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Machinima, the company behind the very popular YouTube channel, has confirmed that it's raised some $35 million in a funding round led by Google. Existing investors also pitched in, but Google was the main investor, confirming previous rumors.
The move signals a very big, albeit predictable and long time coming... |
22 May 2012
08:41 GMT |
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YouTube is celebrating its seventh birthday, more specifically, the date the site first went live to the public. It's been a tremendous seven years, but YouTube still has a lot of growing to do. YouTube is celebrating the occasion with some stats, impressive ones at that.
But those stats are becoming less and l... |
21 May 2012
08:24 GMT |
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YouTube is synonymous with online video and has been since its inception. But online video is changing and that's mostly because of YouTube. Views have always been the heart of the site, videos getting millions or even hundreds of millions of views aren't uncommon.
Views are great if you're looking fo... |
15 May 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Google is slowly changing its role from provider to content creator with YouTube. It hasn't started creating its own shows, just yet, but it has been funding creators for a while now. And now, there is talk of Google investing in Machinima, the company behind one of YouTube's most popular channels, with the... |
7 May 2012
08:17 GMT |
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YouTube's big plan to spend a lot of money and get some high-quality content is moving ahead as scheduled. In fact, it's expanding, the site, well Google, is putting up $200 million, €152 million to help fund projects, specifically the branded channels it's been talking about lately.YouTube is pay... |
3 May 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Google has always been experimenting with different layouts, new features and changes in the open, to get real feedback. It only uses a small portion of its user base in tests, so if people don't like it or something goes wrong, there won't be many casualties.
The premise has worked so far, but it seems to... |
3 May 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Vimeo LLC has rolled out an updated version of the iOS client they maintain, adding new abilities, improvements and, of course, numerous bug fixes.
In version 2.0.3 you can navigate Home by double tapping the navigation bar on iPhone. You can also click on links in descriptions. Several improvements have been made, ... |
1 May 2012
05:57 GMT |
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There's an updated YouTube app for Google TV which brings several big improvements. For one, there is a new Recommendations section with videos that users may like, based on their habits. Another improvement is technical, the YouTube app will now adjust video quality based on network conditions to avoid bufferin... |
28 April 2012
12:20 GMT |
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Google is debuting AdWords for Video, a new extension of its AdWords program which, as you may have guessed, introduces video ads to the mix. Essentially, this enables small and medium businesses to advertise their videos across Google products.
The program has been in testing for a few months, but it is now availab... |
23 April 2012
09:06 GMT |
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YouTube's battle with the very aggressive German performance rights group GEMA isn't going well. A court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube hasn't been doing enough to stop music belonging to artists affiliated with GEMA from ending up on the site and that it had to start filtering uploads.Essentially, this... |
20 April 2012
12:10 GMT |
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YouTube has been offering an HTML5 player for years now. But it's never been on par with the regular Flash player. Still, YouTube is working on improving it, the player recently got the thumbnail preview feature that has been rolled out across YouTube.
If you join the HTML5 test or simply disable the Flash plug... |
20 April 2012
08:40 GMT |
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YouTube is all about the video so perhaps it's understandable that most people forget about something equally important, the audio. Most viewers will put up with choppy and poor quality video as long as the audio track is good or at least not horrible.
Awkward silence, pops, loud noise and so on will make peopl... |
19 April 2012
05:30 GMT |
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Users have had the option of sharing a video that starts straight from the time they wanted to for a while now, but it's not the most user friendly of features. It's not overly complicated, you just have to add a parameter to the video's URL. There's also a way of making sure embedded videos start... |
18 April 2012
18:41 GMT |
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YouTube is starting to make a habit out of streaming live events and has a nick for concerts in particular. Now, for the second year in a row, YouTube is live streaming the Coachella festival all through the weekend. Coachella kicks off the festival season, but if you can't make it there in person, well, if you... |
13 April 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Pinterest is one of the success stories of the last few months due to the huge interest it's managed to attract, along with a massive and growing number of users. Part of the appeal is the simplicity and the aesthetics of the site, to be expected since the whole essence of it are the pinned thumbnails that you g... |
12 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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YouTube may seem a bit out of focus lately, as it tries to do everything from movie rentals to news reporting, but that's actually the strategy. YouTube wants to be everything to everyone when it comes to online video. It's taking another step towards that with the introduction of more live streaming optio... |
11 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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The "billion dollar" lawsuit that Viacom filed against YouTube five years ago is back from the dead. It was completely struck down by a district court in 2010 which, in a summary judgment, declared YouTube protected by the DMCA safe-harbor provisions.
