How Social Web Can Save YouTube

Chris Dannen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:42:41 -0400

Google is set to lose $470 million on YouTube in 2009, according to estimates by Credit Suisse. Even for Google, whose market cap hovers around $115 billion at its current share price, that's a hell of a write-off for one product.

Some pundits have predicted the dissolution of the video site--something would be anathema to the Web 2.0 mantra: get users now, make money later. How can Google justify keeping YouTube around? How can it take a property that loses half a billion dollars a year and make it sustainable?

ChaCha's Mobile Text Search on AT&T One-Ups Google's

Chris Dannen — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:01:57 -0500

AT&T [T] announced on Wednesday that it would partner with human-powered search engine ChaCha, whose natural-language search application has found its niche among text-message users. The two companies will engage in cross-promotion, but no other technological initiatives have been announced.