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  • March 2008

    • Web 2.0 Firms Taking Slower Route to IPOs

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Mar 6, 08 1:19 PM CST

      Web 2.0 Firms Taking Slower Route to IPOs

      Growing Web 2.0 companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slide are biding their time before going public, making sure to run up their value as much as possible to fetch top dollar with an IPO, reports Business Week . It’s a far different approach than companies took before the dot-com bubble burst, when the fast track to an IPO was the goal. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • YouTube  • social networking  • MySpace  • News Corp  • IPO  • venture capital  • PayPal  • LinkedIn  • NetSuite  • VMWare  • Slide

    • 'Puppy Kill' Video Triggers Probe

      newser  |  Marine Corps Times  |  Mar 4, 08 8:46 AM CST

      'Puppy Kill' Video Triggers Probe

      Military officials are investigating a video posted on YouTube that appears to show a Marine hurling a puppy off a cliff, the Marine Corps Time s reports. The video shows a Marine joking with buddies in a rocky landscape before throwing the animal. An official from the Hawaii base where the Marine is thought to be stationed called the video "shocking and deplorable."  More »

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      YouTube  • military  • US Marine Corps  • animal cruelty  • PETA  • viral video  • puppy

    • Internet Activists Target Scientology

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 3, 08 2:10 PM CST

      Internet Activists Target Scientology

      Scientology is increasingly under attack on the Internet, where critics and dropouts are undermining the church's traditionally tight control of its public image, reports the LA Times . Three ex-Scientologists, including the niece of the church's head, launched ExScientologyKids.com last week. Its motto: "We were born. We grew up. We escaped." More »

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      YouTube  • religion  • Tom Cruise  • Scientology  • copyright infringement  • Anonymous  • Gawker Media  • Internet freedom

  • February 2008

    • Pakistan Bans Access to YouTube

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Feb 24, 08 4:25 PM CST

      Pakistan Bans Access to YouTube

      Pakistan has blocked the country’s YouTube access over anti-Islamic videos on the site, the AP reports. One official conceded that a particular video offended authorities: a trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch legislator Geert Wilders. The filmmaker has said that his piece paints Islam as a fascist religion that glorifies violence against homosexuals and women. More »

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      Pakistan  • YouTube  • Internet censorship  • World Wide Web

    • Looting Serbian 'Riot Girls' a YouTube Hit

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Feb 24, 08 8:00 AM CST

      Looting Serbian 'Riot Girls' a YouTube Hit

      After the violence and looting that gripped Belgrade on Thursday night, a video available on YouTube has become a Serbian phenomenon—and provoked near-universal disapproval. The clip features two female looters grabbing everything from chocolates to designer handbags and shoes while the American embassy burned. Entitled "Swapping Kosovo for a pair of sneakers," the video heaps scorn on the "Belgrade bimbos" who "are so greedy they even have to carry things in their teeth." More »

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      YouTube  • Serbia  • Kosovo  • Belgrade  • Belgrade riots

    • Websites Spark 'Baracklash'

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 23, 08 3:37 PM CST

      Websites Spark 'Baracklash'

      The Internet may love Barack Obama—he leads other presidential hopefuls in online fundraising—but some new Obama sites are a tad sarcastic, the Washington Post reports. Sites like BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com and SenatorObamas.com are poking fun at Obamamania even as they partake in it. “It’s a backlash with a small ‘b,’” liberal analyst Peter Leyden said. “A ‘baracklash.’” More »

    • 'Video Vigilante' Boasts Tar and Feathering 2.0

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 23, 08 11:29 AM CST

      'Video Vigilante' Boasts Tar and Feathering 2.0

      Brian Bates captures unsuspecting people on candid camera, but his subjects don’t have reason to smile: He’s the self-proclaimed Video Vigilante of Oklahoma City, capturing men consorting with prostitutes and then posting the videos online. “If you get caught by the cops, you pay a fine,” Bates said. “If you get caught by me, you get a life sentence.” More »

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      YouTube  • police  • prostitution  • Oklahoma City  • prosecutors

    • Spanish Voters Hit YouTube

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Feb 20, 08 10:28 AM CST

      Spanish Voters Hit YouTube

      It's not only in the US that Internet video is changing politics: Ahead of Spain's neck-and-neck March 9 election hundreds of voters have posted questions for Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his opponent on YouTube. Zapatero has responded to several, Reuters reports, but the more strident—such as the transvestite berating the conservative challenger on gay marriage—have gone unanswered. More »

    • GoogleTV Heads List of Best New Internet Hoaxes

      newser  |  ComputerWorld  |  Feb 14, 08 2:46 PM CST

      GoogleTV Heads List of Best New Internet Hoaxes

      The Internet probably doesn’t need more false information, but some of the recent hoaxes have been so good that ComputerWorld had to recognize them. Here’s their list of best new tomfoolery: GoogleTV made thousands log into GMail over and over and over. Many thought the UFO Haiti video was proof we weren’t alone. More »

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      list  • YouTube  • Internet hoax

    • Sexes Split on Web Watching Habits

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 14, 08 8:48 AM CST

      Sexes Split on Web Watching Habits

      Women like watching network TV on the web, while men would rather click around and watch short, funny clips, a Nielsen Online study has found. The survey, Nielsen's first major one of its kind, found women are twice as likely to go to network web sites, and men in the 18-34 age bracket were more than twice as likely as women the same age to watch user-generated media like YouTube clips. More »

