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

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TurnHere, the video company that creates videos for businesses, is releasing a series of online videos featuring Simon & Schuster authors and sneak previews of new releases. The videos will be showcased on the Simon & Schuster-branded YouTube channel as well as BookVideos.tv, an online channel dedicated to books and authors. The channels will be cross-promoted, and all of the videos will be available at SimonSays. The branded channels will feature authors from several divisions including Adult, Children’s, and Audio. Videos will provided behind-the-scenes clips from the author’s lives, as well as their inspiration. Some of the authors involved include Sandraw Brown, Santa Montefiore and Blair Underwood. The online ...

<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">...

<p><a href="http://www.labnol.org/assets/images/YouTubeGivesOptiontoDisableRelatedVideos_E2D7/oldyoutube.jpg" atomicselection="true"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="223" alt="old youtube" src="http://www.labnol.org/assets/images/YouTubeGivesOptiontoDisableRelatedVideos_E2D7/oldyoutube_thumb.jpg" width="220" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.labnol.org/assets/images/YouTubeGivesOptiontoDisableRelatedVideos_E2D7/newyoutube.jpg" atomicselection="true"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="223" alt="new youtube" src="http://www.labnol.org/assets/i...

<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...

The CNN/YouTube debates  —  Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube  —  Back in March we kicked off our You Choose '08 program, a hub of political channels on YouTube designed to educate, empower, and connect voters and presidential candidates through the power of online video. Source:   Official Google Blog Author:   Karen Link:   http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/cnnyoutube… Techmeme permalink

YouTube and CNN will be co-sponsoring the Democratic presidential debate at the Citadel, where YouTube members are able to submit questions for the candidates in the form of a video. Candidates will be able to respond to these video questions in the type of debate that can only exist in this YouTube era. As presidential hopefuls have already found ways to leverage the Internet for their own campaigns, social networks have learned to cater to all aspects of the spectrum by providing a space for a political information flow as well as mechanisms for the ongoing communication amongst those interested. In the same way social networks are being used to connect bands with their fans, social networks are also being used by politicians to conne...

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...

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digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Bookmark_Only_What_You_Want_Clipmarks_and_Web_Chops'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The bookmark has evolved since Mosaic's "Hotlist" in 1993. Now when we save a web page, we can rename it, describe it, categorize it, tag it, and even share it with others via a service like del.icio.us. But what if you only want to save a piece of a website? Maybe a specific paragraph, or image, or caption, or video? You could bookmark the entire page, but in a long article, your bookmark loses context when you just want to save a couple of paragraphs in the middle of the document. Enter Clipmarks and rival service Web-Chops. Both services utilize a browser plugin that lets you snip out se...

CNN and YouTube will host a Democratic debate next month in which questions for the candidates will come entirely from citizens ...

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 [...]

Questions will come via video submitted by ordinary people through the video-sharing Web site.

The 33rd pulse is up. AdWords ads clarity on AdSense. Ask.com ads made for Google. Webmaster Central adds paid links report. Google Analytics goes out of beta. AdWords can help with your SEO strategy. Google Video vs. YouTube. Google quality score factors. Digg Digest is live. Yahoo sending out settlement payment. Mahalo launched greenhouse. Search Engine Roundtable Topics: Search Pulse 33: SMX Review, SEW 10, Ask.com UI, Google & Yahoo Update, Privacy Issues, Street Views and More New Google AdWords Placement Performance Reports Show Scary Clarity on AdSense Network Is Ask.com's "The Algorithm" Campaign Really Working? Google Webmaster Central Cleans Interface, Adds Paid Link Report & More Google Analytics Adds Featu...

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...

Yesterday, I wrote how Is Ask.com's "The Algorithm" Campaign Really Working? I then submitting it to Digg, and it later became "popular". My goal was to see if Digg users were also confused by the campaign, as confused as my...

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.

