YouBama, the YouTube and Obama Mongrel
	If these elections are the YouTube elections, as many have said they would be, a similar site would mean a step ahead of the competition. That’s what a couple of Barack Obama supporters thought and they came up with a mongrel between the popular video sharing site and Digg. Of course, the name of the product had to show who it was that they endorsed, so the choice to be made was obvious: YouBama. It gives users the options to upload vid ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Movie Rentals for New iPods! Why?
	This has been a growing issue since Tuesday when Apple forums were filled with complaints regarding the fact that the new iPod models don't allow movie rentals via ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Story
	A short while ago, the Gmail team decided that the way they kept the motivational stories that users sent in was obsolete. In other words, they couldn’t carpet their walls a second time with the letters, over the first. The solution, in touch with modern times, was to ask fans of the email service to make a video of themselves telling the story and send it the team’s way. About a month and 1,500 videos later, somebody had an idea about ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 14:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpaceTV Adds BBC Video to Service
	Facebook must have spooked shivers down MySpace’s spine. From the outside, it looks like the biggest (still) social network in the world is trying to expand into all directions at once. It just opened offices in Russia and a homepage for the community there, a similar course of action is coming in Turkey (MySpace Turkey – always cracks me up) and now MySpaceTV has signed a deal to have BBC Worldwide provide video content. The agreement ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

All of YouTube’s Videos for You!
	Until now, only a few thousand videos from YouTube were accessible on the mobile platform out of the tens of millions available. Well, not any longer, as today the video sharing site has expanded its mobile service to include its entire collection. And that’s not all! Most of the features that have made its website so well received have been implemented, such as the rating of videos and sharing them with friends. A good decision on the ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google’s Videos Trump All Others
	The worst thing about the numbers being returned by the conducted measurements is that they’re mostly late by a month or two, but hey, at least we have some numbers. comScore has just released the figures found with its Video Metrix for… November 2007. Right on the dot, as I said. The number of videos being watched over the entire month is enormous, I must warn you it is not a typo: 9.5 billion online videos was November’s q ... [read more >>]
	19 January 2008, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Usage Web Prices from Time Warner
	The second largest cable provider in the United States has decided that the taxation employed to this day was actually not the best possible, so it announced through the voice of Alex Dudley, its spokesperson, that a new one will be implemented. The new taxation method will first be tested in Beaumont, Texas, and it will provide the company’s Internet customers with several levels of pricing, depending on how much they downl ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 08:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sexing Up Nicole and Kelly?
	I know Timbaland is a musical genius – plus, he's kind of good looking too and rolling in the millions of dollars, I hear – and I also know that he has this uncanny ability to turn everything he touches into gold. So yes, it's no surprise that another one of his tracks is doing great in the charts, but for the life of me, I can't make any sense of the video for "Scream" (the latest song from his "Shock Value& ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 09:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Become a Hollywood Star Online!
	Monetizing on those who think they are good enough to make it to the well-lit stages is the idea BigShotLive founders had. A pretty good one indeed. It’s what an entertainment site should be: people trying their best and failing miserably and for those who aren’t in it for the laughs, it shows some pretty good artists that have, most likely, not been signed yet. ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Attracting Media Firms
	The launch of the Mexican YouTube homepage on the 11th of October 2007 was highly successful and is currently under a lot of attention from the local media firms that want to broaden their offer to the public. Reuters reports that Exa Tv, an entertainment cable channel has signed a deal with Google’s video sharing service, alongside newspaper El Universal, modeling agency Contemp Models and soccer site Medio Tiempo. The benefi ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 06:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPlayer Demand Rocketing Through the Roof
	Almost 160 thousand downloads per day on average were recorded by the BBC site ever since it launched its video-on-demand service on Christmas day. Doing the math (22 days multiplied by 160 thousand downloads makes.. I need a calculator for this one… there it is, more than 3.5 million) you’ll see that it was wildly successful and deservedly so, I might add. The reason it had the numbers written above is the unique approach to ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One in Two Wants Video
	The fact that not everybody on the Internet has used at least once a video sharing site, such as Google’s YouTube, makes me think that we’re not there yet, we’re not as technologically advanced as we think we are. I know it sounds strange, but keep in mind that YT is the biggest thing there is when it comes to video sharing, and you surely bumped into a page that has a clip from them embedded. The Pew Internet and American Life Project ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Video Streaming Coming?
