YouTube Testing Several New Feature Updates
If you’re the sort of person who likes new things, here’s a bit of good news: YouTube is testing fresh versions of the Inbox, My Contacts, and My Videos features. Moreover, even if you’re not part of the original (randomly selected) test group, you can opt in and try them out.
Google Knows You Skipped A Commercial
Technology from Google submitted to the US Patent Office shows how they can tell when someone viewing a video skipped an ad.
McCain Campaign Tastes Plagiarized Recipes
Cindy McCain’s kitchen looked a lot like The Food Network’s to one eagle-eyed website visitor, who spotted lots of similarities between recipes published on both sites.
New Site For AOL & Job Listings On TechMeme?
This afternoon it was a little surreal to see a job posting appear among the headlines at TechMeme. Just last week, BusinessWire seemed pretty jazzed about getting press releases to show up there. But really? A job posting?
Gossip Girl, March Madness, And CBS Confusion
CBS fared better on an ad revenue per person basis for its NCAA basketball tournament delivery online than on TV. So why is Gossip Girl being dragged offline for viewing only on the CW Network, partly owned by CBS?
Why Sex Sells, Online or Off
Sometimes you have to be careful not to too broadly apply the results of a study. In this case, I’m not sure if I can help it. Just call me out (as you often do) in the comments if you think I’ve done so. Two recent studies showed a strong correlation between sex hormones and monetary risks.And that kind of explains everything. Like…
Google’s Earnings Cause Trouble For comScore
Overjoyed investors have made Google’s stock go up by about 20 percent since the company reported its earnings. comScore, on the other hand, temporarily lost eight or so percent of its value.
Baron Pulls Twitter Auction
Knowing the value of a web-celeb’s Twitter account will have to be on hold. Andrew Baron, founder of the well-known video podcast Rocketboom, placed his name-brand account up for sale on eBay last week, but has since deleted the auction listing.
Google Video Gets Updated Again
Google Video’s existence continues to be a bit of a mystery; after Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube, you’d think the company would be able to concentrate on just it. Still, users of Google Video are likely to be happy about a new redesign.
250 Million Europeans Are Online
More than half of Europeans are now regular Internet users, 80 percent of them have broadband connections and 60 percent of public services are online according to a new report from the European Commission.In 2007, the Internet attracted close to 40 million new regular users in the EU (now 250 million in total). More than 96 percent of European schools are now connected to the Internet, two thirds of which have broadband.