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YouTube and the White House's recent initiative to have US President Barack Obama answer questions from every day people in a live interview on YouTube. People have been able to ask their questions, over YouTube of course, for the past week and the most interesting and relevant ones have already been chosen.
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30 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Not so long ago, YouTube rolled out a major redesign. The new look, inspired by the new 'beautiful' Google design, also came with a host of new features and changes. But YouTube wasn't done, it's one of the largest websites in the world and there still were some sections that needed some attention... |
27 January 2012
06:31 GMT |
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YouTube is not done redesigning the YouTube player, it started testing new buttons and a slightly new look earlier this year, but it has now introduced a new, dynamically resizing player.
Specifically, the size of the 'large' player is no longer fixed but adjusts itself to the size of the window, more accu... |
26 January 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Google’s YouTube Remote application for Android devices has just been updated to version 3.1.0. Although the changes are minor, it appears that some users reported that the update messed up the application.
YouTube Remote 3.1.0 brings shuffle queue and several bug fixes. That’s all. However, accord... |
26 January 2012
05:28 GMT |
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YouTube is huge, it's one of the biggest websites in the world and completely dominates online video. The latest stats are a bit mind-boggling, 60 hours of video is uploaded every minute. That's one hour of video every second.
That certainly seems like a lot, but there's nothing really to compare it w... |
24 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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YouTube has partnered with NBC Sports and created Ad Blitz, an YouTube channel entirely focused on the World's biggest single day sporting event, the NFL's 2012 Super Bowl game.After this Sunday's Championship games decided this year's finalists, companies and websites around the Internet official... |
24 January 2012
12:33 GMT |
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The White House has joined Google+. Given that there are now 90 million Google+ users, regardless of how many of those are actually using the site, it was about time. Obama has been very active lately, setting up shop on various new sites and social networks, but this time around it's not part of the campaign, i... |
23 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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To no one's surprise, YouTube keeps on growing. The site has been breaking records since early after being launched and the numbers it sometimes reveals are so large, they're hard to put into context.
The latest official figures coming from YouTube paint a familiar picture. The site is now streaming four b... |
23 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Google's bread and butter has been advertising, particularly text ads on its website and on sites running Google AdSense. Google has made billions of dollars from this type of ads, but, increasingly, display ads are becoming a larger part of Google's revenue.
During Google's quarterly earnings confere... |
23 January 2012
09:11 GMT |
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VEVO is one of the few smart moves the major record labels have done in the last decade. The video site, created in partnership with YouTube, is now the second biggest video site in the US, where it is available. It recently launched in the UK too.At the same time, the VEVO YouTube channel is the most popular on Goog... |
20 January 2012
11:11 GMT |
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YouTube's latest big move involves tens of channels of professionally produced content, which the site is sponsoring by providing some up-front cash. Some of those channels are already launching and YouTube is highlighting some of the sports and action sports-oriented ones.
"From trick shots and game clips to c... |
19 January 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Google+ is adding yet another new feature, there seems to be a new one every day or so. Users can now record videos of themselves straight from Google+ and then post them for their friends to see.
All they need is a webcam, the 'add video' menu in the Google+ share box now has a new option, "Record Video,"... |
19 January 2012
08:45 GMT |
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Just like search engine market share, or perhaps even more so, online video market share is relatively static. YouTube completely dominates the market, in the US at least, and everyone else battles it out among themselves, sometimes trading places. YouTube dominated in every metric in December, unique viewers, video... |
18 January 2012
10:21 GMT |
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A few months ago, YouTube announced a very interesting competition challenging budding scientists to come up with experiments that could be tested aboard the International Space Station. The winners would get their experiments actually performed in space.YouTube is now announcing that it has selected the finalists, 6... |
17 January 2012
12:51 GMT |
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If you're a football fan, even if you call it soccer, or you're just a fan of David Beckham (the two aren't mutually exclusive), you may want to check out a hangout and an interview Google has planned out with the star footballer for next week."International soccer phenom +David Beckham is taking off h... |
14 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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YouTube is testing a new player for the site as well as an embedded version. But that's not all, in a separate test, Google has introduced a storyboard view to the player. Hovering the mouse over the player bar and you'll see a thumbnail of what the video looks like at that point.Moving backwards and forwar... |
14 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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A very interesting videos has been making the rounds lately, put together by one dedicated traveler. The five minute video spans 17 countries and is made up of 6237 photographs.Kien Lam quit his job, hopped on a plane and started his round the wold adventure. Along the way he snapped thousands of photos which he comp... |
14 January 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Sports fans know that the Australian Open is about to get underway. In fact, the Australian Open Qualifying Tournament is well underway. If you're a tennis fan, you'll be glad to know that you now have the chance to keep up with more matches than ever thanks to YouTube live streaming and recorded matches. ... |
13 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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One year ago, a homeless man with a “golden voice” was discovered. With YouTube, he became an Internet star, only to fall on harder times immediately after. Here is Golden Voice Ted Williams one year later. Entertainment Tonight helped the former radio talk show host get his life back: he's no longer... |
13 January 2012
10:53 GMT |
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If you thought that, with a huge redesign in place, YouTube would be done changing the site, well, you were wrong. Google and YouTube never stop improving or at least changing their sites.
