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 ...

White House Says No to YouTube
mashable.com 3/3/2009 — The official White House site used to rely on YouTube for video hosting, but now they’ve apparently switched to a generic video player , delivered by Akamai’s content delivery network. While there’s no official explanation of this ...

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 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 ...

White House No Longer Using YouTube
technologizer.com 3/2/2009 — It appears as if the Obama Administration has decided to stop using YouTube as a method to embed its videos into websites for the Government. Starting with this weeks address, videos are now served in Flash through technology provided by Akamai.  ...

White House abandons YouTube for embedded videos
obsessable.com 3/2/2009 — The rights of users when interacting with web sites has been a hot-button topic lately, with Facebook receiving a great deal of media attention after controversially changing its site's terms . After the outrage died down, Facebook responded by crafting new operating procedures to involve its ...

White House Denies It Is Shunning YouTube
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 3/3/2009 — The White House says its decision not to use YouTube to stream President Obama's weekly address was a "test."

Did YouTube Just Turn On HD For Real?
techcrunch.com 12/5/2008 — 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. ...

Search Ads Come To YouTube
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 10/14/2008 — Google video search ads on YouTube may not be as big as Adwords.

Exclusive: YouTube Will Soon Let Big Content Partners Bring Their Own Ads
techcrunch.com 1/22/2009 — Big media companies have always had a love-hate relationship with YouTube. They don’t know whether to sue YouTube for abetting copyright infringement or get in bed with it because it is the biggest Web video game in town. YouTube is trying ...

Would-be Obama aides must disclose Web posts, Facebook profiles — CNET News.com 11/14/2008
If you want a job in an Obama administration, be prepared to disclose every blog post or comment you've ever written. Also requested: any personal web sites, including Facebook pages and even Match.com profiles.

Dear Obama: Use BitTorrent for your Fireside Podcasts — CNET News.com 11/14/2008
The news that President-elect Barack Obama will be using YouTube to distribute his weekly 'radio' messages has been met by general fanfare amongst the digerati.

Obama to deliver weekly YouTube-side chats — The Register 11/14/2008
'Good evening, friends, Tron guy, Star Wars kid, sneezing panda...' US President-elect Barack Obama plans to use YouTube to modernize the traditional White House weekly radio address.…

Obama Gets Geeky With YouTube Channel and Net Background Checks — Today @ PC World 11/14/2008
President-elect Barack Obama is showing he is Web savvy. He plans a weekly YouTube address and also says incoming staff will get Net background checks.

Obama appoints YouTube (Google) as Secretary of Video — CNET News.com 11/16/2008
President-elect Obama is delivering his regularly scheduled Saturday address in video format, uploaded to YouTube. Why favor YouTube?