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BusinessWeek Misses the Point on UGC

BusinessWeek magazine has a piece about user-generated content and how it’s old and busted now — people really want professional content, apparently.

Microsoft, Viacom Posture On Content Sharing

The newly announced User Generated Content Principles, backed by several media companies, exhorts websites to filter content while paying lip service to fair use.

Social Networking & UGC in Today's Media Environment

From the Playboy perspective with Christie Hefner - that true brands represent attitude and a point of view, that can be moved from one product to another. It can play in different spaces.

Social Media: You Built it; Now What?

Web developers and designers for huge companies and niche sites alike are all jumping on the social media bandwagon, realizing that social networking, user-generated content, video-sharing and Widgets are more than just ways to kill time in the office; they can be incredibly effective in growing and increasing audience engagement.

YouTube On P2P? Watch Out For Falling Lawyers

These guys seem to be on to something – probably the reason Tribler racked up about $8 million in funding on the other side of the Pond.

ComScore: 18-34 Males Receptive To UGC Ads

The always-desired marketing demographic of males aged 18-34 is pretty open to advertising on user-generated content sites.

Missing From the UGC Viability Discourse

In this wave of the Internet economy, investors are self-consciously considering investing in plays that depend on "user-generated content." In the past, Internet investments were more haphazard. Today's discourse is much more sophisticated. So naturally, in discussions of the viability of burgeoning online communities, a big question is: why would anyone contribute? Why would you upload a video? Why would you write a product review?

Yahoo On UGC Train To Taiwan

Yahoo! announced two major deals this week to expand its Web 2.0 offerings Taiwan. Shortly after Yahoo! Taiwan acquired user-generated-content site Wretch.cc, the company announced an agreement with GigaMedia to cross-promote online game site FunTown.