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‘Gangnam Style’ Makes $8 Million On YouTube Views Alone

Category: Social, Technology Tags: $8 million, Charlie Bit My Finger, , Gangnam Style Psy, Gangnam Style Youtube, Gangnam Style Youtube Views, , , , Nikesh Arora, Psy Gangnam Style, Psy Gangnam Style Youtube, Psy Youtube, , Youtube Gangnam Style Leave a Comment

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Psy (Photo credit: Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer)

We remember when the K-Pop hit first made its way to YouTube in July. We remember when it became the most-watched video on the network in November. We remember when it hit 1 billion views in December.

Now we learn about another milestone “Gangnam Style” has reached. During Google’s fourth quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Google chief business officer Nikesh Arora revealed that “Gangnam Style” had brought in $8 million on YouTube views alone.

Google allows creators to monetize popular YouTube videos by placing advertisements before the video you want to watch. For ultra-popular videos like Gangnam Style, this practice can be lucrative: Christopher Mims of Quartz does the math and says the $8 million in earnings reported by Arora means the video is generating about $0.65 in revenue per click. For a video with 1.23 billion YouTube views and counting, that kind of cash adds up — fast.

Jul
14

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How To Check If Your Email Was Affected By The Yahoo Breach

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Check Yahoo Email, Check Yahoo Password, Commonly-Used-Passwords, , Hotmail, , Most-Commonly-Used-Passwords, , , Passwords, , , , Yahoo Email, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Password, Yahoo Password, Yahoo Security Leak Leave a Comment

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More details are surfacing about the security breach at Yahoo that led to approximately 450,000 account logins and passwords being revealed online in plain text, including the fact that thousands of accounts with other services — Gmail and Hotmail among them — may also be exposed.

So how can you tell if you’re among the hacked? Tech Crunch has pointed to the security source Securi, a web monitoring site, where users can verify whether they’re among the victims of the leak.

Click here to visit Securi and see if your own information was compromised.

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May
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Apple’s Note For New Hires: ‘People Don’t Come Here To Play It Safe’

Category: Social, Technology Tags: , Apple Inspiration Note, Apple Inspirational Note, Apple New Hire, Apple Note, Foxconn, Inspirational Note, , , , Nick Bilton, Note, 1 Comment

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Apple Inc. New Headquarters (Photo credit: MarkGregory007)

The Apple inspirational note left of the desk of Instagram user “M” and discovered by New York Times columnist Nick Bilton, sums what it means to be an Apple employee.

Basically, “Team Apple! F**k yeah!”

The Instagrammer who posted the photo of the note included these words: “What greets you on your first day at Apple. I’ve had this taped to my dresser for two years. Words to live by.”

The letter left on the desk of new Apple hires reads as follows, according to “M’s” image:

There’s work and there’s your life’s work.

Apr
13

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Facebook Lets You Download More Of Your Data

Category: Social, Technology Tags: , Data Protection, , Facebook Data, Facebook Data Policy, Facebook Download Data, Facebook Download Data Policy, Facebook Europe, , Law of Austria, , Online Privacy, Polls, Schrem, , Leave a Comment

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Facebook’s making more of your data available to you. The social network announced on its Privacy page on April 12 that its users will now be able to download “an expanded archive of your Facebook account history” through the updated Download Your Information feature available on the Account Settings page.

According to Facebook, the Download Your Information feature was first made available in 2010 and allows users to receive a copy of material they have shared on Facebook, including pictures, posts, messages and a list of friends and chat conversations.

Mar
14

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Encyclopaedia Britannica to end print edition after 244 years

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Britannica Ceases Print, Britannica Ends Print, Britannica Goes Digital, , Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Ernest Shackleton, Financial Times, Jorge Cauz, Last Britannica, , Online Encyclopedia, Leave a Comment

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Cover of Britannica Encyclopedia (Encyclopaedia)

“The Encyclopaedia Britannica”, the world’s most famous print encyclopedia, has announced that after 244 years in print, it is no longer going to make new physical copies of its flagship publication. The 32-volume, $1,395 edition that the Chicago-based company put out in 2010 was its last; future versions will live entirely online.This is an announcement that had been coming - according to the Financial Times, only 8,500 copies of the most recent edition were printed. The first edition appeared in 1768, in Scotland.

Media Decoder, the New York Times blog, broke the story this afternoon, quoting Jorge Cauz, president of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., as saying “Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The website is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.”

Mar
7

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Watch Disney’s Full-Length Episodes Free at YouTube

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Disney, Disney Google, Disney Google Youtube, Disney TV, Disney TV Shows, Disney Tv Shows Youtube, Disney YouTube, , Google Disney, Google Youtube Disney, Hannah Montana, Lizzie McGuire, , Proud Family, , , Youtube Disney, Youtube Disney Tv Shows Leave a Comment

Once upon a time, back in November of last year, the New York Times reported that the Walt Disney Company and Google’s YouTube had struck a deal: the pair would spend $10 million to $15 million to create an original video series that would be featured on Disney’s YouTube channel.

An awesome added bonus: Disney would feature full-length episodes from some of its most popular television series on YouTube — for free.

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