Technically Speaking

With YouTube taking it live according to the report that I just read here, what happens to USTREAM.TV as well as justin.tv?

Most of you have already seen Justin take a big hit earlier this week, and many comments regarding them is that they are toast, basically. But what about UStream? How long do you think it is before both services are bought by the bigger fish in the pond? What about the earlier rumors a couple of weeks ago that it’s all just a show that eventually will reveal the longer term partnership between UStream and YouTube?

Technically Speaking, looking for others to leave their thoughts.

OnlineAuction.com has come out of nowhere to emerge as the country’s second largest online auction site ever, with more than 10,000,000 items currently listed. This milestone has only been achieved before by mega-billion-dollar industry giant eBay.

In the midst of this success, the company has announced a year-long contest guaranteed to push their numbers even higher.

OnlineAuction.com is sponsoring a YouTube contest with a monthly prize of $100.00 for the best, most viewed video promoting OLA.com. And at year’s end: A Grand Prize of $5,000.00 for one lucky winner! To learn more about this contest, go to OLA.com’s home page and click on the YouTube icon.

Technically Speaking, it’s all just one big yard or garage sale to me. Now you might have come by for 7 tips on dating or even some stats on savings, but you are at the wrong site! cell phone booster

YouTube is about to announce a big move tomorrow according to what Marshall just dropped on RWW. The AP article and the NewTeeVee, along with the Variety article will tell you more.

My take is that this could be very good for YouTube if AdSense does it right. As long as there are no stupid animal tricks showing up on tech sites, I think they have a winner. Video is one of the media spaces that seems to have no limits lately. Video via AdSense seems like a very smart idea.

Technically Speaking, YouTube is starting to move in the right direction - er - GoogleTube is starting to move in the right direction. Funny that it only took them a year to do so. billet grille

Music Biz wins - Well they won round #1 in the war, that I’m sure will continue. One comment left on this blog suggested we all start a fund for Jammie. So do you think or agree with Vickie? Should we rally around Jammie and lend her a few dollars to pay off her fine?

YouTube Spam - Yes, it seems that spam is everywhere. Now in the case of YouTube (who is Google in disguise), they really need to do something asap. Marshall has all the scoop info you love to read as well as related articles on this.

Facebook to do what? - Why not. Serve up some mp3’s. Everyone loves mp3’s. Well legal music is great. But according to the trial above, what really is legal anymore? It seems like the record industry wants it all and than some. Greed. It’s totally why the record business has declined. It has nothing to do with file sharing. Artists saw an opportunity and the ones who have seized it are the ones that are doing fine. Record companies screwed musicians for years upon decades.

Technically Speaking, the music business is changing and for the better for the people creating the music - the artist - the musician. Sorry, no more greedy lawyers sitting on their fat a$$es collecting a check. Go chase an ambulance would ya? IBM memory

That is all the time I have this morning. I will be back shortly; obviously as I have social media person duties to attend. For now though, it’s like the old days - Link Blog is Locked ‘N Loaded, and you have some stuff to read below!

7 Arrested - In a MySpace sting operation it appears. How does this not surprise me?

Sicko - Just don’t make money on it! ie.. don’t sell it or try to profit off of it. You follow the rules, and Mike’s ok with sharing!

Driver - Please take me to …. Gotta love technology! I have been waiting for this to hurry up and get here. Driving would be less stressful if all cars were required to be computer driven and operated!

State Of The Video ID - I still don’t understand how Google and YouTube just are not one video delivery platform. Didn’t Google pay $1.65 billion for YouTube? Are they not sharing information between the two companies? Isn’t this the reason we all were screwed on 9-11? Departments within an organization not sharing information with each other (ie.. CIA-FBI-NSA, etc.. )????

Technically Speaking, have to roll out for a bit this morning, but this reminds me of the old days of blogging early and beating the rush!

YouTube is going to be the place to submit your debate questions in for the July 23rd Presidential debates in South Carolina. It appears that Anderson Cooper will be the moderator in this historic debate process.

Now imagine a college student in jeans and a T-shirt asking a question, less reverentially, more pointedly and using powerful visual images to underscore the point. Maybe he or she will ask about the war in Iraq — and show clips from a soldier’s funeral. Or a mushroom cloud. The question might come as a rap song or through spliced images of a candidate’s contradictory statements.

The presidential debates are about to enter the world of YouTube, the anything-goes home-video-sharing Web site that puts the power in the hands of the camera holder. YouTube, which is owned by Google, and CNN are co-sponsoring a debate among the eight Democratic presidential candidates on July 23 in South Carolina, an event that could define the next phase of what has already been called the YouTube election, in which anyone with a video camera might alter the political debate.

After you just read the above quote, you probably expect some fire at these debates. Don’t be surprised if there are none. The thing with YouTube, is that the videos will all be submitted before hand. Do you really believe something will “accidentally” be shown?

All the details will be coming out tomorrow morning in a joint CNN and YouTube press conference which starts at 8:30am pacific time.

