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Let's cut the glamour. I would like to meet someone with a painful past. If you have had a boring,
normal life, please don't reply. I like people with depth and insight and an ability to deal with
life.
In the
next few weeks, the ReadWriteWeb events guide will take you from New York City, to San Francisco,
to Portland, Oregon. Along the way you'll find a conference on search engine strategies, a
showcase for startups, an in-depth look at the freemium business model, and a day filled with of
social media case studies.
How do you like your events calendar? As a
world map? As an
iCal (and Google Calendar-importable) file? You can also import individual events using the
link beside each entry. Know of something cool taking place that should appear here? Let us know
in the comments below or contact us.
Go beyond search at Search Engine
Strategies New York. Learn the newest trends, strategic action plans, and technology that
industry leaders are employing today. Our experts will trace the natural evolution of search
exploring topics such as: digital asset optimization, mobile application development, transition
from search to discovery and more.Book your pass today. Enter RWW15 to save 15% off the
registration. Sessions include:
After a long winter's hiatus, S.F. Beta is back, for its forth year straight! Join
hundreds of founders, investors, developers, and technologists for a lively evening of demos,
drinks, conversation, and new connections. Early bird
tickets are available, and they're going fast. Register now for discounted admission. As
always, we feature startup demos all night. This time around, the theme is Search &
Discovery. If you're building the next Google (or the next Google acquisition), we want you here!
Email cperry@sfbeta.com for more info.
The first Freemium Summit is a one day
event focused on exploring what it takes to succeed under the freemium business model. Across all
segments of the media landscape, entrepreneurs and executives are pioneering models that combine
a free offering with a premium, paid offering. This hybrid business model is one of the most
exciting areas of business model innovation impacting the world of media and the Freemium Summit
will explore the most important topics on the minds of leading practitioners.
Confirmed Speakers: Toni Schneider, Automattic (WordPress); Matt Brezina, Xobni; Aaron Levie,
Box.net; Phil Libin, Evernote; Tom Conrad, Pandora; Drew Houston, Dropbox; Ranjith Kumaran,
YouSendIt; Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp; Lance Walley, Chargify; Isaac Hall, Recurly; and Lincoln
Murphy, Sixteen Ventures.
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on
case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom
lines. Over the course of the day, you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Intel, Ford,
Comcast, Nike and many more, as well as keynote Peter Shankman. Register now and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
4 April 2010: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
TEDx CMU is an independently
organized TEDx event that will be held on April 4th, 2010 at Carnegie Mellon University and will
feature a full day of talks by prominent speakers as well as recorded videos from past TEDTalks.
Confirmed speakers include Jonathan Fields (author, blogger and entrepreneur), Stacey Monk
(founder of Epic Change, a startup nonprofit), Chase Jarvis (photographer, director and social
artist) and Nathan Martin (CEO of Deeplocal, an innovation studio in Pittsburgh).
The theme of the event is "Fearless", and we are inviting speakers from cross-disciplinary
backgrounds to talk about their experiences, and tell us a little about what inspires them to be
fearless in the pursuit of goals. We hope to spark discussions and foster connections between
participants, encouraging aspiring individuals to follow their dreams and make a difference. The
event is free to attend, and the application deadline is March 21, 2010.
For more information about the event, visit tedxcmu.com or email
info@tedxcmu.com. You can also find TEDx CMU on Facebook
or follow us on Twitter.
ConnectNow brings together international
specialists and thought leaders in social media, emerging technologies and their intersection
with business. Learn how the realtime web, location based services, augmented reality, ubiquitous
computing and personalised services are changing marketing and communications. Understand the
importance of trust in relationship marketing and what is "social currency". For more info email
info@connectnow.net.au.
PubCon, the premier search
and social media conference, features the industry's biggest names and key players shaping the
future of the Web. PubCon South will include
cutting-edge panel sessions exploring tracks dedicated to search, social media and affiliate
marketing, an intensive professional search and social media training program, and some of the
world's top keynote speakers. PubCon South at Dallas will also hold a one-day, two-track slate of
intensive educational training programs led by some of the industry's most respected search
professionals. The event takes place at the Richardson Conference and Civic Center. Register
here.
