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YouTube has lots of rivals on the web, but when lots of label companies and artists ally to form a powerful video sharing service, it may be a real threat for the Mountain View-based company Google. PluggedIn, a YouTube-like music video website providing up to 10,000 licensed clips, has just been rolled out, providin... |
16 April 2008
05:18 GMT |
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Although that might have been your first guess, the truth of the matter is that there's nothing even remotely related to the likes of Lord Voldermort, Sauron or other fictional dark magicians about the Blackmagic. No dark spells or enchantments are used. It's simply the power of technology, which allows use... |
15 April 2008
13:41 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company Google has just made what seems to be an important update addressed to business owners as they are now able to publish YouTube videos and photos next to their listings. As you know, Google Maps lets you find a certain business, as well as lots of details and reviews concerning the entr... |
15 April 2008
02:45 GMT |
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The case that seems to be one of the most violent disputes ever created by a YouTube clip continues as a Saudi blogger posted a reply to Fitna, the anti-Islam clip that caused demonstrations and protests in several Islamic countries. Raed Al-Saeed, 33 year-old, has created a video response to the clip produced by the... |
12 April 2008
03:09 GMT |
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Google's video sharing service YouTube got banned on Monday after an anti-Islam clip called Fitna was published on its official website, drawing protests from its Indonesian users. Last week, the Indonesian government set a Monday deadline to YouTube's administrators in order to allow them to remove the cli... |
11 April 2008
04:38 GMT |
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A few days ago, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo made what seems to be Flickr's first step into the video sharing market: the implementation of video support which allows users to upload their own clips on the famous photo sharing website. That's right, Flickr was actually a photo sharing webpage and the v... |
11 April 2008
04:16 GMT |
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YouTube has just made a new update to its interface, implementing a few minor changes to the clip page appearance. Although the online video sharing service didn't make any official announcement, users who accessed YouTube today were able to see the new interface which seems to be a permanent update since it... |
10 April 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Although it was already a well known fact that Google's YouTube is one of the most popular services on the net and the clear leader of the online video sharing industry, a new report published by comScore comes to support this statement: Google's video websites gained the leader chair in US, Canada, UK, Fra... |
10 April 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Although it usually removes this type of videos quite quickly, YouTube tends to become the ideal place for uploading violent clips in which kids and teenagers beat other persons mercilessly. It's exactly the case with Victoria Lindsay, a 16-year-old girl from Florida, who was beaten by some of her (apparently) f... |
9 April 2008
06:06 GMT |
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The information available on the Internet is not equally available in all the world's regions, and the state of facts in China is the best example of how a government filters the data users can have access to. Popular sites like Youtube and Wikipedia are only two of the many web addresses that get blocked by mil... |
9 April 2008
04:51 GMT |
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It seems like the YouTube representatives and the Indonesian authorities couldn't reach an agreement over the long criticized anti-Islam movie appearing on the video sharing service. Today, IndosatM2 along with other Internet service providers based in Indonesia announced that they have imposed restriction for u... |
8 April 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Google and YouTube are once again in trouble after a video uploaded by the Dutch MP Geert Wilders caused protests in Indonesia as lots of Muslims considered the clip offensive for their nation. Geert Wilders became famous for his criticism of the Islam culture because he had always struggled to stop Muslims from movi... |
3 April 2008
05:38 GMT |
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The short story so far: a clip posted on the popular video service YouTube showed a 24-year-old woman apparently being raped by three boys, two of them aged 16 and one of them 14. The woman, who seemed to be drugged, said she was raped by the boys straight in front of her kids who could be heard crying in the backgro... |
2 April 2008
09:11 GMT |
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Global Delight Technologies has just released the latest version of Web2 Delight for Mac, a search-and-download tool enabling Mac owners to get anything their hearts desire from online video or photo platforms such as YouTube and flickr. Web2 Delight supports Apple's iPod, iPhone and AppleTV. It automatically co... |
2 April 2008
04:19 GMT |
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The copyright of the content uploaded on YouTube has always been a problem for the video sharing service's parent company Google, as there are numerous firms which sued the search giant, accusing it of copyright infringement. Because of that, every new copyright deal signed by Google is welcomed, as it keeps the... |
31 March 2008
03:53 GMT |
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YouTube has millions of users every day and because it is so popular, most video uploaders want to know more details about their clips, such as the nicknames of the viewers, their location or the way they reach the videos. Because of that, a solution similar to Google Analytics, but focused on the clips posted on You... |
28 March 2008
16:06 GMT |
