Submit a Story!
Votes
topics:

vote down flag
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/4/2008
How YouTube Broadcasts Your Taste in Videos
—
If you want to follow a series of videos on YouTube, your interest in that topic is broadcast to the entire Internet and there is no way to opt out.

Blog Reactions

NewTeeVee:  Vid-Biz: Blockbuster, Jokes.com, 236.com

Did YouTube Just Turn On HD For Real?
techcrunch.com - 12/5/2008
Did YouTube Just Turn On HD For Real?
— techcrunch.com — After teasing us for a year with the option to watch “higher quality” videos that weren’t quite high-def, it appears that YouTube is making the switch to HD, at least for some videos that have been uploaded in that quality. ... (more) Did YouTube Just Turn On HD For Real?

Comments vote down SlashGear found this 12/5/2008found this
youtube.com - 12/5/2008
YouTube goes full HD at last?
— youtube.com — YouTube goes full HD at last? (more) YouTube goes full HD at last?

Comments vote down SlashGear found this 12/5/2008found this
YouTube Videos Now Available in HD [YouTube]
lifehacker.com - 12/5/2008
YouTube Videos Now Available in HD [YouTube]
— lifehacker.com — YouTube switched to widescreen format a week and a half back, and now the popular video sharing site appears officially to be streaming videos in HD. From the look of things, most videos that were... (more) YouTube Videos Now Available in HD [YouTube]

Comments vote down The Next Web found this 12/5/2008found this
Comments
Blog Reactions

Vid-Biz: Blockbuster, Jokes.com, 236.com
NewTeeVee — ... news-based comedy site could be axed or sold off as IAC cuts back on its online content businesses. (Advertising Age) YouTube News Roundup: YouTube embeds now come in widescreen (Mashable), and with a search bar up top (TechCrunch); medical device ads on YouTube draw fire for not including disclaimers (The Wall Street Journal); and the video channels you subscribe to could reveal more about you than you’d like (Bits Blog). Cooliris Update Adds Features; 3D media exploration tool adds favorites ...

Related Content
Is YouTube the Next Google?
readwriteweb.com 11/23/2008 — Anything that can be a video will be a video During the Web 2.0 Summit recently, the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, pointed out that one of the reasons the world is no longer the same is YouTube. For better or worse, said Mr. Newsom, we ...
YouTube rolling out first HD videos
electronista.com 12/6/2008 — YouTube has quietly started regularly putting up content in HD. Searching for videos marked "HD" turns up content that plays natively at 720p, well above the sub-SD resolution clips that make up most YouTube clips. Many of these are also available ...
Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends.
newteevee.com 12/2/2008 — After much talk about experimenting with live streaming video, YouTube dipped its toe in the water on the weekend, with a much-hyped event (at least in blogosphere terms) called YouTube Live, featuring some of the “cewebrities” that have ...
YouTube Formally Introduces ‘Sponsored Videos’
searchengineland.com 11/12/2008 — YouTube is formally announcing “sponsored videos.” This is an evolution and expansion of what was has been informally running under the heading “ promoted videos .” The effort seeks to marry Google AdWords-like bidding and targeting with YouTube video ...
YouTube Adds Links to HD Quality Videos
blog.wired.com 12/6/2008 — High definition video from the king of blurry pixels? Yes, it's true, YouTube is classing up its act with high definition movies. As we've mentioned before , YouTube has been testing HD quality movies for some time, but now there's no more guess work ...
YouTube Tests HD Videos
readwriteweb.com 11/20/2008 — According to a report by Wired's Meghan Keane , YouTube is testing stereo sound as a default option for videos and is also offering very high quality HD versions of a small selection of clips. We weren't able to find a lot of videos that were encoded ...
YouTube Live! (But Dead on Arrival)
mashable.com 11/24/2008 — The king of Web video is finally set to join the live video realm today. In 30 minutes, YouTube Live will introduce a mix of real-time concert footage with that of “YouTuberati” such as LisaNova , Tay Zonday (Mr. “ Chocolate Rain ”), “ Fred ,” Chad ...
YouTube Gets More HD Video
informationweek.com 12/21/2008 — In a move likely to pique the interest of video news organizations, YouTube also added three new video landing pages.
How to Watch YouTube Videos While Working on other Tasks
labnol.org 12/3/2008 — You plan to watch a lengthy video clip on YouTube but the problem is that you have lot of other stuff to do and therefore can’t focus all the attention on just one video . You have to browse web pages, check emails in Outlook and maybe complete ...
YouTube is not so wild anymore
latimesblogs.latimes.com 12/11/2008 — Tanya Derveaux's cleavage may not be suitable for minors.  (image via iPower ) On some bright, parched morning back in the Old West, folks must have heard grumbling as a boy nailed a list of new town laws to the wall of the saloon. And ...
YouTube tightens rules on sexually suggestive videos — Technology 12/4/2008
Google's YouTube may be a fun Web site to visit but the company hopes to make it a little less, ah-hmm, titillating. The company this week announced new rules to better control sexually suggestive content on its popular video-sharing site. Only users ...
Major Python update makes break with past — CNET News - Business Tech 12/4/2008
Python developers on Wednesday released the final version of Python 3.0, a major reworking of the programming language that is incompatible with the Python 2 series. Python is widely used for Web applications such as YouTube. Python 3.0, also ...
Google, Facebook Fight To Connect Friends — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 12/4/2008
The promise of exposure to larger audiences could give publishers and advertisers a hard time deciding which social network to work with.
CNET News Daily Podcast: Facebook, Google open competing services — CNET News.com 12/4/2008
Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect open to the public with moments of each other; Firefox plug-in turns Amazon.com into piracy heaven; and former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers asks for commuted sentence.
Does MapReduce Signal The End Of The Relational Era? — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 12/4/2008
Companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft that operate Internet-scale cloud services need to store and process massive data sets, such as search logs, Web content collected by crawlers, and click-streams collected from a variety of Web services. ...