Under the Radar: Cloud is must-attend
event for dealmakers and heads of IT from large enterprises, SMBs, service providers, carriers
and media companies who are responsible for helping their companies leverage new technology and
innovation in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. Join us for the 15th Under the Radar conference,
featuring a hand-picked selection of the world's most innovative cloud startups among 350 top
tech, media, telcom and finance executives. For ticket and more information, visit http://undertheradarblog.com.
FutureMidwest is the region's largest technology and knowledge
conference. Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson, FutureMidwest is the fusion
of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 - the Module Midwest Digital Conference
and TechNow.
Both conferences highlighted how technology and digital tools have dramatically changed the way
we do business and the effect this transition has had on companies. FutureMidwest kicks things up
a notch with presentations, group breakout sessions, relationship-building opportunities and
influencers who are taking action to redefine business in the digital age. Register here.
The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on
case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom
lines. Over the course of the day you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Ford, Best Buy,
Scottrade, Hardees, CMT and many more. Register now
and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off.
DrupalCon is
the premier conference focused on Drupal, the award-winning open source content management
framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web development today. For a registration fee
of $195, attendees get three full days of sessions led by the best and brightest Drupal
experts.
Drupal has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has
doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types
including blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and web content publishing and
management.
The Future of Money & Technology
Summit will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including
visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors,
solution/service providers, and organizations who work where cash and commerce collide. We meet
to discuss the evolving ecosystem around money in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking
environment. Featured speakers include Jolie O'Dell from ReadWriteWeb, as well as representatives
from Wells Fargo Bank, Kiva, SharesPost, Jambool, Founders Fund, Outright.com, SoftTech VC, and
many more.
Use discount code "rww" to get 10% off registration.
The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010
will be an exploration of the latest Mobile development trends - both the technology and the
emerging business applications. Get ready to explore, think and create the future of Mobile with
the brightest in the industry, your peers! As in our last Summit, The Real-Time Web, the
ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit is an unconference.
An unconference is a participant driven conference where the agenda is created
on the day, in real-time and discussions are lead by conference participants. Read about the history of unconferences.
We will have two main tracks at this Summit - Development and Business - so the Summit will be of
interest to managers, marketers, developers, innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders alike.
Here's a sample of some of the topics we'll explore in both of these tracks.
FinovateSpring 2010 will again showcase the most cutting-edge
financial and banking technology innovations to Silicon Valley and the world. With Finovate's
signature mix of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) from handpicked
companies and intimate networking time with their executives, this conference packs a ton of
unique value into a single day.
Come see the cutting edge of banking and financial technology and network with hundreds of the
leading financial executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers and fintech
entrepreneurs. Early bird registration
rates are available.
The SF MusicTech Summit
will bring together 700-plus visionaries in the music/technology space - the best and brightest
entrepreneurs, developers, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations
who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving
music, business and technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive-to-dealmaking environment.
Enter the discount code "rww" to get 10% off.
Glue is the only conference devoted
solely to exploring the problem-sets facing architects, developers and IT professionals in a
"post-cloud" world. Glue focuses on the APIs and protocols (Twitter, Facebook, Websockets,
PubSubHubBub, XMPP), formats and standards (RDF/Linked Data, JSON, Microformats, HTML5),
platforms and providers (Amazon, Rackspace, Google App Engine, Salesforce.com, Eucalyptus),
Identity Protocols (OAuth/WRAP, SAML, OpenID, SPML) emerging NoSQL data models (Cassandra,
CouchDB, MongoDB, Riak, HBase), and other mechanisms that are building the post-cloud world.
ReadWriteCloud will be blogging live from Gluecon and CloudCamp, and ReadWriteWeb's Alex Williams
will be moderating the "Managing Complexity in the Cloud" session. Please join us May 25-27 in
Denver, Colorado. ReadWriteWeb readers can receive 10% off of
registration by using the code "RWW12".
