Cody Taylor

Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a cease-and-desist letter from an A.P for embedding YouTube videos.

Why would Google want to buy Twitter? They have yet to properly monetize Youtube, another company they’ve purchased for what some think was way over value. It is all about the consciousness search.

CNet is reporting that Sony Pictures may be in talks with YouTube to license full length movies to the video sharing site. Set to post nearly a half a billion dollars in losses this year, YouTube could certainly use some juice to combat sites like NBC-owned Hulu which already has an array of movies for streaming. “sources familiar with the negotiations told CNET News. Details about what a final agreement could look like are sparse, but any partnership between the two powerhouses would likely benefit both. Representatives from both companies declined to comment. Word of the negotiations comes a week after Disney announced it had licensed short-form content to YouTube. Those clips will come from a range of Disney brands, including ABC and ESPN. For YouTube, obtaining short-form clips from Disney is an important step but still doesn’t provide what YouTube needs most.”

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International financial services company Credit Suisse has burst Google’s bubble: Its analysts report that YouTube could be on track to lose 0 million this year due to outrageously high operating costs and a poor business plan.

Have you been caught Twittering or on Facebook at work? Well now you can tell your manager it actually makes you a harder worker. An Australian study found surfing the internet for fun during office hours actually increased employees productivity by nine per cent.

Google is redesigning YouTube to make the site more attractive to the content creators who make the kind of stuff Google could actually sell ads against — like Disney, for example.

eldavojohn writes “Google has announced CADIE, the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity. ‘We based our work on three core principles. First we designed the entity … as a collection of interconnected evolving agents. Second — and this really cost us an arm and leg in hardware and core time — we let the system build its own heuristics, deploy them as agents and evolve them by running a set of evolutionary cascades within probabilistic Bayesian domains. The third — a piece missing in most AI reasoning work thus far — was to give the entity access to a rich, realistic world from which to learn and upon which it could act directly.’ It quickly started its own blog and YouTube video. Two hours after midnight, CADIE announced independence on its blog and decided to leave Google to venture out into the world. “

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