Posts Tagged ‘google’

Will Viewers Pay Youtube To Download?

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February 14th, 2009

Seth Goldstein over at Social Media Today describes youTube’s newest efforts to monitize its tremendous traffic in his post today. Seth reports that youTube is testing the downloading of videos for free or pay through Google Checkout. The certainly opens the door to compensate content producers for their work.

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Google Crowdsourcing for mobile

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January 4th, 2009

Nathania Johnson over at SEW posted a great link today to a new Product Ideas website at Google for mobile. Another fabulous example of making consumers part of the product development process. Visitors can post their own ideas and vote on others. Is it just me, or is this getting way too easy for companies? [...]

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Rubel Mines Google Insights

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January 1st, 2009

Steve Rubel, technologist at Edelman PR and blogger, always surprises me. Rather than making sweeping predictions for 2009, he uses Google Insights for Search to discuss trends we move into the new year. Probably not too surprising was that 2008 Google searches for the term “social networks” was up 178% over 2007. The data certainly [...]

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