good old days when search was about mastering Boolean expressions so you could find what you want?  You could say you wanted “((bing OR kumo)) AND search) NOT crosby NOT bada” and get exactly the result you were looking for.  Yeah those were the days.  Then we decided the Internet was too large [...]

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Microsoft is soon to announce/release Kumo/Bing.com a rebranding of Live.com Search.  While Microsoft has been trying to consolidate brands in to a single “Live.com” in order to get away from preconceptions it is rebranding at Microsoft Bing.
Bing is really just Live.com with an easier “Modify my search” function.  Basically Google Suggests for Live.com.  The Interface [...]

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David Silversmith has a history of making bombastic headlines that are so far from the truth, backed by numbers that are no where near a whole picture, but this one is probably the one furthest from the truth I have seen.
Let’s assume most of David’s Numbers are right, he cites where he got them so [...]

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Living in America exposes you to mainstream culture and doesn't allow for many French artist to appear within the scene. I recently came across a few good tunes to change the true American in you and I. Artist like One Step Inside, Tibaldus, Marc Beziat, and John Ellman all come to mind when thinking about [...]

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Verismo showed off at Under the radar it's STB which will play Amazon Unboxed content with out the need for a PC.  The $99 box will debut later this summer and plays content that is encoded with Windows Media DRM, along with Flash content.  This means it is compatible with Youtube, Unboxed, CinemaNow, and others.
Verismo [...]

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In the law enforcement are stupid category.  8 teens were arrested for planning the beating of a 16 year old girl, for the purpose of posting it to YouTube.  After making the video the girl goes to the police, and rather than making sure it doesn't end up in the media, they release it.
I can [...]

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It's beta, and it has a few quirks, but this tool combines the hot 100 searches of the Hour from Google Trends with Suggested Search Phrases from Google Suggest. Then if you click on the links you get a further mash up that is the results run through Youtube and Flickr. One Killer SEO tool.
I [...]

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You saw the hugely popular ScreenCleaner.swf featuring the Puppy, and the kitten, well Now you can see the one with the well you know what Girls who appear in Playboy are called….  Playboy Special Edition Model Felicia Crowton cleans your screen from the inside.  With a spray bottle, some elbow grease, and even a bit [...]

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Not to be out done by Barney the White House's Dog who has his own webcam, England's Queen has joined the online video revolution launching a YouTube Channel.  While Queen Elizabeth II doesn't actually upload the videos herself, the queen never learned to type and while she uses e-mail she dictates to an assistant, she [...]

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Not to be out done by Barney the White House's Dog who has his own webcam, England's Queen has joined the online video revolution launching a YouTube Channel.  While Queen Elizabeth II doesn't actually upload the videos herself, the queen never learned to type and while she uses e-mail she dictates to an assistant, she [...]

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Are we being invaded? Are these UFOs over Haiti?  If nothing else they are a pretty decent fake.  Watch the first video then the walk through of why it is fake.

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www.MovieSister.com was briefly a place to watch full length movies which were uploaded by site members, but now it is just trailers for movies.  The Kingdom (2007) · Partition (2007) · Kisses (2007) · Who's Your Caddy? (2007) · No Country for Old Men (2007), and I am Legend (2007) were YouTube Quality videos often [...]

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www.MovieSister.com was briefly a place to watch full length movies which were uploaded by site members, but now it is just trailers for movies.  The Kingdom (2007) · Partition (2007) · Kisses (2007) · Who's Your Caddy? (2007) · No Country for Old Men (2007), and I am Legend (2007) were YouTube Quality videos often [...]

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As Described by MTV.
"Britney Spears filmed the video for "Piece of Me," the second single from her Blackout album, at the Los Angeles restaurant and nightclub Social Hollywood on Tuesday, according to People.com. The video is being directed by Wayne Isham, who also helmed the singer's "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" clip."
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SciVee.tv is to YouTube what PBS is to Spike.  With such Popular videos as
"A semaphorin code defines subpopulations of spinal motor neurons during mouse development."  This is not a site that you are going to just casually browse.  There are some ineresting Nasa Videos, and a few pieces on Global Warming that are ok, [...]

