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Google TV Ads Moves Forward With MSNBC
Google TV Ads is on a roll. About 15 days ago, the division struck a breakthrough deal with CNBC, and there was…
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Online Video Viewing Grows by 10% in the UK
Online video has grown by 10% in the UK in terms of its audience during the past year. It is up to 29.6 million unique viewers age 15 and older according to research from comScore. 4 billion videos were viewed online in the UK in January alone. 99.5 million (2.5%) of these were watched on the sites of the top 5 TV broadcasters: the BBC,…
Google Adds Ads to Hosted News Articles
Google is now showing ads on Google News pages that show full-text articles. These are the articles which Google itself hosts. In case you're unfamiliar with these Google-hosted articles, back in 2007, Google News started offering original source content from a variety of publishers like the AP, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association, the Canadian Press, etc. This was to give special treatment to "original sources."
Web Founder Still Creatively Vague
The World Wide Web turned 20 years old last Friday, and its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, says its potential is hardly reached. His next vision, a vision he’s been talking about for years, is the Semantic Web, which on the surface seems as simple as herding cats. But don’t let the specifics bog down a perfectly good concept with just the right amount of vagueness to…
White House Declares Copyright Treaty State Secret
Still waiting for change you can believe in? Well, believe this: the White House just declared an intellectual property treaty a state secret and denied Freedom of Information Act requests asking that it reveal the details of an international treaty that could have huge effects on how information is disseminated online.
YouTube Freezes View Spammers
We often hear about people trying to "game" search engines and social media sites to promote their content. We hear it about Google, Digg, and others, but for some reason, we don't often hear about such practices with regards to YouTube. That does not mean that it's not happening.. And why wouldn't it? It's one of the most popular social networks, and it's the second…
