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NewsCorp’s popular social networking website MySpace, has finally unvieled a new software designed to prevent users from posting copyrighted videos that has been requested to be taken down by its authors.

“TakeDown StayDown”, as the software is called, prevents users from misusing the network and the videos. Any video that has been requested to be removed by its authors, and have been done so, cannot be re-posted.

MySpace currently has some other software to catch people uploading copyrighted music files.

Domain names, or Top-Level-Domains are the commonly known “extensions” of site domain names. These help the computers connected to the Internet to find various web sites, or more specifically, the web servers that serve these webpages.

Common domain names include .com, .org, .net, .biz and .info. There are also country-based names like .us, .fr, .jp, .in etc.

Now, in a move to expand the name system, ICANN is accepting public comments and opinion on new names.

Google is in trouble……or rather was. They have now gotten out of the abyss that copyright violation lawsuits are!

Thai military government, which had earlier sued the Mountain View, CA-based company, has decided to cancel plans to sue Google.

The culprit is some video clips on YouTube, a property of Google, which supposedly insults the King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Thai government had, on April 4, blocked access to YouTube in the country. This was a backlash of Google’s refusal to remove the offensive clips.

Google Analytics is one of the most popular, and preferred blog and site metrics tool, from Google.

The stat scripts have been excellent, and is the preferred choice of site stat tool for most. It has been so widely recognized that most bloggers recommend it as the best free stat service. I have seen quite a few number of recommendations for it, as a matter of fact.

MySpace, the popular social networking site that is growing quickly, and has become a rage among the youth has reached an agreement for the acquisition of Photobucket. Photobucket and MySpace are leaders in their respective categories. The deal values Photobucket at $250 million(in cash).

Photobucket is unique in the world of image-sharing, because it functions more like a cheap image host rather than a social network like Flickr. This allows users of MySpace, FaceBook, Bebo, eBay, Blogger etc., many of which do not provide image hosting space.