Today’s “Cash or Trash” company is Digg. If you are unfamiliar with “Cash or Trash”, here is a quick rundown: In every post, I will name a well-known web 2.0 company. Readers will then have to decide whether the company is worth investing in or whether it’s doomed for bankruptcy. In other words, would you invest cash in the company or do you think it should be thrown in the trash? Provide a brief argument as to why or why not you would invest in the company in the comments. Debating and arguing is highly recommended and encouraged, as long as arguments are well sought-out and thorough. A couple of points to keep in mind: Determine whether you would invest at TODAY’S valuation. Forget past growth. ...

by Josh Bernoff The San Jose Mercury News, among others, is reporting that Google's YouTube will begin checking content for copyrights, specifically in a test with Disney and Time Warner's content. They finally admitted they are using Audible Magic's clever system for checking copyrighted music, which the Merc reported earlier but Google wouldn't confirm. Now Google is asking copyright holders to send them copies of videos to check against. Mark Cuban, ever the copyright defender and YouTube attacker, cried foul at that one. Now I'll tell you what's really happening here (in my analyst's opinion). Google will indeed start "fingerprinting" and indexing any video copyright holders send it. It will even get around to using this ...

HOUSTON, June 12 -- The international space station deployed a new power source Tuesday, unfolding a pair of 115-foot-long solar wings like an accordion window blind.

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.

digg_url = "http://www.thegooglecache.com/digg-noise-filter.php"; One of the commonly mentioned “reputation” measurements on Digg is the ability to find great stories early. If you Digg a bunch of stories early on that all go popular, theoretically your reputation increases. Thus, your vote counts more in the future for stories you submit and Digg. So, how do you find good stories earlier, when most of what is submitted is spam? A really simple solution that updates the latest 500 entered stories and allows you to filter them by minimum numbers of diggs. You can quickly find the stories that are hot well before they hit the front page!

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...

Ahh, glad to see this end well.

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...

Digg uber-user MrBabyMan (over 1,000 frontpage stories now!) had an interesting observation today - he wondered if certain websites might be preparing stories as 'Digg Exclusives' and making sure they get posted to Digg before they actually go live on their site's main page. He noticed this situation with the Mac rumor site AppleInsider today. While at first it may not be entirely clear why any site would want to do this, when you take into account that after the most recent algorithm change certain users are having an even harder time getting stories on the main page, this preemptive submission could be considered a way to control who submits your story to Digg and to make sure it's someone who can reach the frontpage with relative ease....

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 ...

Some semantic search thing called TextDigger stumbled into my spider trap today. I have nothing against semantic search, I'm not an anti-semantite (that's not the word you think it is, read it twice, i made it up just to be punny), but I'm definitely anti-stealth crawler. According to the bot blocker, TextDigger requested 136 pages after being challenged while using the following user agent:

YouTube has gotten a lot of press lately, mainly from copyright lawsuits at home and YouTube bans around the world. While some of these YouTube bans have been temporary, other YouTube bans, like the ones in Iran and The United Arab Emirates, look like they will be there for a while. Most YouTube bans in other countries seem to revolve around videos that mock or convey a negative image of that nation's current leaders or other well-known national figures. As communications technologies, combined with the recent surge of social sites, have made the world a smaller place, these YouTube bans...

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. ...

 Are tags any more than street art? Tagging seems to be on everyone’s lips. Applying tags to web pages seems as ubiquitous as those street art tags you will find on any empty downtown wall. Technorati has been doing it for some time as a way of bringing some order to the Blogosphere. Now the movement seems to be spreading like wildfire. MyBlogLog, a popular social hangout for serious bloggers, has now adopted this. Even dev.mobi, a heavy-duty website for mobile web developers, is jumping on the bandwagon. Tagging is said to be part of the social media movement. Perhaps it is no more serious than the street art tags. Like any other social phenomena that appeals to the buzz factor it will disappear in due course. However i...

Everyone always talks about how SEO's manipulate social media websites such as <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a> in order to potentially gain hundreds of natural inbound links from the huge amount of traffic generated from promoted stories. Seeing that SEO's are getting quite a bit of stick I thought I'd take a look at this from a slightly different angle and by analysing some of the inbound link stats Digg aren't doing too badly themselves! <br /><br />A story which made the Digg homepage last week from TechEBlog titled <a href="http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-top-5-google-tricks">top 5 Google tricks</a> was arguably a piece of content crafted specifically for the social media aud...