The Corporate Social Media Summit is a
two day conference focused exclusively on how big businesses can take advantage of social media
to enhance their marketing/comms strategy. Featuring:
Practical and relevant insights from peers who have already used social media successfully
20-plus corporate speakers (including
PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Dell, McDonald's, General Motors, Citi, Johnson & Johnson),
Best practice, benchmarks and practical next steps you can use to take advantage of social
media in your business
A tightly-focused agenda with 14 in-depth,
practical workshops giving you knowledge on only the most critical business issues surrounding
corporate use of social media
Save $400 if you quote RWW400 when booking. Book here.
The 2nd annual Cloud Computing World Forum is
the perfect event to learn and discuss the development, integration, adoption and future of cloud
computing and SaaS. Building on the success of the 2009 show, this two day conference and
free-to-attend exhibition will provide a focused platform for the global cloud and SaaS industry.
Show highlights include:
Co-located with CloudCamp London
Co-located with Green IT conference
Free-to-attend exhibition with seminar and scenario theatre
FinovateFall will return to Manhattan on Tuesday, October 5 to
showcase dozens of the biggest and most innovative new ideas in financial and banking technology
from established leaders(...)
The endosymbiotic theory proposed that mitochondrial genomes are derived from an
alpha-proteobacterium-like endosymbiont, which was concluded from sequence analysis. We rebuilt the
metabolic networks of mitochondria and 22 relative species, and studied the evolution of
mitochondrial metabolism at the level of enzyme content and network topology. Our phylogenetic
results based on network alignment and motif identification supported the endosymbiotic theory from
the point of view of systems biology for the first time. It was found that the mitochondrial
metabolic network were much more compact than the relative species, probably related to the higher
efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation of the specialized organelle, and the network is highly
clustered around the TCA cycle. Moreover, the mitochondrial metabolic network exhibited high
functional specificity to the modules. This work provided insight to the understanding of
mitochondria evolution, and the organization principle of mitochondrial metabolic network at the
network level. Xiao Chang, Zhuo Wang, Pei Hao, Yuan-Yuan Li, Yi-Xue Li
Publication Date: 2010 Mar 18 PMID: 20237569Authors: Andersen, C. B. - Madsen, M. - Storm, T. -
Moestrup, S. K. - Andersen, G. R.Journal: NatureCobalamin (Cbl, vitamin B(12)) is a bacterial
organic compound and an essential coenzyme in mammals, which take it up from the diet. This occurs
by the combined action of the gastric intrinsic factor (IF) and the ileal endocytic cubam receptor
formed by the 460-kilodalton (kDa) protein cubilin and the 45-kDa transmembrane protein amnionless.
Loss of function of any of these proteins ultimately leads to Cbl deficiency in man. Here we
present the crystal structure of the complex between IF-Cbl and the cubilin IF-Cbl-binding-region
(CUB(5-8)) determined at 3.3 A resolution. The structure provides insight into how several CUB (for
'complement C1r/C1s, Uegf, Bmp1') domains collectively function as modular ligand-binding regions,
and how two distant CUB domains embrace the Cbl molecule by binding the two IF domains in a
Ca(2+)-dependent manner. This dual-point model provides a probable explanation of how Cbl
indirectly induces ligand-receptor coupling. Finally, the comparison of Ca(2+)-binding CUB domains
and the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor-type A modules suggests that the electrostatic
pairing of a basic ligand arginine/lysine residue with Ca(2+)-coordinating acidic
aspartates/glutamates is a common theme of Ca(2+)-dependent ligand-receptor interactions.post to:
CiteULike
Neuro-axonal degeneration occurs progressively from the onset of multiple sclerosis and is
thought to be a significant cause of increasing clinical disability. Several histopathological
studies of multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis have shown that the
accumulation of sodium in axons can promote reverse action of the sodium/calcium exchanger that,
in turn, leads to a lethal overload in intra-axonal calcium. We hypothesized that sodium magnetic
resonance imaging would provide an indicator of cellular and metabolic integrity and ion
homeostasis in patients with multiple sclerosis. Using a three-dimensional radial gradient-echo
sequence with short echo time, we performed sodium magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T in 17
patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis and in 13 normal subjects. The
absolute total tissue sodium concentration was measured in lesions and in several areas of
normal-appearing white and grey matter in patients, and corresponding areas of white and grey
matter in controls. A mixed model analysis of covariance was performed to compare regional tissue
sodium concentration levels in patients and controls. Spearman correlations were used to
determine the association of regional tissue sodium concentration levels in T2- and T1-weighted
