Update: Google have responded by stating this move was originally available in other countries and was rolled out last month to Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and Sweden. They directed us to a post where the following was apparently the case:
A recent study found that after watching a music video on YouTube, 50% of adult users in the U.K. then go on to purchase music from that artist.
Google’s YouTube today last month rolled out an action based “Buy Song” advertisement that allows users to purchase the song they’re watching on YouTube in iTunes.
The move comes came shortly after the Performing Rights Society couldn’t reach a licensing agreement with YouTube in the UK.
It is believed that the advertisement is generated dynamically by searching for the meta fields in the video including the title and description.
Is the music industry and YouTube finally getting along? Tech Wired is currently waiting for comment from Google.
Google has become a verb. You know, like “I’m going to Google for chocolate cake recipes”. Google has pushed its way into mainstream conversation that even my grandparents know what Google is now. Everyone knows that you can go to google.com and search for anything your heart desires. Read more
Sjors Provoost was @ Bar Camp last weekend showing off his Open Moko Free runner phone running Google’s Android.
You can watch the video below, and expect more video’s from Bar Camp Sydney 4 to come under the category “BarCamp Sydney”, and a wrap up of the event also.
Burn baby burn?
You’re Feed burner statistics gone spastic?
About a week ago, Tech Wired Australia’s Feed burner statistics were dropped for Saturday and Sunday the 18th & 19th of July (American dates).
With all of this in mind, Feed burner is owned by Google (well actually, it was acquired), and as a user of Google’s products, I haven’t seen too many issues before with data disappearing.
The above message has been on the front page of Feed Burner for quiet quite some time now, and just goes to show that perhaps Google are just buying out everything and doing nothing about it.
This concerns me with all the great web start ups being bought out, and going no where, staying ‘static’ so to speak with a lot of potential, kinda like kinetic energy.
Is there a solution to this issue?
Greed?
Who knows, but I guess Google made Feedburner free, but if I was a previous paying user and this happened, would I be happy? I think not.
- Ben