Viacom couldn't let it go, obviously, and appealed the decis... |
6 April 2012
10:00 GMT |
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3D video is somewhat of a gimmick, but movies that leverage the technology properly can really be enhanced by the new "dimension." Of course, 3D has come out of theaters and made it onto regular TVs and even online.
YouTube has had support for 3D videos for a while now, but it's important to realize that not al... |
5 April 2012
09:36 GMT |
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Google managed to convince another big time movie studio to allow it to rent its movies. Paramount flicks, such as the Transformers series or The Godfather, will be available for rent on YouTube but also on Google Play, making them available on Android devices.
"When it comes to movie rentals, we’ve been focus... |
4 April 2012
10:42 GMT |
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Gmail is experimenting with a new way of viewing YouTube videos in Gmail. Email remains one of the preferred way of sharing links, such as videos, for many people so the ability to view the videos in an optimal way without visiting the YouTube site should be handy.
Videos from emails are displayed in an overlay, sim... |
4 April 2012
06:51 GMT |
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YouTube is great, with billions of videos to choose from and many more added each day, it's impossible to get bored. But YouTube only works online, what if you wanted to enjoy all those hilarious cat videos or those really talented people doing Taylor Swift covers on the comfort of your couch without worrying ab... |
2 April 2012
11:21 GMT |
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On March 25, Anonymous hacktivists accused YouTube of censorship after TheAnonMessage account was blocked. The hackers warned YouTube executives that if the account will not be unlocked in 72 hours, they will unleash hell upon them. YouTube complied.
“Your block to TheAnonMessage's account has directly vi... |
27 March 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Madonna has managed to stir up controversy once more. Her latest video, for the single “Girl Gone Wild,” off the “M.D.N.A.” album, has been age-restricted on YouTube because it contains images deemed not suitable for youngsters.
In a statement cited by Digital Spy, YouTube says that it was us... |
26 March 2012
05:14 GMT |
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I've seen a lot of interesting videos online while searching for stuff to put up on the site, but perhaps one of the most amazing is this clip of a giant paper plane being dropped from a helicopter.
The aircraft, if we can call it that, is about 45 feet (14 meters) long and 24 feet (7 meters) at its widest. It... |
24 March 2012
07:42 GMT |
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YouTube is doing its best, and pouring large amounts of money, to get professionally produced content on the site. It's debuting several new "professional" channels each week now. Even so, the heart and soul of YouTube still are all the amateur videos that people keep uploading, by the millions each day.
Some o... |
22 March 2012
06:01 GMT |
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It seems that a lot of people watched less online videos in February, for the second month in a row. 2 million less people watched a video in the US last month, 179 million down from 181 million, but they also watched less, down from almost 40 billion views to 37.8 billion.The drop seems to have affected YouTube in p... |
17 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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YouTube will continue a tradition it started not so long ago and will live stream four major US music festivals in the coming months. The site is boasting that it will feature live coverage of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits.
Like it's done in the past at ... |
16 March 2012
11:01 GMT |
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YouTube confirmed its experiments with different Like buttons, but says that it has no plans to replace the system with the +1 button. That begs the question of why it would be testing new buttons if it doesn't want to replace the old ones.
The exact wording of YouTube's response is perhaps important, it s... |
16 March 2012
09:54 GMT |
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Google won't be happy until Google+ is built into everything it does, or at least Larry Page won't be happy. Just as YouTube announced that new profiles can be based on Google+ accounts, it seems that it is now testing a +1 button/YouTube like button mashup.Right now, you can express your love or hate for a... |
15 March 2012
13:11 GMT |
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The "Google+'ification" of Google product continues, to no one's surprise, with the further integration of YouTube and the aforementioned social network.
From now on, people that haven't yet created an YouTube account but already have a Google+ one, whomever they may be, will have the ability to crea... |
15 March 2012
07:31 GMT |
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YouTube has revealed a number of features that it's been testing for a while now, thumbnail previews for videos. The feature is rather interesting, it enables you to get a sneak peek at what's ahead, or behind, in a video so you can skip or go back to the precise moment you want to.
"Over the coming weeks,... |
7 March 2012
07:43 GMT |
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Last fall, YouTube and Disney announced a deal that would see original Disney-created content going straight to the web, but also existing Disney programming landing on YouTube.It seems that the deal is now going into effect, no original shows are available yet, but plenty of older Disney shows are now available on Y... |
6 March 2012
13:11 GMT |
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It looks like Google has just pushed another update for its YouTube application for Android devices. The latest version of YouTube bring a few important new improvements for older devices, as well as for older versions of the operating system.The most important change added it HD resolution support for devices runnin... |
3 March 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Google has been making good use of the Hangouts feature in Google+. Not only has it been promoting it as a great way of getting together with friends, it's also enabling some interesting conversations between celebrities or important people and regular Google+ users.
