The $1 billion copyright lawsuit Viacom filed against Google’s YouTube last week was no surprise to a lot of people. YouTube’s active user base busily posted clips from The Colbert Report and other Viacom-owned programming on a daily basis. Various media companies have asked YouTube to remove the content, but the problem wasn’t near [...]

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Poor presidential candidates. It’s not easy being you.

You have to raise money. You have to make speeches in the cold. You have to run around the country, waving at cameras and kissing babies. Newspapers are a pain, TV the bane of your existence. To make things worse, there’s the Internet. Anyone with a cell phone [...]

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Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.The search giant has notified a number of Web publishers in the last few days that they will be dropped from its popular “AdSense” program starting June 1.

The cut-off notices jolted the [...]

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TechCrunch is claiming that two unnamed sources are pointing to a MySpace acquisition of Flektor, a recently launched site for creating multimedia widgets that incorporate photos, videos, and text. The widgets can then be embedded in blogs or on MySpace profiles.
Earlier this month, it was reported that MySpace had acquired image-sharing site Photobucket after a [...]

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