lesions with measures of normalized whole brain and grey and white matter volumes, and with
expanded disability status scale scores. In patients, tissue sodium concentration levels were
found to be elevated in acute and chronic lesions compared to areas of normal-appearing white
matter (P < 0.0001). The tissue sodium concentration levels in areas of
normal-appearing white matter were significantly higher than those in corresponding white matter
regions in healthy controls (P < 0.0001). The tissue sodium concentration value
averaged over lesions and over regions of normal-appearing white and grey matter was positively
associated with T2-weighted (P ≤ 0.001 for all) and T1-weighted (P ≤
0.006 for all) lesion volumes. In patients, only the tissue sodium concentration value averaged
over regions of normal-appearing grey matter was negatively associated with the normalized grey
matter volume (P = 0.0009). Finally, the expanded disability status scale score showed a
mild, positive association with the mean tissue sodium concentration value in chronic lesions
(P = 0.002), in regions of normal-appearing white matter (P = 0.004) and
normal-appearing grey matter (P = 0.002). This study shows the feasibility of using
in vivo sodium magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Our findings suggest that the abnormal values of the tissue sodium concentration in patients with
relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis might reflect changes in cellular composition of the
lesions and/or changes in cellular and metabolic integrity. Sodium magnetic resonance imaging has
the potential to provide insight into the pathophysiological mechanisms of tissue injury when
correlation with histopathology becomes available.
Publication Date: 2010 Mar 17 PMID: 20236517Authors: Licamele, L. - Getoor, L.Journal: BMC
BioinformaticsABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: There is a large amount of gene expression data that exists in
the public domain. This data has been generated under a variety of experimental conditions.
Unfortunately, these experimental variations have generally prevented researchers from accurately
comparing and combining this wealth of data, which still hides many novel insights. RESULTS: In
this paper we present a new method, which we refer to as indirect two-sided relative ranking, for
comparing gene expression profiles that is robust to variations in experimental conditions. This
method extends the current best approach, which is based on comparing the correlations of the up
and down regulated genes, by introducing a comparison based on the correlations in rankings across
the entire database. Because our method is robust to experimental variations, it allows a greater
variety of gene expression data to be combined, which, as we show, leads to richer scientific
discoveries. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate the benefit of our proposed indirect method on several
datasets. We first evaluate the ability of the indirect method to retrieve compounds with similar
therapeutic effects across known experimental barriers, namely vehicle and batch effects, on two
independent datasets (one private and one public). We show that our indirect method is able to
significantly improve upon the previous state-of-the-art method with a substantial improvement in
recall at rank 10 of 97.03% and 49.44%, on each dataset, respectively. Next, we demonstrate that
our indirect method results in improved accuracy for classification in several additional datasets.
These datasets demonstrate the use of our indirect method for classifying cancer subtypes,
predicting drug sensitivity/resistance, and classifying (related) cell types. Even in the absence
of a known (i.e., labeled) experimental barrier, the improvement of the indirect method in each of
these datasets is statistically significant.post to:
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The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming
a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself and the
experience surrounding it.
Today, we get to add Google's chapter to "Will One Company Dominate
the Cloud" introspective series and take a glimpse of the silent revolution from "index" to
"be" that is transforming the company and it's products to the default way to engage the
Internet.
As fate has it, Google done us a big favor in preparing for this piece. The company has launched
an assault on the enterprise with its movement in the Google App Engine, having a
stand-off with China, and negotiating with the EU. And that was
just a bit of Google
news from this week.
Sponsor
Whereas it's a bit more clear where Amazon and Cisco win (our
recent analysis) as they head towards the cloud, with Google it takes a bit more expansive view.
We have to take the focus out a bit, to be able to dial in on the details.
Acknowledgment: Developers are the Products they Build
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Tim Bray. He has been a key contributor and thought leader
in key areas of interoperability and information design, including his leadership in bringing XML
to the world. He recently announced that he's joining Google and focusing on Android in a
transition from Sun.
