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""Today we're experimenting with video identification tools," Chen wrote in a blog posted online."

It's always interesting to see how courts deal with changing technology. For example, it's pretty common for courts to order emails to be handed over in certain lawsuits as part of the discovery process. However, for many younger people, email has taken a backseat to more popular private messaging features on social networks like MySpace and Facebook. In a recent court case, one side requested access to the private messages in the same manner that they would normally request access to email. However, both MySpace and Facebook have privacy policies saying they won't share the info (though, both say that they will under a court order). In this case, the court decided that it was too early to hand over access to such private messages, say...

MySpace Mini-Episodes, Courtesy of Honda  —  YEARS after Volkswagen challenged drivers to "Think small," another automaker, Honda, plans to run smaller commercials for a smaller car in smaller versions of television series.  —  Honda will be the sole sponsor of what Sony Pictures Television … Source:   New York Times Author:   Stuart Elliott Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/business/media… Techmeme permalink

Seven convicted sex offenders with profiles on MySpace.com have been arrested in what Texas officials said was the country's ...

Honda plans to run smaller commercials for a smaller car in smaller versions of television series.

Interesting discussion about a court case seeking discovery. In that story it states the following about Facebook: At Facebook, we believe you should have control over your information and who sees it,” the 8-million-member site says on its signup page. “Only your friends and people in your networks can see your profile.” Both sites’ privacy statements say they do much to ensure that third parties do not obtain information that is posted, but they also say the information may be divulged under court order. It will be interesting to see what happens in this case. I recently noted that Facebook does not make it a simple one click action to not index your main profile in search engines and I still have not received ...

Seven convicted sex offenders with MySpace profiles have been arrested from various cities in Texas, as a direct result of the Attorneys General request for MySpace’s cooperation in identifying registered sex offenders on the social networking site. The men were arrested during a two-week operation led by the Cyber Crimes and Fugitive units under the Texas Attorney General’s office. This was the first large-scale crackdown for registered offenders that are using MySpace. One of the men arrested had been charged just last month for failing to register as a sex offender, and another three of the men arrested may have their parole revoked. There’s still a lot of work to do yet, as indicated by the 300 sex offenders with My...

Kyte.tv, which is at its core a media player for personal expression, lets users send a stream of personal information to their friends: drag photos, video and text into the channels and interact with people viewing your content. In our launch post on the service in late April, I described it as falling somewhere between Twitter and Ustream, although Kyte has additional features as well. The company is based in San Francisco, and raised $2.25 million in an initial round of financing in July 2006. Over the last several weeks they’ve brought on more investors. Swisscom and Holtzbrinck Ventures were announced in May. This week they also announced that Nokia invested in this round. Kyte Founder Daniel Graf says his company intersects th...

Founder Mark Zuckerberg says new third-party applications will help his social network grow. But how much is too much of a good thing?

<p><img alt="springstein.png" src="http://www.whatsnextblog.com/springstein.png" width="209" height="135" />The Republicans are waking up to the importance of blogs and video in what's already being called the <a href="http://blog.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2007/05/pdf2007_will_this_be_the_youtu.html">YouTube election</a>. </p> <p>“It is critical that Republicans not let Democrats continue the (Internet) edge, Committee Chairman Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev wrote. “They have had an edge on us.” </p> <p>But the truth is that both parties have a lot to learn</p> <p>On YouTube, upcoming Democratic and Republican <a href="http://new.marketwire.com/2.0/release.do?id=742133">...

Things have been a bit quiet on this blog recently. That&rsquo;s partly because five weeks ago I finally signed up to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a>, which is currently the best way to spend all your spare time doing nothing on the Internet. (More accurately, I received an invite to join Facebook from a friend, but since I wanted to use a different email address than the one where I&rsquo;d received the invite, I had to register an account and then search for the friend who&rsquo;d sent the invite in the first place... but more on that later.)<br /><br />Facebook always seems to get mixed reactions; people either love it and can&rsquo;t get enough of it, hate it because they don&r...

