Google Media Server is a new gadget for Google Desktop.

Watch movies, music and photos on TV.

This gadget requires Google Desktop 1 or above.

Download: Google Media Server

Labels: Desktop, Media, Media Server, TV

Hearing the call of duty to fix the online ad business, Schmidt comments on publisher fears and a broad array of issues

We're not your enemy, we're your friend -- that's the message Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said media companies should take home about Google. In an in-depth interview with Ken Auletta, The New Yorker's media reporter, Schmidt portrayed that by "fixing" the advertising system and bringing offline advertising online, Google is bringing advertising into the twenty first century and is doing what it takes to save advertising.

Schmidt reaffirmed his claim that Google wasn't out to just make money, but was trying to promote a greater good. He states that concerning publisher's problems with advertising, "It's a huge moral imperative to help here."

Full article: dailytech.com 

Labels: Eric Schmidt, Internet, Media

The YouTube Uploader is a small piece of software which will allow you to upload multiple videos without having to use the standard upload form. Click the "Install Windows Uploader" button to download and then run the installation program to get started.

The YouTube Uploader won't interfere with any of your other media software. The YouTube Uploader sends a unique application number and information about your installation ( e.g., version number, language) to YouTube when it automatically checks for updates.

Download: YouTube Uploader 1.0 

Labels: Media, uploader, video, youtube

The European Commission jumps on the web 2.0 bandwagon

The European Commission has launched its very own channel on YouTube to make its audiovisual content more widely available to the public.

EUTube contains video content ranging from documentaries covering the EU's activities and history to interviews with European commissioners.

Issues such as climate change, energy and immigration will all be covered by the content available on the channel.

Read more: silicon.com 

Labels: Europe, EUTube, Media, video, youtube

Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, has acknowledged that providing applications and other services to business customers will be an important strategy for maintaining growth of the company.

Speaking at a press event in Paris on Tuesday, Schmidt responded to a question on how Google intends to maintain its phenomenal growth rates when the stream of ad revenues from old media to new media, which has sustained the company so far, begins to plateau. "Small businesses and universities are likely to become a significant business for Google as [they] use our leverage in terms of sales and infrastructure," he said.

Full article: zdnetasia.com 

Labels: business, enterprise, Eric Schmidt, Media

It's been a good couple of months to be in mergers and acquisitions on Sand Hill Road. Since April 17, companies Time Warner, WPP, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft have spent over $10.4 billion to acquire online advertising firms.

That sum, the disclosed amount spent on firms DoubleClick, aQuantive, 24/7 Real Media and the Right Media Exchange--does not include the undisclosed amounts spent on a set of relatively smaller acquired companies such asScreenTonic SA, ADTECH AG and Third Screen Media.

But the biggest buys were Google's and Microsoft's.

Full article: internetnews.com 

Labels: DoubleClick, GoogleClick, Media, microsoft