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Kate Burns, one of Google’s first employees outside the US and its first UK managing director, has been hired to run the British operation of YouTube competitor Dailymotion.

Burns, who joins as the first UK managing director of Dailymotion, has the job of increasing the online video website’s user numbers, the amount of user-generated and official content uploaded, and boosting revenues.

She will report to the Dailymotion chief executive, Mark Zaleski, who was appointed last July and is based in Paris. Zaleski was previously chief executive of auction website QXL Ricardo.
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New Google products are usually welcomed, but Google Sites has come in for some flak too

Google bought Jotspot, a wiki site, in October 2006, and has finally launched its own version, Google Sites, to a round of barracking. TechCrunch notes that: “Google Sites looks absolutely nothing like Jotspot, other than the fact that both are hosted wikis. All of the structured data templates launched by Jotspot in July 2006 have been stripped out.” Many say it looks more like Google Pages.

Another common complaint is that Google Sites requires Google Apps.

At ZD Net blogs, Dennis Howlett reviewed the product in Google Sites - spoiled by usability issues, and complains that it’s “dog slow”. He says:
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