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Posted by Tamar Fruchtman, Senior Corporate Counsel Today, Stanford University announced that it has expanded our original partnership to take advantage of our settlement agreement to make millions of works from its library collection accessible to readers, researchers, and book lovers across the United States. That means that if the settlement agreement is approved by the court, anyone in the US will be able to find, preview and buy online access to books from Stanford’s library. Stanford joins the University of Michigan , University of Wisconsin-Madison , and University of Texas , who also expanded their original partnerships with Google.

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Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube’s Head of News & Politics (cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog ) Today, President Obama had his first exclusive interview after his State of the Union speech with you, the YouTube community. The President engaged in a direct conversation about a broad range of issues, from generating jobs to opening up the health care process to investments in nuclear energy.

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Posted by Harry Wingo, Policy Counsel When it comes to cloud computing , the Obama Administration is putting some skin in the game. Everyone talks about the capacity of cloud computing to transform government and reduce costs (one study estimates that federal agencies could eventually save 85% of their IT budgets by moving to the cloud)

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Cloud computing in the President’s 2011 budget

If you will also be in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress (MWC), please consider spending the afternoon of February 15th with me at 140 Characters Conference: Barcelona Event schedule: (as of 31-Jan-10) 12:30 – Registration / Networking 13:00 – Welcome 13:10 – Jeff Keni Pulver ( @jeffpulver ) – creator, #140conf The State of NOW 13:30 – Jeffrey Hayzlett ( @JeffreyHayzlett ) – CMO, Kodak, “The Power of Social Media and how it grows value for your brand” 13:50 – “The twitter Kids” Participants: AJ Leon ( @ajleon ) – Social Entrepreneur, Co-Creator of #twitterkids Melissa Leon ( @melissaleon ) – Co Founder the LaC Project. Creator of #twitterkids 14:05 – Brian Simpson ( @Bsimi ) – Director of Zen Chaos, Roger Smith Hotel “It’s All About the People” 14:15 – Mahesh Murthy ( @maheshmurthy ) – Founder, Pinstorm; Venture Capitalist, Seedfund, “Real-Time Marketing” 14:25 – Ajit Jaokar ( @AjitJaokar ) – founder, futuretext 14:35 “twitter and Education” Participants: Gavin Dudeney ( @dudeneyge ) – Moderator Graham Stanley ( @grahamstanley ) – Barcelona-based teacher Nick Hockly ( @TheConsultantsE ) Pilar (aka Dreamer) ( @englishteach8 ) – Teacher & bookworm 14:55 – Brett Petersel ( @brett ) – entrepreneur, educator, and technology enthusiast 15:05 – MOFilm Winner 15:15 – Networking Break 15:45 – CMO Panel – Exploring the effects of the Real-Time Internet on our Business Participants: Jeffrey Merrihue ( @JeffreyMerrihue ) – Chairman, MoFilm and AT&T, Best Buy, Chevrolet, Pepsi, Samsung & Yoplait 16:05 – Tim Behrsin ( @timbehrsin ) – iNum Business Development, “Emerging role of telecommunications in relief work” 16:15 – JP Rangaswami ( @jobsworth ) – Chief Scientist, BT 16:30 – Jon Landau – Producer Avatar & Titanic (schedule is subject to change without notice) – - – REGISTER today for #140conf Barcelona. visit: http://140conf.com for a list of all upcoming worldwide #140conf events font size=1> Tags: 140conf , social media , 140 Characters Conference , twitter , Jeff Keni Pulver

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Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel Did you know that today is an international holiday, one that’s celebrated in the U.S., Canada, and 27 countries in Europe? Known as Data Privacy Day in North America and Data Protection Day in Europe, today is meant to increase public awareness about privacy in the information age.

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Celebrating Data Privacy Day

Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Manager Last summer a chilling 40-second video clip, recorded on a cell phone, went viral and caught the attention of the world.

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Google D.C. Talk Feb. 8 – Democracy Online: Can the Internet Bring Change?

