YouTube Gets On Content Producers Who Are Inserting Ads
YouTube is telling some of its content producers that they are in violation of the site’s terms of services by including product placement and commercials within their videos. The reason for this is that YouTube is trying to make money with its own advertising, and advertisers typically don’t want to have to compete with other ones, particularly when they are paying and the others aren’t.
BlackBerry Outsells iPhone
An aggressive "buy-one-get-one" campaign by Verizon Wireless helped RIM’s BlackBerry Curve overtake Apple’s iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the first quarter of 2009, according to a report by The NPD Group.
RIM’s consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in Q1 2009 versus the previous quarter, as Apple’s and Palm’s share both fell 10 percent.
EU Commissioner Pushes For Independent ICANN
In about five months’ time, the current agreement between ICANN and the U.S. government will expire. At that point, Viviane Reding, the European Union’s Commissioner for Information Society and Media, is hoping ICANN will become a fully independent organization with a more international support network.
Microsoft Gives Advertisers Access to Celebrity Endorsements
Microsoft Advertising has teamed up with Brand Affinity Technologies to give advertisers access to athlete and celebrity endorsements. The companies claim this is a way for businesses of "all sizes and budgets" to increase brand performance with their online campaigns.
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Burma Named Worst Country To Be A Blogger
Burma is the worst place in the world to be a blogger because of its military government that severely restricts Internet access and imprisons people for posting critical content, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
CPJ’s "10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger" also ranks a number of countries in the Middle East and Asia where Internet penetration has increased and government repression has grown in response.
Are Celebrities Causing Twitter to Evolve or Devolve?
You’ve no doubt been exposed to mass hoopla surrounding Twitter and celebrities starting Twitter accounts, racing to get the most followers, etc. There’s no question that celebrity Twitter use is good for expanding the social network’s user base, but what’s it doing to Twitter as a communication tool?
Google and Yahoo Both Use Goats for Lawn Mowing
Google posted to the official company blog today that this spring, the company has begun using goats instead of lawn mowers to maintain the fields of their Mountain View headquarters. The idea is that this is a low-carbon approach.
Hulu Now The Third Most Popular Video Site
U.S. Internet users watched 14.5 billion online videos in March, representing an increase of 11 percent over February, according to comScore.
Google sites once again ranked as the most popular video property with 5.9 billion videos viewed (40.9 percent online video market share), with YouTube accounting for more than 99 percent of all videos viewed at the property.
Poker Celebrity Phil Hellmuth Takes Down His Drunk Tweets!
Poker superstar Phil (Poker Brat) Hellmuth, who first started twittering December 18th last year has taken to Twitter like it’s his personal diary. Hellmuth is using Twitter as a live outlet to express his frustrations after a losing hand during online poker play so the rail birds at UltimateBet can experience the full flavor of a Hellmuth outburst, just like on ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker. (Follow Phil Hellmuth on Twitter)
Note: Since this article was originally published Wednesday, April 15th, many blogs and news sites were inspired to also run stories on Hellmouth’s drunk tweets. Hellmuth has since taken down his twitter posts, but you can still read them on Murdok.