YouTube has launched a new service called Search Stories. Search Stories is a user-generated video creator that lets you integrate Google searches and music. All you do is pick what you want to be search on Google within the Maps, Images, Blog Search, main search etc. After that you select your music and click on upload. Create your own here: [YouTube Search Stories]. Check out the video I made using Chuck Norris as the search words.
Twitter now has a revenue model. Aside from the real-time search deals that Twitter has with Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), the company will soon start to integrate contextual ads within their stream. The contextual ads are part of a program called Promoted Tweets. Ads will appear in streams where they are expected to be relevant. Some of the companies on board include Best Buy, Virgin America, Starbucks and Bravo.
“The idea behind Promoted Tweets is that we want to enhance the communications that companies are already having with customers on Twitter,” stated Twitter COO Dick Costolo. Twitter received 22.3 million unique visitors this past March. In March of the year before, the company hit 524,000 uniques. Twitter will measure the ads placed in the stream using the number of people that saw the post, number of people that replied to the post, and the number of people that clicked the links. [NYT]
It is #CelebTweetTuesday at Pulse2.com. Under this hashtag, we aggregate the most interesting tweets from celebrities over the past week. This past week we have seen Aimee Man and Ice-T get in a Twitter fight, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey compliment each other on Twitter before breaking up, and Snoop wondering what you’re doing for 420.
NASDAQ and the Consumer Electronics Association has announced the NASDAQ OMX CEA Smartphone Index. The Index combines a portfolio of 84 companies that are working on “building, design and distribution of handsets, hardware, software, and mobile networks associated with the development, sale and usage of smartphones.” Companies include Motorola, Google, Apple, RIM, Nokia and AT&T.
Eric Schmidt was recently gave a speech at the American Society of News Editors. After his speech, the Google CEO said that Apple’s announcement about iAd helps Google’s argument with the FTC about the acquisition of AdMob.
Today Conan O’Brien has sign a deal with TV network TBS to return as a late night talk show host. On January 7, 2010 NBC executives including Jeff Zucker met with Jay Leno and Conan to discuss how to get Leno out of prime time where his ratings were on a downward spiral.
Microsoft has announced two new mobile phones: the Kin One (pictured left) and the Kin Two (pictured right). The introduction of the two new phones is the outcome of what Microsoft had in mind when they acquired Sidekick manufacturing company Danger.
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