Technically Speaking, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake showed us all why “live” is no longer really “live” unless you are there at the event in person.

Is this really a case of dragging their feet or what? I mean come on guys, it was mandated by copyright law eon’s ago actually. Why the feet dragging is what I want to know. These tests should have been on the front burner since Google bought you up. There should have been no delay in starting this roll out phase. In fact, you should have been coding something the day you started talks with Google.

There is absolutely zero excuse in my book for not having something already rolled out.

Google says it will soon begin testing a long-awaited system that can block unauthorized copyrighted clips from being uploaded to YouTube, the popular video-sharing site it bought last year.

Company executives have predicted that the technology, once deployed, would lead to a détente with the studios and television networks that have bitterly complained about the proliferation of their copyrighted clips on YouTube.

What this seems like to me is the way you can milk it as long as possible for as much fanfare and love you can muster from the rest of the world. In the meantime, you just ended up frustrating every intelligent copyright holder out there. You may be gaining some fans, but you have alienated the ones that are writing your paychecks. That would be the big media companies that you are stealing property from.

This is by no means the way to run a business. Online or off line. In fact, it shows that the maturity level at both companies leaves a little to be desired. YouTube quit playing games, and Google get back in line as the supposed leader of the pack. A true leader would have laid the plan out for these guys (YouTube).

Technically Speaking, too much money, too soon, has taken the sights off the final destination. Nothing new here, YouTube will continue to make money, Google will continue be the pretender to the throne, and everyone will go about their sheep like ways.

Hollywood apparently isn’t pleased by the speed of YouTube doing what they are suppose to be doing. I will have to side with the old guard on this one, as it appears to me that Google and YouTube are deliberately dragging their feet and slowing down a legal ending to this. Could it be that luxury home that they all live in now, might not be affordable if they rid their sites of the copyrighted content?

I seriously doubt that last statement. The article does state a point that can’t be ignored

NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm said that in just a couple of weeks he has found more than 125 full-length movies, TV shows and live music performances on Google Video. He strongly doubts Google when it says it can’t block infringing content.

“If a 58-year-old former prosecutor can find this stuff, Google should be able to,” Boehm said. “I’m nobody’s idea of a computer expert. These folks are bleeding edge in terms of information. They should be ahead of the curve. This undermines the credibility of their technology…We think there isn’t good faith in their representations that they are doing all they can.”

YouTube on the other hand has no problems scoring new lucrative deals with their service. Big companies such as CBS who they recently negotiated a deal with. That leads me to believe they think they can eventually lock everyone up as quickly as possible and the technology will not have to work as stated.

I am thinking that they won’t lock everyone up. Remember, they didn’t lock up Viacom

Already hanging over the search engine’s head is Viacom’s $1 billion copyright complaint filed in March.

Technically Speaking, YouTube and Google need to lock these deals down, but at the same time they need to address the issue of copyright infringement head on. Without a legal platform, they will crumble like a house of cards that they are.

In some select cities, the local news will now be on dedicated YouTube channels. This only furthers my opinion of television’s eventual demise. I believe the set boxes will be around, but I also think that soon they will be all internet powered for content. With companies like Joost and their new CEO, they will push things ahead as far as this goes.

YouTube announced a partnership with an independently-owned TV broadcast network yesterday that will enable five stations to begin monetizing their content online. The agreement with Hearst-Argyle Television will put local TV programming from five markets

What cities? Boston, Manchester, Sacremento, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Nothing close to the middle of the country yet. Hopefully we shall see these stations maximizing the exposure they will receive shortly via the online distribution network. Once they prove profitable, I can see both Joost and YouTube trying to grab this daily new content up quickly.

Technically Speaking, best investment advice I can give right now is to hold off on any new television purchases. Make use of what you have currently, as the new wave of television will probably require some connections not currently offered on most brands that you can purchase.

It took awhile, but now YouTube and EMI are official partners

“With this deal, all four of the world’s major music companies are now official YouTube partners,” said Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-founder of YouTube. “EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world’s largest and most respected music companies. We’re excited to add EMI Music’s stellar roster of artists’ content to our site and make it available to our community.”

Is that the only real excitement here? No. It means that YouTube will live another day with this nice deal.

EMI Music has agreed to work with YouTube and Google to develop business models in which the YouTube community will be able to access user generated content featuring EMI-owned and copyrighted audio and video works. EMI Music will use YouTube’s industry-leading content management tools which feature a content identification and reporting system that will help EMI track and monetize its content and compensate its artists. YouTube’s content management tools also give EMI Music the ability to request the removal of EMI’s copyrighted content from YouTube.

My guess is if you use EMI content and make a spoof video of anyone at YouTube, Google, or EMI, they can remove it? That is a bit unclear, but it’s better then what YouTube had going for it before.

Its record labels include…. The Beatles, ….

Yes, their roster does include The Beatles. So when are we going to finally have them online?

Technically Speaking, this is a good day for YouTube.