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'Nokia Play To' App on Symbian^3 for Easy Content Streaming

Owners of Symbian^3-based mobile phones from Nokia have now at their disposal a new application coming from the Nokia Beta labs, one that would enable the easy streaming of videos from the handset to DLNA devices, such as home TVs.Dubbed Nokia Play To, the application does it all using the wireless connection of the...

2 June 2011
13:41 GMT

Vimeo Rolls Out Custom Video URLs and Default HD Embeds

Vimeo is rolling out a few features, based on user requests. There's nothing revolutionary here, but it should make plenty of users a lot more pleased with the video sharing service. Users can now set up custom shortcut URLs for their videos. Vimeo Plus users can also choose to have their videos play in HD even ...

26 January 2011
05:35 GMT

U.S. Army Launches Its Own Internal YouTube

The United States Army has launched a new video sharing website accessible only from behind its firewall to offer troops a more secure YouTube alternative.Dubbed milTube, the new service is the latest addition to milSuite, a pack of Web 2.0 sharing and collaboration solutions created and used by the Department of Def...

24 November 2010
05:35 GMT

StumbleUpon to Support Hulu and TED

StumbleUpon has recently announced that its video section was upgraded so as to support new third-party channels and personalized recommendations from other users.StumbleUpon is a popular platform that enables users to rate and share their ratings of webpages, images and videos.The new update to StumbleUpon Video wi...

27 October 2010
14:26 GMT

Rumors About Google's Other New Acquisition

Mark Glaser from MediaShift has recently posted a tweet in which he disclosed a future deal between Google and Brightcove, the Internet video platform provider. From his sources Mr. Glaser valuates the deal around $500 - $700 million. Even if not yet confirmed by official sources, the acquisition has already spurred ...

17 September 2009
05:18 GMT

Online Video Saw Record Month in July

Online video is going from strength to strength and, after a record month in June, it broke all previous records in the US in July as well. According to new numbers from comScore, more than half of the US population, 158 million people, watched a video online last month. The rise from the previous month isn't sp...

29 August 2009
03:57 GMT

Time Warner Short Videos Come to YouTube

YouTube is growing up from the mischievous little kid filled with webcam dramas and, truth be told, pirated videos to a young adult looking to build a future. Professional content has always been a weak spot for the site but that is beginning to change with several deals with content owners. The latest such deal is w...

20 August 2009
04:00 GMT

YouTube Homepage Gets a Redesign

While most of the focus has been on the financial side of YouTube lately, the site is still churning up new features at a steady pace and has just now revealed a redesigned landing page. The changes focus on the top section, the masthead, cleaning up the overall look and better separating the different feature groups...

13 August 2009
05:11 GMT

Share Your Old VHS Videos Online with Pixorial

With all the focus on YouTube, camera phones and digital videos in general, it's easy to forget about the good old days of the VHS tapes. But, while there are dozens of ways of converting them to a digital format, many less tech-savvy users are put off by the do-it-yourself methods and even by the commercial ser...

12 August 2009
10:26 GMT

YouTube Upgrades Promoted Videos Service

YouTube has introduced new ways for individuals or companies to advertise through its video platform. From now on, people looking to promote products or services through videos on YouTube have an extra option to feature their product in the “Related Videos” category.Slowly, but surely, Google is reshaping...

7 August 2009
08:22 GMT

Blip.tv Strikes a Major Distribution Deal with YouTube and Others

Online video startup Blip.tv has announced new partnerships with several video sites, which should substantially increase its viewership. The biggest partner is YouTube, which will now allow the startup to serve its own ads in the videos, but also important are the deals with Vimeo and NBC. Apart from the new distrib...

28 July 2009
11:13 GMT

YouTube Allows Partners to Display Third-Party Ads

YouTube is announcing new ad options for marketers, moving along with its plan to generate a strong revenue stream. In a partnership with startup Free Wheel it will allow publishers to serve their own ads through their own networks, bypassing YouTube's established channels. This is a significant change for the v...

28 July 2009
05:09 GMT

Citi Now Believes that YouTube May Become Profitable Soon

The tides are turning for YouTube, at least if all of the new-found self confidence and bravado of Google is to be believed. The company said during its Q2 financial results conference that the video site would become profitable soon and that the future was looking a lot better. It then went on to list some of the co...

