Wow. Google agrees to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion. I’m speechless … but others aren’t. Mark Cuban at BlogMaverick: I still think Google is crazy :) ZDNet: YouTube may add to Google’s copyright worries. Silicon.com UK: YouTube ‘a good fit for Google’ Financial Times: How to get seriously rich in two easy moves New York […]
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The coming dramatic decline of YouTube?
Mark Cuban had this the other day: The Coming Dramatic Decline of Youtube. What is it about youtube.com that has made it so successful so quickly ? Is it the amazing quality of user generated content ? Is it a broadband fueled obsession with watching short videos ? No & No. Youtube’s rapid ascension to […]
Motionbox adds ‘deep tagging’ for videos
Motionbox, the personal video sharing service, today added Deep Tagging, giving users the ability to tag selected portions inside of a video, jump to the best parts, and instantly share them with others. Motionbox’s Deep Tagging feature lets you intuitively mark specific moments inside a video and add descriptive keywords that apply just to those […]
AlwaysOn conference: YouTube and clip culture
It’s the first full day of the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford University. There are lots of bloggers posting good coverage of the proceedings. There’s a live Webcast and chat of the event today and tomorrow. I arrived in time for the panel, “How Far Will Consumer-Generated Media Go?” with moderator Kara Swisher of the […]
YouTube’s new policy says: we own your content
Media darling YouTube is getting its media comeuppance. Xeni Jardin in BoingBoing: YouTube’s new policy says: we own your content. The newly revised Terms and Conditions page at YouTube raises important questions for anyone who uploads videos there. … Wired News blogs: YouTube’s ‘New’ Terms Still Fleece Musicians. “…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, […]