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Viacom will sue YouTube

From the BBC: Entertainment giant Viacom Media says it will sue web search engine Google and its video-sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m). Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, says YouTube uses its shows illegally. Viacom alleges that about 160,000…

Every way up

Euan Semple on the advantages of social media for everyone: What I find interesting is that some people leap to the conclusion (both for and against) that social computing in business is bottom up. It isn’t. It is potentially as…

Google Cricket

The Google Operating System blog points out Google’s coverage of the upcoming cricket world cup. Google’s stuff includes a cricket blogging competition (Blogger only, of course – boo!); some Google Desktop gadgets; an Orkut community and a special blog written…

Themes

Am playing around with the theme of this blog at the moment – sorry for any irritation caused!

Are you Twittering?

Lots of people are talking about Twitter right now, and a lot of them are pretty high profile and influential. Twitter is pretty big, and it’s going to get bigger. What is it? The best way to describe it is…

Are you Twittering?

Lots of people are talking about Twitter right now, and a lot of them are pretty high profile and influential. Twitter is pretty big, and it’s going to get bigger. What is it? The best way to describe it is…

Open Source Politics

Great article from David Wilcox: Does it matter whether politicians who talk up the Internet’s potential for re-inventing politics, education, employment actually use it hands-on for the purposes they present, and join in? Or should we just be grateful if…