Here are some other interesting articles that have come down the pipe recently:

Jeremiah Owyang ponders How Brands Will Use FriendFeed
Brian Solis gives you The Essential Guide to Social Media
Josh Hallet recommends you Stop ‘Walking The Walk’, and Start Running
Lee Odden guides you in Extending SEO With Digital Asset Optimization
Chris Brogan wonders Will Companies Value […]

This isn’t going to help Photobucket with its efforts to sell the company. Late last night MySpace moved to block its members from posting links to videos hosted on Photobucket.
Photobucket had been trying to expand it’s business from photo hosting to video hosting by offering users a suite of editing and production tools to spur […]

It hardly signals the end of the line for social networking hubs like Facebook and MySpace, but it may be the beginning of the end. I’m talking about the potential impact of a Mozilla skunk works project to embed social networking functionality directly in the Web browser.
There’s a lot of buzz among the meme-makers. At […]

While the semantic Web remains a twinkle in the eye of Tim Berners-Lee, social media is enabling development of a messier, more human, but perhaps in the end more useful Web ontology. I’m talking about the impact of tagging which is on my mind this morning thanks to two blog posts.
First, David Sifry’s post on […]

There are many ways to measure a bubble economy. As a journalist, I look at media coverage of companies as one indicator. The more gee whiz stories that appear covering little-known companies with little skepticism quoting executives gushing unabashedly about the most obvious facts, the more inflated the bubble.
Yesterday’s orgy of coverage regarding image hosting […]

Good reviews across the blogosphere for the 2.0 revision of social music recommendation site MOG. Kristen Nicole at Mashable has the best recap of the features of the relaunched site   : 
This free service offers a personalized channel of streaming music videos, all based on your tastes. MOG cross references music from your computer and your […]

Bits and pieces this morning from the world of social media….At Mashable Pete Cashmore tells us about the launch of Spinlets, a service that offers an API to allow users to widgetize social websites. The service is the first product from a company called urSpin. Cashmore cites a number of already launched or soon to launch […]

Yesterday’s reaction to the News Corp/NBC NewTube announcement ran the gamut from typical big media hating (Thomas Hawk’s headline: NBC Universal, News Corp YouTube Killer Will Fail) to typical big media cheerleading (Mark Cuban’s headline: Why the NBC/Newscorp Video Venture is a Great Idea).
Sure, there are plenty of reasons for any 50/50 JV between competitors […]

Last November VC Fred Wilson asked an interesting question of the blogosphere: Can you fake authenticity?
It’s an enormous question of course–the stuff of a thousand dissertation–particularly for Americans. After all, our culture is based on the artificial invention of identities that project authenticity.
But Fred was asking specifically about social media businesses–can the sense of community […]

The global war on widgets launched by MySpace since its acquisition by News Corp made the New York Times today in a piece about MySpace blocking the Hooka music player a few days it was put to use by MySpace’s most visible user, a singer named Tila Nguyen, whose professional name is Tila Tequila.
Ok, so […]

No doubt Twitter was the story of the week. In fact, given the character limits on Twitter messages, there were probably more words written about Twitter on then Internet this week than there were words written in Twitter messages–from raves about Twittermap, a mash up of Twitter and Google Maps–to a big media wrap up […]

A decade ago Tom Watson and I gave a lecture to graduate students in journalism at Columbia University. In those days Blogger wasn’t even a twinkle in Evan Williams’ eye but the Internet had already changed journalism. In the new era, we told students, everybody will be a reporter of his or her own life […]

From the bad timing department:  today MyToons  , a cartoon-specific video sharing site, takes the wraps off its service which has been in private beta. The site is being pitched as a place where animation pros and fans can share “their creations” not the creations of others, and naturally the company has a DMCA-compliant take […]

This isn’t a defense of YouTube. Not a legal defense anyway.
The Viacom/Google suit will revolve around how much control YouTube has over the content posted to it, whether YouTube’s business was deliberately built on copyright infringement, and the nature of the prior negotiations between it & Viacom. If the case reaches the Supreme Court Google […]