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Google brings Your World to your search results

Seeking to deliver on CEO Larry Page’s promise of a more social Google , the search seraph announced earlier today another new initiative to infuse social signals in search. Your World marks the third major revamp tooled toward social search in the approximately nine months since Page ascended the search throne atop Mountain View. “We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships,” Google Fellow Amit Singhal explained on the Official Google Blog . “We began this transformation with Social Search, and today we’re taking another big step in this direction.” Google’s three major plays with the revamp include finding results catered to individuals, and integrating the profiles of those with similar interest or who may be close to your social circle in results and autocomplete features. Your World also places Google+ pages related to search terms within easy reach for users to visit.

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Justin Timberlake brings MySpace back

Justin Timberlake is bringing MySpace back. In the final moments of Panasonic’s press conference at the CES conference in Las Vegas, actor-musician Timberlake took to the stage to announce a revamp of the fallen social network and a new partnership with Panasonic. “The TV, long before the internet, was our supplier of true word of mouth, our originator of water cooler talk, and now with this exciting partnership of MySpace and Panasonic, we’re ready to take television and entertainment to the next step – by upgrading it to the social networking experience,” Timberlake said. By partnering with MySpace, Panasonic is hoping to provide an integrated experience where users can watch TV and interact on the social platform simultaneously through a new app it calls ‘MySpace TV’.

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YouTube acquires RightsFlow

YouTube has acquired licencing service RightsFlow, it has announced. The popular video-sharing website will use RightFlow’s muscle to help tackle online copyright issues and provide “smart copyright management” to its platform. “We’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired RightsFlow, a New York-based company that helps songwriters, recording artists, record labels, distributors and online music services manage music rights,” product manager David King wrote on the YouTube Blog . “As new ways of consuming music have emerged, RightsFlow has been at the forefront of solving the complex issues of licensing and royalty payment management. “By combining RightsFlow’s expertise and technology with YouTube’s platform, we hope to more rapidly and efficiently license music on YouTube, meaning more music for you all to enjoy, and more money for the talented people producing the music.” As YouTube has evolved, so have licensing agreements and copyright issues. In its earliest form, YouTube came under fire from critics who claimed the video site allowed and encouraged materials to appear on its site that infringed copyright laws. Both YouTube and its parent company Google have been involved in several legal disputes on the issue – including a class action suit lodged by a group of music publishers accusing YouTube of allowing pirated materials to appear on site. After reaching a settlement in August, the publishers said in a statement: “As a result of this resolution, music publishers will have the opportunity to enter into a license agreement with YouTube and receive royalties from YouTube for musical works in videos posted on the site.” YouTube has since worked to shake any pirated content out of its site with a filter system, and by adding RightsFlow to its arsenal the web’s most popular video-sharing service will conceivably be in a better position to help artists and groups tackle issues regards rights and distribution.

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Gaming and social media on agenda for ‘Next Gen’

Tech-savvy learners may soon have the opportunity to get hands-on with computer science and development at an earlier age. Creative industries minister Ed Vaizey has called for reform in school curriculum relating to IT and computer sciences lessons, following recommendations in a report conducted earlier this year. The minister believes changes to the school curriculum incorporating a wider range of technologies, including video games and social media, could help keep the UK “at the forefront” of that business sector. Vaizey’s comments were set out in the ‘Next Gen’ report – an independent study commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sports in July 2010 and published earlier this year. The report contains 20 detailed recommendations for the government, industry and schools to consider. “The economic and cultural value of the UK’s video games and VFX sectors is clear and the long-term potential of their global markets present a great opportunity for UK-based businesses,” Vaizey said . “It is an industry that has real potential to create the high quality jobs of the future that will be so important as we recover from the recession

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Buy Promoted Videos in AdWords

Google announced today the ability for consumers to purchase Promoted Videos directly in AdWords. According to the Google Blog, any AdWords advertiser with video content can use Promoted Videos to promote a product with the opportunity for it to reach a larger audience, from a small business looking to promote a service to a movie studio premiering a new trailer.

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NSDesign Garners Government Funding, for Search Engine Course

Web design destination, NSDesign Ltd., has been granted monies from the Glasgow City Council, to fund a web training pilot allowing eligible organisations the opportunity to attend, for free.

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Georgetown Receives Yahoo! Endowment Support

Search engine, Yahoo!, has endowed Georgetown University, with a $1 million gift to support research on international values and communication technology, through the Yahoo! International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund.

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