As I was trawling through this morning’s updates in my FriendFeed, I came across an interesting post from Loic Le Meur saying that while his blog used to be the central point for his online presence, using services like Twitter, Flickr, del.icio.us, Dopplr, etc has fragmented that presence. He goes on to point out that, [...]

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Let the games begin. Time Warner are the first in what could be a long line of copyright holders stepping up to see how deep Google’s pockets are following their acquisition of YouTube. It was a sure bet that many copyright holders were waiting to see if YouTube would be snapped-up by a richer adoptive parent [...]

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Billion? I’ll say it again… BILLION. Confirmed just a few minutes ago at Techcrunch, this will be the news lighting up the blogosphere for the next few hours. More than likely the fact that Google bought You Tube won’t be the big story. The cost of the deal – $1.65 billion – will be the [...]

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