Category Archives: Media

YouTube rival proposed by Media giants – Just don’t get it

December 12, 2006 – 1:54 pm

According to The Wall Street Journal last Saturday, some of the biggest organisations in the media including News Corp, Fox, Viacom Incm, CBS Corp and NBC Universal are planning a video rival to YouTube.
They plan to develop an online video platform for publishing ‘their’ network content, and cash in on the popularity of their material [...]

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Google AdSense funding terrorist

December 6, 2006 – 11:30 pm

According to Jim Hedger from Webmaster radio, Google’s social network Orkut and the adsense network is being used by several organisations to fund terrorism. At the search engine strategies conference in Chicargo, Jim held a press conference to make his findings public.
He claims to have evidence which is currently being investigated by Google, which [...]

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Watch your carbon footprint from Second Life

December 5, 2006 – 10:39 pm

Tony Walsh asks the question is Second Life ecologically sustainable? A quick sum on the back of a fag packet by Nicholas Carr, suggest avatars consumes just a little less electricity than the world average for a person and as much as the average Brazilian. That’s right, the ammount of energy used by [...]

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Public to contribute eyewitness photos to Yahoo! news

December 5, 2006 – 10:09 pm

Yahoo! partner with Reuters inviting the general public to contribute pictures and videos of important news events taken on their mobile phones and digital cameras. The news distribution system called ‘You Witness‘ will enable citizen journalist to contribute news media to feature alongside Yahoo! news articles. Reuters will edit and distribute the photos for use [...]

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