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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.

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.

Facebook Islam Row Highlights Free Speech Issues

Historically, in the brick-and-mortar world, we've had courts to settle disputes. Online, there are terms of service agreements and invisible judges determining, usually at the behest of the loudest and largest mob, who is guilty of crossing the line between conscious protest and hate speech.

Here's Your 15 Minutes And Your DMCA Notice

It didn't take long for user-generated content to translate to user-generated profit. But as the giants have their weird litigious and incestuous thing going on both in the courtroom and in the boardroom, YouTube users aren't just getting the shaft, they're getting mud kicked in their faces.

YouTubers Threaten Revolt! (Again)

One thing you can count on in a user-generated world is passion, and threats to leave because of changes. Another thing you can count on is that they probably don't mean it, and there's a good chance their anger's misplaced.

Gloob Fights The Glob

They may not have meant for the association, but globs, lube, gunk and goo came to mind, which, if you stretch the metaphor, seem to be the yin to Gloob.tv's yang. The operators (well, spin-meisters) of the site assert that searching for video on YouTube "doesn't have to be like digging through a trash heap…"

Some Hollywood Types Do Actually Get Web 2.0

My best friend is an extremely gifted film talent. But he hated Hollywood, hated the hoops young aspirants had to go through, hated having to play ball, so he left Hollywood and came home to be an English professor. It's really too bad online video hadn't taken off just yet.

EU Decides YouTube And TV Are Different

Google seems pleased to announce that European regulations on broadcast video content will not apply to search engines, user-generated content, or YouTube.

Wikipedia Logo Gets It Wrong

I’m pretty good at spotting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, but this is something that I wouldn’t ever have noticed: Wikipedia’s logo contains two goofs.

User Generated Content Creating Revenue

User-generated content has changed the online world and created opportunities for marketers.