obsessable.com - 3/2/2009
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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 ...
Muziic Turns YouTube into iTunes
blog.wired.com 3/10/2009 —
Muziic, a downloadable music app that turns YouTube into a massive personalized song library, attracted lots of attention over the past few days.
We too were intrigued by Thursday's announcement of Muziic by David Nelson, a fifteen year-old ...
YouTube Moving the Needle on Ad Sales
adage.com 4/8/2009 — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- YouTube is still Google's toughest sell to advertisers, but the video site is doing better by one measure than most people think: YouTube is selling ads against about 9% of its video views in the U.S., up from just 6% a ...
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 ...
First Look: We Take YouTube RealTime For A Spin
techcrunch.com 4/23/2009 —
Earlier today we reported on YouTube’s plans to roll out a new real-time product that adds a new social layer to YouTube, allowing friends to share the videos they’re watching with each other in real time, without having to turn to ...
YouTube Tries Bigger Home-Page Ads
adage.com 3/24/2009 — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- YouTube blew out one aspect of its money-making plan last week: way bigger home-page ads. On March 20, YouTube gave Lionsgate both the a giant masthead ad across the top and the standard box unit on the right for a new unit ...
YouTube XL Released; It’s YouTube Made for the TV
mashable.com 6/3/2009 — Although YouTube remains king of online video , competitors like Hulu and Boxee have brought quality video not only to the Web, but to the living room as well. What YouTube is releasing today is a very bold move to make YouTube a part of this ...
YouTube Adds Title and Rating to Embeds
mashable.com 2/6/2009 — YouTube is inserting more of the information you can get on the website into the embedded videos that are spread far and wide across the Web. Embeds now include both the Title and the Rating for each video - information that dissolves once you click ...
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 ...
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.
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Sony’s Full Length Movies May Be Coming to YouTube
mashable.com 4/6/2009 — According to CNET , YouTube is in talks to acquire licensing rights to full-length content, which includes many hit movies such as The Da Vinci Code and Spiderman, from Sony Pictures. If the deal goes through, it may be the first major YouTube foray ...
First YouTube Symphony Orchestra picked —
SFGate: Technology 3/2/2009
The auditions are over. The first YouTube Symphony Orchestra _ selected by viewers of the Web site _ will consist of more than 90 musicians from some 30 countries. More than 3,000 videos were submitted by amateur and professional musicians from ...
Obama removes YouTube from YouTube-side chats —
The Register 3/2/2009
Swallows Google spy cookie US President Barack Obama has removed the YouTube from his YouTube-side chats , after repeated complaints over the video sharer's use of long-term tracking cookies on his official White House blog.…