Google Responds to Viacom

Google has released its official response to Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit against its YouTube property, saying that Viacom is threatening the way everyone exchanges information on the internet. Google’s claim is that Viacom’s lawsuit completely ignores the DMCA, and as a result threatens to unravel it and introduce all sorts of chaos for websites and service providers.

2 min read Archive

Google Has About 900 Millionaires, Some Leaving

The Guardian has an article about rich Google employees leaving, and they say a report quoted Google as having as many as 900 millionaires. Considering that Google has 12,238 employees (as of March 31), and had only 6,790 employees a year ago, that’s a pretty significant percentage.

1 min read Archive

Google Personalized Homepage Gets A Name: iGoogle

Google has finally given its personalized homepage a name, calling it what many people had suspected the name was all along: iGoogle. Google had a whole Personalization Workshop in Mountain View yesterday, and Google Blogoscoped had someone on the scene for the whole thing. Some details:

2 min read Archive

Doing Good and Link Bait

I was reading an article (here too) just the other day about how National Amusements, a company that owns 1500+ theaters, gave away free movie tickets (and popcorn and drinks!) for the US armed forces and their families to “offer enjoyment and relaxation, and to keep families together” for the whole month of July.

2 min read Archive

Clear Channel Tunes Into Social Networks

Radio heavyweight Clear Channel is trying out the social networking business. The company's online music and radio division has plans to roll out a dozen station branded social networks in the next several months.

1 min read Archive