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YouTube is all about originality, if we are to strip away all of the lawsuits for copyright infringement, and creativity. The user-created clips that have made it the world's biggest video sharing site have all been set against one another in a contest to see which one is the most popular, for each category avai... |
24 March 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Tired of reading about the Chinese government censoring the media and then going halfway for the compromise? Well, you're not going to enjoy knowing that it happened again, and in a period that was supposed to show the world that all is not as bad as dissidents make is sound like. The first pointer that the gove... |
19 March 2008
05:13 GMT |
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With the $44.6 million marriage proposal still on the table, taking Yahoo to the altar means for Microsoft getting a shortcut to becoming runner-up on the online advertising and search engine markets. But at the same time, there are additional aspects of the online race for eyeballs where the combination of Yahoo and... |
17 March 2008
06:17 GMT |
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Google might breathe easily, as US District Court Judge Louis Stanton denied the media conglomerate's claim for punitive damages in the case, the Silicon Alley Insider reports. Interestingly enough, the Mountain View-based company did not object to the amendment, nor did it attempt any means to avoid it being su... |
11 March 2008
10:30 GMT |
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Please, do try and look surprised, act like you didn't know this was coming and sigh with relief: Hulu is finally coming out of limited beta testing and onto our computers tomorrow, the company announced one day ahead. Take that, spammers 'giving away' access to the video site, you're running out ... |
11 March 2008
07:17 GMT |
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Censorship is all but the latest rage, nevertheless people and even governments use it abusively and obsessively. It might be ok to censor a kid's drawing on a wall if it has an obscene touch, you're doing that to protect the others, but censoring the Internet (see Iran's upcoming elections) or the sec... |
10 March 2008
07:06 GMT |
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After watching the old number-one video that topped the charts for months, The Evolution of Dance, and sharing it with friends, I find it difficult to believe that the new number one managed to outperform the former occupier of the all-so-wanted position. Cansei De Ser Sexy has managed to gather some 89,750,739 views... |
6 March 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Nokia extends its green preoccupations by supporting connect2earth, a new green online community launched by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), two of the world's largest environmental organizations. The new community, accessible at this address, allows yo... |
4 March 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Have you ever been at a party and right when your favorite song comes on, somebody next to you starts singing the lyrics wrong, loud and completely aphonous? That must be unnerving, and many, many can testify that it is one of the moments you just feel like going berserk. Here's a quick tip for everybody who... |
3 March 2008
16:46 GMT |
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Last November the YouTube co-founders announced while attending in a TeeVee conference, that their company was toying with higher resolution videos replacing the low res that currently makes up for more than three quarters of the total clips uploaded. Because of the cryptic and almost Spartan 'leak,' the me... |
3 March 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Late last week, the YouTube development team flashed before our eyes the option to virtually add a social layer to the popular video sharing site and said that the changes would come 'soon.' Naturally, a couple of days later when you read that there's been an update, you have your hopes high that it be... |
3 March 2008
14:56 GMT |
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YouTube and Google have left a long trail of censorship behind them as they grew ever larger, and more often than not, the companies' images had to suffer because of it, after the media caught wind of the facts. In December, lawyer Robert Amsterdam, representing the jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky... |
29 February 2008
18:21 GMT |
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The rumored and sometimes confirmed, sometimes laughed at, coming of live video on Google's video sharing service has finally had a pin stuck in it. It won't float around anymore, because there's no point in speculating about something everybody knows is going to happen.Live streaming has been a life-l... |
29 February 2008
13:46 GMT |
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The Pakistan ban that knocked YouTube unconscious to the floor, for almost two hours, might not be as religious related as the state officials initially hinted. Some local users believe that the blocking of the site was actually closely connected to some footage proving election fraud in the South Asian country. With... |
27 February 2008
15:56 GMT |
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The world's biggest video sharing service is preparing to revamp the personalized homepage for everybody. Their work is not out yet, but the team has already been creating a lot of buzz around it, and offered a short written description for all of the changes that would occur. The blog post relating to it is ext... |
27 February 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Zinedine Zidane was an extraordinary football player (soccer, as it is named in the U.S.), but what he will most be remembered for is one moment of not being able to control his nerves. In the great Final, he was angered to the point of explosion by Italian Marco Materazzi and headbutted him to the ground. There was ... |
25 February 2008
15:11 GMT |
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The heavy YouTube viewer must have freaked yesterday. For an entire hour, Google's video sharing service was down for no obvious reason like a scheduled maintenance and with no announcement of any sort. Mayhem started on forums as people around the world began reporting the same thing, like Xeroxed: "Can anybody... |
