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NLPC: Google indifferent towards Internet video piracy

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google-video.gifThe legal watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) sent a report to members of Congress detailing their research effort to examine the extent of apparent copyright violations on Google Video.

In the latest “spot check” of the site conducted from September 10 to September 18, NLPC discovered 300 additional instances of apparently copyrighted films, including over 60 movies released this year. Estimates credit Internet piracy theft for nearly $2.3 billion in lost revenue to the U.S. film industry.

The 300 apparently pirated films as well as many other copyrighted works continue to make their way to Google Video despite Google’s cited claim that it respects the rights of copyright holders and is continuing to take the lead in providing state-of-the-art tools for all copyright holders to identify and remove their intellectual property from the site.

“Google has been promising video filtering technology to screen for copyrighted content since at least the fall of 2006. On July 27th of this year, Google again announced that it would launch a filtering system by September of this year to prevent pirated material from being uploaded to its YouTube video sharing site. As of this Monday however, it appeared that Google still had not implemented the promised technology either for its YouTube or Google Video sites,” said NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm.

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Originally posted on September 26, 2007 @ 9:01 am

SocialMediaPortal.com aims to connect all social media users

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smp.gifSocial Media Portal (SMP), a new social media resource that encompasses the role of social networks, user generated content (UGC), blogs, podcasts, search engines and other technology like instant messenger, is to be released at ad:tech London, 26-27 September 2007.

As a place where brands, agencies and consumers can come together, users can search by age groups and content, look for advertising hot spots, see the relationships between sites, and plan social media campaigns.

“SMP demonstrates how social networks aren’t the new kid on the block, and in fact has been a part of our culture a lot longer than is thought. It highlights the relationships between organisations, business and people within the Landscape and how they intertwine and connect with each other using social media,” said Tim Gibbon, director of the UK-based media consultancy that created SMP, Elemental.

Originally posted on September 26, 2007 @ 7:30 am

collectZing: social network for all types of collectors

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collectzing.gifWhether you are an avid collector of action figures, coins, dolls, comic books and other strange stuff, there is a free online social network for collectors of all ages and passion, collectZing.com.

It allows members to connect with other collectors, and explore and share each others’ collections and collectibles. New collectors can learn from more experienced ones, join the community and make long-term friendships, and easily maintain a catalog of all their new purchases and finds. More obsessive collectors can benefit from the detailed object descriptions, which can be used to maintain financial and insurance information, track loans, trades and sale information.

Originally posted on September 26, 2007 @ 9:15 am

Google remains dominant in August U.S. Search Engine Rankings

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comScore, Inc., a global leader in measuring the digital world, recently released the August U.S. Search Engine Rankings. As expected, Google Sites remained the top search property with more than 5.5 billion core searches conducted, representing a 56.5 percent share of the search market and gaining 1.3 share points versus the previous month.

Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 23.3 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (11.3 percent), Time Warner Networks (4.5 percent) and Ask Network (4.5 percent). Time Warner Network was the only other core search engine property to increase share, up 0.1 share point to 4.5 percent, with 441 million searches.

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In comScore’s recently introduced expanded search report, the largest gains were recorded by YouTube and Craigslist, with 9.0-percent and 7.6-percent increases in their number of search queries. Get more details here

While these monthly stats offer good insights, it would be better if comScore can highlight some key factors affecting the monthly trends. I guess this is an overkill for something free.

Originally posted on September 24, 2007 @ 10:26 pm

Attendi.com first search engine for searching people

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attendi.gifAttendi (pronounced “attendee”) is the world’s first search engine that searches people and not Web pages.

It is a new type of search engine that allows its users to interact with each other while indexing the valuable database of human insight and life experience.

Rather than searching and indexing Web content, Attendi captures the life experience of users and makes it accessible to others. A smart combination of search, social networking and live chat, Attendi gathers content simply by using conversation.

Users – called “Attendis” – can use chat functionality to have real-time conversations with those who share similar interests, hobbies, passions and expertise. Attendi then archives and delivers these conversations as relevant search results to benefit other users.

“We understand that we are building something very ambitious, and it will take some time to scale the user base, but there is simply nothing on the market that delivers on what Attendi promises. Our goal is simple — index our collective life experience and make it searchable for the benefit of everyone. Over time, Attendi will become a living ultra-blog of human experience,” said Attendi founder and CEO Drew Rayman.

Originally posted on September 24, 2007 @ 9:17 am