YouTube, once a pirate, now legitimate: Signs deal with Time Warner
YouTube, the popular video site that was intensely disliked by music and film labels for the endless copyrighted material it would feature, continues to make steady steps to toward acceptance.
Today, it announced on its biggest content partnerships yet: an online video distribution agreement with Time… Continue Reading
38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox!
Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to dominate the market, as record labels, managers, artists,… Continue Reading
Roundup: Jajah attacks Skype, Nokia-Navteq, YouTube’s Adsense, Yahoo’s lag
Here’s the latest action:
–Jajah goes after Skype’s turf on eBay
–Nokia buys Navteq, what does Google do?
–YouTube intros Adsense
–Yahoo lags on universal search
–Viacom backs DRM
–Technorati’s new CEO
–Costs of a start-up
Jajah tries to exploit Skype dissatisfaction, releases button for eBay — Now that eBay has admitted the Skype… Continue Reading
Funny or Die — and the challenge to the Long Tail
A marriage between Silicon Valley and Hollywood talent led to the birth last month of a video start-up Funny or Die. What took YouTube to do in six months, Funny or Die did in six days.
Its traffic exploded after the release of its first 2-minute… Continue Reading