	If you’re going to watch the video I embedded (and you will or else you wouldn’t be reading this), you’re going to catch the tone of the answer Chad Hurley, one of the co-founders of YouTube, gave when asked whether his company was working on streaming video. "We’re working on a lot of interesting things", he said. That’s neither denying, nor confirming the possibility. For the recent start-ups that have gone into the [ADMARK= ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo! Goes for Local News Videos
	The US news media group Belo came to an agreement with Internet giant Yahoo! that will have thirteen of its local television stations provide video content to the local news service of the Sunnyvale-based company, on a daily basis. The two have formerly been connected, in 2005, by a deal regarding the distribution of local job postings to Yahoo!’s Hotjobs and are both members of a larger newspaper consortium for graphical adve ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

FlashoverTV – YouTube for Firefighters
	YouTube, DailyMotion, Metacafe, GodTube and, starting today, FlashoverTV. A new video community service has been released joining one of the most popular sides of the Internet industry: the online video sharing services, which attract millions of users every day. FlashoverTV is actually an online video community especially addressed to firefighters and fire departments, but it can be accessed for free, so go over there and watch ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 13:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MTV Videos Now Available on the Web
	The MTV videos will be soon available on the web on several online video services, after the parent company Viacom has signed deals with five new websites. Dailymotion, GoFish, iMee, MeeVee and Veoh Network are the five lucky services that have the chance to boost their number of visitors using the content provided by MTV, Reuters informed today. The announcement was made at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, and it is supposed t ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Here Comes the First Video Search Tool for Mobile Phones
	After successfully delivering award-winning mobile marketing solutions to brands such as Conde Nast from AOL to Sony and Gillette, JuiceCaster, a well-known pioneer in mobile social networking, strikes again. This time the company announced the launch of its brand new M ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 10:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chinese Authorities: Nude Material Not Welcomed in Our Country!
	China is one of those countries struggling to censor all kinds of material and it seems like the nude content may see its end very soon. The Chinese authorities have started a national campaign supposed to reduce the amount of nudity and sexual content appearing in video or audio material because they promote "bad taste", the Associated Press reported. The campaign will last 3 months and all the audio and video producer ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No More Free Online Video Content for China
	I knew I liked the idea of communism for a reason. It is the one political doctrine that I’ve gone through and that actually lets you take away what is basically free and allowed to everybody and say "you can’t have that" without having to worry for serious consequences. How cool is that? Different points of view? No, we can’t have that, I say we cut off their means of spreading the seeds of disorder. It’s not been two months ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MC Hammer Can and Will Touch This
	I guess we’ll be hearing less of "Stop! Hammertime!" from Stanley Burrell (that’s his real name… big jump from Stan to MC Hammer, wouldn’t you agree?) and more of "Cut! No, you put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you shake it all about! Yes, and only then you do the Hokey Pokey, what’s so difficult to understand?" Yes, that means that he’ll be doing a lot of directing from now on, a work that ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Top Videos on YouTube in 2007
	It’s not difficult to see why some people predicted that the end of the Internet will come via YouTube servers, the number of videos and even more, their size that will no longer suffer archiving and encryption are adding to infernal numbers for the bandwidth and the overall backbone of the World Wide Web. Nevertheless, there are many videos that deserve to be up there for everybody to see and laugh at. Yes, that’s the categor ... [read more >>]
	30 December 2007, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Which Is the Better, More Popular Service, Gmail or Google Maps?
	comScore.com released its numbers about which Google service has noted the highest growth and despite the fact that, by far, the most used are Gmail and Google Maps, each going head to head every month in the interval measured, Nov 2006 – Nov 2007, the best performer was… iGoogle? The personalized start page had a 267.64 percent growth compared to last year and that was astoundingly five times as great as the next service rank ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Psst! The Queen Has Her Channel on YouTube!
	Every year around the holidays, all the presidents or monarchs give a speech for their people and this has been a tradition for a very long time, going back to the 19th century. The media it has been transmitted to the crowd, though, has evolved a bit since then. First printed on paper for more than a hundred years, the message reached the telly in 1957, in Great Britain, when Queen Elizabeth first broadcasted hers. She said i ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 03:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Perez Hilton Kicked in the Behind by YouTube
	If you consider yourself to be up to date with the latest gossip from Hollywood and not only, you must have heard of Perez Hilton and / or admire his work. Characterized by some as a blogging bitch-genius, his page is the one to check out for all sorts of embarrassing videos or pictures. And all this via YouTube, the video part, I mean. He uploaded the clips to Google’s video sharing service and, then, embedded them on his blog, ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 14:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tips on Privacy from Google
	After spending so much time gathering all the information possible on everybody in order to learn what ads to deliver to them, Google has decided that a "here’s what to do in order to protect your privacy" move would benefit it in the public eyes, especially after the Facebook Beacon privacy issue that had such an impact on the online community. The new series of videos that were released today on the YouTube Privac ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Davos Question – YouTube Asking for the Answer
	This is the second time, or, actually the third time when Google’s video sharing site asks its users to submit videos that will afterwards be forwarded to important people, who hold the World by its ba**s…erm… in their back pocket. No matter what you may think, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Tony Blair, Bono and others have the iron fist and they will squeeze the life out of all of us if they so choose to. Now, don’t take what I wrot ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 08:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Refusing to Index Your Video? Backdoor Available!