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<span class="byline-author">Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube</span><br /><br />Back in March we kicked off our <a href="http://youtube.com/members?s=po&t=w&amp;g=-1">You Choose '08</a> program, a hub of political channels on YouTube designed to educate, empower, and connect voters and presidential candidates through the power of online video. Since then, millions of people have checked out the candidates' YouTube Channels, and thousands have communicated directly with those running for President via ratings, comments and video responses.<br /><br />Today we're announcing another way that YouTube is leveling the political playing field: The CNN/YouTube deba...

"Google's latest patent application could mean that Google Mash Up Social Networking, Video And Search all in one."

The news that the Chinese government is banning access to Flickr spread pretty quickly, and wasn't all that surprising, given China's constant internet filtering. However, it's a bit more surprising to hear rumors that Germany is limiting access to Flickr as well (right after Flickr launched a German version as well). It's unclear what various government think they're accomplishing when they try to ban or limit a site like Flickr. It's just images -- and those images can (and will) be posted in many different places. Blocking this one site won't stop images from becoming available on other sites, and constantly trying to ban or limit each and every site the government doesn't like isn't going to be possible. It's just going to make mor...

There are several separate stories about Google Video and YouTube floating around the blogosphere — some new features, some “woops” moments and some integration news. Let’s start with the new features. Google Video is now officially a “video search engine” according to Haochi. He shows us that when you click on a video that [...]

The guys who coded the YouTube video player left some interesting debug comments in their Flash file, as Chad Upton found out. Some of the comments (cursing ahead!): we got meta fuck yeah showing the goddamn play button The connection just got tea bagged - reset and reload Fuck bandwidth detection script its taking too long or not working so fuck it hard Flash is affecting badly the performance of the ****.com website This feature does not work and crashes the player fix laterz HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK this scuks Chad’s advice: set your Flash export to omit trace actions, and don’t really put anything in the code (including variable names) you wouldn’t want the public to see. [Via Barry -> InsideGoogle.] Correct...

I have deleted requests for various Facebook add-ons, particularly SuperPoke and Fortune Cookies. I don't really use the built in poke that much, so SuperPoke is a non-starter. I like the idea of sharing things like book reveiws, but sending noogies to people isn't me. tags: facebook

I am constantly astounded by what FaceBook is doing - they just get it! Yahoo should have really paid the $2bn they asked for them last year - they’re probably worth $5bn by now! If FaceBook becomes another Google - I think everyone at Yahoo will probably revolt! I personally think that MySpace sucks - and they are a bunch of Generation W’s that just don’t understand what the web is about! FaceBook will overtake MySpace globally well within 18 months - that’s my prediction! Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape back in the 90’s gave a great analysis of Facebook and why it is, and will continue to be successful, as a platform and not an application. While you’re reading that, I’m off to buy more ser...

YouTube, the largest online video-sharing website, has announced that it will be conducting an experimental run of its new video identification technology that will prevent users from uploading copyright videos on the website.

OPW -- June 12 -- If you want news on the Social Networking News, you won’t find it here. It’s on Social Networking Watch. From now on we’re keeping OPW on topic and focused on internet dating. All the Social Networking news summaries and rankings are at SocialNetworkingWatch.com. If you want to stay completely on top of the news, sign up for the daily Feedblitz emails. You won’t miss a beat. Is that OK?

Seems that facebook is getting nothing but glowing reviews. http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/analyzing_the_f.html Ilike is the most successful application on facebook with millions of users signing up.        But take a look at their alexa chart  and you will see they lost 70% of the traffic to their website since launching on facebook. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=ilike.com&url=ilike.com I think at the end of the day facebook will reduce independent websites like Ilike, lastfm  etc to just another feature that won’t exist outside of a social network.   Just like every other business who have a legal obligation to make money,  Facebook will have no choice but to clone the most successful applications and build...

The official Flickr blog has switched from Typepad to become a WordPress.com VIP and introduced some cool language features in the process. We’re all such big fans of Flickr and their team it’s been a real pleasure to work with them and have them on WordPress.

If you're a brand, making friends on MySpace is the easy part; making your friends count is the challenge.

