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Obama appoints YouTube (Google) as Secretary of Video
Obama appoints YouTube (Google) as Secretary of Video
It's great that President-elect Obama is delivering his regularly scheduled Saturday address in both audio and video form. After using the Internet to help him get elected and connect with younger voters, it's clear that his team will continue to exploit the media to deliver its messages and ...
FT.com / Companies / Media - Rival forecast to catch YouTube
ft.com — YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by a smaller upstart backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal as the video-sharing site struggles to make its massive global audience appeal to advertisers. Hulu, a video site showing only ... (more) FT.com / Companies / Media - Rival forecast to catch YouTube
More Apple iPhone Search Weirdness, And Embarrassment For Google
More Apple iPhone Search Weirdness, And Embarrassment For Google
techcrunch.com — Google’s carefully orchestrated launch of their new voice-recognition search application for the iPhone took a dive this weekend. The application didn’t appear as promised, and Google took down the YouTube video demo’ing the product ... (more) More Apple iPhone Search Weirdness, And Embarrassment ...
Hulu To Be Bigger Than YouTube Next Year?
Hulu To Be Bigger Than YouTube Next Year?
alleyinsider.com — In a sign of just how little success Google has had at monetizing YouTube, a research firm is predicting that Hulu will surpass it in US revenue next year. Screen Digest estimates that YouTube will make $100 million in US revenue this year compared ... (more) Hulu To Be Bigger Than YouTube Next Year?
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Obama Says Yes We Can Use YouTube
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... that the videos not be embeddable and be offered online only on the whitehouse.gov and change.gov websites. If they are going to use online video hosting services as an outlet, I'd like to see a full RFP process take place. All video hosts who want to host the weekly videos should have an equal chance of winning the government contract. For the people who believe that the videos are on YouTube for "two-way communications", comments are disabled. CNET Editor-in-chief Dan Farber has a good analysis of the YouTube selection. He notes, "In the case of uploading video, the Obama ...

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