Now it's taking the concept in another ... |
1 March 2012
08:20 GMT |
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YouTube has announced a rather important upgrade to the captions system used by millions of videos. YouTube now supports more formats, enables more customization and is taking greater efforts to support captions initially created for movies or TV.
For one, it's now expanding automatic captions and transcript ... |
28 February 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Online video saw a drop in activity in January in the US, at least in terms of videos watched. Overall, as many people watched at least a video last month as they did in December, though the top sites saw a decline in both visitors and videos watched.Google Sites, aka YouTube, still reigns supreme in the comScore com... |
20 February 2012
14:51 GMT |
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YouTube, like all other Google products, evolves quickly and is constantly getting updated, tweaked or changed. There are so many changes that YouTube only announces the smaller ones several at a time. In the latest batch of updates, YouTube revealed some Google+ features, new options for channel owners and a new lay... |
17 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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A short while back, Google embarked on a quest to find funny YouTube videos before they go viral, through science. It created an algorithm that looks at various things to try to discover the really funny videos.
The clues it searches for are things like audible laughter in the background, in the video, the tone of t... |
15 February 2012
10:26 GMT |
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Google has updated the YouTube app for Google TV, one of the biggest updates to date. YouTube is one of the central apps of Google TV and a new version means an improved experience for Google TV users.
The new app is faster, Google boasts, and also makes it easier to discover new stuff, channels in particular, to st... |
13 February 2012
05:45 GMT |
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YouTube is serious about original content and is providing funding for all sorts of channels focused on everything from action sports, to cars, to, well, all things nerdy. What's nerdier than attending Comic Con? Getting there while carrying a lightsaber."Nerdist Industries—in an exclusive partnership with... |
10 February 2012
13:30 GMT |
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A video posted on YouTube yesterday, February 9, by user Vihart (a self-described professional mathemusician at the Khan Academy) introduces a very weird fractal number to the world. It is designated by the word Wau, after an ancient Greek letter, and the letter F is used to indicate it.
As Vihart explains, there i... |
10 February 2012
10:00 GMT |
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Social media is all the rage right now. It's new and fresh, it sounds trendy and maybe a bit complicated to the average Joe. But everything gets old, even social media hipsters. Luckily for them, being old is still in the future so they can make fun of it.
Because what's more ironic than making fun of soci... |
10 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google, despite more recent developments, is all about algorithms. It built its search engine around them, it built its ad business around them and it's doing the same for most of its other products, including YouTube.YouTube needs ways of discovering and raking content while dealing with 48 hours of uploads eve... |
9 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Google has several programs aimed at spurring kids into getting more involved with science, of any kind. With the new Solve for X, it's also bringing together people bent on making a change in the world. Now it's trying to do the same for the more precocious with the Zeitgeist Young Minds 2012. Those tha... |
9 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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YouTube is continuing its drive to create more dedicated and professional or semi-professional channels. Not long ago, it debuted several channels dedicated to action sports. Now, it's time for a couple dedicated to cars.
YouTube is announcing that two new car channels are debuting on the site. Both of them wil... |
9 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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The big media companies argued that they need things like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA to protect their content from online "thieves." The current laws just don't cut it. At the same time, opponents argue that any such laws, or treaties, are going to be abused.
The discussion about abuse is not a theoretical one, the ex... |
6 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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A series of emails that pretend to originate from YouTube are cleverly designed to lead unsuspecting recipients to websites that advertise shady pharmaceutical products. Hoax Slayer came across an email that purports to come from YouTube, asking the recipient for permission to use his profile picture on the site&rsq... |
6 February 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Personally, I had a mixed opinion on crabs until today. After seeing this short YouTube video – which is an excerpt from “Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot,” an episode from Jacques Cousteau's Odyssey series – I have a newfound respect for these creatures.
The video shows a crab being ... |
3 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Security researchers came across a classic scam that’s enhanced with some highly ingenious ways of making sure that the malicious plot spreads from one Facebook profile to the other.
Bitdefender experts found that the new breed of scams advertises a video that features a police officer that does a good deed b... |
3 February 2012
07:43 GMT |
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Google is cramming more and more functionality into Chrome. That's a good thing, but the added weight is beginning to be felt by users. Add to this instability issues and Chrome doesn't look like the nimble, rock stable browser it was when it launched in 2008. Google engineers have known about this for a w... |
31 January 2012
05:54 GMT |
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