YouTube’s Role in Election 2008

YouTube is diving into political waters with their voter education initiative YouTube You Choose 08. The new initiative is designed to allow political candidates to communicate with voters about their campaigns using video. 2008 presidential hopefuls who currently have their own channel on YouTube are Republicans Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney. The Democrats are Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama and Bill…

Digital Watermark Is Copyright Dog Whistle

Granting of this patent couldn't have come at a better time in the Internet Revolution for Digimarc Corp., the sales force of which is most likely irritatingly knocking on YouTube's doors.

Linux Option for Dell PCs?

Reports have surfaced throughout the blogosphere that Dell may be considering offering its customers the choice of a preinstalled Linux distribution when purchasing new PCs from the company. The speculation stems from Dell’s IdeaStorm website, where the discussion surrounding the possibility of Linux distribution and support is currently dominating the community consciousness.

Google News Played by Foreign Sources?

Take a look at Google News U.S. and how many obscure foreign news sources are linked to. Of course nothing is wrong with this until you realize that the stories these sources are writing about are U.S. based. Looking deeper it's obvious that some of  the news sites appear to be only writing about these stories in order to get traffic from Google News U.S..

Google On Click Fraud

Detected click fraud that must be refunded to advertisers occupies a minuscule bit of all the clicks on ads run by Google's clients. Let the click fraud debate begin again. Google has put a number to the click fraud it misses and must reimburse to its AdWords clients. It's a teeny tiny number: 0.02 percent.