Two days after instituting a country-wide ban on YouTube for insulting the founder of modern Turkey, the country has now decided to let the video-sharing site back in. The head of corporate communications for Turk Telecom told Anatolia that his company had been notified about the decision to lift the ban and that “[a]s soon as the court decision lifting the ban reached us, we immediately opened YouTube.”

Should Turkey indulge in such blatant disregard for the freedom of speech again, here are a few ways around the ban.

ABC and Techdirt have more.

Originally posted on March 10, 2007 @ 4:29 pm

The NBC series Heroes is actually pretty good, I’m enjoying it so far. Now the good ‘ol marketers at NBC are doing a spoof – Zeroes – which is pretty funny. And on Youtube of course.

How very viral of them.

Originally posted on March 9, 2007 @ 6:35 am

Old time personalized page service My.Yahoo! has been relaunched with a liberal dose of Ajax.

TechCrunch has the details, however unlike the relaunch of My.Netscape which…well…no one really cared about, bloggers and content creators should take an interest is this relaunch given that depending on your particular niche, My.Yahoo! regularly rates between 1st and 3rd position on the list of top RSS reading clients. I do have a My.Yahoo page but it’s not something I use, but a lot of other people obviously do use the service, and previous stats would indicate a slant toward younger users, particularly female and non-tech/ Web 2.0 savvy users, an important demographic that is often harder to reach than through other, more regular Web 2.0 methods.

Originally posted on March 8, 2007 @ 6:25 pm

SplashPress Media, owner of numerous sites including The Blog Herald and Performancing, has announced it is acquiring the core assets of Tubetorial LLC including the Tubetorial website and the Cutline Theme Community.

SplashPress Media operates and owns 30 blogs, and a variety of other online web properties. SplashPress Media has been online as a hosting company and a support agency for publishers for a few years before launching several blogs and acquiring others.

According to David Krug, “Over the last year Tubetorial has defined itself as a destination for people looking to learn on the web. We plan to continue that growth and dominance in the future for a long time to come. On a side note the Cutline acquisition allows us to develop customizable themes to fit the needs of the entire blogosphere in a fashion that fits in well with our community at Performancing. Cutline and Tubetorial will be operated independently of SplashPress Media under the guidance of the Performancing Team.”

Originally posted on March 9, 2007 @ 6:30 pm