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Viacom Now After YouTube Employee Info?
The latest skirmish in the ongoing Viacom v. YouTube billion-dollar lawsuit battle is over how YouTube employees used their own site. It’s been a nutty couple of weeks for the high-profile case. First a federal judge ordered YouTube to hand over its user data to Viacom. Then Google asked to have user identifying information stripped out. Viacom denied it ever asked for that data (it did) and then said it didn’t want user information after all. Still with us? Now the news is that Viacom wants YouTube employee user information. If the media conglomerate can show that employees were aware of or upoloaded copyrighted material to the site, YouTube could lose its protection under the DMCA. [Full Story on NewTeeVee]
Yahoo Plans to Take on Gears, Air and Prism
Yahoo is following the footsteps of other technology giants by launching its own desktop/web hybrid application called BrowserPlus. The plug-in is only available as a sneak peak with a few demos, such as using BrowserPlus to drag-and-drop photos from your desktop into Flickr. Yahoo’s product clearly isn’t ready for prime time yet, but perhaps the excitement around MySpace taking advantage of Google Gears to improve its email capabilities galvanized them. Yahoo’s vision certainly looks more compelling than mere offline access to online apps, so I’m eager for more functionality.
700 MHz Nets Feds $19.59B
The 700 MHz auction ended yesterday, and the $19.59 billion going to the Treasury looks like a lot until you realize the government’s total budget is $2.9 trillion. But now the waiting (and speculating) can begin. What will happen with the failed auction for the D block, which had been allocated for public safety? Who paid the $4.75 billion for the C block — Verizon, Google (not likely) or AT&T? What will an “open network” look like? As in life, the answer to one question often leads to many more.
YouTube says APIs Aren’t White Label Video
YouTube is making a big API push in an attempt to make itself pervasive in the online video ecosystem. While it might seem like this is an attempt to take on white label video providers, Google-owned video service denies that, and is dangling its huge audience as a lure. NewTeeVee has the details on this story.
T-Mobile Backs Femtocell Startup
T-Mobile International, which is currently using Wi-Fi for its convergence offering in the U.S., has disclosed an investment in Ubiquisys, a maker of femtocells. T-Mobile also said it was trialling the startup’s femtocells in Europe. Femtocells, which plug into an existing broadband connection to provide a signal in places where mobile network coverage is poor, are getting their day in the sun. Google, Accel Partners and Advent Ventures are also investors in Ubiquisys, which has raised $37 million.
Google Creates Giant SSN Database
Earlier this month, Google announced a pilot program with the Cleveland Clinic to store patients’ medical records online. Privacy and security concerns were raised, notably that Google doesn’t have to abide by confidentiality rules that govern doctor-patient relationships dictated by HIPAA. However, Google’s plan to put patients in control of their own records and make those records transferable is a useful one, especially to anyone who has filled out four or five paper forms every year at three or four different doctors. As for the very real privacy concerns, medical records aren’t too secure, anyhow. And think about the synergies created by storing medical records online combined with the genetic data provided by Google-backed 23&Me.
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Google Down 7%. Why?
Google is down $35 a share to around $451 and continues to be under pressure. Why? comScore came out with January U.S. paid search data and it doesn’t look good. Google’s sponsored clicks were down 7 percent month-over-month, effectively flat year-over-year and down 12 percent quarter-over-quarter. Ben Schachter of UBS, while trying to downplay the impact of one month worth of data, made cautionary noises and cut his estimates on the company for 2008 and 2009. Other analysts are feeling equally bearish.
More Openness from Orkut
Following on the Open Social support of the MySpace Developer Platform, Google has launched services for programmers planning to use Open Social to build applications for its Orkut social network, including a hackathon scheduled for Feb. 14-15 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., as well as forums and chat. End users should be able to check out the results of all this openness on MySpace in early March and on Orkut later this month.