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SciVee.tv is to YouTube what PBS is to Spike.  With such Popular videos as
"A semaphorin code defines subpopulations of spinal motor neurons during mouse development."  This is not a site that you are going to just casually browse.  There are some ineresting Nasa Videos, and a few pieces on Global Warming that are ok, [...]

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Emily Sander had a very rarely used Myspace Page which featured a Picture of her and her boyfriend of the time Mike.  Zoey Zane may have presented some issues with her meeting normal people on myspace, but still interesting that she had one, with Tom as her only friend.  A YouTube Video montage of her [...]

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An 18-year-old Kansas student who went missing over the weekend is now believed to have lead a secret double life as an online porn star. A woman that looks curiously similar to missing 18-year-old Emily Sander was found on a Zoey Zane website (zoey-zane.com / ZoeyZane.com ).
Emily Sander AKA Zoey Zane Myspace and YouTube Video
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Myxer™ is the easy way to share or sell your original music, artwork, photos, sounds, and video. Create ringtones, wallpapers, and videos for your fans!  Or at least that is the story from Myxertones.com which should last all of a month before someone shuts it down for the massive copyright violations associated with it. 
From [...]

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The Fearless Leaders:
Steve Jobs knows brandwidth. Apple is not competing with PC’s anymore. A PC is a tool, a Mac is a status symbol, and brandwidth is what got Apple to that designer label status. Steve Jobs was recently interviewed by Rolling Stone. He is talking to Disney about a job they offered him. He [...]

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Today I went to MSN.com and saw this Headliner "TV's Most Disgusting Ad?"  which linked to Slate which while owned by the Washington Post, is part of the MSN Network.  In the Slate Article, embedded smack dab in the middle of the page is a YouTube Player.
This is a huge "No, No" when it comes [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO At the Web 2.0 conference here in 2005 — back before Google had paid $1.65 billion for YouTube and people were talking about valuations for Facebook of $15 billion — Zach Coelius, a precocious 25-year-old who had snuck into the hall without paying, stepped up to the microphone and… Full Story

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Godtube.com utilizes Web based technology to connect Christians for the purpose of encouraging and advancing the Gospel worldwide.  YouTube for the soul.
GodTube is the first real Church 2.0 site I have seen.  Sure there are faith based social networks, but this is the first instance of truly Video User Generated Content  to pop up.
InsertyourfavoritenounTube.com is [...]

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SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Online video leader YouTube on Monday rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate movie and television studios fed up with the Web site's persistent piracy problems. Full Story

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Wondering how to make take Pumpkin seeds from your Jack-O-lantern in to a tasty treat?  I tracked down this YouTube video, and while the hostess isn't that exciting, the technique is sound.

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The new technology, with its improved mobile processing and multimedia capabilities, will make it possible to view content like YouTube directly on mobile browsers. Full Story

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. will begin showing YouTube videos on thousands of other Web sites, hoping to profit from ads attached to the clips. Full Story

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Law firms have discovered YouTube. Full Story

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Earlier there were previews of the star of the new reality TV show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" but now Kim is out and the photos reveal all of Kim.  She had earlier claimed that she would only show a smidge of skin but that appears to be wrong.Kim Kardashain may not have the star [...]

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Call it Second Life on the web, call it an MMO markup language, call it the most powerful open-standards, web-driven game platform ever made public — however you end up describing it, we finally have the main details to go on. After a year of rumors and terse venture funding announcements around Raph Koster’s new [...]

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I have read several articles outlining ways to rip music from CD's and then selling them back to used CD stores.  The Problem is this isn't legal.  If you want cheap music for your iPod or cheap songs for your Zune, there is a better way.  Amazon Used, Used CD Stores, iTunes Promo Code from [...]

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iPhone just might be the best thing that has ever happened to Google Maps -– it has made them popular like never before and has driven the usage substantially. This information comes courtesy of Marissa Mayer, Google’s (GOOG) vice president of search products & user experience.
She was a fellow judge at the TechCrunch 40 conference [...]

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Last year it was about preventing models with eating disorders, but what about young models?  Scantily clad teens does not seem like something to celebrate, but a 12 year old was named the the face of Gold Coast Fashion Week.  What is worse is Mayor Ron Clarke is supporting her modeling with a running analogy. [...]