<div class='snap_preview'><p><img src="http://thebrowser.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/linkedin.gif" align="right" height="36" width="129" />In the future, everyone will likely maintain two online profiles. So said <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a> CEO Dan Nye in an extended lunchtime interview last week here in Fortune&#8217;s conference room/pool hall. We had opened the conversation with THE question of the moment: in a Facebook world, what&#8217;s the future for LinkedIn &#8212; or for that matter any other &#8220;vertical&#8221; social network?</p> <p>Stealing some of his material from LinkedIn founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Hoffman">Rei...

It’s been five weeks since Yahoo shuttered Yahoo Photos in favor of Flickr. Today, Flickr expands into 7 new languages, with another possibly on the way. Peter Cashmore acknowledges that the expansion has been a little slow in coming. There are now several non-English Flickr facsimiles which will compete with the new Flickrs. The real Flickr has 24 million users (!). One also has to wonder how well the name “Flickr” will translate into the new languages. Here are my suggestions for some in-language equivalents: French–scintillemnt Italian–tremolre (or better yet, tremlr) German–Schnalzr Portuguese–oscilaçã or flimr Spanish–centeyeo traditional Chinese (Mandarin?) — ? Korean — ...

Reuters reports that YouTube is close to launching a video fingerprinting technology called video ID that will be tested by Time Warner and Disney. The technology, developed by engineers at YouTube-owner Google, will help content owners like movies and TV studios identify videos uploaded to the site without the copyright owner's permission, the company said on Monday. The so-called video fingerprinting tools will be available for testing in about a month, a YouTube executive said. YouTube has also been testing technology to help identify the audio tracks of video clips with major record labels using technology provided by privately held Audible Magic as early as the first two months of 2007, the company said. Eventually content being up...

Never underestimate Steve Jobs. After all of the hand-wringing over Apple’s iPhone being a closed platform, today Apple announced that the iPhone will indeed be open to third-party applications — ingeniously, through integration with Apple’s Safari web browser, which has just been released for Windows (which itself is a huge smack against Microsoft, which has really been taking it on the chin lately, e.g. Google Gears). Apple today announced that its revolutionary iPhone? will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards when it begins shipping on June 29. Developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone?s servi...

I'm fascinated by the growing list of organisations successfully using You Tube for a new kind of PR. Heard of the tie up between Diet Coke and Mentos, the Sony Bravia phenomenon or the 'Will it Blen...

I’m no longer an active Flickr user as I’ve switched over to Zooomr for all my photo sharing needs. Actually, I did this long ago, but now that Zooomr Mark III is out, I thought I’d share. There were two things that drove me away from Flickr. One, the photo limit. I hit the max of 200 on a free account and that was it. No more uploading until I paid money. Doesn’t Yahoo own this now? Can’t they kick in the money and give me unlimited uploads? I’m sure it’ll happen, but not soon enough. Second was another limitation on photo sets. It wasn’t the limitation that bugged me as much as the 30 minutes I spent searching for a ‘How To’ on creating photo sets. I was so frustrated and ...

They have a group for another social networking site with 3,500 members!!! How meta is that!?!?!? Facebook features are so tight that people from ASmallWorld would rather network on Facebook with the ASW icon.... wow. Like wow wow.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

First of all, SMX has been fantastic. Danny Sullivan and the incredible team at 3rd Door deserve some huge congratulations. This is obviously going to be a great series of conferences, due in part to the elevated discourse taking place but mostly because of the care and attention that went into the great food they served at lunch. Of the first day’s events and sessions, the Social Media Marketing panel had to be the most enjoyable (and not just because I got to chime in with Rand, Todd, Neil & Cindy). I’ve finally accepted that it’s no longer optional to hire folks that can spend their time just building social profiles and participating on these sites. Whether for Reputation Management, building a brand, building co...

