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If you need a place to express your political opinions online, you can use YouTube and a webcam to create and publish your? video. Now you can also use a new channel from YouTube called, “CitizenTube”.? Look for this one to? become more? popular around October of next year.
Look for Windows Live Messenger to be integrated into Xbox Live this Spring.
In another story from WebProNews, David Utter updates us about the billion-dollar Google investment in AOL.
Wanna try a Google experiment with your phone? Need directions or a local business number away from your computer? Call 800-GOOG-411. That’s 1-800-GOOG-411. This experimental and free service looks to compete with tellme.com and 1-800-free411.
Yahoo! Sandisk and Zing are partnering up to develop a portable media device to compete with the iPod. That will be an uphill climb for sure.
Finally, Viacom has partnered with Yahoo! for a multi-year ad deal involving an initial 33 Viacom websites.
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
YouTube Launches CitizenTube
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/04/09/youtube-launches-citizentube
Microsoft Adds Instant Messaging To Xbox
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/09/microsoft-adds-instant-messaging-to-xbox/
Xbox Live Adds Instant Messaging
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/04/09/xbox-live-adds-instant-messaging
AOL White-Labels Google Ad Platform
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/04/09/aol-white-labels-google-ad-platform
Google’s Got The 411
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/04/09/googles-got-the-411
Google Launches Free 411 Service
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/06/google-launches-free-411-business/
Yahoo?€™s New Media Device
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/08/yahoos-new-media-device/
Viacom, Yahoo join ad forces (Reuters)
http://www.techmeme.com/070410/p65#a070410p65
Viacom Snubs Google Again, Partners With Yahoo On Search Advertising
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/10/viacom-snubs-google-again-partners-with-yahoo-on-search-advertising/