Alternatives to Youtube catch on with mobile crowd
Like many musicians looking for that big break, 24-year-old Angeleno Felice Lazae turned to YouTube for years to promote her songs -- with modest success, at one point getting more than 100,000 views on her cover of an Alicia Keys hit. But this month, the Los Angeles singer plans to premiere her newest music video not on YouTube but on
YouTube loses music clip copyright battle in court
YouTube must take down copyrighted clips of music, a German court has ruled, in a move that could be a step towards forcing it to pay large sums in royalties. The move is a fresh setback for Google's video site after a US appeals court this month reopened a $1bn (£620m) case brought by media conglomerate Viacom, as well as the Premier
Is Instagram the next YouTube or the next Flickr?
On October 9 2006 Chad Hurley, 29, and Steven Chen, 27, sold a video-sharing website called YouTube to Google for $1.65bn. At the time there was a lot of guffawing about the profitless startup that allowed people to share videos of cats playing pianos and kids coming off skateboards. Who's laughing now? Google mainly. But the history of
Appeals Court Rejects YouTube Victory Over Viacom, YouTube Says, No Big Deal
Hey, remember when Viacom sued YouTube for copyright infringement of shows like South Park and The Daily Show? And YouTube won a summary judgement nearly two years ago, with a judge basically throwing out the case? Well, it looks like the fight isn't over. Today, an appeals court reversed the earlier decision. That doesn't mean Viacom has
YouTube Adds A Play In 3D Option Across Its Site
Last September, YouTube began offering new tools that allowed users to convert their uploaded 2D videos into 3D videos with just a click. That feature, which has been in beta testing, was available only to YouTube creators at the time. Today, YouTube is rolling out the beta to all of YouTube's users - creators and viewers alike - by
YouTube to offer Paramount movie rentals
Even courtroom adversaries can be partners in the nascent online movie rental business. YouTube announced a movie rental partnership with Paramount Pictures on Wednesday, despite the online video website's long-running litigation with Paramount parent company Viacom Inc. YouTube said it would offer online rentals of nearly 500
Syrian activists targeted through false YouTube
Syrian activists are now being targeted with a false model of Google's YouTube video site which plants malware on the PCs of men and women who let remarks on movies demonstrated live, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has warned. The EFF, a strain horde for release presentation online, asserted the website has been
Chinese relish crack in Great Firewall, log on to Facebook
Some Chinese World wide web users have this week been able to access blocked websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, relishing the newfound freedom even though the reason for the breach in China's Great Firewall of censorship was a mystery. China blocks most foreign social networking sites (SNS) out of fear that unfettered access
Foxconn: Nightline goes behind the scenes at Apple assembly line in China
The full content of the Nightline program in which ABC's Bill Neil got unrestricted access to Apple's assembly company, Foxconn, in China has been put on YouTube - although it's not yet available in full on the official Nightline channel. The full 15-minute video opens with the drive into the factory in the night - and then during the day
Microsoft Research creates multi-touch technology that works through phones
Microsoft Research creates multi-touch technology that works through phones - I love all this research stuff Microsoft do, especially in retail. PSRBF6 said in his commentary on youtube.
What makes a YouTube video funny? Google wants to know
How do you know if your YouTube video is funny? Google says you can start by counting the 'LOLs.'Always fond of an ambitious algorithm, Google, which owns the Web's top video-sharing site, has set out to try to determine scientifically which videos are the funniest, and what makes them so. There's a certain irony to the degree of
Campaign tech scorecard: Tracking the candidates online
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, we took a look at the Republican candidates' standing in the social-media world -- comparing everything from Facebook 'likes' to Twitter followers to YouTube channel views.Five weeks later, a lot has changed. And the Internet continues to reflect the rapidly evolving
Exclusive: YouTube hits 4 billion daily video views
YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.The jump in video views comes as Google pushes YouTube beyond the personal computer, with versions of the site that work on smartphones and
From Rebecca Black to Steve Jobs: Googles year in search
Oh, Rebecca Black. You gave us a reason to reconsider our favorite day of the workweek. And, apparently, the Internet couldn't get enough.Black, the teen songstress who became a YouTube sensation with the bubblegum ear worm 'Friday,' topped the Google Zeitgeist list of hot search terms in
The pirates of YouTube
When you hear about 'piracy' in connection to YouTube, perhaps you think of the billion-dollar lawsuit brought by Viacom against the Google division, claiming that Google should have the duty to police all of its users' uploads to determine that they don't infringe copyright.Google does something
Google buys licensing firm RightsFlow‎
Google is getting serious about paying artists royalties for songs that are used as soundtracks or videos on YouTube.The company said on Friday that it has acquired RightsFlow, a New York-based company that will help it identify the owners of music that people use in videos they post.'YouTube
