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Google May Buy Brightcove For $700 Million

Google's getting grabby.  The evidence: on his blog last night, Matt Cutts invited Yahoo engineers to come work for the search giant.  This afternoon, Google announced its acquisition of reCAPTCHA.  And now, there's word that Google is attempting to buy Brightcove, too. Brightcove is an online video platform with over 200 partners.  The companies it has ties to include powerful ones like Adobe, AOL, comScore, Nielsen, and OgilvyInteractive.  Plus Google.

PBS Rolls Out Online Video Portal

PBS has launched a video portal in beta featuring full-length videos from the public broadcaster. The online videos will cover all PBS genres along with content from local PBS stations. Eventually, PBS will include feature - length films and documentaries, as well as live performances and events. More content will be added on a weekly basis.

Panel Of Experts List Top 30 Innovations Of The Past 30 Years

To celebrate their three decades on the air, PBS’ Nightly Business Report teamed up with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,

MSN Money, PBS Series Run 'Scam Alerts'

The PBS series MoneyTrack will place Scam Alert videos on MSN Money each week, as an ongoing series to warn people about the pitfalls of the financial world.

PBS Site for Kids 3 to 6

Small children are fighting their parents for the mouse these days. Pretty soon they’ll demand their own laptops and want money to spend on their own music and web sites.

Presidential Debates Move Online

Presidential hopefuls vying for the Whitehouse will have a new opportunity to reach voters. Yahoo, The Huffington Post and Slate have announced plans to host two online debates during the 2008 campaign.

PBS.org Discovers The Joy Of AdWords

An experiment in using contextual advertising to raise funds for the Public Broadcasting Service brought Google's ubiquitous advertising to the broadcaster's website.

Wikipedia Close to Brittanica, Sets Donations Goals

As Wikipedia becomes larger and more widely accepted, now with an Alexa rank in the range of the top 30 websites on the Internet, it's beginning to have an impact on people's perception, accuracy, and donations strategies. All of which have been, for the most part, positive.

PBS Expanding Online Programming

Responding to the demand for online programming, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) announced a five-year initiative to be sure Barney, Bert and Ernie are in line with the digital age. The initiative will include a number of new online offerings for preschool and early elementary school kids including a 24-hour multicast service, both launching in Fall 2006. PBS will not change its name to Public Multicasting System for obvious reasons.

PBS Nerd TV Shows Episode I

Robert X. Cringely hosts Nerd TV, a web-only video series on PBS.org featuring figures from the tech world.