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With the deal between News Corp and Dow Jones finally over, Rupert Murdoch is focusing on the Wall Street Journal. To this end, he has already “outsourced” the European and Asian operations to his son and heir.
In addition to all the changes to the Journal’s print edition, Murdoch plans to make the online edition free. [...]

I’m trying to validate my theory about Youtube playlists half-life. My previous experience showed me that a list of Marilyn Manson videos had 75% of video dissappear over a two-week period.
Now, I have a sample that could actually let me calculate it in a scientific manner. This list of youtube music videos contains 11,500 songs, [...]

I’m not a pundit or an expert for that matter. Looking at Yahoo’s unspectacular performance and Google’s rise to dominance, it makes sense they’ll be looking for change.
They in this case is no other than Yahoo’s BoD. The big news is that Yahoo’s CFO, Susan Decker, gets promoted, while quite a few senior people leave. [...]

The New York Times has grown to embrace Youtube’s ascent.
They just came out with an article about Youtube’s Greates Hits.
Charles Isherwood goes ahead and posts a dozen Youtube videos that demonstrate its high class.
Until recently I had assumed that the “you” in YouTube referred to anybody but me, maybe everybody but me. Like who? [...]

An article in The New York Times, showcases Google’s new muscles. The article focused on a new facility that Google is building. Here’s the photo:

The article speculates that it’s all related to Google keeping its leading position in search. I think these guys are probably right – though not 100 percent. I bet a lot [...]

Marc Cuban recently explained how making playlists in Youtube and then downloading them rivals Apple’s iTunes model for music and video downloads.
He’s right of course. I’ve done a few playlists myself with the same goal in mind. What was my surprise when I came back to one of these playlists 2 weeks later.
The playlist [...]

All hail the new caesar of video sharing – Gootube.
Gizmodo did a pretty good job of coming up with a name of the merger between Google Video and Youtube. They even went so far as to create a logo. I love it.

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Yahoo bought Jumpcut, it makes sense that Google want to expand further in that space as well. They recently put video on their homepage to promote their Google Video service. Traffic stats indicate it lags far behind Youtube (source: Hitwise).
Now, TechCrunch posts that there are rumors that Google’s going to acquire Youtube.
The Wall [...]

GigaOM published this recently. There weren’t a lot of comments because Jumpcut was just a few months old and a relative unknown in the video arena. (Youtube sucking all the free PR!) Here’s what Liz had to say:
When I met Jumpcut earlier this summer, they had 11 employees, had raised $1 million in seed money, [...]