	It’s no secret that Google has been indexing video content from other video hosting sites for quite a while now, rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, with YouTube playing the part of Caesar for this movie. Most movies came from larger video sites, such as Metacafe or Crackle, and were sometimes mixed with Break and AOL Uncut. Nothing, however, from the smaller video hosting services or from the independent video publisher ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Afraid of Car Wrecks? Try Out the CamCam Voyager!
	One of the worst things that sometimes happen after a minor car accident is that the party actually responsible for the crash doesn't acknowledge his/her fault and blames it all on the other driver. However, in order to allow drivers to prove their innocence both in front of the police officers (or a court of law) and to the insurance agents, the Brickhouse Security company is offering the CamCam Voyager, a device that can r ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

And the Photoshop Award Goes to... Brit Brit!
	Brit Brit Spears, this amazingly classy lady and trainwreck extraordinaire, has a new video out (we all know that by now) and... surprise, it's not as bad as we all expected it to be. On closer inspection, however, I tend to think that at least half the (mildly) positive reviews "Piece of Me" got are due not so much to the quality of the video concept and production as such (to which Britney has no effective contri ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Updated Altogether
	The YouTube Team have been busy little bees in the past month, they’ve helped Santa Google customize its video sharing service to get it ready for the Holidays with a new…well… almost everything. They’ve done some great work with everything that users complained about, and now if you go to their homepage, you will see the end results. They’ve tweaked the videos tab in order to get the Categories and Video browse pages into one ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Videos – a Twist in Its Approach of Video
	To be honest, I thought that with buying YouTube, Google would put an end to its Video section and service, because they were basically two similar services battling over what is arguably the same market share. With this latest update, I’m thinking about something more in the terms of Google Video complementing YouTube in areas it wouldn’t go to because of its user-oriented policy. What I meant by that is that while the 1.65 billion [AD ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Brit Brit's New Video Is OUT!
	'Tis the season... for the full release of Britney's new video for her second single, "Piece of Me". You can watch a better quality preview below (and the full clip HERE) and make up your own minds about it – but let me tell you that it's definitely an improvement compared to the hot mess that was "G ... [read more >>]
	15 December 2007, 03:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube is Swarming Us: New Visualization Mode
	Bored to tears this morning, I just let the links that people sent me to check them out to pile up in my inbox and the IM windows to do the same, until all of my task bar glowed orange. That wasn’t the desired effect, but it sort of did the trick. Browsing through all of them proved to be a more difficult task than I had thought, because all of a sudden, interesting things were shooting at me from all angles instead of just findi ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Apple's iPhone CAN Record Video After All!
	iPhone's lack of video recording capabilities was and still is cataloged by many users as being "pretty lame", "pathetic", "surprisingly in a bad way" and so on. I wish I could say these are harsh judgments but I can't, since a multimedia ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britney's New Video: Piece of S...omething Good?
	Well, I lived to see this day... now I can pretty much die a peaceful death and go to hell quietly, my heart bursting with the joy of having seen a preview of Brit Brit's latest music video. And as much as I regret to say it, I feel a little bit like a food critic who went to a restaurant prepared to trash the place, but ended up enjoying the food just a little bit. How confusing – not to mention infuriating – is that? I mea ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Now Integrates Video, Book and Photo Results on its Maps
	You’d say Google just came up with a new means to express itself, it’s placing video content everywhere. Two days ago, it toyed around with placing video content on the left hand side of the search results page, now it’s giving it a try with integrating it in its Google Maps service. That wouldn’t be such a bad thing, if the content was always relevant or the integration didn’t look half-baked, or the thumbnail preview had bee ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Search Thinking to Change “All on the Left” Results
	Mind you that Google’s top "selling" product is still its search engine and that is its main revenue source is its ad selling, so it should be continuously working to improve it, in order to keep its users satisfied and encourage further usage. It sounds like a lot of demagogy, I know, but so do the people over at the Mountain View based company, so they are just doing the job without talking the talk. We’re just ben ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Xbox 360 Troubleshoot Audio/Video Connections
	Everyone can agree that with the release of every console to date, things have become a tad more complicated each time, as far as hooking them up goes. Even with different colors on each ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 13:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Professor Pimping His Daughters
	Here we go again: a video published on YouTube may cause serious problems for its uploader, after the authorities started an investigation to find its creator. "The Canadian Press" today informed that the video (which was already removed from G ... [read more >>]
	11 December 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube: Howdy, Partner! Let’s Go Grab Ourselves Some Cash
	"It’s a bargain" I would say if I didn’t know better. Earlier this year, YouTube started recognizing the importance its users have had in making it the biggest thing to hit the Internet since Google kicked off its Partner Program. The way it worked was that it enabled some of the most prolific and original content creators within the YouTube community to earn money from their videos, as the team said at the time of the ... [read more >>]
