The Consolidation Continues

Ah the curse of success. It’s so wonderfully evident in these comments reported by TechCrunch today: News Corp. (MySpace) chief operating officer Peter Chernin told company investors today that, “If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost…

The nice thing about expecting nothing from a company is that you are, occasionally, pleasantly surprised. I expect Google/YouTube to suck at marketing. It’s not in the core DNA. But here’s yet another example of a small, but enlightened shift in the way it communicates with casual “users” and seeks to transform them to “Partner”…

Lesson learned in this video. Don’t propose in public. Kinda reminds me of the last episode of The Office. Courtesy of a new blog featuring Google videos and information about Google.

Home Purchasing Club is a new web-only video series by cast members of Saturday Night Live, The Groundlings, Napoleon Dynamite, The Drew Carey Show and Office Space. Spoofing ridiculous home shopping network segments, HPC just launched its first episode as part of VH1’s V-Spot player on and will premiere new episodes on the site every…