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Educational Search and DiscoverEd

Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 17:19

Last week in the vuDAT building at Michigan State University, a group of developers interested in educational search and discovery got together to contribute code (in what’s commonly called a code sprint) to Creative Commons’ DiscoverEd project. Readers interested in the technical details about our work last week can find daily posts on CC Labs — Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3.

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Splitting the Digital Baby: California Court Creates New Procedure for Uncovering Anonymous Commenters

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Youtube puts ads on videos without permission

Submitted by art neill on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 16:57

Youtube's filtering technology may be causing advertisements to appear on content without permission.  Besides the possible contract violations, the ads create catch 22's when uploading openly licensed (ie. Creative Commonsi) content to Youtube.   Youtube could have a significant effect on the future openly licensed video content.  This is appears to be a slap in the face to open content and step in the wrong direction.

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Lost in Translation: Rosetta Stone sues Google for Trademark infringement

Submitted by michael donahue on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 11:02

Rosetta Stone, a foreign language education provider, filed suit against Google in federal court last week for allegedly infringing on the company's trademark.  The conflict arose over Google's AdWords program which allows third parties to purchase keywords for advertising purposes. The result is that when a consumer runs a Google search for "Rosetta Stone", their search results will display paid advertisements of competitors as "sponsored links". What do you thingk, trademark infringement or fair competition?

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Somebody’s Looking For A Fight

Maureen Dowd finished up with Hilary Clinton; now she’s on to Googlei, with this trenchant presentation that misses the point while disseminating all sorts of hogwash: Dinosaur at the Gate (pdf)

Google is in a battle royal over whether it has the right to profit so profligately from newspaper content at a time when journalism is in such jeopardy.

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Google: Many Takedown Notices are Baloney

Submitted by jason eliaser on Thu, 03/19/2009 - 00:47

Googlei claims that more than half of all DMCAi takedown notices are sent to target competitors, and more than a third are not valid copyright claims.

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Google Voice and Video Chat, YES!

Submitted by art neill on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 17:12

Googlei released its Voice and Video chat today, and our own unscientific tests here at New Media Rights and UCAN show that the audio and video quality easily rivals competing services such as Skype. The biggest difference is that this is Google making a move into the voice and video area and it has the potential to alter the playing field a fair amount.

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On the Google Book Search agreement

As many have, I've been eager to understand the terms of the settlement in the AAP/Authors Guild v. Googlei case (Google Summary, Actual Settlement). After spending some time studying it, here are my thoughts. (4TR: I was not part of any of these settlement negotiations so all this was news to me).

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Google Zeitgeist

Submitted by brandon on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 22:37

Googlei offers a number of tools to help examine search trends over different time periods. In addition to Zeitgeist, which looks at an entire year, Google also offers Google Trends and Hot Trends.

Here's more about Zeitgeist from the site:

Pulling together interesting search trends and patterns requires both computing power and human power too. Search statistics are automatically generated based on the billions of searches conducted on Google. With some help from humans, and a pigeon or two when they have time, these statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google's hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist findings. We should note that in compiling these Zeitgeist lists, no individual searcher's information is available or accessible to us. What you see here is a cumulative snapshot of interesting queries people are asking – over time, within country domains, and some on Google.com – that perhaps reveal a bit of the human condition. We appreciate the contribution everyone who searches on Google makes to these fascinating bits of information.

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iGoogle

Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 11:58
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