New York Times: Google is introducing a service to allow Web sites in its ad network to embed relevant videos from some YouTube content creators. A Web site or blog specializing in hiking, for instance, might choose to embed hiking videos from YouTube.

Forbes: BitTorrent has debuted tools on the video service Brightcove that spread the work of delivering video files among many users' computers at once, a process designed to make streaming video faster, cheaper and more reliable.

Broadcasting & Cable: Whatever happened to ex-Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon's HBO deal?

Information Week: YouTube hijacked by spammers.

Clickz: To promote its Nintendo DS title "Jam Sessions" where players strum the touch-sensitive DS screen with a stylus as if it were a guitar pick to compose music, Ubisoft created a contest on YouTube where gamers can submit videos of themselves of any original song with lyrics, played using "Jam Sessions" on the DS.

Agence France Presse: Blinkx tailors video search service for Western Europe.