Several things struck us about our dialog that we think are key for Google.
First, when Bray described his new job at Google, he talked about what he wanted to do and what
he saw that needed to be done. Within three days of being there, he has a sense of ownership of
the companies products and mission. In some organizations, you may never get such a luxury.
Second, Bray described his opportunity to "roll up his sleeves" and get back in the groove as a
developer on a project he feels passion for. He mentioned his desire to take the open APIs of
Android and expose some of the information in a more portable way, for example to transfer a call
log from one phone to another. A very interesting project, with tangible results. This type of
innovation lives on top of all the work the company has done to make the API exist, and to
attract individuals who are willing to rethink how it should really work.
We think that this is the most interesting thing about where Google is right now. It's "open"
mantra gives the company the ability to see a whole generation into the future of information
channel disruption. And, by bringing in "no holds barred" developers like Bray and a legion of
others, the company is patiently solving problems that many of us don't even know exist.
Lastly, Bray said something that caused us some deep thought.
His comment, "when the Drizzle team was moved into Google, they
just kept working on the their open source project and things stayed nearly the same."
What caused us to pause was that open source development, whether Linux or XML, gives the
developer, as a person, a way to contribute to the world. And it's documented. If the Internet
was the Bible, leading a key open source initiative, is like getting your own chapter in the
book, where time will be the judge of your actions. Much better than your manager alone.
To know that hard work, intellectual capital, libraries are available to the world after the
contract is complete. This really speaks to the artist in us, in a way, the paid open source
developer is using Google as a canvas.
If working at Google offers this emotional spark to employees, it will gain entirely new
efficiencies in solving the big problems, in the context of individual efforts. Maybe this open
source spirit is embedded into Twitter, and is why it works. We like to contribute to our version
of the greater good...and want fans to cheer us on.
What we learned; acknowledgment matters, and connections to the whole population of people is an
amazing vehicle. Google: become an indie rock star - with the strength of grep.
All of the Information on Earth
Google's destiny to become the hub of the worlds information is
intertwined with history. And this comes with artifacts of policy and posturing. To start with,
not everyone agrees that Google should achieve a dominant cloud position. As we're noticing,
stopping it is another matter.
We'd like to suggest that in 2010, the company is not shy about stepping towards its future and
will use its power, technology, and cash to stir it up. Here is our list of organizations in the
world that Google has, is, or will be, continually bumping into in its quest for cloud
information dominance.
China (counties own the filters for the people)
ATT (service providers own consumer on the network)
Penguin (book publishers own the words in the texts)
Visa (financial institutions own the digits in the transactions)
Facebook (social networks know the details)
Amazon (commerce sites own the decision point)
Twitter (owns "what's happening")
Microsoft (owns the computer applications and files)
Open can be a Key to Unlock Doors
We see both practical and strategic reasons that Google has a
deep connection with the open source movement. Strategically, being the new optimized layer,
removing all historic barriers to information give the company more leverage. Practically,
solutions can be built where information is free.
Reviewing a few examples, such as Google Earth, Android, and even GMail and we see that where
there are open protocols and information disruptive products can be built. Once they are built,
the Google wields a significant economic advantage in binding the worlds information assets and
converting them to eyeballs.
Here, we take a quick look at the information assets that Google is investing the global cloud.
Results: Google has moved away from Page Rank to "Closest Object" in it's
default results. What this means is that many businesses today show up as widget in the results
in google with embedded links, maps, and other efficiencies.
Ads: This is perhaps the best known and most valuable insight and unique
asset, who wants to pay for what customer
Realtime index: Google has worked to keep up with Twitter's realtime firehose
Semantic index: The company continues to add more and more microsyntax parsers
into its index, giving more controlled tools for publishers
GMail: It had to be done. And it is monetized.
Documents and files: Google Docs and the Apps Marketplace create a whole new
stream of information about an individual. Private, personal, and shared.
Mobile transactions: This is an interesting sample of where Google's strategy
to build the Android OS pays off in the cloud. Not only does Google get to connect mobile to
the rest of the offerings, but also to be able to dial in on movements, calls, and other
critical tasks in our real-time lives.
