According to a report by Wired's Meghan Keane, YouTube is testing stereo sound as a default option for videos and is also offering very high quality HD versions of a small selection of clips. We weren't able to find a lot of videos that were encoded in the 720p HD format, but it is important to note that this is different from the 'watch in high quality' option YouTube already offers, which only features a resolution of 480x360 and which doesn't look half as good as the 720p option. It would not surprise us if Google was adding these options...
CBS Drops Moblogic; network stops creating new episodes; host Lindsay Campbell is still under contract with CBS, but evaluating new opportunities. (Moblogic: MediaMemo; Campbell: Beet.TV) Netflix on Xbox Missing Sony Movies; omission not because of ill will between competing game console makers, rather Netflix didn’t get the proper licensing work done. (CNET) Adconion Buys KTV Digital Media; acquisition will be used to create branded entertainment division to make content for advertising partners. (TVWeek) Queen Rania of Jordan Receives YouTube Visionary Award; the queen honored for her work encouraging youth to overcome stereotypes of Muslims and Arabs. (Variety) NBC Kicks Off...
Woman performs fellatio on a microphone during an art opening. Surprisingly musical in an ambient sort of way. It's strange that people actually listen to this sort of music without the added visuals of a girl blowing a microphone. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: YouTube - Watch all the Performances On thejobblow’s YouTube Channel “I don’t get or care for experimental art. But I’ll make an exception this time.”...
I like Google’s Chrome browser, maybe more than Google does. I use Chrome on my Windows computer and am impatiently waiting for a version for the Mac. It’s a frustrating wait because Chrome was developed using WebKit, the system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari. While ads for Google Chrome have been spotted on YouTube and Linked In, I think the excitement for Chrome as dimished. Could part of that be because Google itself is doing such a poor job of supporting its own product? The Internets are all abuzz about the new GMail Themes and Colors....
Yahoo is rolling out a search service that aggregates an interesting mix of non-web search results across a page. Glue has been available through Yahoo India with customized results for about seven months, and the U.S. version offers a similar set of results boxes: Yahoo Shopping, blog search from Google (seriously), Yahoo Answers and Images, YouTube and Wikipedia pages. More relevant search types are shifted to the top when found. It's an intriguing, semi-open move, and a decent bookmark for grabbing broader information about a topic at a glance. Tell us your take on Glue in the comments. Yahoo!...
The Shanghaiist reports: <<With political arrows still being shot back and forth between Beijing and Dharamsala [home of the exiled current Dalai Lama], China has been panning out its efforts to win the propaganda battle over Tibet (...) Lately we’ve been observing lots of Google ads pointing to the China Tibet Information Center appearing in places like Youtube ... and even our Google Reader. Given the massive reach of Google’s self-serve contextual ads, this means anytime you’re viewing something related to China or more specifically Tibet anywhere on the web, that ad may appear, pointing you to http://eng.tibet.cn/ where China’s...
Image by gleonhard via Flickr This is really a funny yet revealing video - it reflects the growing trend to look among the larger content owners to look for monetization of their video clips on Youtube rather than sending take-down notices. Related articles by ZemantaNew video: shifting values and the future of advertising and marketing Hollywood "Big Content" Under Siege (my comments on Jonathan Handel's AlwaysOn column)...
The Monty Python Channel on YouTube was launched with these words: “For three years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them up on YouTube… We know who you are … we know where you live … and we could come after you in ways too horrible to mention…” “But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we’ve figured out a better way to get our own back. It’s time to take matters in our own hands by launching our very own Monty Python channel on YouTube.” The videos are offered...
In 2002, Google Labs introduced a service that allowed you to search Google with a simple phone call. Unfortunately, the service wasn't very useful because the results were displayed on your computer and Google discontinued it.Six years later, Google Mobile App for iPhone introduces the same feature, but this time the search results are displayed in the same application. Google built a sophisticated platform for text-to-speech and speech recognition using data from GOOG-411 and we can already some of its applications in Mobile Google Apps and YouTube....
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Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, including Facebook and YouTube as part of a crackdown on content perceived to be immoral and anti-social. Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran’s prosecutor general told the media that “The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by exploiting the Internet.” The Internet “inflicts social, political, economic and moral damage, which is worrying….social vice caused by the Internet is more than that by the satellite network.” Iran has around 21 million internet users from a population of 70 million people. Persian bloggers are frequent participants on online...
Have you seen the video creeping about the internet, featuring one suspended Naveen Andrews having weird levitating sex with the numbers 1, 2 and 3? Well the mystery is over. No it is not a new lab or even a hatch, in fact it's a video for something much more sinister. Also, click to enlarge this fantastic new poster for Lost season five. According to Lost uber site Dark UFO, this ominous Youtube is nothing more than an ad for the rebranding of the Sky satellite network in the UK. Also there have been spots for Prison Break and Bones...
This weekend Chris and I will be at YouTube Live, the online video site’s first big in-person event in San Francisco. We really have no idea how exactly you turn a website into a variety show, but we’ll be there covering both the pre-show festival and the main event. You’ll be able to watch for yourself at YouTube.com/Live (the live stream starts Nov. 22 at 5 p.m. PT, and will not be embeddable, says YouTube, so you’ve got to go to the source). We’ll also do some mobile posts with Kyte, Flixwagon and the like. YouTube has some major web-star...