Unfortunately, Cyprus was avoided by showing the premier of the most expected movie by Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
According to Borat blog in MySpace, you’ll be able to find out the date of the movie premier and if your country is being added to the list.
While we all were relaxing after a hard working week, Brad Fitzpatrick went to Moscow with the director of Six Apart company, where they sold whole Russian sector of Livejournal user database to a Russian company called Sup, which will handle all Cyrillic based LiveJournals (it includes also the support of Bolgaria and Kazakhstan).
According to official press release of the community LJ Business: “No journals are being transferred“, - because the main part of Russian LJ-users were cared about the privacy policy if the data will be transferred to Russian servers. By the inertia, the buzz about these unsupported info made some LJ-users to quit using LJ blogs.
I still can’t get the idea of this hysteria: one social networking company sold a piece of its market to another social networking company. That’s it! Okay, the Abuse Team, the support of Russian sector will be provided by Sup. Or maybe, I’ve missed something?
As I promised you all, I’ll start the blogging life again from Monday. The day has come. The analytics has shown nice results during the non-posting period, so you keep on reading me. This peculiar form of graphorrhea brought up good results, furthermore it’s getting to hard to stay away from blogging: “Spend the hour blogging, and you will discover many more free hours during the day”. I’ve started missing these free hours.
During my absence, Google Shared Items were updated daily, and there are few updated on the Flickr account.
Also I’d like to inform you about the opening of a new Cyprus blog platform which will link up the main Cyprus sources of the blogosphere, and provide the readers with more local news about the any events taking place in Cyprus. I hope it will become the main navigating source of information in Cyprus.
For more particular information about the performances in the island you can get from Cyprus Scout: detailed info about the WRC 2006, concerts, photo reports, so don’t forget to subscribe for its RSS folks!
(The photo made by the cell phone, so the quality is a bit screwed up)
It’s not even an ado,it is closer to a rumble. An unsubstantiated rumor about Google planning to buy Youtube appears not just a rumor: Google moves closer to Youtube Deal.
YouTube struck a revenue-sharing deal last month with Warner Music Group that took steps to address some of Warner’s copyright concerns. And on Monday, YouTube announced separate agreements with three other media groups: CBS, Universal Music and Sony BMG. These latest deals could be attempts by YouTube to clarify its legal picture ahead of an agreement to be acquired.
While there are no exact results about the Google and Youtube talks, the other people are trying to estimate the average revenues of Youtube:
The popular file sharing service sells its home page ads for nice $175,000 for 400,000 viewers, according to the already-venerable Paidcontent.org.
Sounds like an attractive market place for Google after the failure of Google Video project. Youtube appeared more popular, more flexible for bloggers and other web media source, and the copyright violation problem doesn’t appear so important at the moment. Under the protection of Google the problem becomes inessential. Who knows, maybe that is why Google has bought Youtube yet?
Google becomes Hollywood and YouTube becomes just another studio where a few people make a lot of money and the rest is silence. ©
If you had som much money and your video project was unseccessful, wouldn’t you do the same Google is trying to do now?