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      Internet  • television  • YouTube  • online videos

    • Damon Wayans Launching Comedy Website

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 7, 08 4:13 PM CST

      Damon Wayans Launching Comedy Website

      Actor/comedian Damon Wayans is launching a new comedy video website, WayOutTV.com, which will feature videos from amateur comedians “overseen” by Wayans, the Los Angeles Times reports. The "My Wife and Kids" star is hoping to turn the site into an informal production studio to guide young talent into creating content that’s good enough to shop to Hollywood. More »

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      Internet  • YouTube  • comedy  • ad revenue

    • Obama Song Video Scores 12M Views

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Feb 7, 08 2:38 PM CST

      Obama Song Video Scores 12M Views

      A video that sets a Barack Obama speech to song—and juxtaposes 36 crooning celebrities with the Democratic candidate—has landed more than 12 million hits online in less than a week, the Boston Globe reports. Scored by singer will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, “Yes We Can” features a simple guitar line and melody, along with Scarlett Johansson, singer John Legend and rapper Common. More »

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      Barack Obama  • YouTube  • Bob Dylan  • Scarlett Johansson  • Will.i.am

    • US Must Regain Principles, Says Former Gitmo Prisoner

      newser  |  Christian Science Monitor  |  Feb 6, 08 3:32 PM CST

      US Must Regain Principles, Says Former Gitmo Prisoner

      On YouTube, Adel Hassan Hamad is the face of the anti-Guantanamo movement, the subject of two much-watched videos. In December, the innocent Sudanese aid worker was finally released, the Christian Science Monitor reports, and though he is suing for the five years he spent in captivity, he says he's not bitter. “We just want to respect America again,” he says. More »

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      YouTube  • Guantanamo Bay  • torture

    • Advertisers Lukewarm on Social Sites

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 5, 08 3:15 PM CST

      Advertisers Lukewarm on Social Sites

      Facebook and YouTube are runaway success stories when it comes to attracting Internet users, but they lag in attracting ad dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. Advertising on social networking and video-sharing sites is relatively new, and therefore most vulnerable if economic worries lead to advertising cutbacks. Firms also worry about their ads appearing next to unsuitable content. More »

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      Google  • Microsoft  • Yahoo  • Facebook  • YouTube  • social networking  • online advertising  • Internet advertising

    • Video Sparks Hacker War vs. Scientology

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Feb 4, 08 4:04 PM CST

      Video Sparks Hacker War vs. Scientology

      After the Church of Scientology removed a video of Tom Cruise calling his religion a “blast” from YouTube, the Internet world declared war. Hackers have been furiously shutting down and “Google bombing” Scientology's website while free-speech protesters gather and pranksters send white powder in envelopes to LA-area Scientology locations, the Guardian reports. More »

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      YouTube  • Tom Cruise  • hackers  • free speech  • Scientology  • Google bomb

    • Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 3, 08 6:50 PM CST

      Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy

      Most blog posts, Flickr pics, and YouTube vids are junk, a Los Angeles Times blogger laments, but Facebook has drummed up a cyberspace winner called Graffiti. The online painting tool has had more than 8 million users and sparked fine submissions in Dell’s “ReGeneration Contest," which asks artists to "explain what green means to you." More »

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      Facebook  • YouTube  • art  • Dell  • Flickr  • graffiti

  • January 2008

    • Cruise Out to Save World in Wacky Video

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Jan 16, 08 9:00 AM CST

      Cruise Out to Save World in Wacky Video

      The latest Tom Cruise thriller is a Scientology testimonial video circulating online in which the weirdly intense actor promotes the faith as the way to save the world, and urges fellow Scientologists to "educate to bring a new reality" to non-believers. "When you drive past an accident," Cruise says, with the Mission: Impossible theme throbbing in the background, "you have to do something because you know you're the only one that can really help." More »

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      YouTube  • Tom Cruise  • Scientology  • Scientologists

    • Daily Traffic Doubles for YouTube and Friends

      newser  |  paidContent.org  |  Jan 10, 08 5:47 PM CST

      Daily Traffic Doubles for YouTube and Friends

      Daily traffic for online video sites such as YouTube has doubled over the past year, paidContent.org reports. A study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 15% of their sample of adults said they had visited an online video sharing site “yesterday” or the day before; last year, 8% of responders answered "yes" to that question. More »

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      YouTube  • online videos

    • China Moves to Restrict Online Video Sites

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 3, 08 3:01 PM CST

      China Moves to Restrict Online Video Sites

      China appears set to clamp down on online video sites with a new set of regulations that restricts content and organization, the Wall Street Journal reports. The regulations, to take effect Jan. 31, require sites broadcasting online video to be owned or controlled by the state, and to censor and report content that involves national secrets, threatens China’s reputation or disrupts social stability. More »

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      China  • Internet  • YouTube

  • December 2007

    • Laughing Tots Make TV Debut

      newser  |  Slate  |  Dec 31, 07 5:34 PM CST

      Laughing Tots Make TV Debut

      Babies with belly-laughs are the darlings of YouTube—one video has been seen by more than 35 million viewers—and now AIG is deploying them to sell financial instruments. Slate finds the AIG giggling-baby campaign instructive of what works and what doesn't in adapting YouTube videos to TV. For one thing, the ad co-opts a whole genre, not a single beloved video—which risks backlash. More »

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      YouTube  • advertising  • babies  • AIG  • BMW

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