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Sneak Preview of Changes to YouTube Homepage (Now That Google Owns It)

Here’s a brilliant sneak preview of the future plans for the YouTube homepage. Watch for a GoogleFox ad you might otherwise miss. I love this parody. It requires and understanding of this Google/YouTube partnership, a “pattern recognition” of similar “mergers,” terrific graphics abilities and sharp humor. Kudos to YouTube’s “Zun.”

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Exclusive Confidential Video: Google’s Due Diligence on YouTube

An anonymous source sent me this confidential “YouTube Research by Google” video that was meant for internal use only by Google. I think it’s worth the legal risk of posting, because it gives us insights into what due diligence Google conducted before buying YouTube. Google’s board apparently commissioned ethnographic research of the YouTube community —…

Google’s Hangover Starts

From The Guardian today: Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, fired a shot across the bows of Google, saying his group would pursue its copyright complaints against the video sharing site YouTube.com. Google paid $1.6bn for YouTube this week amid concerns that some of the fledgling website’s 100m videos breached copyright…