Analysis Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong Have you turned up your nose at YouTube for being born from low quality, financially unsustainable, pirated content? If you've made that argument in conversation before (and we now many people do) - new claims from YouTube itself now indicate that you'd be wrong. The official Google Blog made a post this morning following up on a New York Times… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Analysis Has Yahoo! Buzz Lived Up to the Buzz? Since our initial review of Yahoo! Buzz earlier this year, not much has changed about the service. At the same time, however, the perception, acceptance, and impact of the service has changed drastically. The service has shown that it can send enormous amounts of traffic (very talkative traffic), and has displaced Digg as the most active 'social… Muhammad Saleem View comments
Features Future of Online Music - Industry Players Discuss In yesterday's episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, our topic was online music and we had 3 very special guests on the show: Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO of Imeem; Lucas Gonze, founder of Webjay and until recently a senior member of the Yahoo Music team; and Rob Williams, Senior VP of Music Software at RealNetworks. Also on the show were… Play Richard MacManus View comments
Features It's Official: Mashup Privacy Protocol OAuth Is Fair Game OAuth, the open authorization protocol standard that will let users give limited access to their data to third party websites without giving away their passwords, crossed an important threshold tonight. All parties involved in building the spec have signed a covenant of non-assertion, meaning that OAuth can now be safely implemented anywhere… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features 3 Unique Search Engines of the Future The internet is a whole lot of nothing without a search engine or two. While the staying power of search engines has never been in question, it's been interesting to see how they've evolved to the point of replacing the address bar. With more information being published on the internet and different filters for interpreting this information… Corvida View comments