YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips
Hitting the financial jackpot, it appears, may have created some headaches for YouTube, the wildly popular video-sharing Web site that has agreed to be bought by Google for $1.65 billion in stock. — ...
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal
I first saw this posted on the Pho List. A media related list that I have participated in for years with lots of smart people with great insights. THe posting, as you will read is fascinating and wa...
PayPerPost Is Now Officially Absurd
Many commenters in previous TechCrunch posts on PayPerPost compared their business model to payola in the music industry. At PayPerPost, bloggers are offered cash to write about products. Disclosure...
Brightcove aims to create video marketplace
Brightcove will release new offerings on Monday that effectively make it easier for video producers and Web sites to insert ads into their Internet videos, syndicate their content and sell clips. — ...
Announcing New Packaging for Windows Vista and 2007 Office System
With Windows Vista and 2007 Office system, we didn't just redesign the software packages themselves, but are also introducing new packaging for the two products. The packaging has been completely rev...
Marketers Demanding Better Count of the Clicks
Internet companies have had great success selling advertising space, in part because the effectiveness of those ads is supposedly so easily measured. But marketers, even as they continue to push more...
IPod's click wheel: Has it been framed?
PATENT FILING SHOWS NEW NAVIGATION METHOD — Bye-bye click wheel? — If a recent patent filing is any indication, Apple Computer may abandon the iconic wheel that has become virtually synonymous wit...
Microsoft Releases Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP
Enhanced capabilities plus seamless integration with URGE make for all-new digital entertainment experiences. — Microsoft Corp. today released to the public Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 11 for W...
A Dot-Com Survivor's Long Road
When Jim Clark started Shutterfly, the online photo printing service, in December 1999, a 2-megapixel digital camera could set you back $800, investor enthusiasm for e-commerce was soaring and the wor...
Eleksen's fabric keyboard / UMPC case in the wild
The fabric keyboard gurus over at Eleksen are apparently moving forward with its colorful fabric keyboard / UMPC case hybrid, which would add another clever offering to its already sleek Bluetooth and...
The Persistence of (Bad) Online Data
One of the looming problems in our data-rich yet decentralized future is the difficulty of fixing bad data, once it is released onto the net. We've heard stories of Facebook profiles that turned up i...
Nokia's 330 Auto Navigation: their first dedicated GPS device
Ah, there you are sweet, sweet Nokia GPS navigator, official at last. Dubbed the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation by the cats in Espoo, this device marks Nokia's first entry into the dedicated GPS satnav ma...
Don't I Know You from the Internet?
Some performers are parlaying online celebrity into deals with big media. Soon they may be able to just stick to the Web — The small screen has always been a launching pad for big stars. But for s...
Price for New Private Islands to Increase
Due to ongoing investments in developing and maintaining the underlying technology of SecondLife, Linden Lab is increasing prices for new Private Island sales. Please note that this increase does not...
In a Blurry World, Ownership Is Yesterday's News
IT is hard to find any public policy question that feels less relevant by the minute than whether one person or company should be permitted to own television stations and newspapers in the same market...
MingleNow launches new bar/restaurant social networking site
MingleNow, the latest social networking company that has been in development for many months, launches a public testing version tomorrow (Monday). — MingleNow is best compared with Yelp, because it ...
Monitor110 Raises $11m More for Market Monitoring
Monitior110, the pre-launch web monitoring service for hedge fund traders we wrote about in September, will announce on Monday that it has closed a Series C round of financing with $11 million from ne...
TalkPlus, VoIP 2.0 Startup raises $5.5 million
The good news is that VoIP has moved away from its PSTN-replacement phase to a more experimental phase, where start-ups are combining presence, personality management, unified messaging and mobility a...
Microsoft is banning 360 firmware modders
After several months of silence it was more or less accepted that Microsoft wasn't going to do anything about the firmware hacks that allow Xbox 360s to play backups. Rather surprising, considering t...
Adobe Wants to Come in from the Cold
Though Adobe's Flash player sits in nearly every browser and plays hundreds of millions of videos (and other things) per day, the company doesn't charge for much of this incredible amount of usage. N...
Universal Sends Retroactive Bill To Fans It Encouraged To Do Its Viral Marketing
from the how-nice dept — rijit writes in with a story that is equal parts ridiculous and unsurprising at the same time. It appears that Universal Studios recognize that the followers …
Google Base, Where Are You?
I wondered why I still couldn't find Google Base listings last week. Then I got confirmation that I was not alone in wondering what happened to the promised Product Search switch from Froogle to Goog...