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Every so often individuals are called upon to rise above themselves and act in a selfless manner – to help, to protect, to defend those in need. We call these people, who rise up in the face of great adversity, heroes. One such individual’s story is about to be told worldwide. On Sept. 25, “Halo [...]

Filed under : Gaming

Sure YouTube has been kicking your ass, Sure the property has never been a huge money maker, but….
You are losing less money than Google is on YouTube, so you should have stuck it out.  Yes, MTV jumped the gun, MTV usually gets technology plays right, their Virtual Leguna Beach, and other online properties are a [...]

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Boing Boing reader HallieDeCatherine says, Ronald Jenkees is a video blogger who started a YouTube channel over a year ago. He is a musical genius, coming correct with some bad-ass keyboarding skills on his Korg Triton and producing sick hip-hop beats on FL Studio. He has almost 6000 YouTube subscribers. Funny thing is….. you can't [...]

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BB reader Wagner James Au tells us, Remember that Second Life "mystery-documentary" Xeni blogged about last March? It was actually meant to air first on a European video site, but someone at the production company accidentally put it on YouTube. But the Boing Boing link caused a viewing deluge, and soon enough, Hollywood came calling. [...]

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Do the Mash (Even if You Don't Know All the Steps)  —  POP music has its mash-ups that combine tunes and vocals from different songs.  YouTube viewers do it, too, mixing together segments from various music videos.  —  Now mash-ups are poised to hit the mainstream, and to spread well beyond music.

Source:   New York [...]

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John Kanzius, a retired TV station owner, believes he's come up with a way to "burn" saltwater, by bombarding it with microwaves. The TV reports on this YouTube compilation never dip-below the gee-whiz surface, unfortunately. I'm guessing what's happening here is the radiation is splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The salt has nothing [...]

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Wanda Nara, the famous latin model is riding the crest of a wave, (an Internet wave), but for all the wrong reasons. Wanda, famous as a model and a TV presenter is now better known as Argentina’s Celebrity Queen of, Oral Sex, after a video of the TV presenter got posted on the Internet at [...]

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Boing Boing reader Curtis says, I'm in Thailand, and discovered I could access YouTube again. My blog entry describes what I was doing at the time. I guess I'm just happy to have YouTube back, and at the time wasn't really thinking about why I get to watch YouTube again. Yes, the real news is [...]

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Wonderful photoset of photos from the Calfornia ghost town called Bodie. Link. Above, a decaying '37 Chevy. NYT editorial on Matt and Trey's groundbreaking South Park profit-share deal with Viacom: Link. A must-read. Watershed moment here, guys. Lost in translation: Poagao tells BoingBoing, "A sports paraphernalia store in Taiwan was originally called 'Nigger King' and [...]

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People magazine created a geography video quiz starring YouTube sensation Miss South Carolina from the Miss Teen USA pageant. Link Previously on BoingBoing:Tube Map for Miss SC: The Iraqs and Everywhere, Like, Such As. Miss South Carolina says we need more maps (video) Analysis: defense of Miss Teen South Carolina and Maps and Such as… [...]

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Christopher Knight made three commercials as part of his campaign to run for a seat on the Rockingham County Board of Education. He posted them on YouTube. Viacom's VH1 ran one of the commercials on its show Web Junk 2.0, without seeking Knight's permission. Knight then posted the Web Junk 2.0 segment on YouTube. Yesterday, [...]

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Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright!  —  "Chutzpah" is a Yiddish word meaning "unbelievable gall or audacity".  An example of it would be the story of the kid who murders both of his parents …

Source:   The Knight Shift
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I am told that this video is a recent and wildly popular thing in Japan. Here's an English subtitled YouTube of "the butt biting bug song," Oshiri kajiri mushi. Video Link. It gives me acid flashbacks. "Tight asses and hard asses and beaten asses and shriveled asses." In what universe do these constitute appropriate lyrics [...]

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I am told that this video is a recent and wildly popular thing in Japan. Here's an English subtitled YouTube of "the butt biting bug song," Oshiri kajiri mushi. Video Link. It gives me acid flashbacks. "Tight asses and hard asses and beaten asses and shriveled asses." In what universe do these constitute appropriate lyrics [...]

