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Google launches anti-piracy tool

 Good news for content producers this week: Google has finally released a beta of its YouTube piracy tool.However, the new tool puts the ball firmly in the court of the makers: they’ll need to upload the videos that they want protected. Google will then run a whizz-bang program that goes hunting for identical material on [...]

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Dilbert creator predicts the end of news print

…And it all rests on the evolution of the iPhone, apparently.
I predict that the end of printed newspapers will happen in the time it takes for most people to upgrade their cell phones two more times. The iPhone, and its inevitable copycats, (let’s call them iClones) are newspaper killers.

When you have a web browser [...]

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Blogs become ‘media properties’

A new chart shows the power of blog-powered technology sites against traditional online media, with several home-spun players now giving the BBC and CNet a run for their dollar.If you’re a habitual consumer of technology sites, none of the findings will come as a shock. To my eyes, the real interest comes in the comment [...]

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V-loggers edge closer to prime time

I think we can all draw this curve. Technology gets to a point where creating and distributing your video is open to everyone. Shortly after, Darwin strolls into the room, makes a declaration, and some fall by the wayside. But those left after natural selection has done its thing begin to grow.In particular, they start [...]

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TV shows to fight (Neilsen Net) ratings wars

This one’s a little beyond my simple mind, but I get the gist. NewTeeVee delves in a possible near future for the television and movie industries, taking recent predictions of an exponentially expanding online video market and converting it into a new currency for TV producers:
Using today’s encoding techniques, an hour of video content equates [...]

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Prince plans to end YouTube’s reign

The artist formerly known as Good is gearing up for an attack on YouTube, according to Reuters. He is less than chuffed at the distribution of his tunes through the video portal, and shrugs off arguments that YT is merely the product of its audience:
“YouTube … are clearly able (to) filter porn [...]

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Readers to design front covers

What a nice idea. Penguin Books get together with teen social site Piczo, giving its younger users the opportunity to design covers for a host of classic books. The cynical could accuse Penguin of tapping into a cheap source of creativity. Me? I’ll get my 12-year-old on the case this evening…
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