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If This Music Video Doesn't Make You Happy and Hungry, You Are Dead Inside [Video]
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This is not our usual Gizmodo Soundtrack song, but I loved it so much that I couldn't resist posting it as today's entry. Watch it. It will make you happy and hungry at the same time. More »...
Samsung goes big with 5.8-inch Galaxy Player
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Ahead of the IFA show, the company upsizes its Android device for playing music, video, and games. It's edging closer toward the Nexus 7 mini-tablet territory. [Read more]...
Vevo CEO: The war on piracy is like the war on drugs…’unwinnable’
thenextweb.com
The Next Web is at the Guardian Changing Media Summit this week, a conference promising to deliver insights from the organisations and individuals capitalising on disruption within the digital content space. You can monitor all our coverage here. Following on from BSkyB’s CEO Jeremy Darroch announcing its new Now TV...
Personalized Music Video Service Cull TV Acquired By Twitvid, CEO Departs
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Social video network Twitvid has closed another acquisition today, following its March deal which involved bringing the team from daily deals aggregator Frugalo on board. Today, the company is announcing it has acquired Cull TV, an independent music video sharing site, which CTO John Hurliman describes as a little bit like Pandora...
vjay Preview: Fun and Impressive Realtime Video Processing on an iPad
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In November 2010, Mac and iOS developers Algoriddim first previewed their djay app for iPad. The beautifully designed app pushed some boundaries of the iPad by taking advantage of new iOS 4.2-specific audio features that allowed them to perform realtime mixing effects and audio analysis. That app has since received...
Windows 8 bundled Metro apps revealed
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Due out on Febrary 29, the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview will offer several built-in Metro apps, including Music, Video, Mail, Messaging, and SkyDrive....
Google Nexus Q home media streamer revealed on Google Play Store for $299
www.theverge.com
We'd heard rumors that Google had been testing a home entertainment device for release this year, and it appears to be true: the page for the Google Nexus Q has appeared on the Google Play Store. Billed as a "social streaming media player," the Nexus Q appears to be...
VEVO: 40B Videos Watched Globally In The Last Year, Mobile Traffic Doubled In Q2 To 1.3B Streams
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Back in March, VEVO rolled out a huge new redesign, which saw the major-label-owned music video giant add continuous playback and beef up its personalization and social features. Thanks to tight new integration with Facebook’s Open Graph, VEVO quickly saw a big increase in the number of videos watched and...
After going Facebook-only for registration, VEVO sees increase of 200% in daily signups
thenextweb.com
Facebook published some interesting numbers and facts about the growth that certain partners have had since adopting the Open Graph platform that the social network launched late last year at f8. One of the most interesting factoids that we’ve seen is the success that music video site VEVO has had...
It's All Blurry: CollegeHumor Makes Fun Of Nickelback And Instagram
techcrunch.com
If you were searching for your daily dose of morning hilarity, look no further. CollegeHumor has just posted a Nickelback parody of the Photograph music video, substituting the theme of physical photos for the much hipper, Facebook-owned Instagram. Early warning: there’s a moment of NSFW language toward the last verse,...
VEVO launches its music video platform and apps in Brazil, targets advertisers
thenextweb.com
VEVO is launching its standalone music video platform and free apps in Brazil, Music Week reports. Following the launch, Brazilian users will be able to access 50,000 HD music videos without going through VEVO’s YouTube syndication. As VEVO points out on its official blog, it also means that VEVO is now...
Fair use gets stronger—thanks, "What What (In the Butt)"
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The guys behind Brownmark Films Brownmark Films Poor "What What (In the Butt)." Once nothing more than a bizarre 2007 music video posing the question "You want to do it in my butt, in my butt?," it went viral, racking up more than 47 million YouTube views to date—until...
Vevo rolls out new “bigger, smarter, faster” video platform, and makes Facebook mandatory
thenextweb.com
One week after we reported that Vevo users would soon only be able to log in using their Facebook credentials, the video-streaming website is rolling out an entirely new version of the platform, that’s “bigger, smarter and faster” than ever. For the uninitiated, Vevo is a joint venture between Sony...
Google and Facebook reportedly interested in buying into music video site Vevo
thenextweb.com
Google and Facebook are considering investments in Vevo, the New York Post reports in an exclusive story. According to its sources, both are competing for an equity stake and an ad deal with the music video service. It wouldn’t be the first time Facebook has shown interest in partnering with Vevo,...
Trayvon Martin, Twitter's birthday and a Romney music video -- a week in social media
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Almost everyone will miss almost everything discussed on social media. Here's what was hot last week, including widely shared topics such as the killing of Trayvon Martin, Twitter's sixth birthday and more. [Read more]...
