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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will keynote the fifteenth annual SXSW Interactive Festival, also known as South by Southwest.
We've often teased YouTube; at times, it seems like the site's only purpose is to showcase musical losers and kicks to the crotch. The crisis in Kenya has caused people to use YouTube for some much more serious reasons, though, and the site's leaders have acknowledged its role.
Richard MacManus, founder and editor of the blog ReadWriteWeb, had a disturbing correspondence with a (seemingly) Russian "brand squatter," a person MacManus describes as one trying to piggyback on his blog brand name for financial game.
When Queen Elizabeth's YouTube channel was unveiled, we thought it was great. A soon-to-follow channel from the British Foreign Office didn't seem like a waste. But there was a definite drop-off in the quality of ideas, and the latest thing - a sort of Internet anti-terror plan - is really raising some eyebrows.
The Yahoo ID used by its members to login to services like Flickr and Yahoo Mail will soon be usable to authenticate to sites supporting the OpenID standard.
YouTube continues to be Google's good luck charm in video, when it comes to visitors and traffic to videos, anyway.
