YouTube Growing ... Like Cancer?. PreacherTom writes "The success of YouTube has been staggering: they currently field 100 million videos per day and have attracted the attention of influential people like Bill Gates, who may be planning his own video hosting service. However, growth does not always equal profitability. Incorporation of ads risks their very base. If that were not enough, like Kazaa, they struggle with the Damocles' Sword of Litigation hanging over their head each day while bandwidth and server costs continue to rise. Is this phenomenal growth only rapidly killing our favorite video warehouse?" From the BusinessWeek article: "YouTube could easily alienate its users by overwhelming them with ads. And the startup has to figure out how to attract a broader group of marketers by filtering more for copyrighted or offensive videos and by creating more channels of similar content. Aware of the risks, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are moving slowly to ramp up advertising. They have been wary of asking viewers to sit through a 30-second ad before a two- to three-minute clip. Instead, YouTube is developing new formats, like ones rolled out in August that let marketers build their own video channels or pay to place a video on YouTube's popular front page."

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New Generation 2006 of Allplan (AECCafe.com).

Nemetschek Presents New Integrated Solution for Layout, Component-Oriented Design, Visualization, and Construction Costing

From: AECCafe.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

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Autodesk Sponsors Venice Biennale (Autodesk).

Autodesk Sponsors US Architecture Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia

From: Autodesk
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

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An October 2006 article in Landscape Architecture Magazine will feature a 3D Wiki as a design tool in a virtual world.

Veni, Vidi, Wiki. You've heard of Wikipedia. But are wikis more than just encyclopedias? A wiki-written article answers the question with a bold "Yes." By Ryan Singel. Plus: The Wonderful Wiki Sidebar. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

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Top prize for 'light' inventor. A Japanese scientist who invented a sustainable form of light is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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Mobile startups flourish in Stockholm suburb.

(InfoWorld) - If your mobile phone starts morphing into an interactive subway schedule, the menu of a nearby restaurant or a medical diagnostic instrument, a suburb of Stockholm that's home to a cluster of innovative tech companies may be responsible.

By Juris_Kaza@idg.com (Juris Kaza). [InfoWorld: Top News]

 

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When open source is not enough.

The case for open development

There was some interesting buzz about the state of open source going around ApacheCon in Dublin.…

[The Register]

 

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Many of us know little of the 'free software' writers and their world on the Internet.  Explore this advogato site and learn a bit about online culture.

Advogato is going offline. Thanks Raph. [Hack the Planet]

 

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