New media news seems to be the big buzz early on this week, with Know More Media authors keeping a close watch on latest developments. MidMarketMaven challenged Mark Cuban about the Blog Maverick’s recent forecast of YouTube’s demise. Because it rested heavily on the issue of copyright infringement, Cuban’s analysis lost significant relevance when the YouTube/Warner Music partnership to allow YouTube users to download Warner Music legally was announced. If other music publishing powerhouses followed the cue from Warner Music, those infringement issues could go right out the window and YouTube stands in position to make a bundle off of new distribution deals.  

AdHurl also posed a good question about user-generated content being more about buzz than bucks and WebMetricsGuru announced the first blogger in space.

India is a growing nation and predicted future economic super-power. More frequently the cities like Bangalore are compared to the Silicon Valley because of their emergent information technology (IT) industry.  IndianRaj asked will the Silicon Valley model work for India, while  BizofCoding tells us that the similarities are limited. I was also intrigued by the post about the city of diamonds and the news about the Indian government’s efforts to decrease the large lower caste by offering rewards for marrying a lower cast woman.

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