Update: YouTube has made an official blog post saying they’re ready to start rolling out the new channels design. Here’s a new video about the redesign.
China Accuses Google Of Spreading Vulgar Content
China on Thursday expressed anger at Google for providing links on its English language search site that lead to vulgar content that violated the country’s law.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang dodged a question about whether the government had played a role in recent disruptions to Google sites within China. He did make it clear that the government was angry with Google.
What’s Your Favorite iPhone App?
While the Apple App Store has grown to contain over 50,000 apps in less than a year, the most popular apps are generating the majority of usage by consumers. AdMob has released its Mobile Metrics Report for May (pdf), which examines the distribution of consumer usage of iPhone applications.
Highlights from the May 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report:
Real Time Search Still Just a Concept
We caught up with Michael Gray at SMX Advanced in Seattle and talked a little bit about realtime search. Now, realtime search is one of those super buzzy concepts that meets all the criteria as the ‘Next Big Thing’. It’s so big, Google is supposed to be afraid of it. It’s so awesome, it’s going to change politics in the Middle East. Why, the way people are going on, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if I got up in the morning and realtime search already had my coffee ready.
Online Spending In The U.K. Set To Double
Online spending in the U.K. is set to increase from $14.6 billion to as much as $34.9 billion in annual sales by the end of 2011, according to a new report by PayPal.
This 137 percent growth in online spending means consumers in 2011 will spend the equivalent of about $705 for every U.K. adult – more than doubling the current annual online spending.
The Power Of Twitter
Two recent reports illustrate the power of Twitter in two important metrics—driving visits and purchasing power. Hitwise analyzes overall downstream traffic for Twitter, while NPD Group takes a look at downstream purchases generated by Twitter.
Transformers 2 is Huge for Online Ticket Sales
Online ticket vendor Fandango had a big day courtesy of the US release of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. The movie came out today, technically starting at midnight last night.
Mimic the Inauguration with New Facebook Offering
Facebook launched the Live Stream Box today, which is a feature that lets website owners and developers enable Facebook users to connect, share, and post updates in real-time as they witness events online. Think CNN’s Facebook integration from the Presidential Inauguration.
Yankees Fans Can Now Catch Games Online
Major League Baseball said today it is partnering with Cablevision and the New York Yankees cable network, YES, to offer live games online in the team’s local market.
"These agreements are an important part of our global effort to give fans greater access to our game," said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig.
Google Announces AdSense For Mobile Applications Beta
In many ways, Google is the company that AdSense built. It makes sense for Google to extend the advertising solution into new markets, then, and the company’s doing exactly that with its fresh AdSense for Mobile Applications beta.