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YouTube's Hurley stands his ground
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley and MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, plus executives from Yahoo and Sony, gathered to speak about the limitations and future of consumer-generated media at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. YouTube has recently come under fire for pirated and copyright content posted by consumers on the site. In May, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said his company would never acquire YouTube because of its laissez-faire attitude toward content.
Mentos commercial: "Bird song"
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Mentos fountain fanatics find a home
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Samsung Multimedia Coke Machine
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MP3.com founder takes on MySpace, YouTube
At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, MP3.com founder and MP3Tunes CEO Michael Robertson predicted the addition of ads to YouTube and referred to popular social-networking site MySpace as a "technological nightmare." YouTube CEO Chad Hurley says that although his site is going through revisions, it will remain a site for the people by the people.
The Southern Electrics: "Media Coke Whore - Live"
"Sounds like a bunch of dirty, psychedelic, messed up crazies from "Planet Give-A-F**k" - Clint Boon, DJ / Inspiral Carpets "Coruscating sounds from South London?s psych sucessors to The Creation" - The Guardian "A new hero and sound to supersede Radiohead and Muse" - Glasswerk Watch for The Southern Electrics "Save You", the second single from their critically well-received debut album "Electric Superhighway". They've built a formidable reputation and following, playing regularly at top UK venues including Cargo, The Barfly, 93 Feet East, The Metro Club, South Club (Manchester), along with a headline slot at Beached Festival 2005 and recent dates in Ireland and Germany. Having already received extensive radio airplay, including BBC Radio, RTE2 FM (Ireland), Today FM (Ireland), Totalrock and XFM, in April they recorded a live BBC Television Session with BBC Live Music Director David Amphlett, recording the tracks "Save You" and "Media Coke Whore" (see the footage at www.thesouthernelectrics.com). The Promo Video to the last single "Electric Superhighway" was extensively played on Sky & Cable Television. The b-side to "Save You", "Barcelona Burnout" was written for the documentary film "Barcelona Burnout". TSE provided the music to the film, a road trip documentary film about the 100th Anniversary of the Harley Davidson, produced and directed by Vincent Lewis with Executive Producer Andrew Mark Sewell as an Ignite/B7 Co-Production. "Barcelona Burnout" can currently be seen on digital and satellite TV channel Men and Motors. A special showing of "Barcelona Burnout" with The Southern Electrics Unplugged performing music from the film is taking place at the Greenwich Picturehouse. TSE are recording "Electric Love" at the legendary Battery Studios (Robbie Williams, Joe Strummer, Radiohead) with producer Jaimie Carter (credits include Craig David, The Datsuns, AC/DC, Good Charlotte. A&R and producer for Rondor), the first single from The Southern Electrics' second album due for release in 2006. The single is receiving its debut UK airing on Princess Productions' Jimmy Carr's "The Friday Night Project" on C4.
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Daily Debrief: YouTube user privacy at stake?
On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company, Google. Editor in Chief Farber looks at whether YouTube users' privacy will be threatened as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn over user data.
