Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Apple still trying to land films, TV shows for iCloud — Feature films could be part of Apple’s iCloud launch next week. — In the past several weeks, Apple executives have stepped up their attempts to convince some of the major Hollywood film studios to issue licenses that would enable Apple …
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
YouTube uses Amazon’s recommendation algorithm — In a paper at the recent RecSys 2010 conference, “The YouTube Video Recommendation System” (ACM), eleven Googlers describe the system behind YouTube’s recommendations and personalization in detail. — The most interesting disclosure …
Greg T. Spielberg / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gizmodo taps illustrators to give stories more punch, pop, pow! — When Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam was planning for this week’s coverage of the Verizon iPhone, he didn’t think in words. He visualized it entirely in images, daydreaming about how much more emotive pictures and sounds …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
FBI probes 4chan’s ‘Anonymous’ DDoS attacks — The FBI has launched an investigation into an online protest that allegedly took down numerous Web sites belonging to antipiracy and entertainment groups, as well as the U.S. Copyright Office, a source with knowledge of the probe told CNET today.