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October 2007
- Don't Buy Latest Dot-Com Hype, Mag Warns
  
  Economist | Oct 18, 07 3:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - While Facebook and other online social networks are growing like digital weeds in Silicon Valley, their popularity may be more a product of hyperbole than actual developmental potential, the Economist argues. But major internet speculators Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't seem to care, as each bids billions to buy Facebook, whose 2007 revenue may be only $100 million. More »
- MySpace to Partner With Skype
  
  New York Times | Oct 17, 07 7:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Online juggernauts MySpace and Skype will team to connect users of the social networking website to the free online phone call service starting in November. Skype's CEO called the move "an obvious fit," while the New York Times notes the potential crossover—MySpace claims 110 million mostly US-based users, while Skype has 220 million users mostly abroad. More »
September 2007
- Steroid Peddlers Want to Friend You
  
  New York Times | Sep 27, 07 5:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - There were 120 alleged criminals pinched this week in a Connecticut steroids crackdown, but only five are accused of selling drugs on MySpace. Four are accused of purchasing raw Chinese steroid power, manufacturing the drugs in their homes and selling them through the social-networking site, the New York Times reports. MySpace reps had no comment on so-called Operation Phony Pharm. More »
- British Schools Crack Down on 'Cyberbullying'
  
  BBC | Sep 23, 07 10:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - England's education chief wants schools to put their digital foot down when it comes to “cyberbullying.” The schools should confiscate mobile phones when necessary and pull down hurtful material from websites, the BBC reports. The schools chief called cyberbullying a particularly “insidious” form of abuse because it follows students home. More »
- Officer Resigns After Racist YouTube Rants
  
  Columbus Dispatch | Sep 15, 07 1:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Ohio patrol officer who made racially charged comments in homemade videos posted on YouTube resigned yesterday, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Susan Purtee, who was reassigned to desk duty after the videos drew national attention, will resign effective Sept. 22 and seek retirements from an unnamed disability. “Clearly, she does not deserve to wear the badge,” Columbus’ mayor said. More »
- Hysterical 'Leave Brit Alone!' Rocks YouTube
  
  ABC News | Sep 13, 07 3:22 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - If it's a performance, it's better than Britney's. More than 2.8 million viewers have pored over an out-of-control rant by YouTuber "Chris Crocker" who smears his eyeliner as he sobs and screams at the "bastards" who aren't cutting Spears slack for the "hard time" she's going through, especially since critics slammed her zoned-out "comeback" performance at the MTV video music awards. More »
- Music Vids Shrink as $$$ Fade
  
  Associated Press | Sep 9, 07 4:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A music industry headed for financial crash-and-burn has radically downsized its once-extravagant videos, the AP reports. Viewers of today’s MTV Video Awards will see more single-camera videos and quirky YouTube-inspired concepts that save cash—all suited for play on small screens. "A comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs are dying," says video director Samuel Bayer. "There's a new age coming.” More »
August 2007
- And Now, a Word From YouTube's Sponsor(s)
  
  Times (UK) | Aug 22, 07 8:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As it struggles to turn a profit, YouTube will begin to show ads overlaid on some videos, the Times of London reports. The spots will consist of a semitransparent strip covering 20% of the screen appearing 20 seconds into the video.They'll appear only on content from 1,000 "partners," ranging from established organizations such as Warner Music to popular amateur producers. More »
- Music Publishers Add Vocals to YouTube Suit
  
  Ars Technica | Aug 7, 07 9:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Apparently YouTube forgot to make a deal for the music and lyrics played on its website, or so claims a music publishers’ association that has joined a growing copyright lawsuit aimed at Google, the site's owner, ars technica reports. YouTube, which did agree to share ad revenue with four major music labels, continues to remove copyright-violating videos when asked and plans to install a new filtering system by fall. More »
- And He's Not Going to Take It Anymore
  
