“Wonderful Jaiku users, Exciting news, Jaiku is joining Google! While its too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers [...]
Google moves to turn YouTube clips into advertising cash | Technology | The Guardian: “Google has begun allowing advertisers to ‘embed’ clips from YouTube into their promotional messages, a sign of the search company’s strategy to make money from its video streaming arm.” You can bet that this move will really get Adsense moving. Would [...]
For Google, advertising and phones go together | CNET News.com: “Google wants to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Internet, a small market today, but one that is expected to grow rapidly. It hopes to persuade wireless carriers and mobile phone makers to offer phones based on its software, according to people [...]
EFF: DeepLinks: “Google Associate General Counsel Alex Macgillivray has agreed to attend the EFF Compliance Bootcamp on October 10 and to explain why Google thinks it is important that Web 2.0 companies learn the information we’re teaching.”
CDT | Headlines: “The debate over the pending merger between Google and Internet advertising giant DoubleClick raises a host of broader questions about the online advertising industry at large and the structures that are in place to protect Internet users’ privacy. In a statement to the Senate panel that is holding a hearing about the [...]
Possibly as a result of Google’s proposed acquisition of Doubleclick – a move that could have far-reaching implications for net privacy, Google is proposing a new minimum world privacy standard. But the weak part of their standard is their suggestion that a breach of privacy should only be considered serious if it involves actual harm [...]
News that access to Youtube was blocked earlier this year by the Thai Information and Communication Ministry, appeared to many foreign commentators as an over-sensitive reaction to what many Westerners would consider to be plain vanilla free speech. Claiming that some videos on Youtube were offensive to His Majesty, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the Thai communications [...]