By: Joe Lewis | Source: webpronews.com

YouTube announced its plans to branch out into the mobile marketplace at the OgivlyOne Digital Media Summit. But with no clear monetization strategy and pending copyright issues, the endeavor could be met with several snares and pitfalls along the way.

The transition from fixed platforms to mobile technology is becoming an imperative focus these days for content providers, who are looking to infuse an even greater sense of "virality" throughout online communities in regards to their products.

This week, Google unveiled a new client for mobile Gmail to the public. Also, the blogosphere has been rampant with rumors anew concerning the iPhone, based mostly on partnership initiatives between Cingular and Apple, and Apple’s new speech recognition patents.

Clearly, content mobility is becoming a major focus among the leaders in the digital sphere. At the same time, consumers and industry experts alike are always eagerly awaiting the "next big thing" in mobile content.

Enter YouTube, who announced plans this week to bring its popular video-sharing model to the mobile marketplace.

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By: Brice Mattson | Source: site-reference.com

Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that may help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don’t have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you don’t have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.

How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent. Now it’s a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don’t need to spend a single cent, it may take time, to say honestly, I’m not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I’m about to tell you.

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By: Jason Lee MIller | Source: webpronews.com

With the advent of the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, copyright law got a lot trickier. Labeled "really simple stealing" by AOL’s Jason Calacanis, there is still no clear-cut legal precedent about implied consent to repurpose syndicated content, but the legal system that protects search engines may also green-light spammy content aggregators.

Here’s the predicament:

A content provider distributes his or her content through the use of an RSS feed. This feed is open to any who would subscribe. The first question is: Is there an implied consent to repurpose that material by republishing it (with proper credit) on a blog or Website? The act of syndicating (distributing) content may imply that permission.

The second question is: How are splogs (spam blogs) that are set up as aggregators of content to attract keyword-driven traffic, that publish only the headline and snippet of text, that link out to the original source, and that make money from AdSense different from Google and other search engines? Doesn’t Google do, essentially, the same thing? The short answer is that the legal system hasn’t really decided for certain.

Fred von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation told WebProNews, "Frankly, until there is some case law on this or related issues, we simply can’t be sure of the answers to these questions. "As with so many things on the Internet, copyright law has yet to catch up with the realities of RSS syndication."

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