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A few of my favorites posts at gadgets.boingboing.net: Why are hideously expensive gadgets so hideous looking? Link Nokia is adding "Web 2.0 services like MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook" to its series 60 OS. Link Scan of 1960s brochures advertising "personal 'massage instruments' clearly intended for use in a woman's nethers." Link Crayola makes a [...]

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Hulu Translates To "Cease" and "Desist" in Swahili.  Oops.  —  Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March.  CEO Jason Kilar says the name "captures the spirit of the service we're building" in an open letter published today.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author: [...]

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A First-Hand Look at a Chinese Second Life, HiPiHi  —  Zhong Guan Village, Beijing – Last year, a mysterious YouTube video purported to demo a Chinese Second Life called HiPiHi (pronounced "high-pee-high") stormed the virtual world blogosphere.  But with little English language commentary to go on …

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Wagner James Au
Link:   [...]

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Saturday Morning: I'm Watching Tubecast  —  Good find over at Go2Web2 – Tubecast.tv is a new Internet video startup that, like others, is building a user interface layer on top of the online video services like YouTube, Veoh, etc.  —  For the most part the site has grabbed a lot of content …

Source:   [...]

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Mary Meeker Fixes YouTube Math—Then Changes Assumptions to Back Into New Estimate  —  Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker and team dutifully rechecked their YouTube advertising calculations and produced a new set of estimates this morning.  As expected, if Mary had stuck with the assumptions she made yesterday …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Henry Blodget
Link: [...]

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Mary Meeker's YouTube Math  —  Morgan Stanley's Internet analyst Mary Meeker was a good deal more optimistic than we and most others were about the revenue impact of YouTube's new overlay ads.  Specifically, Mary concluded that the overlays could immediately add $4.8 billion of gross revenue …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Henry Blodget
Link: [...]

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YouTube fans rant, threaten to leave over new ads  —  Revolt in progress, or just usual change-related fussing?  —  YouTube might need to rethink its new InVideo advertising scheme, based on initial feedback Wednesday to the popular video-sharing Web site.

Source:   Computerworld
Author:   Dan Nystedt
Link:   http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do…
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Ok, Ok.  All Of You (even YouTube) Invented Video Overlay Ads "First"  —  When I wrote a post earlier today suggesting that YouTube was not the first to use a Flash overlay advertisement for online video, I didn't realize I'd be getting so many emails and comments disputing exactly who first invented the unit.

Source:   [...]

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OMG!  MySpace and MTV do, like, politics  —  At first, it sounds a little bit like playing catch-up to the much-ballyhooed CNN-YouTube debates; on Thursday, Viacom's (VIAB) MTV and News Corp's (NWS) MySpace are scheduled to announce a series of one-on-one dialogues with each of the major Democratic …

Source:   The Browser: Analyzing the [...]

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New ads jar some YouTube fans  —  Matt Harding, creator of one of YouTube's all-time most-watched videos, had a strong immediate reaction to the video site's new advertising experiment: "I'm annoyed."  —  Harding, who is seen dancing in famous spots around the world in the clip …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   [...]

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VideoEgg Exec: YouTube's New Ads Are Just Like Ours  —  Earlier today, in our post regarding YouTube's new overlay advertising model, we mentioned that some YouTube critics felt the site's new ad model was a direct rip-off of video network competitor VideoEgg.

Source:   Epicenter
Author:   Adario Strange
Link:   http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/08/network-wars…
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David Pescovitz:
Deputydog posted a great selection of "13 of the worst fake accents in film," including YouTube clips where available. Readers have suggested dozens of others in the comments, which is where you should post your "nominees" too! From the Deputydog post:
keanu reeves – dracula

i was tempted not to even mention this one due to [...]

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Google Aims to Make YouTube Profitable With Ads  —  Ever since Google bought YouTube last November, it has avoided cluttering the site and the video clips themselves with ads, for fear of alienating its audience.  —  The strategy helped cement YouTube's position as the largest video Web site …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   [...]

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YouTube Initiates Monetization Strategy With Transparent Video 'Overlays'  —  People have been speculating about how YouTube would eventually monetize video streams, as opposed to page views.  The answer comes in the form of an innovative approach that involves almost transparent animated flash …

Source:   Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Author: [...]