25 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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YouTube is the perfect medium for exposing things some people would like to keep hidden due to its huge fan base. A video of two women looting the shops in Belgrade has circled the web and has turned them into overnight celebrities. Not sure that's one of the things one might want to be famous for, but the two s... |
25 February 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Google's biggest problem, advertising wise, is that the very expensive YouTube, for which it paid $1.65 billion, does not pay off. Plain and simple, almost 70 percent of the people and companies that chose to advertise on the world's biggest video sharing service said that they were not happy about the res... |
22 February 2008
20:36 GMT |
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Everybody's hyped about the upcoming All-Star weekend that will bring the world's best and most famous basketball players together, for a demonstration of their skills. TNT will be covering the event, but YouTube has chosen this occasion to highlight the other side of players, beyond the cross-overs, alley-... |
15 February 2008
14:26 GMT |
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Valentine's Day is great and all if you have that special someone next to you to hold and share the special times. If you don't, it's a bitter time, sprayed with thoughts about how the marketing industry has taken over culture and society as a whole, bringing out what's worst in people, namely the... |
14 February 2008
06:52 GMT |
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Skateboard riding might not be the best thing to do, if you're in a state that prohibits it, the Police will be on the lookout for you. Come to think about it, don't do anything against the law, but that's a different moral lesson, one that has to be taught by the people in charge and by the endless nu... |
13 February 2008
17:06 GMT |
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According to the latest statistics from Internet metrics company comScore, "77.6 million viewers watched 3.2 billion videos on YouTube.com (41.6 videos per viewer)" in December 2007 alone, and taking into consideration only U.S. users. This gives Google no less than 32.6% of all the videos served in the last month of... |
13 February 2008
07:46 GMT |
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As an iPod (video) or iPhone owner, you've surely thought about YouTube a lot. More than that, I'll bet you've even thought of how great it would be to be able to download your favorite videos and watch them at your leisure later on. Well, you can, using TubeTV. And you haven't even heard the best... |
12 February 2008
07:00 GMT |
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Nokia and Google have just announced, at the 2008 Mobile World Congress, that Google's popular search engine will be integrated with the Nokia Search application. The integration will begin in selected markets with the Nokia N96, Nokia N78, Nokia 6210 Navigator and Nokia 6220 classic. Google search will be exten... |
12 February 2008
06:33 GMT |
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The online video market has not been kind to Microsoft. Neither has it been kind to Google or Yahoo for that matter. But Google made a brilliant move back in 2006, and coughed up some $1.5 billion for YouTube, a deal on which Microsoft's Chief Executive Office, Steve Ballmer, said pass at the time, arguing that ... |
11 February 2008
09:22 GMT |
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It's not as red and marked with the hammer and sickle as you might have thought, but it also wouldn't win the "people living there's award" when it comes to freedom of speech. It's an ongoing cha-cha dance, with one making a move (the government) and if the reply is moderately strong, it will back... |
6 February 2008
08:19 GMT |
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A reporter's work is almost never easy, especially if it is a war zone he has to follow his story to. Chad was that zone and on Saturday, almost 1,500 rebel forces attacked the presidential palace. Watching the videos uploaded by the American organization Stop Genocide Now sends shivers down the spine to anyone ... |
4 February 2008
10:00 GMT |
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Google Video has clearly lost face with YouTube because it wasn't pushed out front as much as the video sharing service. The team must be trying to bury it altogether after removing the fast forward option. A close analysis of the two services shows that YouTube caught great speed after being added this feature,... |
4 February 2008
03:42 GMT |
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In case you only check out YouTube every once in a while, you're most likely to click on the "most viewed" videos in the "related" box. That's ok, many people do it and are not interested in the rest of the process, from uploading to getting paid.But this is not about partnering with Google's video sha... |
31 January 2008
08:41 GMT |
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Well, this is definitely something Fox News should consider (and I really wonder how come they didn't since it's not something really new, you know?). Or, at least, the guys who found the Hot Coffee mod disgusting could start a new action to get some money back. What should the rest of the world do? Well...... |
31 January 2008
06:45 GMT |
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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... |
30 January 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Cisco, the top provider of routers and switches that direct Internet traffic, and by that, one of the companies holding the weight of Internet on its shoulders, has said in the voice of its Chief Executive, John Chambers, that the continuing build of networks will be lasting for a decade from now on. The deadline he ... |
30 January 2008
13:36 GMT |
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If you always thought that religion is one of those areas where everybody finds inner peace in his/her own way, having a personal connection to whatever God he/she is praying to, you must not be a fan of Mike Huckabee. The Southern Baptist minister and Republican presidential candidate has just had the idea to go for... |
29 January 2008
11:46 GMT |
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