From SEW, the auction site will pay $75 million in cash. So, how will eBay use this acquisition? IMO, they will include a Stumble button on specific objects in an attempt to better profile users’ bidding habits. This makes a great deal of sense, because a major weakness is StumbleUpon is limited to those who install the toolbar button. I have no idea how many eBay users currently use

My ex-boss David Sacks (former COO of PayPal, occasional movie mogul, now Founder/CEO at Geni.com) has a pretty interesting take over on TechCrunch about the importance of the "social graph", and the momentum shift from search engines (Google, Yahoo) to social networks (MySpace, Facebook).  Last week I ran into David when he was in town for the Facebook Platform launch, and i got to chat briefly with him about Facebook, Geni, and a few other notable social networks. So it was no surprise to see him editorialize his thoughts on TC: "The New Portals: It's the Bread, not the Peanut Butter". Now I don't believe everything David says is correct, but he's a pretty brilliant guy and someone i'd never want to face acro...

With all the lovefest around Facebook being the WebOS through the “Platform” they just released, the logical home for the company would be Apple. Apple with all of its products could easily tie to the new web services and widgets enabled by Facebook. So Steve, anti-up and put an offer to Zuckerberg and Company that they can’t refuse. Facebook is clean, simple, open, and consumer focused. Go out and buy the thing. Update: I’d be happy to talk to Jobs about this one if he wants,

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Acquisitions are being announced every day now. CBS, the TV network, will <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6701863.stm">acquire</a> Last.fm, the streaming music service. eBay, the auction company is <a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/05/30/ebay-to-announce-stumbleupon-buy-today/">buying</a> StumbleUpon, a social bookmarking service. A while ago eBay bought Skype, a free VoIP telephone service. </p> <p><strong>Acquisitions are usually about synergy</strong>, market share, cost savings, leverage, or strategic moves into new markets. Hmmm...what will CBS do with Last.fm? And what will eBay do with StumbleUpon? The synergy is...

Apple has gone outside the shelter of iTunes to provide uses free content from the web by partnering with YouTube. I'm happy that Apple is listening to Applet TV customers (and to me) by making more content available, and I applaud them for making it free. Unfortunately for Apple, partnering with the most popular video site, compromises the quality of the viewing experience since YouTube's videos are low resolution, according to Carl Gressum, senior analyst at consulting firm Ovum. For Apple this could be a good deal, as there is limited movie content available on the Apple TV, or iTunes. The downside is that YouTube streams low resolution content. Poor video resolution quality does not necessarily look great on a high definition TV. ...

For years I’ve been spouting off about something I call ‘Digital Lifestyle Aggregators’ (DLAs). Now that the Facebook platform genie is out of the bottle I can finally disclose some of the design principles and underlying tenets behind DLAs, using Facebook as an example. You see in a world where you give your ideas away, where patents and copyrights mean nothing and where the very nature of competition has radically changed - I decided to play coy and keep my definitions of DLAs fairly nebulous and vague. For anyone to understand what the hell I was I was talking about - I needed clear examples. Facebook is that example. PeopleAggregator will be another one. As I said in an earlier post - PeopleAggregator is ‘Facebook in a box’ - for any b...

Remember last fall when Facebook got itself in all kinds of trouble for unilaterally creating and automatically activating “feeds” of its users’ changes to their profile pages? They scrambled to try to reign in this privacy-threatening feature, and promised to maintain an environment where users “have control over whom they shared [their] information with.” How quickly they forget. Fred Stuztman reports (and if you’re into social networking theory and not reading Fred’s blog, you’re missing out) that Facebook recently began exposing profiles to be indexed by Google. Fred writes: Granted, profiles are still private, but how will people feel about their profile being indexed in Google? At the sa...

I narrowly avoided a coronary this morning while performing what I believed to be routine maintainence tasks on my company's MySpace profile and blog. Quick bit of history: a colleague of mine was pimping his personal MySpace page eons before I started caring about such matters, and when we started in on building the official NOOMA presence on MySpace, the code I started with was based on stuff this colleague had been using with much success. Fast-forward to an hour ago and my routine update. After dropping-in my changes and saving them, the layout we spent hours and hours perfecting was now totally broken. No worries, right? Go find the backup copy and restore it and yer good, right? No. Not right Turns out that MySpace was re-writing...