Warren Buffett would "pay" for YouTube, perhaps

Every year, nearly 300 powerful media executives gather here [Sun Valley, Idaho] at the secretive Allen & Co. summit, to which the press is not invited. Perennial attendees include Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller. As the definition of media has expanded to include the Internet, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Evan Williams have been added to the guest list.

From the WSJ.. And the result - the press were not present, but a little leaked:

“No one had any answers” about making money on the Internet, said [Ken] Auletta, who moderated the panel.

Also WSJ.

Malone said he didn’t think that an advertising model made sense on Twitter, but there was some hope for a subscription model. “Sooner or later people will be willing to pay for these services,” he said. Warren Buffett privately told him that he would pay $5 a month for YouTube, he added.

YouTube goes Journalism School

DIY tips for citizen journalists. And here's the man who brought us Deep Throat and Bush at War.

Twitter, YouTube & Gaza

From Wired, but I was alerted via Twitter.

...the Israeli military has started its own YouTube channel to distribute footage of precision airstrikes. And as I type, the Israeli consulate in New York is hosting a press conference on microblogging site Twitter. It's pretty interesting to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reduced to tweets of 140 characters or less ("We hav 2 prtct R ctzens 2, only way fwd through neogtiations, & left Gaza in 05. y Hamas launch missiles not peace?"; "we're not at war with the PAL people. we're at war with a group declared by the EU& US a terrorist org").

By Nathan Hodge.

YouTube: the new judge in the Coldplay Copyright Case

Exhibit One M'Lord.





More from BBC.

PR & Search Technology & the Usual Ending

This is a pull model as opposed to our present exclusive reliance on a push model of pitching story ideas. We agreed that we need to create high quality content that is regularly discussed, remixed and linked to, using a human tone and aiming to add value to conversations taking place anyway.

A fascinating interview by Edelman with Jeff Levick, Vice President of Industry Development and Marketing, Americas for Google. Do read. The result of this new thinking: success & No 2 on YouTube for a week.

Search Engine Number 2: My Favorite Things

In a couple of years, a lot of web content is going to evolve from text to video, making YouTube a much bigger asset for Google. Even today, YouTube is already the second-largest search engine on the web.

In the toughness to come some ReadWriteWeb tips...

Plant a Video, Make Money For Google (take five)

In an attempt to capitalize on traffic that happens off the main site, YouTube today announced a monetization program for embedded videos at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco.

From Read, Write, Web.

Context not Content was McCain's failing

The editing tricksters of YouTube helped defeat McCain whenever it starved him of context. Surrounded by peers, contemporaries, buddies, colleagues, fellow veterans — men like himself — McCain might have made more sense.

From the Medium at the NYT.

Misunderstanding Sarah Palin: the French links...

...the notion that Ethan Winner and his cronies — all of them PR professionals — are just “concerned Americans” who attempted to make the Palin smear video “go viral” out of personal conviction is patently absurd. The obvious question, then, is for whom were Winner and his “associates” working? The most obvious answer is: the Obama campaign. Another and at least equally troubling possibility, however, is that they were working for one of Publicis’s high-powered European clients.

Pajamas media on the "french connection..." This could go all the way.

You Tube and adverts

Right now, Publicis and Google have been testing ads on the iPhone’s YouTube app and are currently working on apps for the Google Android smartphone, but were otherwise tight-lipped about what might be coming.

Paid Content on how an advertiser and Google can get along.

The You Tube Librarians

From that nice Mr/Ms Google.

We just launched Google Audio Indexing (aka GAudi) in Google Labs. The dedicated site offers more features, such as "search within video" and "sharing," and a more robust user interface.

Everything you wanted to see from the US elections. Kind of. Google Audio Indexing.