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Only a third of people who watch online videos have checked out a political video, not because of lack of availability, but for lack of interest.
A third translates to quite a large number, though, according to Harris Interactive, or about 62 million people.
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imagine that nobody likes campaign adsRate this: 2.5

China says it will release a policy on online video sharing and broadcasting next year, Wang Xudong, Minister of Information Industry, told local media at an annual national information conference.
The policy will be the first to be jointly issued by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television [...]

SpiralFrog hasn’t been doing so well, but $2 million can heal a lot of wounds, and the ad-supported, Web-based music service has raised this amount in funding.
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struggling spiralfrog raises 2 millionRate this: 2.5

Just in time for New Year’s Eve (or the weekend before it, actually), Nielsen Online has good news for Google: between October and November, the search giant’s market share went up by about 2.2 percent.
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nielsen releases november search dataRate this: 2.5

Search Engine Journal’s 2007 Search Blogs Awards have been posted, and the voting has begun.
The Search Engine Watch Blog has been nominated for “Best Search Industry News Blog of 2007,” and the Search Engine Watch Forums have been nominated for “Best Search Engine Community/Forum.” If you agree, head on over to Search Engine Journal and [...]

Nine years and well over $4 billion later, AOL is dumping Netscape. The company announced today it will no longer support the first web browser many of us ever used.
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We really do love your software. And we appreciate the fact that you introduce valuable new features so frequently. But please: slow down a little, and spend a bit more time on bug testing.
In the time-honored model of software development (call it “pre-Web 1.0″), teams of programmers worked for years to craft scores of subroutines, [...]

In order to make Facebook available in many different languages, the company could have paid dozens of professional translators rather large fees.  Instead, in what we’ll call an "accountant-approved alternative," Facebook has decided to involve its users and crowdsource the issue.
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facebook launches self translation appRate this: 2.5

Blogger links that purport to lead to video of Benazir Bhutto’s last moments alive go to a fake video codec and an all too familiar exploit.
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bhutto assassination draws malware scammersRate this: 2.5

With its habit of throwing out random upgrades, Google’s always demonstrated a certain ability to surprise us.  Now its Chinese competitor, Baidu, has achieved the same effect by launching a patent search service.
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baidu launches patent search serviceRate this: 2.5