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a chance then depending on how well the judge or jury understands the search engine and ad marketing industries youtube is becoming the unwitting arbiter of copyright disputes and in the process finds itself between a rock industry and a hard facewow that was really bad wasntconservative blogger and columnist michelle malkin is crying foul after a music industry dmca notice quieted her criticism of hip hop artist akon the second lead was better i think malkin has not just pulled fellow pundits laura ingram and bill oreilly in on the akonverizon affair but also enlisted the electronic frontier foundation in her spat with universal music group and youtube that puts youtube in the middle of one hairy controversy malkin appeared on the laura ingram show to discuss her successful campaign against verizon getting the telecommunications giant to drop their sponsorship of akon and gwen stefanis tour as long as akon was opening for her malkin brought along a clip of akon simulating rough sex with a teenage preachers daughter on a trinidad stage i know right to spread the message farther about akons lessthanchristian deeds the usual: misogyny vulgarity violence crime malkin posted her complaints along with the concert footage on youtube shortly after umg hit youtube with a dmca takedown notice claiming copyright infringement michelles screenshot of the message that replaced her video credits a copyright claim by universal music group but that message now reads due to a terms of service violation it is unclear why the change in language occurred or whether youtube will reconsider after malkins counterclaim of fair use we believe this is a clear attempt by umg to hide the truth about akon and intimidate critics said malkin between malkin and umg is a hard enough spot to be in but add the eff into the melee and youve got yourself a first class nightmare the eff called umgs actions an improper attempt to silence her online criticism of one of its artists it is impermissible and irresponsible for copyright holders to use the dmca as a pretext to squelch criticism said eff senior staff attorney kurt opsahl in a statement ms malkin had every right under copyright law to criticize umg and akon and to use footage of akon to emphasize her point criticism and commentary are not only the core of fair use but vital to our traditions of free speech the eff has been on quite a tear lately alsso

and the list goes on tickets are going fast but there are still a few left if you hurry one thing werquote re doing again this year is the ldblquote 15 minutes of famerdblquote segment on each of the two conference days in which three deserving entrepreneurs andor their startups get five minutes each hence the 15 minutes to talk to the attendees about their idea and why they are the best thing to happen to the web since youtube last yearrquote s winners included the gang at takingitglobal as well as areyoufrankcom favorvillecom and pixpo stowe boyd wrote about the 15 minutes here and tara hunt wrote about it here same idea this year: head over to the signup form at the mesh site and give us a pitch emdash in 250 words or less emdash about you and your company or idea and tell us why we should give you five minutes in front of the mesh crowd to wow them with your brilliance if you get selected you get a free oneday pass to the conference as well as those five minutes of glory par continuing my series of interviews with analysts here is my interview with jaisri chety what is your current position and the name of the company you work for i am working at present in tescocom as asst manager insight how long have you been working in web analytics i have been working in the dotcom industry right from 2000 i started my career in cricinfocom where i had a fantastic initiation into the dotcom industry i was handling corporate communications here which included advertising and public relations this is where i implemented advanced online advertising techniques and was initiated into a very crude form of web analytics after the dotcom bust i gained some experience in conventional advertising however returned back to online advertising in 2004 i joined bharatmatrimonycom as campaign manager bharatmatrimony was one of the leading advertisers in the online medium in india here i handled the complete advertising budget and was given the task of optimizing effectively for every buck spent on the internet subsequently i had a very brief stint in an online advertising firm called regalix before i moved to present job in tesco tell me about your work education prior to making a switch before entering into the online industry i was in a completely different profession i completed my education in commerce from a reputed college in chennai endash stella maris college and had also done a course in advertising from the madras aadvertising

semantic web developer mor naaman however amidst a now somewhat miffed semantic web developer crowd pulled rank and declared the semantic web dead a researcher at yahoo research berkeley naaman presented his case at the international world wide web conference in alberta canada naaman relegated bernerslees vision of a cooperative web where people and machines get along in digitized organized artificial intelligence harmony via tags told ya this is some heady quantum stuff to a pipe dream naaman reminds bernerslee that people in general especially collectively just aint that bright the semantic web you see relies in large part on people tagging their online media in a rather standardized academic highminded meaningful and structured way and naaman thinks thats too much to ask: there is no way that we can engage the masses in annotating media with semantic labels at best we can get the people to annotate content such as flickr images or youtube videos with short text descriptions or tags hmmm yes very aristotelian i like it sounds like naamans actually observed the primates in question down the block from me one of these primates spraypainted his name on the road with stencil its not a complicated name a fourletter smacker spelled jakc apparently naaman modified his original use of the word dead as it was intended more as a conversationstarter opting for something closer to unachievable certainly bernerslee has wowed the world in the past it wouldnt be surprising if he heard rhetoric like this before his historic launch of an html page so what does ol tbl have to say about it lets check his blog he says blogging is great um at least he thought so last november i doubt sonys ability to implement it and execute it in a really rich and compelling way playstation network is not xbox live its not even close to think about layering home on top of thatCwow the hardest part is not even creating the system its regulating the behaviour and all of that too boy thats a massive investment in infrastructure i actually believe that most gamers will always find more value in what we have on xbox live and now games for windows live and how were building that out which really started all about gaming features and now has added more like instant messaging video marketplace etcetera thats what i think is a much better approach and thats what our approacch

and retrieving data from the data warehouse formatting the same draw inference and present it to the various users of these reports the scope includes reporting on categorybased performance performance of the various marketing channels like email online advertising and crm it also includes site intelligence which is web analytics software apart from the regular reporting we do various adhoc reporting and analysis on customer behavior changes uplift of sales due to activities targeting specific audience etc what are the skills that you think are important for a web analyst in my opinion a web analyst needs to understand the data and site dynamics of their particular website should have decent technical knowledge good customer focus and attention to details should intuitively pick insight from an otherwise burgeoning deluge of data what if any education or work experience helped you in making this transition my experience in online advertising and decent technical knowledge helped me in making this transition what education is lacking education or experience that would have helped in web analytics if i had more structured technical education it would have made my transition smoother what i have read and own web analytics demystified and website measurement hack by eric peterson which books have you helped in your new job or finding new job the website measurement hack acts as my reference as i keep going back to this book if i run into any technical issues what were the major challenges you are facing in this industry the challenges in this industry is that it is rapidly emerging and growing hence one needs to constantly learn unlearn and relearn how do you make sure you are learning and growing in this field i am regular on the yahoo web analytics forum and read up the various blogs of eric peterson avinash kaushik and also try to organize a web analytics wednesday meetings here in bangalore do you have blog if yes what kind of article do you write i do have a blog its i try to write on my understanding of web analytics though i must confess i am not a regular one unrelated question what do you think of indian teams disaster in world cup 2007 what is your advice to selectors or the team members in my opinion the indian team is lacking in team spirit and coming together for a higher cause like winning for you country they tend to place more importance on getting their individual scores breaking records oor