Facebook Drops Other Shoe Tomorrow? The Wall Street Journal is reporting Facebook will open up most if not all of their user-contributed data to developers at a developer event tomorrow. The war between Twitter and Facebook could be getting interestingCould this take us one step closer to the ultimate live stream of real-time events?

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  Facebook Vs. MySpace A graphical representation. The says it all

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  Facebook Vs. MySpace A graphical representation. The says it all

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  Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict What made the Swedish court in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement case go for guilty? CNET News looks more closely at the verdict to find out.Great look at the fall out of the verdict

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  Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict What made the Swedish court in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement case go for guilty? CNET News looks more closely at the verdict to find out.Great look at the fall out of the verdict

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  Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict What made the Swedish court in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement case go for guilty? CNET News looks more closely at the verdict to find out.Great look at the fall out of the verdict

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  Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Movie Studios When Dark Knight was released,Warner Brothers was ready with an ambitious antipiracy campaign that involved months of planning and steps to monitor each physical copy of the film.Unsurpisingly, the campaign failed miserably. Here are a bunch of article about the Pirate Bay verdict and its repercussions.

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  Norway Makes it Easier to Go After File-Sharers The recently implemented IPRED legislation in Sweden makes it easier for copyright holders to identify and go after alleged illegal file-sharers. Up until now the same hasn’t been easy in Norway, but all that is set to change as the country’s telecoms regulator says that file-sharers identities can be given to copyright holders. Here are a bunch of article about the Pirate Bay verdict and its repercussions.

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  Is Google The New Pirate Bay? "Google now can and does do what the Pirate Bay has always done," Edelman says. "And if they're prosecuted, they would have much more interesting arguments in their defense." Here are a bunch of article about the Pirate Bay verdict and its repercussions.

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  Swedes Demonstrate Against Pirate Bay Verdict More than thousand people have gathered in the streets of the Swedish capital Stockholm today, to protest against yesterday’s Pirate Bay verdict. The demonstration was organized by the Swedish Pirate Party that is campaigning for the European Parliament elections in June. Here are a bunch of article about the Pirate Bay verdict and its repercussions.

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  Swedes Demonstrate Against Pirate Bay Verdict More than thousand people have gathered in the streets of the Swedish capital Stockholm today, to protest against yesterday’s Pirate Bay verdict. The demonstration was organized by the Swedish Pirate Party that is campaigning for the European Parliament elections in June. Here are a bunch of article about the Pirate Bay verdict and its repercussions.

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  Pirate Bay Verdict: What’s Next Don’t expect to see any sudden change from all of this. The Pirate Bay Web site is still online and active as of Friday morning. A message on the home page calmly and confidently states: Here are a bunch of article about the Pirate Bay verdict and its repercussions.“Don’t worry - we’re from the internets. It’s going to be alright. :-)”Further in the site, the founders get slightly more defiant...

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  Social Media Networks Are Music's Curse and Salvation In the golden age of the record album friends would gather around the hi-fi system to share the latest music, most of them not paying a cent. Today, music fans do pretty much the same thing — online, in social networks. But now, just about none of them pay. This is a fundamental change in the music biz.

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  Social Media Networks Are Music's Curse and Salvation In the golden age of the record album friends would gather around the hi-fi system to share the latest music, most of them not paying a cent. Today, music fans do pretty much the same thing — online, in social networks. But now, just about none of them pay. This is a fundamental change in the music biz.

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  How Apple Can Beat RIM While Apple is the smartphone technology leader, it is not the sales leader. Importantly, it's still trailing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. This is a platform land grab, so sales and market share count. A continuing look at the battle for the smartphone market

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  AP Board announces initiative to protect industry‘s content The Associated Press Board of Directors today announced it would launch an industry initiative to protect news content from misappropriation online. AP Chairman Dean Singleton said the news cooperative would work with portals and other partners who properly license content – and would pursue legal and legislative actions against those who don‘t. The AP has it all wrong. Google New and Digg are not there enemy, neither are the blogs that link back to them. The problem is the AP making a new business model. If the AP wants to destroy themselves, so be it. LET THEM DIE

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  iTunes top tracks $1.29, Amazon $0.99: thanks record labels As promised, variable pricing has now been implemented at the iTunes music store. Already, we're seeing most of top 10 singles and 33 of the top 100 hitting the top price-point of $1.29 (encoded as DRM-free 256kbps AAC). Interesting as Amazon's uncomfortably similar top 10 list has all these tracks priced at $0.99 (encoded as DRM-free 256kbps... The record labels still don't get it, or do they. People will not see this as the a compromised between Apple and the music Oligarchy for Apple to have DRM free music. People will see this as Apple raising prices, and maybe sending traffic and money to Apple's competitors like Amazon. We will see how this plays out.

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  Inside A Google Data Center Google provided a look inside its data center operations at the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit held Wednesday in Mountain View, Calif. The presentations included a video tour of a Google data center, which showcased the companys use of shipping containers to store servers and storage. Each of these 40-foot data center containers can house ... Data centers are the new arms in the Web 2.0 world. Who control the data centers controls the computing center of the cloud. Google data centers' are the crown jewel of there infrastructure.

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  Is YouTube a Massive Money Loser? International financial services company Credit Suisse has burst Google’s bubble: Its analysts report that YouTube could be on track to lose $470 million this year due to outrageously high operating costs and a poor business plan. I don't understand how this question can be asked. Is Youtube a money loser yes, more of a lose leader. An my hunch the Hulu is not roll in the cash flow, with reports surfacing of Hulu might be in a financial bind. Video streaming is an expensive undertaking, bandwidth might be cheap, but bandwidth cost is still greater than the revenues, if any, coming in. Most media producer are not thinking of bandwidth cost because they do not have to pay for it, Youtube(Google) and Hulu flip the bill. And with "HD" streaming becoming more the norm and soon to be standard, I don't see bandwidth bills decreasing anytime soon.

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  Google uncloaks once-secret server Unusually, the search giant designs its own servers. For the first time, Google unveils one publicly, showing a surprise built-in battery. This is very interesting to find out what is at the heart of Google's success, it server in its data centers

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  'First' Major Label Blog Launches... in 2009 Seven years after the first MP3 blog (Fluxblog) arrived on the scene, EMI Australia has unveiled what it's calling "the first major label blog" in the world. But this doesn't mention rcrdlbl?

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