Zune's last days: Microsoft pulling Zune HD apps, select features on August 31st
www.engadget.com
Microsoft's oddly named music service put its official resignation in earlier this summer, but the Zune brand isn't in its coffin just yet -- although Redmond is certainly driving in the nails. Zune Pass subscribers, for instance, are now receiving word that the service's Mixview playback and channel playlist...
Vevo-sponsored event caught streaming pirated NFL playoff game
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Tech Crunch is reporting that music video syndication company Vevo was streaming a pirated NFL playoff game at a recent company-sponsored event in Park City, Utah. Vevo, which is owned in part by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, distributes music videos for several labels across the web,...
RIM Employee's OOO Reply This Week Is Both Epic And Inspiring
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RIM is holding its yearly developers conference this week, playing host to over a thousand developers still dedicated to the BlackBerry platform. The company detailed several novel features to BlackBerry 10 scheduled for release in early 2012. And yes, there was this bad music video, too. Anyway, a fellow TC...
Watch this: RIM's disastrously bad music video aimed at developers
www.theverge.com
At today's BlackBerry Jam, RIM unveiled the latest iteration of its BB10 operating system, as well as a new developer device called the "Alpha B." But if that wasn't enough to get developers excited for the BlackBerry platform, the company also released this — a cover of REO Speedwagon's "Keep...
Zapstreak Goes Global With Public SDK Launch For Its AirPlay For Android Solution
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Poznan, Poland-based startup Zapstreak has just brought its AirPlay-style media streaming solution for Android out of beta, making the SDK it provides available to developers worldwide after a six-month extended testing period. The company’s tech allows Android developers to build music, video or picture-streaming right into their app. Because the...
Toshiba launches Canvio Personal Cloud, network-attached storage with iOS and Android apps
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It's been a few years now that Toshiba's been making external hard drives, so it makes sense that the company would want to venture into larger disks as a next step. Indeed, the company just took the wraps off Canvio Personal Cloud, its first network-attached storage product. The drive...
Google Adds “Play” To Its Navigation Bar, Pushes New Google Play Content Area
marketingland.com
It’s not your imagination. Google’s navigation bar has gained a new “Play” option that, for the first time, has Google promoting its own content offerings: books, music, video and Android applications from recently rebranded Google Play site. You can see the link below, and... Please visit Marketing Land for the...
RIM tries to attract BlackBerry 10 developers with awful music video
venturebeat.com
Well, this is…interesting. Research in Motion has just released a strange music video serenading BlackBerry developers and encouraging them to stick with RIM for its new BlackBerry 10 operating system. RIM took the stage today in San Jose, Calif. to show off its latest features of its BlackBerry 10...
Now That There Is A Video Of Eric Schmidt Dancing 'Gangnam Style' Can We All Stop? (GOOG)
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Here is Google's former CEO and current chairman, Eric Schmidt dancing "gangnam style," spotted by The Verge. Gangnam Style is a dance made popular by a music video out of Korea that has 280 million views. Everyone is parodying it. It is a "meme." Can we all please stop now?...
Samsung takes entertainment to the cloud with mSpot buy
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The global electronics company buys the mobile cloud-media provider in a bid to boost the music, video, and radio-entertainment offerings on its smartphones and tablets. [Read more]...
Create your own J-pop video with motion-captured dance data from Perfume
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If you've ever wanted to direct a Japanese pop music video — and who hasn't — this might be as close as you'll get. Massively popular J-pop trio Perfume has made motion-captured data from a dance routine available for download on their website, so that fans can shoot and...
Jolicloud Me, A Personal Cloud Organizing Serivce, Opens In Beta Today
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Today marks another step in the evolution of cloud services for consumers: Jolicloud, the Paris-based company that was one of the first to move on offering users a “cloud-based desktop,” today moved on another product that extends what users can do in the cloud even further, with the introduction of...
Predict Gaze: Because using the remote to pause live TV is such a drag
thenextweb.com
Among life’s many challenges, there’s a terrible problem affecting literally hundreds of millions of people around the globe: when we’re watching television and feel the need to go grab a beer from the fridge, the TV doesn’t automatically know that we’re no longer paying attention to whatever’s playing – a...
RIM Employee's OOO Reply This Week Is Both Epic And Sad
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RIM is holding some sort of developer conference this week somewhere in North America. It’s unclear what they actually announced or revealed because everyone keeps talking about this dumb music video. (If you’re having a bad day, you should really watch it. But be warned, your ears will bleed and...
YouTube's Top 5 Channel Partners Saw 1.5 Billion Views in May
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YouTube's top five corporate channels - which include music video distributor Vevo, video game network Machinima, and a new media company named Maker Studios, which bills itself as "the United Artists of the Millennium" - gathered a total of 1.5 billion views in May. This is good news for YouTube,...
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