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YouTube Premiering InVideo Ad Format  —  Showing 3 billion minutes of videos every month, Google-owned YouTube is the top video destination on the Internet today.  And starting tomorrow, marketers will have another reason to turn to YouTube—a new InVideo ad format designed …

Source:   Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Author:   Jordan McCollum
Link:   http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/08/youtube…
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YouTube-style Embeddable Maps  —  Today we're excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML.  And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; [...]

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We are on a path to a world with where the technologies that were cutting edge, world shaping, and the way of the future are dying.  I haven't had traditional TV in my home for 9 months now.  What started as a wonder how long I could go, has turned in to a why did [...]

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Rumor: Was the Gdrive Release Canceled?  —  Just in case you missed the latest rumors revolving around the YouTube video "Googley Blues": The video, apparently created and sung by a Google employee, was showing the Gdrive aka Platypus icon overlaid with the lyrics, "I've been ready to launch …

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Philipp [...]

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YouTube Replace Searches for Funny Videos  —  We are working on some analysis for a report on how consumer search behaviour has changed over the past couple of years and I wanted to share a fun bit of data that we found.  Analysis of search term content, or the words that consumers use …

Source: [...]

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Mark Frauenfelder:

Mac Montandon is writing a book about the history of jetpacks, due to be published by Da Capo Press next year. He wrote the following report for Boing Boing.
Well, the convention was, of course, totally fun. I drove up from Brooklyn for research for the jetpacks book I'm writing. My friends [...]

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Adding a Google Map to your blog  —  Google will be releasing a new feature next week that will enable people to easily embed a Google Map into their Web site or blog, just like you can do with a YouTube video.  No coding or programming required; just copying and pasting a snippet of HTML, [...]

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Google launches YouTube-style embeddable maps … First up, if you know how to embed a YouTube video in your blog, you'll be able to embed Google Maps in your website, Google promises.  —  It'll be as simple as cutting and pasting a bit of HTML code into your website, just like a YouTube video.

Source:   [...]

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Google's embeddable map feature out next week  —  Google will shortly roll-out a new feature on its mapping service that will allow users to easily embed maps directly into web pages.  —  The feature, which operates much in the same as with YouTube videos, was conspicuously missing …

Source:   Sydney Morning Herald
Author:   Stephen [...]

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YouTube wants to depose Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart  —  Let's see how funny Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are on the witness stand.  —  The two comedians are apparently being dragged into the copyright fight between their employer and Google.  Entertainment conglomerate Viacom …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759091-7.html
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Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google.  Alexa Is Useless  —  We've gotten a few "tips" that YouTube has actually grown larger than Google in terms of page views according to Alexa.  —  This is, of course, complete fiction.  And it shows just how useless Alexa has become as a method for measuring web [...]

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David Pescovitz:

Two of my patron saints as pitchmen. At left, Timothy Leary's 1993 print ad for The Gap. A copy is currently up for auction on eBay. At right, a still from the William S. Burroughs TV commercial for Nike from 1994. View the blipvert on YouTube.
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Google Is Closing Its Video Retailing Operation  —  After buying the video-sharing site YouTube nine months ago for $1.65 billion, Google plans to stop selling television shows on its homegrown video site.  —  The company will stop offering download-to-own and download-to-rent programs on Wednesday …

Source:   Bloomberg
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/technology/11google…
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Cory Doctorow:
Samuel sez, "Hey guys. Several months ago, I bought an episode of Star Trek on Google Video, just out of curiosity to see how it worked. Today I got an email letting me know my videos would stop working in five days."

Hello,

As a valued Google user, we're contacting you with some important
information about the [...]

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Cory Doctorow:
In my latest column for Information Week, I talk about the Hollywood attempt to re-create the Napster Wars, suing all the funded, legit companies that want to do Internet video, like YouTube. When the record companies did this to Napster, all it did was ensure that the P2P market was saturated with companies that [...]

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NBC Universal launches Didja  —  Ad friendly video site to combat YouTube  —  NBC Universal is expanding its battle against YouTube and other viral video sites, using the weight of its top-rated USA cable network to launch an all-advertising website called Didja.com.

Source:   Variety
Author:   Josef Adalian
Link:   http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969864.html…
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