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YouTube Gets Tougher On Sexual Content

Marketers, young men, and YouTube's many bikini-clad seductresses are about to get an unpleasant surprise.  As part of what appears to be a crackdown on both sexual content and more general attempts to mislead users, the video-sharing site is pushing the pretty ladies off some of its most popular pages.

The Year in Online Video

Now that we are in December, the final month of the year, I thought it would be fun to go back through our archives and take a look at some of the highlights of different sectors of our industry, and reflect on everything that has happen over the year 2008. January seems so long ago. So much has happened.

Blogspot's Content Warning Blocking Spiders

Edgy bloggers using Google’s Blogspot might have been miffed already—but likely also understood—at Google slapping content warnings over their adult-oriented material and demanding age verification. But what might deter (poorly) minors from viewing is also preventing search crawlers from accessing the content at all.

The Great Google Adsense Side Effect

If the Internet consisted of real brick and mortar buildings there would be a construction boom going on right now like the world has never seen. The Internet is not in a recession or on the road to a depression, rather it is experiencing an economic and social explosion of activity.

Mobile Tuesday Meets Inevitability

Truth be told, advertisers never met a bandwagon they didn’t like. Enter the first Mobile Tuesday, an extension, of course, of Black Friday and recently created Cyber Monday. If you’re one of 18,000 who signed up via Black Friday leak sites, you should be receiving promotional offers from McDonald’s, Finish Line, and RedTag.

YouTube Gives Musicians Chance To Play Carnegie Hall

YouTube has announced an online contest that invites classical musicians from around the globe to submit two videos showcasing their musical abilities.Winners from the competition will be flown to New York for a three-day music summit with top symphony music directors and other performers concluding with an April 15, 2009, Carnegie Hall concert.

Google Starts Countdown To 2009

Never mind partridges, pear trees, turtledoves, and so forth.  To a certain search giant, one of the best presents it can give seems to be the gift of itself.  Google's counting down the days to 2009 by presenting tips on how to use its various products and services.

Google Launches Gmail Desktop Gadget

Google has launched a Gmail gadget for users running Google Desktop in Windows.

Six Apart Acquiring Pownce, Pulling Plug

Here's hoping most Pownce users haven't made huge plans for their holiday vacations.  It turns out that the launched-in-2007 company has been acquired by Six Apart and will shut its doors on December 15th, so they'll likely need to spend some time becoming familiar with a different service.

Flock Works With MySpace On OpenID

Good news for those who are users of the Flock browser, the company announced today that it now supports OpenID.Flock worked with MySpace and Vidoop to develop OpenID in the browser. Flock says that it now offers the most comprehensive discovery and management capabilities for OpenID currently available.OpenID for Flock is now available to all Flock 2.0 users as an alpha extension. It's available for download at https://extensions.flock.com and http://vidoop.com/labs/.