links for 2007-10-10

“Social networking website MySpace says comparing user profiles with a[n Australia] national database of sex predators would be a useful development to improve internet safety.”

The UK govt is looking into links between videogames & violence. NB: Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers’ Association (ELSA) : “only 2% of games released in the UK receive an 18 certificate and the average age of a gamer is 28.”

Google “is expected to introduce a service on Tuesday to allow Web sites in its ad network to embed relevant videos from some YouTube content creators.” And YouTube video creators are to get a small percentage of the pie! (How EPIC.)

“Today’s students will be tomorrow’s university recruiting agents on the social web, Swinburne University of Technology vice-chancellor Ian Young has predicted. “Prospective students are getting more and more information on universities from … Facebook”

Is Twitter in for some serious competition as Google buys Jaiku, a more orbust Twitter-clone (well, Twitter ancestor, actually I think…)?