The latest example is a new YouTube player which has been enabled for some, probably all users, both on YouTube but also on othe... |
12 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2012, the eleventh edition of the series published by Konami, attracted not only the attention of gamers, but also the one of cybercriminals who began relying on its popularity to spread their malicious operations.
GFI researchers came across a YouTube video which advertises a link that offers t... |
11 January 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Google has been working towards a unified design and this applies to more than just the look and feel, it wants features to be available across services. The main example of this is the new unified header that is used in most Google products.
So far, though, YouTube has been kept separate, as it has been since Googl... |
9 January 2012
05:49 GMT |
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If up until recently botnets and other hacking tools were advertised only on underground forums where all the parties went through great lengths to hide their identities, now it seems that even YouTube has become a great place to advertise malicious products.
F-Secure researchers came across a video in which a you... |
7 January 2012
04:47 GMT |
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The North Korean dictator’s death is still a good story which cybercriminals rely on to spread their malicious schemes. The latest, promises a video of his death for anyone that clicks on an apparently innocent link.
ESET researchers from Latin America found a piece of malware being spread with the help of a Y... |
5 January 2012
14:51 GMT |
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As the saying goes, it's the little things in life that count, as the three teens in the video above, two boys and a girl, found out when they got three drinks from a vending machine for the price of one.The video, called “Vending Machine Win,” has gone viral in just 4 days since it was uploaded onli... |
5 January 2012
09:23 GMT |
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One of the most important roles of being the smaller offspring is to ensure you annoy your older siblings by any means possible. At the other end of the spectrum, the bigger brother has a similarly important task of reminding the obnoxious little brat who’s boss.
I’ll let you debate on whether or not thi... |
5 January 2012
08:44 GMT |
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Steven Spielberg's Jaws was a monster hit when it came out in 1975 and is to this day remembered as one of most entertaining, if not entirely scientifically accurate, thrillers out there.As with all great movies, or at least popular ones, Jaws not only amassed a loyal following, but it also got a theme park ride... |
4 January 2012
13:21 GMT |
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If not the greatest, YouTube is certainly the biggest video site out there. There's content on it to keep you and your family entertained for generations without having to watch anything twice.But that doesn't mean that you won't get into situations where you can't watch something that's read... |
29 December 2011
12:41 GMT |
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With a little bit of programming skills, and the necessary hardware, it is entirely possible to create a song using nothing more than an HP scanner and a robot snare drum. Sprinkle a microphone, some ornaments and set of Christmas lights on top of it all, and you've got yourself your own personal show.
Accordi... |
29 December 2011
08:53 GMT |
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Google Chrome has had some pretty interesting ads over the years, many of which were very popular on YouTube, garnering millions of views. The most popular ad, the speed tests one, has 5.3 million views, gained in the year or so it's been available.
But you probably haven't seen Google Chrome's popula... |
28 December 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Google is reintroducing the idea of the video slam, this time focusing on YouTube videos that may go viral. The idea of the new site is simple, two videos are pitted against each other and users have to vote on the ones they like the most.
The interesting part happens behind the scenes in the way YouTube picks the v... |
28 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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If you happen to be at work, casually browsing the net for something to amuse yourself with (only briefly, because there's work to do too), here's something to lighten up your day. Check out the video above. Kimba and Bella were caught on camera as they were about to investigate what was at the bottom of a ... |
27 December 2011
11:53 GMT |
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I can easily understand why many climate change skeptics look at the Sun as a potential source for the warming of the climate. Indeed, it would appear that the star is the main driver of Earth's atmospheric changes, but the data simply do not add up.
Some of the most common and widely-quoted misconceptions abo... |
27 December 2011
05:03 GMT |
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One great thing about YouTube is all the ads. People just can't seem to get enough of them. No really, this is about the ads that everyone loves to watch and share, ads that go viral, whether they were meant to or not.YouTube put together a list of the year's most watched video ads on the site. Since this i... |
23 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Facebook was once again the most visited site by Americans, according to a report by Experian Hitwise. In fact, one in ten websites visits was to Facebook. Google came in second, expectantly, but it also snatched the third spot with YouTube.