  Gawker | Aug 7, 07 10:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In YouTube's most watched video today, CNBC's Jim Cramer blasts Fed chairman Ben Bernanke for signaling that he won't cut interest rates, calling the present stay-the-course market situation "Armageddon." As his dumbfounded interlocutor looks on, the "Mad Money" host pounds the table and thunders that the "Fed is asleep!" More »
June 2007
- Moore's 'Sicko' Leaks to Youtube
  
  Reuters | Jun 18, 07 8:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Documentarian Michael Moore has a feverishly anticipated takedown of the American health-care industry set to open in two weeks—but try telling that to the internet. Sicko went viral this weekend as cinematic hackers managed to post the two-hour film in its entirety on YouTube, probably from a pirated DVD. More »
- Sex Offenders Snared in MySpace Web
  
  Reuters | Jun 15, 07 6:46 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Texas officials using ID information ceded by MySpace have nabbed seven sex offenders trolling the online networking site. Six were arrested for violating parole, which barred them from using the internet, and another had failed to register as a sex offender with the local police. The seven men had been convicted of assaulting kids as young as 4 years old. More »
May 2007
- MySpace Opens Up to Donations
  
  Financial Times (UK) | May 29, 07 5:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is entering the online political scene in a very significant way with a tool that will allow 60 million MySpace users to donate up to $500 to the presidential candidate of their choice, reports the Financial Times . News Corp. has yet to make a decision, reports an official, as to whether they will track the data on who gives what. More »
- TV Moguls Blast Web Rivals
  
  Reuters | May 9, 07 8:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A panel of top television executives at a Vegas conference yesterday went on the offensive against their digital rivals, blasting the perception that cell phones, the Web, and other digital formats are killing their business. Quite the contrary, pronounced Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons: "The Googles, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux Nation." More »
April 2007
- MTV Meets Web 2.0 Halfway
  
  Los Angeles Times | Apr 17, 07 1:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - MTV is fighting an unprecedented drop-off in ratings by tapping straight into the YouTube generation. The revamped bastion of youth culture will be less cable channel and more media hub, letting its teen viewers decide—and create—what they want to see, while keeping them connected to their digital world. More »
- MySpace Crashers Trash British Teen's House
  
  Sydney Morning Herald | Apr 13, 07 11:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After a British teenager invited a few friends to a party on MySpace, over 200 non-virtual revelers trashed her family's house. In a story being circulated by alarmed parents all over the Commonwealth, 17-year-old Rachael Bell's parents came back from vacation to find $48,000 worth of damage to their home. "Whoever has come in here are worse than animals," mum says. More »
- Mexican Drug Wars Fought in Cyberspace
  
  Washington Post | Apr 9, 07 4:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Mexican drug cartels are making themselves at home on YouTube, posting music videos that show off the bloodied bodies of their tortured and executed competitors. The gangs have turned to the Internet to recruit members, plan attacks, and intimidate and threaten rival gangs. The result is an al-Qaeda–like virtual network that the tech-lite Mexican police have been slow to tap for information. More »
- Turkish Band Faces Jail in YouTube Flap
  
  Guardian (UK) | Apr 9, 07 12:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A seven-year-old song resurrected on YouTube has five punk rockers facing time in a Turkish prison. The song, an anti-authoritarian rant against the Turkish college entrance exam by the band Deli, was the sound track to a video posted by a fan, who lip-synched the lyrics while jumping around frantically on camera. More »
- Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright
  
  New York | Apr 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With Viacom incubating "the biggest copyright lawsuit in history" against YouTube, the video-sharing site is beginning to smell a bit like Napster. Which leads Clive Thompson to ponder in New York why the Google boys decided to acquire YouTube—and its looming crisis—last year. And why, once they had, they decided to stare down Sumner Redstone instead of sharing revenue. More »
March 2007
- Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows
  
  Washington Post | Mar 23, 07 9:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - TV biggies NBC Universal and News Corp. are teaming up to hit YouTube with the full force of their their combined TV content, offered online for free. Starting this summer, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. subsidiary MySpace will hope to win over internet users (and the advertising that goes with them) with shows like 24 and Heroes . More »