How the Legal System Works

Step One: MySpace partners with Gracenote to identify and elim­inate copy­righted music on their network. (October 30th)

Step Two: MySpace announces steps to identify and elim­inate copy­righted video on their network. (Nov 17th)

Step Three: Universal Music Group sues MySpace for copy­right infringe­ment. (Nov 17th)

It will be inter­esting to see how this pans out.

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Poll Position — UK Last Again

From Hotwire PR comes an ipsos MORI poll of European internet users:

Blogs are now a near second to news­pa­pers as the most trusted inform­a­tion source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of inform­a­tion, still behind news­paper articles (30%), but ahead of tele­vi­sion advert­ising (17%) and email mar­keting (14%). High spenders are most

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Blogebrity…

The recent ‘state of the blo­go­sphere’ report from Technorati’s David Sifry has ruffled a few feathers because of the inclu­sion of a new semi-​​​​scientific ranking system to group bloggers into four distinct groups. Let’s call them A-​​​​D. (Aside: find out where you stand using this handy tool)

The report describes the four groups

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A Win for Wikis

A new report says Wikis are more important than social networks when it comes to business tech­no­logy buyers. The report, from Knowledge Storm and Universal McCann, is avail­able here — regis­tra­tion required. It’s also a cut-​​​​and-​​​​paste pro­tected PDF, the devil’s own file format.

But basic­ally, it says that, of 5300 participants:

77% of these buyers

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Threepointouch

Techmeme is full to bursting with posts announcing/​​decrying the announce­ment of some­thing called Web 3.0. The ker­fuffle follows an article in the New York Times yes­terday, which is actually about semantic tech­no­lo­gies — I gave a little overview in August and there’s more here. The ideas have been around since at least 1999,

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Video 2.0 Round-​​up

YouTube was the 26th most popular site on the Internet in September 2006. Ending my recent responses to the Hitwise Consumer Generated Media report (social networks and photos pre­vi­ously), this is what’s hap­pening in the Web 2.0 video sharing space. Recently acquired by Google, YouTube remains firmly at the top of

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