Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends.
newteevee.com 12/2/2008 — After much talk about experimenting with live streaming video, YouTube dipped its toe in the water on the weekend, with a much-hyped event (at least in blogosphere terms) called YouTube Live, featuring some of the “cewebrities” that have ...

YouTube Search Bar: Now You See It, Now You Don't
readwriteweb.com 12/5/2008 — If you were anywhere in the vicinity of an online video enthusiast who had embedded a YouTube video, yesterday, you were likely greeted with a cacophony of profanities. Why? Many users found their embedded videos were now marred by a large gray ...

YouTube Live! (But Dead on Arrival)
mashable.com 11/24/2008 — The king of Web video is finally set to join the live video realm today. In 30 minutes, YouTube Live will introduce a mix of real-time concert footage with that of “YouTuberati” such as LisaNova , Tay Zonday (Mr. “ Chocolate Rain ”), “ Fred ,” Chad ...

McCain Fights for Right to Remix on YouTube
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 10/15/2008 — The McCain campaign has complained that YouTube is taking down its commercials that include clips from television news broadcasts because of an overly strict interpretation of copyright law.

● High quality YouTube video hack
kottke.org 11/13/2008 — You may have noticed that the video of Burn-E I embedded looked a bit better than a normal YouTube video. YouTube has been quietly offering high-quality versions of some of their videos for quite some time via a "watch in high quality" link just ...

YouTube and PBS Let You ‘Video Your Vote’
mashable.com 10/18/2008 — Want to tell millions of people which lever you intend to pull on November 4th during the U.S. presidential election? YouTube has launched a channel called Video Your Vote intended to “shed light on voting in America and show democracy in action ...

MGM to Post Full Films on YouTube, as Site Faces New Competition From Hulu
nytimes.com 11/10/2008 — YouTube finds itself playing catch-up as critical plaudits and advertising dollars flow to Hulu, the popular online hub for TV shows and films. >

YouTube to Sell Ads on Search Pages
nytimes.com 11/13/2008 — Google said that it would begin selling space on YouTube search-results pages to advertisers, part of its effort to turn its acquisition into a major revenue producer. >

YouTube Formally Introduces ‘Sponsored Videos’
searchengineland.com 11/12/2008 — YouTube is formally announcing “sponsored videos.” This is an evolution and expansion of what was has been informally running under the heading “ promoted videos .” The effort seeks to marry Google AdWords-like bidding and targeting with YouTube video ...

YouTube Plans To Launch Live-Streaming November 22
alleyinsider.com 11/6/2008 — YouTube will launch live-streaming in the style of startups UStream, Justin.TV, Stickam and Mogulus at its November 22 "YouTube Live!" event, a company source who has seen mock ups of the user-interface tells us. "Of course something could go wrong ...

Report: Justice Dept. talking with Yahoo, Google — CNET News.com
The Web giants are in early stage negotiations with the U.S. Justice Department to avoid an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Google to appeal German copyright decision — CNET News.com
German courts rule in favor of copyright owners.

Google Competitor Uses Google Tech To Take Email Offline — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Cloud service provider Zoho announced that its email service is exiting private beta today and is now publicly available. Interestingly, Zoho uses Google's own Gears technology to take Zoho Mail offline.

SNL made YouTube, so SNL site makes sense — CNET News.com
Long-running comedy show produces some of the Internet's most viewed clips. Why shouldn't it create it's own Web site?

UMG chief on YouTube: 'We don't look at anything as promotion' — CNET News.com
In a Billboard interview, Doug Morris says YouTube's advertising rates aren't cutting it so he's considering creating his own music-video portal.