Books: Indexing all of them, first is an interesting piece of the strategy to
break apart historic containers of knowledge. Is the book copyrighted? How about the quote?
Browsers: The browser knows a lot. Google's Chrome moves it from being default
search, to being default experience. This was a great example of where access to information
"Faster pages" is the simple value proposition for consumers to switch.
Filters: Protecting companies, trademarks, and interpreting the legality of
free speech. Someone has to do it, if we're all one people.
Health transactions: Google has even taken on one of the most sensitive
challenges, private health information. And, it's connections to legacy systems that prefer EDI
to JSON.
It's clear that Google is making progress. What we've also learned in this review is that the
companies biggest asset - people - may scale to solve problems in lightweight ways that entire
teams and companies haven't been able to in the past. Perhaps being open, or transparent, gives
the company a unique advantage in being prepared for a cloud future.
Is the cloud where the action is?
What verb would you be if you were hired at Google?
This week, documents from Viacom's billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube for copyright
infringement were published, and the three-year-long-and-counting lawsuit has again been brought
to the public's attention. In case you haven't been following the case, here's a quick timeline
of the major events that led up to the lawsuit, and those that occurred since the original
complaint was filed:
May 24, 2005- Viacom subpoenas YouTube for information about a user who uploaded
clips from Paramount Pictures' "Twin Towers."
June 2005- Viacom's board of directors approves a plan to spin off assets, which
become known as the new Viacom, Inc. That new company is given control of Paramount, while the
core company reforms as CBS Corp.
January 2006- 20th Century Fox sues YouTube to have content from Fox TV shows
such as The Simpsons and 24 removed from YouTube.
June 2006- YouTube and NBC partner to create NBC channel on
YouTube for Internet exclusives, clips, and trailers.
July 2006- Viacom and NBC Universal back journalist Robert Tur in his suit
against YouTube for illegally posting his videos of the 1992 L.A. riots. The legal brief said,
"YouTube incorrectly contends that the DMCA permits it to avoid any responsibility for the
content on its commercial website and completely shift the burden to content owners to discover
and notify it of infringements."
March 2007- Viacom General Counsel Michael Fricklas in a Washington Post op-ed says that YouTube was not just a passive content
host, and that it is fully aware of what it does. "If the public knows what's there, then
YouTube's management surely does. YouTube's own terms of use give it clear rights, notably the
right to take anything down."
May 2007- British Premier League files class action suit against YouTube for
copyright infringement, says Google "knowingly misappropriated and exploited this valuable
property," when it allowed users to post footage from its football games.
June 2007- YouTube introduces Content ID to help content owners identify if
their content is being used, gives them the option to remove unauthorized content, or monetize
it.
August 2007- Google asks Comedy Central personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen
Colbert to testify against Viacom in copyright hearings.
Comedy Central is a Viacom property.
March 2008- Viacom President and CEO Phillippe Dauman says "We've already
achieved a number of things with this lawsuit. It took a long time, but because of our actions,
YouTube has moved in the right direction. They're where they should have been all along."
June 2008- New York District Court rules that Google has to turn over user IDs
and IP addresses to Viacom. Angry users upload nearly 5,000 "Viacom Sucks" videos to
YouTube. Google is later allowed to make this data anonymous.
July 2008- Movie studio Lionsgate partners with YouTube for a branded channel
with ad-supported official content from the studio.
April 2009- Content owners discus "TV Anywhere" plan to tie Web-based video
content into cable subscription fees. Viacom CEO Dauman says, "People are used to paying for
video subscriptions," sees it as a good idea.
June 2009- "TV Everywhere" network scheme launches.
July 2009- Some claims from the Premier League's 2007 suit against YouTube are
dismissed, but claims for "statutory damages for works not registered in the US" are allowed.
September 2009- Google gives individual copyright holders access to the Insight
metrics of YouTube videos that contain their intellectual property according to Content ID.
October 2009- Viacom presents "smoking gun" evidence for its case: internal
e-mails from YouTube staff that show "actual knowledge" that copyright infringement was taking
place on the video sharing site.