"Facebook was the top-visited Website for the second year and accounted for... |
23 December 2011
11:11 GMT |
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It seems Google is not done with the winter holiday celebrations and Easter Eggs. It may not snow much, or at all, in Mountain View, California, but there's plenty of snow on Google sites.The latest to be added do the list is YouTube, which now gets a snow-making option which, you guessed it, makes it snow insid... |
22 December 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The trailer for The Hobbit was released only a few days ago and cybervillains already began using it to spread their malicious schemes.
Experts from GFI came across a phony YouTube page that claims users can watch the entire motion picture if they complete a survey.
If you’re not content with only seeing a mo... |
22 December 2011
05:09 GMT |
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Vevo is a strange beast, part YouTube, part major record label-owned site. Given that YouTube/Google and the creative industry haven't exactly seen eye to eye on too many occasions, the partnership is peculiar.But it's partnership of convenience and nothing more, the labels needed YouTube's infrastruct... |
21 December 2011
14:10 GMT |
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The countdown to 2012 is on and with only 10 days left in the year, everyone is looking back. YouTube is doing the same and in a really big way. Given the size of the site, there really was no other way to do it. YouTube has set up a special Rewind channel to feature all of the videos that went viral this year. From... |
20 December 2011
18:21 GMT |
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Google's latest flagship Android phone is here. The Galaxy Nexus is the biggest new step for Android, quite literally. It's the first device running ICS and the third phone Google designed, not including the G1.So it's no surprise that Google is sparing no expense to promote its phone. And it certainly... |
20 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Plenty of stuff happened in 2011, some good, some bad. It all ended up online, on Twitter and YouTube. Yet, among the disasters, the revolutions, the heartwarming viral videos and the talented people making it big on YouTube, there was one video, one song and one person that rose above.
Chances of you not hearing it... |
20 December 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Kids always do it better! A new video with toddlers has just gone viral, getting over 1.2 million hits on YouTube in just a few days. Check it out above. In the minute-long video, two kids are seen at a taekwondo demo, where they’re supposed to fight each other. As viral videos go, this one is perhaps the sweet... |
18 December 2011
06:27 GMT |
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The Cosmic Panda is dead. YouTube's sleek redesign from last summer, which was launched as an opt-in experiment, has been terminated now that YouTube has embraced its new design, partially inspired by Cosmic Panda.
While Cosmic Panda completely altered YouTube and provided a new look for most of the pages, the ... |
16 December 2011
10:38 GMT |
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The Megaupload versus Universal Music Group 'drama' keeps on getting weirder. It started with a star-studded video and song, created by Megaupload, to promote its service. It featured some big names like Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, will.i.am and so on. The song had a strange vibe about it, but it was somewhat ... |
16 December 2011
07:46 GMT |
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The Google 2011 Zeitgeist is here. If you've been dying to know whether Rebecca Black really was the hottest trend of the year, then you'll be glad to find out that, yes, Rebecca Black really was the hottest trend of the year.But, no matter what the front page of the Zeitgeist site will tell you, there is m... |
15 December 2011
18:11 GMT |
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YouTube is the biggest video site in the world, everyone knows that. However, few people would guess or know which is the second largest. According to comScore data, it's the Chinese site Youku.com, though it's quite far behind YouTube in terms of videos streamed.
Overall, 1.2 billion people watched an onl... |
14 December 2011
10:41 GMT |
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All pets have their unique ways of communicating their intentions to us, but dogs are by far the most expressive. Over 11,000 years of cohabitation, they have learned that sounds and expressions move us the most, making them more likely to receive their favorite tricks.
The dog in this video is no different. Instinc... |
13 December 2011
06:46 GMT |
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YouTube is making the lives of many students around the world easier. Plenty of courses would be unbearable without YouTube to pass the time. At least, at the schools that haven't blocked access to the site yet.
But there's stuff on YouTube that could actually be educational, quite a lot of it in fact. Unf... |
12 December 2011
08:16 GMT |
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By now, everyone has noticed the new YouTube. But the site is getting a revamp behind the scenes as well, the Video Manager page has gotten a new look as well.It's still in testing, meaning that it's not yet the default, but you can start testing it right away. The new page comes in line with the new YouTub... |
10 December 2011
11:01 GMT |
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YouTube and copyright holders have quite a history, but the site is now perhaps one of the best examples of how to manage user-generated content.
It's ContentID program identifies videos that may be infringing, but the interesting part is that YouTube offers copyright holders a way to make money from videos t... |
10 December 2011
04:49 GMT |
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