youtube.com - 11/14/2008
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Watch U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama answer questions from YouTube. The Senator talks about technology and foreign policy, a...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/14/2008
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By Jose Antonio Vargas The White House has
gone YouTube. Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly
Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube ...
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The YouTube Presidency
alleyinsider.com - 11/17/2008
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alleyinsider.com —
In a sign of just how little success
Google has had at monetizing YouTube, a research firm
is predicting that Hulu will surpass it in US revenue next year. Screen Digest estimates that YouTube will make $100 million in US revenue this year compared ...
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Hulu To Be Bigger Than YouTube Next Year?
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Watch Out Avril, Here Comes Obama
SitePoint —
There has been a lot of chatter about whether US President-Elect Barack Obama, whose campaign for the White House took great advantage of social media sites, would use his web savvy to become the first so-called “Web 2.0 President.” There’s also been debate about what that might mean, exactly.
One thing that people have suggested Obama do is continue to use his ultra-popular YouTube channel to communicate with the American public, and the world. Today, he announced that he will do just that, according to the Washington Post. Obama will begin video recording his weekly presidential radio address and posting it on YouTube ...
President Elect Obama's FireWire Chats: Transparency Redefined?
ReadWriteWeb —
Yesterday, President Elect Obama's transition team announced the weekly Democratic address will be posted on YouTube. Today we saw the first of these fireside chats go live on the new video wire (video embedded below).
It's clear that Obama and his team are extremely competent when it comes to the social Web, but it might be useful to examine some of the reasons behind his phenomenal success online, and look at a potential misconception.
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venturebeat.com 1/17/2009 —
This seems like a golden age for watching politicians on YouTube . President-elect Barack Obama is delivering weekly addresses on the video site, and both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives just launched their own YouTube channels . ...
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zatznotfunny.com 11/15/2008 —
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Obama to Adress the Nation Each Week on YouTube
readwriteweb.com 11/14/2008 — President elect Obama will bring the President's weekly "fireside chat" into the 21st century by offering it not just on the radio, but in video on YouTube as well. It's as if the new President really cares whether the next generation has a ...
Obama’s first address to the nation on YouTube
venturebeat.com 11/16/2008 — This is just brilliant. As we wrote about yesterday, President-elect Obama will be giving weekly video addresses alongside the radio addresses that have become routine for previous administrations. The big key for these video addresses is that all of ...
Obama appoints YouTube (Google) as Secretary of Video
news.cnet.com 11/16/2008 — It's great that President-elect Obama is delivering his regularly scheduled Saturday address in both audio and video form. After using the Internet to help him get elected and connect with younger voters, it's clear that his team will continue to ...
The Presidency, coming to a YouTube channel near you
venturebeat.com 11/17/2008 — With families no longer huddling around the radio, the presidential “Fireside chats” of the ’30s and ’40s are moving to YouTube . Today, President-elect Barack Obama will be recording his weekly Democratic address not just ...
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 ...
Obama's First Weekly YouTube Address [Politics]
gizmodo.com 11/15/2008 — President-Elect Barack Obama has pledged to deliver weekly "fireside chats" a la FDR via YouTube, and today he posted his first. The content of the video isn't unexpected: he calls for immediate help from Congress to aid unemployment insurance, ...
● High quality YouTube video hack
kottke.org 11/13/2008 — You may have noticed that the video of Burn-E I embedded looked a bit better than a normal YouTube video. YouTube has been quietly offering high-quality versions of some of their videos for quite some time via a "watch in high quality" link just ...
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