November 2009- Google announces YouTube Direct, a
system where media outlets can directly communicate with users and arrange rebroadcasting rights
on a one-to-one basis.
March 2010- Some of Viacom's "smoking gun" documents go public, company claims
"YouTube was intentionally built on infringement."
Apple is requiring that the few pre-release iPad developers with hardware exhibit the same
level of secrecy that it implements itself, a rare insight into the process has shown. Those with
access to the tablet before its April 3rd launch have had to not only shroud any windows but to
tether the iPad to an immovable object. The company goes so far as to have companies take a photo
of the room meeting these conditions before they receive their sample units....
Apple is requiring that the few pre-release iPad developers with hardware exhibit the same
level of secrecy that it implements itself, a rare insight into the process has shown. Those with
access to the tablet before its April 3rd launch have had to not only shroud any windows but to
tether the iPad to an immovable object. The company goes so far as to have companies take a photo
of the room meeting these conditions before they receive their sample units....
Michael Scott points us to a
rather surprising (given the source) piece in Ad Age asking if copyright is "the
buggy whip of the digital age." Of course, most regular Techdirt readers will not be surprised
to find that I agree with that statement wholeheartedly. It's a tool for a very different system
that isn't needed. If anything, I'd argue the situation is worse than with buggy whips. At least
with buggy whips, they could just fade away as the automobile grew in importance. Buggy whips
couldn't get in the way of the automakers. Copyright, on the other hand, is regularly used
to stifle and hold back new forms of creativity and to silence expression.
The article itself, by Judy Shapiro, is really a conference report from an event called "The
Collision of Ideas 2010," put on by the Copyright Clearance Center. It looks like they brought in a
lot of fantastic speakers, highlighting how copyright law doesn't fit well with what content
creators are trying to do, and how it's often being used to actively harm content creators. For
example: Mr. Hoffman, the filmmaker, gave a presentation where he confided how challenging
current copyright laws are for artists. As an example, he gave us detailed insights into the
challenges he had creating his critically acclaimed Sputnik documentary. He explained that half his
budget was spent on copyright fees alone. Most unfairly, he had to pay exorbitant copyright fees to
a network for old news footage they did not even have but which David himself had spent time to
ferret out. David openly concluded that, "it was better to open the floodgates" and let anyone use
his content than constrain its distribution. Unfortunately, Shapiro is getting beaten up in
the comments on that piece by folks who are doing the kneejerk thing of saying "but copyright is
good, because otherwise who will create!" Still, it's good to see that this debate is reaching a
wider and wider audience through conferences like this one and in the pages of AdAge. While you can
always expect the kneejerk response from folks who have always been told that copyright must be
good, the more people examine the actual issues, the more they'll recognize that as a tool, it's
current design is woefully misguided and very much against the principles for which it was
created.
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In the
next few weeks, the ReadWriteWeb events guide will take you from New York City, to San Francisco,
to Portland, Oregon. Along the way you'll find a conference on search engine strategies, a
showcase for startups, an in-depth look at the freemium business model, and a day filled with of
social media case studies.
Go beyond search at 
After a long winter's hiatus, 
The first 
The social media conference for marketers, 
The social media conference for marketers, 
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The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming
a noun. Not just the few clicks to find information, but the information itself and the
experience surrounding it.
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with 
His comment, "when the Drizzle team was moved into Google, they
just kept working on the their open source project and things stayed nearly the same."
Google's destiny to become the hub of the worlds information is
intertwined with history. And this comes with artifacts of policy and posturing. To start with,
not everyone agrees that Google should achieve a dominant cloud position. As we're noticing,
stopping it is another matter.
We see both practical and strategic reasons that Google has a
deep connection with the open source movement. Strategically, being the new optimized layer,
removing all historic barriers to information give the company more leverage. Practically,
solutions can be built where information is free.
Apple is requiring that the few pre-release iPad developers with hardware exhibit the same
level of secrecy that it implements itself, a rare insight into the process has shown. Those with
access to the tablet before its April 3rd launch have had to not only shroud any windows but to
tether the iPad to an immovable object. The company goes so far as to have companies take a photo
of the room meeting these conditions before they receive their sample units....
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