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Oct 15 2008 7:38am EDT

First Bytes: Obama's Video Game Ads, Google, MySpace Karaoke, YouTube

--Obama's latest ad campaign? Inside the online versions of Electronic Arts' hottest selling video games.
[Yahoo]

--C.E.O. Chad Hurley says there's no clear plan--"silver bullet"--to monetizing YouTube.
[PaidContent]

--BBC plans industry standard for Web TV, invites competitors to join in.
[PaidContent]

--MySpace Karaoke launches, letting American Idol wannabes record and post videos on the site. Users in the U.S. and Canada are free to sing their little hearts out: no song licensing restrictions.
[Yahoo]

--ComScore: Google's search volume accelorates while market share dips in September.
[TechCrunch]

--Andrea Chalupa
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