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NBC Universal and News Corp. Announce Deal with Internet Leaders AOL, MSN, MySpace And Yahoo! to Create a Premium Online Video Site with Unprecedented Reach.
For the most part when people started talking about the old media folks creating a YouTube killer, the belief was that they would get it wrong. Turns out that the naysayers didn't give Hollywood enough credit for learning some new tricks.
The new service that NBC and NewsCorp announced today is very very clever. Rather than trying to do the much lamented portal play, they enlisted...
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MSN expands industry-leading MSN Video service by enabling people to actively participate in the MSN content experience.
MSN today announced the U.S. beta release of Soapbox on MSN Video, a user-uploaded video service that makes it easy for people to express themselves by uploading, discovering and sharing personal videos with the Soapbox community and others around the world. Soapbox will be available on MSN Video and will be deeply integrated throughout Microsoft Corp.’s portfolio of online services, including Windows Live Spaces and...
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Microsoft Corp. today announced the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in 47 markets worldwide, and final availability of Live Local Search in the U.K. and the U.S. Microsoft also announced that Live Search will now power the Web search capability on MSN®, the company’s media and entertainment portal, attracting more than 465 million unique users worldwide per month.
“The launch of Live Search is a significant milestone for our services business, with our core search and monetization platform ready for prime time for MSN...
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Robert Scoble has had some fun “auditing” Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. In “Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?” Scoble challenges Microsoft’s assertions:
Microsofties take it on face value that they host the most blogs. They even love shoving it in your face… So, over the next few hours I’m gonna do some analysis and see if I can find out how much overcounting there’s going on.
In “The Elephant in the kitchen” Scoble discusses the results of his "audit":
What does Microsoft do when it says 'we have...
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All year, human-rights and free-speech advocates have been chastising big U.S. Internet companies for helping to censor the Internet in China. Critics of Beijing's policies have focused on Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, all of whose search engines operate in China under requirements to filter results from many Web sites related to such things as independence movements in Taiwan and Tibet, democracy advocates, and the Falun Gong religious movement.
Now Human Rights Watch is trying to turn up the heat another notch. On Aug. 10, the...
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According to the Hitwise numbers (which measures US searches only) Google has increased its share from 59.3% to 60.2%, Yahoo! has increased from 22.0% to 22.5% and MSN has decreased slightly from 12.1% to 11.8%.
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