Posted by Chris Talbot, Elections and Issue Advocacy Team Editor’s note: We’re excited to welcome Google’s Elections and Issue Advocacy Team to the Public Policy Blog. Since 2007, they’ve worked with political candidates, consultants and advocates to build online advertising campaigns and fully integrate digital media into political strategy

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The Digital Playbook: Top 5 strategies for political campaigns

Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube (Cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog .) Tonight at 9 p.m. ET we’ll be livestreaming the President’s State of the Union address on YouTube . As we announced yesterday, not only will you have the opportunity to watch the speech live online, you’ll also be able to submit your questions for the President during and after the speech, and the President himself will respond to a collection of your top-voted questions in a live interview at the White House next week

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Live Tonight on YouTube: The State of the Union

Posted by Harry Wingo, Policy Counsel This weekend, Google along with dozens of other D.C. organizations, attended the Winterhaven Homeless Veterans Stand Down at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The annual event helps homeless Veterans get back on their feet with job clinics, medical aid, dental care, and housing assistance.

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Google Voice & Project CARE connect with DC’s homeless vets

Posted by Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Google.org Along with other entrepreneurs, investors and industry stakeholders, we wrote a letter urging President Obama to craft a jobs package that includes the creation of a Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA). Swift enactment of CEDA will create jobs in 2010 and also position the U.S. as a global leader in the development and deployment of clean energy technologies for years to come

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Finance clean energy, Mr. President

One in nine cross-border minutes was a free Skype-to-Skype call last year. That’s $12.9 billion in international calls Skype gave its users for free assuming Skype’s customers would pay a world average market price of roughly $0.24 per minute.

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Skype gave away $12.9 billion in free international calls in 2009

Posted by Vincent Paquet, Senior Product Manager, Google Voice (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) It’s sometimes easy to take the little things in life for granted: a haircut, a shower, shoes or even a phone number. Sometimes life doesn’t turn out the way we planned, and those little luxuries become much harder to come by. Project CARE is a program to provide free Google Voice phone numbers and voicemail accounts to homeless individuals.

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Bringing Project CARE to veterans in Washington, D.C.

A Call for Speakers (and Characters): The 140 Characters Conference: April 20/21 in NY The 140 Characters Conference: Exploring the State of NOW (#140conf) will be returning to New York City and taking place at the 92nd Street Y on April 20-21, 2010.

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Reminder: Deadline is TODAY for Speaker Proposals for #140conf NYC

Posted by Michael Terrell, Energy Policy Counsel Over the past six months we have been providing you with periodic updates and comments on the FCC’s National Broadband Plan , which is scheduled for release in mid-March. Earlier today FCC energy and environment director Nick Sinai gave a sneak preview of one of the Plan’s key components: how broadband will facilitate smarter energy usage. He told an audience at the Clean-tech Investor Summit that the FCC will call on States and the Congress to give consumers and consumer-authorized third parties access to real-time energy information.

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FCC broadband plan to call for access to real-time energy info

Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Public Policy Communications If you’ve ever posted a video on YouTube, shared a photo through Flickr, or used web-based e-mail service, you’re a cloud computing user. As more computing shifts from the desktop to the Internet “cloud,” what do policymakers need to know about the cloud? That question and many more were the topic of a Brookings Institution talk yesterday on cloud computing (full audio here ).

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Google Docs guy talks cloud computing at Brookings

Posted by Mistique Cano, Public Policy Communications Manager Like many people interested in technology, diplomacy, and free expression on the Internet, we look forward to hearing Secretary of State Clinton’s speech today on these topics. The speech will be streamed live here .

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Secretary Clinton to address Internet freedom

Posted by Jacquelline Fuller and Prem Ramaswami for the Google Crisis Response Team (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) With relief efforts underway, many displaced Haitians and their friends and families around the world are deeply concerned about the safety and whereabouts of loved ones.

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Staying connected in post-earthquake Haiti

Join Israeli music industry professionals Ayelet Yagil (moderator), Irad Eshel, Liron Teeny, Yoni Bloch, and Ivri Lider for a lively and often very funny discussion about the impact of social media on the music industry. Also includes interviews with Steven Stern (Underground Experience) and Mel Rosenberg (Afeka College), a “must see” ground-breaking interactive music video by Yoni Bloch, and a special promo for Benny’s Cafeteria. Recorded at the 140 Characters Conference in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2009

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Twitter: Music – 140 Characters Conference Tel Aviv

Posted by Tom Tauke, Verizon’s Executive Vice President of Public Affairs, Policy and Communications and Alan Davidson, Google’s Director of Americas’ Public Policy (Cross-posted on Verizon Policy Blog ) Last night Google and Verizon filed a joint submission in response to the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Preserving the Open Internet.

