5 things worth knowing today - 29 June 2007

YouTube has a share of the US video-sharing market larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined: Hitwise

Over 50% of broadcasters (globvally) are already digitising their back catalogue: Research & Markets

NBC Universal and News Corp Online JV attracts Amazon exec pre late 2007 debut: VPO

Facebook gains ground as MySpace suffers drop in visitors: Brand Republic

BBC push forwards the launch of iPlayer: BBC

Heatworld Mobile ready for launch - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic

Heatworld Mobile ready for launch - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
Now this almost sounds a good idea. Celebrity mags on the mobile. Surely the next stage (and maybe this is what's intended) is UGC powering a celeb mag. It's easy to see the appeal. Paris Hilton is released from prison in the US, so what's she doing now? In a club, in Tesco's (there goes a flying pig), vialating her parole? If the public start uploading the content to the mobile edition then it should be compelling, but no doubt frequently open to accusations of invasion of privacy....