28 July 2009
03:53 GMT

YouTube Makes Detailed Statistics Public for Videos

YouTube's huge user numbers and monthly views can make for some interesting statistics for those interested. The site offers a lot of data to the uploaders through the YouTube Insight, the free analytics tool, like traffic numbers and geographical or demographic information of the viewers but those are hidden fr...

23 July 2009
10:09 GMT

Google Gets Even More Confident About YouTube

YouTube hasn't been seen as one of Google's best or rather most profitable deals to date, with the search giant having paid $1.65 billion for the video site in 2006 and having yet to see any profits. And for some years many have said that YouTube is actually impossible to monetize and that the costs will al...

21 July 2009
04:15 GMT

YouTube Debuts 'Reporters' Center' Channel

YouTube has introduced a new channel called "Reporters' Center," a resource intended, as the name suggests, to educate and help aspiring reporters or citizen journalists. The channel features videos from top US journalists sharing tips and advice on how to report in today's changing media environment. The m...

30 June 2009
03:27 GMT

Pirate Bay Launches Video Sharing Site

The Pirate Bay is working on a new video sharing site, called Video Bay, to compete with the likes of YouTube. While the initial announcement was made over two years ago a test version was just recently made available for the public. Most of the features are in very early development and the site has a clear “d...

29 June 2009
04:58 GMT

Hollywood Contemplates Moving Online

Ten years have passed since people started saying that the Internet was the next stage for actors and producers, and that some, if not most, productions would eventually move to the Web. Here we are, a full decade later, and the network still only hosts a few actors, but none of the biggest names in the industry. Al...

20 February 2009
06:53 GMT

YouTube Videos Presentation Alternatives

Video clips are maybe the most searched Internet resource because they contain information having a high degree of accessibility as compared to classic static images or text. If you want to include and display video content in web pages, various alternatives are available. There is the possibility to embed in HTML w...

21 May 2008
13:25 GMT

TributeTube - YouTube-Like Tribute to Your Friends

There are numerous YouTube-like services on the web, most of them targeting a certain consumer segment and a few of them having the same purpose as YouTube and competing with Google's video sharing service for the supremacy of the category. Another similar service was rolled out today, TributeTube being describe...

15 May 2008
17:06 GMT

Metacafe Lives, too!

When talking about online video sharing, people usually talk about YouTube because Google's service is the top player on this side of the market. However, there are several other YouTube-like products, sometimes described as YouTube rivals, which provide almost the same, if not better, functions like Google'...

30 April 2008
17:31 GMT

Get A YouTube-Like Website For Free

You do not have to have programming knowledge to get your own free video sharing and social networking website similar to YouTube from StartYourTube.com, which is a content publishing platform having common features with YouTube and MySpace. "StartYourTube.com allows users to gain total control of the video sharing ...

10 April 2008
08:29 GMT

Video on Flickr: a Dream Came True!

Flickr, the popular photo sharing service, is now stepping into the video sharing market with video support, a special function supposed to let people insert their own into Flickr photostreams. Although it may sound like a good competition for other such sharing services on the web, it's not because the idea of ...

9 April 2008
05:17 GMT

FunMobility Launches aFLIX Mobile Video Sharing Service

FunMobility announced the launch of the mobile video sharing service aFLIX (America's Best Mobile Flix). aFLIX allows owners of mobile phones with video capabilities to share their mobile videos as they shoot them. "aFLIX is the next-generation of instant video sharing. It's like a mobile YouTube, but even ...

25 October 2007
10:26 GMT

Yamgo Announces Mobile Video Sharing Service and Free-to-View Mobile TV Network

Extreme sports mobile TV company Yamgo announced it has signed a technology partnership with Tom Horn, a software development company, that will enable Yamgo to launch a global cross-platform mobile video sharing service and a free-to-view mobile TV network. The new service offers users a fully interactive video shar...

23 May 2007
09:48 GMT

VelvetPuffin Launches Social Networking Service for Mobile Phone and PC Users

VelvetPuffin announced the launch of a social networking service that allows its users to communicate, create and share user-generated content using a mobile phone or a desktop computer. Combining all the popular features usually found in social networking sites, the service allows users to send messages, create poll...

5 March 2007
07:36 GMT


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