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YouTube Relaxing Its Partnership Program Limits

This week, Google announced that YouTube is extending its Partnership Program.

EC Still Researching The Microsoft/Yahoo Partnership

In a change of pace regarding the EC (European Commission) and their view of competition the early returns are that the partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft will not be given a difficult time gaining approval. While the EC has been a stumbling block to other deals including both companies in the past (Yahoo’s previous issue was when there was the propsect of a Google / Yahoo partnership – having Google attached to any competitive issue makes it more interesting for sure).

YouTube and ESPN Form a New Bond

YouTube and ESPN have entered a new partnership together. YouTube's Chris Dale gave WebProNews a few details about it in a quick phone call. ESPN will be featuring content that is apparently going to be in line with their television programming, although from the sounds of it there won't be any live streaming, so don't look to watch games on here (at least for the time being).

Southwest To Try Out In Flight Internet

It’s been a year since Southwest Airlines announced they were going to test in air Internet service. Now it’s really happening. The satellite broadband will be tested on one plane first. Then they plan to expand to at least three more planes by March. The test will run for 60 days. They will gauge demand and see how the service works before determining if and how much they’ll charge.

Things Are Looking Up For MySpace

Wow, something’s up here—this is the second time this week we’ve written about MySpace.

What Happens In Ask Doesn't Stay In Ask

Ask.com isn't being completely forthcoming about its highly touted AskEraser, which, the company promises, deletes searcher data in a matter of hours. Hours seems to be the amount of time required to send that data to Google first.

ABC News, Facebook Fail Together (So Far)

With no disrespect to any particular anchor or employee, ABC News just isn’t one of my favorite entities.  It wasn’t overly disappointing, then, to learn that a joint venture with Facebook has thus far failed to gained traction or generate traffic.

Flickr-Picnik Partnership Bears Fruit

As any thermometer will tell you, it’s December, and just in time for everybody’s holiday pictures, Flickr and Picnik have unveiled a new photo-editing application.

NYTimes.com Traffic Booms After Dropping Select

One has to wonder what kind of traffic and ad revenue the New York Times gave up while its Times Select subscription model was in place.

ESPN, Nielsen Form Measurement Partnership

Nielsen and ESPN are partnering to create a model to measure people's use of media on a number of platforms including television, the Internet and mobile devices.