Youtube Considers Ways to Monetize Popular Service

With over 40% marketshare in the video-sharing industry, Youtube's gotta find a way to monetize its popular service - and fast. Here's what they're considering, and a little bit of my take. What would you do?

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Click Fraud of nearly a billion dollars....

okay...so maybe 800 million dollars isn't a billion dollars but holy crap. Let me state this again In 2005, there was 800 million dollars in click fraud The San Francisco Chronicle states that

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Tech Superheros at EFF Protect Internet Rights

Who are the EFF? A nearly-invisible grassroots organization committed to ensuring offline constitutional rights get applied to the internet. For over 16 years they've protected us from government privacy breaches and encryption violations enacted by The Man.

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How to Own Your Name

How to own your name on google

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Assessing Changing Perspectives of Bloggers

Now that the initial hype over blogging (in which suddenly every large corporation had a blogging hipster in its employ overnight) is over, what does it mean to be a blogger?

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G-Buy released as Google Checkout

Learn about Google Checkout and a list of features available

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IPG and Facebook Develop Liaison

Another agency jumps on the social networking bandwagon.

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Google: Have we put all our eggs in one basket

with new search engines coming out? Should information providers try to readjust what engines people use to find their information?

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Microsoft: Solving Copyright Issues with DRM Software?

Can MSN help curb piracy through DRM software?

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Google, Pay Per Action, and The Copyright (A Slippery Slope)

As Google explores the PPA model to battle click fraud and ad spam, Paul and Angela ask: who's protecting copyright holders, and why isn't this a more salient issue?

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Off Topic: Embarrassing AOL Call Leads To Question: How Savvy Are Your CSRs?

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Google trying a new model

Google releases a beta of the Pay per Action (Affiliate) business model.

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Marketers Finally Get a Clue about Filesharing's Potential

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Tectonic Plates Shift at Microsoft

Can't wait to see what happens to Microsoft now that its stodgy staples are departing

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Fiction Butts Heads with Ad-Induced Pipe Dreams

Interesting piece. I wonder why nobody ever made a big deal about "product placement" in books before. It's not like this is a new phenomenon, and we've already seen the crass, market-ridden way in which pop actresses and even dolls get their own books made.

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