Category: Internet

Fascinating insight into the recent Google/YouTube machinations from an anonymous insider posted at Mark Cuban’s blog (via Waxy).

Following on from the FA the other day, Media Guardian today reports that a rights protection company called NetResult has got YouTube to remove over 1,000 clips for copyright violation. The article goes onto report that NetResult believes that there are “as many as 10,000 more illegal clips on the website.” Right. I think they’ll…

The latest company looking at copyright violations on YouTube seems to be the FA. Unsurprisingly, along with any music video of any note, most of the key goals from around the world and other football incidents (Defoe’s arm chewing for example), quickly find their way onto YouTube. All this is copyright of course, with Sky…

Just testing the embedding of Google gadgets into webpages.

There’s been a bit of media coverage of a deal that The Times has done with its sister company Sky News, leading to Sky’s news being available on “Times Online TV” a streaming video service available on The Times’ website. Aside from the fact that this is surely not really news – two sister companies…

Mark Cuban’s completely correct in his analysis of YouTube, and why things can’t go on. I know that there’s this DCMS takedown setup, but how can a system that’s chock full of copyright material, and reliant on it for page impressions, not be responsible for itself? It’s really not the same as providing webspace. I’ve…

Amazon has a feature whereby it examines your previous buying record and recommends new products of a similar nature. I’m sure it’s similar to “Customers who viewed this item also viewed” really. Except that today I got the opportunity to buy the new Le Carré novel, The Mission Song for the bargain price of £30!…

When did Google News start analysing my recent Google searches and recommending appropriate news content? Very clever, although this might highlight certain privacy issues. Yes I know that with myself logged into Google it’s tracking my search history, but do I want that in my news?

I was on the tube this morning, and after avoiding a man who threw up in the middle of the carriage, I ended up standing near a guy who was refining a paper copy of his Powerpoint presentation. Closer examination, as I pretended to read my book, revealed that he was giving an i-Level presentation…

Unless I’m missing something, there’s a feature that I’d love Amazon to add to its service. I’d like them to let me know when one of my favourite authors has a new book upcoming. For example, I like John Le Carré’s novels, but if it wasn’t for the fact that I otherwise knew to look…

The new geotagging feature in Flickr is very nice, but it does show up the shortcomings of Yahoo Maps in the UK. The maps really are poor compared with Google Maps. In particular, the whereabouts of railway lines is really off-kilter.