TechCrunch and others are reporting? that CBS is super happy about their YouTube partnership.? They specifically note a 5% increase in viewers on the David Letterman show as a result of displaying? copyrighted CBS content on YouTube. Michael Arrington makes an excellent point when he writes, “Content owners are trying to figure out what to do and how to do it before offline television dies.”
Apparently some Chinese knockoff electronics are beating the original equipment to market. The imitations are priced as high as the originals and the hardware pirates are apparently difficult to stop or hire.
And sitemaps are now available for Google News. This means that if you’re a news publisher, you can tell Google exactly what to index from your news feed.
The links to each of these stories and more research is available at wowtechminute.com.
From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii, this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the WOW Technology Minute.
Additional Resources
CBS Is Pretty Damned Excited About YouTube : TechCrunch
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/26/forbes-video-interview-with-digg-ceo/
CBS says YouTube partnership a success : SFGate.com
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=11166
Google?€™s fuzzy YouTube logic : ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/index.php?p=695
Fake chinese electronics selling better than the originals! : itwire.com
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7483/52/
In China, originals get mistaken for fakes
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,118196,00.html
Perfect Fake Electronics From China Outdo Originals
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200611/200611240009.html
Sitemaps for Google News : Google
http://www.google.com/press/annc/sitemaps_news.html
What features of webmaster tools are available for sites included in Google News? : Google
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=42747
Introducing Sitemaps for Google News? : Google
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/11/introducing-sitemaps-for-google-news.html
And now, Google News sitemaps? : Google
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/and-now-google-news-sitemaps.html
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