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Our common ground on the open Internet

At the 140 Characters Conference: NYC (#140conf), taking place April 20/21 2010, I am bringing back a session I introduced at #140conf Tel Aviv: 140 Demo . I am looking for companies who would like an opportunity to pitch their products to the community attending #140conf NYC. The catch?

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Invitation to Companies to Pitch at 140Demo @ #140conf NYC

I just wanted to thank everyone who came out to National Mechanics Bar last night and took part in the first #140conf Philly Meetup. I appreciated the opportunity to share my observations about the emerging real-time Internet and the “State of Now.” I thank: Gloria Bell ( @gloriabell ), James Bressi ( @jamesbressi ), Jonny Goldstein ( @jonnygoldstein ) and Don Lafferty ( @donlafferty ) for their contributions to the success of the event. If it wasn’t for their help in the planning, organization and operations, last night would never of happened.

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Posted by Mistique Cano, Public Policy Communications Manager This past Monday, our Washington office hosted a Google D.C. Talk on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. Panelists included Jonathan Band, Ryan Clough, James Love, and Steve Metalitz, and the talk was moderated by Washington Post Consumer Technology Columnist Rob Pegoraro .

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Video from Monday’s Google D.C. Talk on ACTA

Posted by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer (cross-posted from Official Google Blog ) Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.

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A new approach to China

“Social Media Jungle” took place the morning of January 6, 2010 at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Social Media Jungle is an event I first produced in 2008 and it was the second year it was also held at CES. The twitter hashtag for the event was #smjces and the following are the tweets that originated in room N256 at the LVCC and at times re-originated from other people from around world

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Social Media Jungle at CES 2010: (#smjces) tweet by tweet

Posted by Mandy Albanese, Policy Communications Today we’re releasing the latest in a series of online safety videos as part of our Digital Literacy campaign . As we engage more students, parents and teachers about how to make good decisions online, many have noted how difficult it is to identify and avoid online scams. We know how tricky scammers can be.

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New online safety video: Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Today the FCC asked Congress for a one-month extension to deliver its National Broadband Plan, explaining that it needs more time to review the public record and to brief key officials. The deadline originally had been set for February 17th. For years Google has been a vocal proponent of a national broadband strategy, and we’re eager to see this plan delivered to Congress as soon as possible.

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FCC seeks short extension to complete National Broadband Plan

Later today, at 3PM PST / 6PM EST I will be one of the guests at the K-Zone, Kodak’s in-booth television studio at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Date : January 7th, 2010 Time : 3PM PST / 6PM EST Topic : In the Year 2525 Topics description : What did we do before social networks? This panel will discuss current tech and social media trends like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and what we’ll see in the next 5, 10, 20 years

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Live Today from CES: In the Year 2525

The 140 Characters Conference : Exploring the State of NOW (#140conf) will be returning to New York City on April 20-21, 2010 – http://140conf.com The event will be taking a look at the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business and systemic changes the worldwide adoption of twitter is having on: Celebrity, The Media, Music, Advertising, Politics, Education, Communications, Public Diplomacy, Fashion, Design, Public Safety and more. The deadline for speaking proposals is: Friday, January 22nd.

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A Call for Speakers (and Characters): The 140 Characters Conference: April 20/21 in NYC

The first HD Communications Summit in Europe will take place in Paris on February 12, 2010. Please send speaking and sponsorship proposals by January 12, 2010 to Daniel Berninger – dan@danielberninger.com FT-Orange Group will host the event at their R&D Center in Issy les Moulineaux near Paris. The HD Communication Summits in NYC in May and September of 2009 proved to be must attend events for everyone in the emerging HD ecosystem.

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Call for Speakers/Sponsors: HD Communications Summit – Europe, February 12, 2010

Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel It’s been a while since we’ve talked about what’s happening with white spaces being freed up for wireless broadband, but today we took another step towards making ” Wi-Fi on steroids ” a reality for consumers. In a submission to the FCC , we’re asking the Commission to designate Google as one of potentially several administrators of a white spaces geolocation database.

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Our proposal to build and operate a white spaces database