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  • Is there even a short-term gain for Viacom here?

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    Much has been said about the fact that Viacom are suing Google for $1bn because YouTube (now owned by Google) hosted Viacom copyrighted shows. Technically, Viacom are well within their rights to sue Google for this copyright infringement but what good does it do Viacom, apart from adding up to $1bn to their bottom line,…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • Can Google Reader scale the Great Firewall of China?

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    Jeremiah Owyang is on a trip to China at the moment. He put up a post on his blog the other day saying he couldn’t access Robert Scoble’s blog from inside China – it seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China for some reason. I don’t know if this applies to all…

  • Blogs fuel internet growth

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    Netcraft have posted their November 2006 Web Server Survey and there are a couple of interesting findings. The main one is that the number of websites has exceeded 100m for the first time ever. In the November 2006 survey we received responses from 101,435,253 sites, up from 97.9 million sites last month. Of those 100m…

  • Reddit acquired by Condé Nast – Another bubble?

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    Following on hotly from yesterday’s big news about Google’s purchase of JotSpot, comes news today that Reddit has been bought by Condé Nast (owners of Wired Digital, Epicurious.com and Style.com, among other properties). Reddit had been licencing its technology and allowing people to white label it but as Richard McManus notes, this deal with Condé…

  • Collaborative software gets hotter!

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    A lot has already been written about Jotspot’s announcement that they were acquired by Google yesterday – congratulations to Joe Kraus and the team. JotSpot is a wiki application with builtin functions for adding calendars, spreadsheets, blogs, photos, etc. This was a predictable enough move on Google’s part as they had no wiki software in…

  • Sometimes it pays to listen

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    I wrote, shortly after Google bought YouTube, that this purchase was a potential windfall for YouTube copyright claimants however recent happenings are proving me wrong (imagine that!). Prof Tim Wu (Professor of Law at Columbia) wrote recently in an article in Slate that YouTube (or GooTube as people are now taking to calling it): is…

  • Google get asinine

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    I see Google are now telling us when we can and when we can’t use the word Google in our everyday speech! we do have a brand to protect, so we’d like to make clear that you should please only use “Google” when you’re actually referring to Google Inc. and our services I actually think…