	11 December 2007, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want to Be a YouTube Holiday Star?
	I myself do not qualify for the "handmade" fan group that is growing wider by the day, because I’m rather clumsy when it comes to hammering things into walls or into anything by that matter. I always seem to manage to hit the hardest blow against my finger and that would make me a disaster in the kitchen as well, by extension. But this is not about me or how lucky my girlfriend is to have me, it is about Todd Oldham, a ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Not Liking Health a Great Deal
	YouTube is the biggest video sharing site in the world, there’s no doubt about it, and because of that it gets billions of views every month. The queries submitted are various, ranging from those that still long for the good old days when porn was indexed there, to those that want to see the latest insight on Oprah Winfrey’s show. The downside to it all is that out of the numerous videos in every category, not all are accordin ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 09:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's RV635, to Feature the New DisplayPort Interface
	There have been a lot of rumors and suppositions about AMD's RV635 XT board, the world's first graphics card to provide the new digital display interface, dubbed DisplayPort by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The new interface is alleged to replace the old and not-so-efficient DVI and VGA connections in the near future. Based on a micro-packet architecture, the DisplayPort is supposed to deliver ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 08:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Send a Sexy Video Holiday Card, Courtesy of YouTube
	A couple of days ago, or was it just yesterday, I was merrily browsing through YouTube, wondering just how many clicks I’d need to get to a sexy clip starting from one with a screaming cat. Not too many, it seemed, five were enough, but in the process I've discovered something really interesting. The YouTube team has decided to surprise us this year with the option to send away video cards of our free choosing. And by f ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 05:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube’s Winners Announced
	It is a touching story about "shenanigans" and about why everything is so important in life. It’s the rendition of "Ghost", but with parenting love at its core. It’s the winning video of YouTube’s Project Direct. While feeling for those who did not win, I must congratulate those who found their work receive the merits and the credits they deserve. Award-winning director of "Thank You For Smoking" ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Seven Times Better than Competition
	The latest Video Metrix report saw digital analyst comScore.com revealing that YouTube still dominates the online video market. And it’s not hard to do that when you have Google covering your back, but that’s not all that important now. According to wikipedia.org, YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid-February 2005, by three former PayPal employees. Th ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Spreading Out to Finance Videos
	The first time the idea lit the electrical bulb above someone in the Yahoo staff was about 7 or 8 years ago, back in 2000, but it feels like it was a century ago. Finance Vision was launched in March of the same year, but it was closed down just two years later, in June 2002. After the same period since Yahoo has been founded and up to 2000, the idea popped again out of the closed storage and into the minds of the executives ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 04:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

SayHeyHey, I Say Ney
	'Hey, my name is Suzy, I’m 21 and I have a funny story about a party, me and some of my girls went out and had one drink too many and then I went home and my best friend came with me and my boyfriend at the time didn’t like that we were drunk so we got into an argument so I tackled him and we started fighting and my girlfriend had to drag me away from his bleeding corpse after that. Haha, we had a lot of laughs.' The ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Is Working to Roll Out Their GeForce 9 Series
	Nvidia is working on a revision to their mid-range GeForce 8 series that will see the shelves until Christmas. Rumor has it that the company would surely like to harvest some more revenue to justify the money pumped in researching and developing it. There will not be any sign of the GeForce 9 series, so move on in case you were still expecting to find a piece under the Christmas tree. The Nvidia Management team said earlier th ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Looking Pretty
	The way that the YouTube dev team has structured the videos on the site’s pages is annoying, there’s no doubt about it. With the continuous changes going on and all the categories being removed and added, re-branded and downgraded, it’s pretty much a mess out there, but it is all presented in a seemingly organized frame and, with the white background, the feeling of neatness is maintained. UK-startup iDesktop.tv is just easie ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia