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YouTube adds ?click to buy? for music and games

YouTube is moving to step up its efforts to generate revenue by adding e-commerce links that let users buy music and video games from the site. The new ?click to buy? links that the company unveiled Tuesday are first being used to embed iTunes and Amazon.com links on videos from companies like EMI Music, [...]

I clicked to buy and I liked it

When you view a YouTube video with a great soundtrack, you often see comments from YouTube users asking about the name of the song and where they can download it. Or when users watch the trailer for an upcoming video game, they want to know when it will be released and where they can buy it. Today, we're taking our first steps to providing YouTube users with this kind of instant gratification, by adding "click-to-buy" links to the watch pages of thousands of YouTube partner videos. Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive retail links, placed on the watch page beneath the video with the other community features. Just as YouTube users can share, favorite, comment on, and respond to videos quickly and easily, now users can click-to-buy products -- like songs and video games -- related to the content they're watching on the site. We're getting started by embedding iTunes and Amazon.com links on videos from companies like EMI Music, and providing Amazon.com product links to the newly-released video game Spore(TM) on videos from Electronic Arts. This is just the beginning of building a broad, viable e-commerce platform for users and partners on YouTube. Our vision is to help partners across all industries -- from music, to film, to print, to TV -- offer useful and relevant products to a large, yet targeted audience, and generate additional revenue from their content on YouTube beyond the advertising we serve against their videos. And those partners who use our content identification and management system can also enable these links on user-generated content, by using Content ID to claim videos and choose to leave them up on the site. These retail links are being gradually added to our library of music videos and are currently only available to users in the United States, but our goal is to slowly but surely expand the program to additional content and product partners, as well as our international users. We'll be experimenting with the UI over time to make sure this works for our community, and we'll continue to innovate based on your feedback. We're just getting started, so stay tuned for other innovative new features and product options soon. YouTube partners interested in this program should contact their partner manager. Posted by Glenn Brown, YouTube Strategic Partner Development Manager, and Thai Tran, YouTube Product Manager

EMI's Sadville man focuses Incoming Brain

Buzzword Bingo Cheer up, EMI investors. The company's "incoming brain" is focussed on "the niches". That's the inspiring message from EMI's new head of digital strategy, Cory Ondrejka.?

Judge: EMI can sue MP3tunes, not Michael Robertson

EMI filed a copyright suit against the founder of MP3tunes. District judge throws out complaint against Robertson but the case against his company can go forward.

ALL-TEST PRO 31 Drawing

This month the folks at ALL TEST Pro are giving one lucky winner - drawn at random, an ALL TEST PRO 31 motor testing system. The hand-held ALL-TEST PRO 31 incorporates tests for faults to ground, internal faults such as turn-to-turn and coil-to-coil and phase balance. Electric interference from residual or stray currents from test-object or surrounding power sources is measured by an included EMI test. Find out more about the ALL-TEST PRO 31 Drawing

SanDisk's New SlotMusic: But Why?

News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Judge: School Can Suspend Over Fake MySpace Profile Reality TV School Getting Reality TV Deal Spotlight on Media's Health Care Coverage Subscribe to Portfolio magazine As the world seems to march toward downloaded or streamed digital music, SanDisk today is unveiling a new physical medium for music. It's called slotMusic, and it's basically an album on a thumbnail-size microSD card. Four of the major music labels -- Warner, Universal, Sony, EMI -- are supporting it with MP3, unprotected music. So you'd go into a Wal-Mart, pay about $10 for the card, and slip it into your cell phone or any other gadget with a card slot. SanDisk says it will be almost as simple to use as putting a CD in a player. The MP3 songs can be moved around or copied anywhere. And you can write to the card, adding more of your own music into whatever storage space is left. I talked to SanDisk executive Dan Schreiber about slotMusic. Unable to imagine the iPod generation wanting anything to do with going to a store to buy music on anything made of atoms, I asked if this is aimed at, like, old people. "Some of it is an age thing," he said. "But it's about instant entertainment. Downloads continue to thrive, but not everybody wants to spend half their day curating playlists." He added that slotMusic "tested well with young guys who liked the gee-whiz factor." Although, I always take those kinds of results with a grain of salt. Young guys can think a lot of things are gee-whiz ... for about five minutes. Whether they'll actually buy it or not is a whole different question. There doesn't seem to be much question about whether SanDisk did this product well. It seems to be inexpensive and easy to use, and the deals with the record labels mean slotMusic will have plenty of content in a DRM-free format, which is what consumers want these days. The slotMusic cards are so small, retailers could carry a solid selection in a small space. If nothing else, it could be a perfect product for a booth in an airport -- where travelers might want new music for a flight but have limited ways to get it onto a device. Even then, we're talking about selling to generations that are less tech savvy -- and, generally speaking, not the biggest music buyers. But maybe slotMusic will find a niche there. "SanDisk is in the business of displacing legacy media with silicon," Schreiber told me, explaining the company's rationale for the product. "We replaced floppy drives with USB drives. More recently, hard drives are succumbing to flash drives.Optical media will succumb to semiconductors as well. The CD seemed like a natural place to start."

Sources: EMI close to deal with MySpace Music

An agreement would mean MySpace's new music service would launch with all four of the major recording companies.

Aug. 25, 1973: More Than One Way to Slice a CAT

1973: The CT scan goes into use in the United States. Lives will be saved. Originally known as a CAT scan -- for computed (or computerized) axial tomography, or computer-aided (or assisted) tomography -- the process uses a series of X-rays to create sequential images of virtual slices of body tissue. Those can be integrated into a 3-D X-ray, so doctors know the precise position of diseased or otherwise abnormal tissue. In Medford, Massachusetts, in the 1960s, Tufts University physics professor Allan Cormack's main field was particle physics, but he laid the foundation for computerized tomography in his spare time. He theorized that you could take X-rays from varying angles; account for differences in the density of bone, muscle and organs; and program a computer to assemble 3-D images. Electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield was working on a similar line of research at the EMI Central Research Laboratories in England. (Yes, that's the same EMI as the record label, and massive profits from The Beatles' 1960s hits funded development of the CT scanner.) Hounsfield developed a CT machine that could perform brain scans. He began testing it in 1971 -- sometimes carrying bull's brains across London on public transit. His announcement of the invention at a series of British scientific meetings in 1972 created a stir. Hounsfield's prototype took five minutes to make a scan, and two-and-half hours for the computer to process an image. The first production-model EMI-Scanner took four minutes to scan, and its Data General Nova minicomputer needed seven minutes to compute each picture. Meanwhile, back in the United States, dentist-physicist Robert Ledley developed a whole-body scanner at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1973. It saved its first life while still in development, when a pediatric neurosurgeon used it one weekend while Ledley was off-duty. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claims to be the first U.S. medical institution to install the CT, but Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston also began using the CT scanner in August 1973. Hounsfield and Cormack shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ledley was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990. (Among other achievements, he also devised the image processor and wrote a seminal paper on medical informatics, or computer-aided diagnosis.) CT scanners today are faster -- four to eight images a second -- and more agile. Instead of taking discrete, individual "slices" as images, they use spiral, or helical, tomography, like a virtual Honeybaked ham. That's a lot of progress in 35 years ... which is, after all, 245 in cat years. Source: Various