Posts Tagged with ‘Youtube’

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase.
There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My favorite variety have been mobile social aggregators. This is largely because I have my paws in far too many social applications, and any platform [...]

Anyone who has sold items using eBay (or even Craigslist) knows how much more potential an item has to sell when a photo is provided. And 'actual' images are better than the 'stock' photos that some sellers download from the manufacturer's website. Prospective buyers don't just want to read a description, they want to see exactly what they would be spending their money on since some sellers can be very vague with their words.
For this reason, several services such as [...]

Just yesterday Yahoo! announced that it would be adding video capabilities (which were added today) to its extremely popular photo-sharing site, Flickr. Now, just one day later there seems to already be a rapidly growing group among Flickr users, as reported on Webware, who are against the move and want the site to remain dedicated to photography.
Flickr, however, views videos as "moving snapshots people take now that digital cameras can record video as well as still images, " according to [...]

Google is well known for its comprehensive Google Analytics stat tracking program. It has now begun to apply its own stat tracking power to its new acquisition, YouTube. Today saw the launch of a stat tracking metric on YouTube videos.
The product, operating separately from Google Analytics, is called YouTube Insight. It is offering a limited, but helpful, view of who is viewing your videos and telling you a bit about your audience. It lacks the punch a full [...]

It seems every week there is a new country blocking YouTube. When Pakistan did, it took out most of the world's access to the site, but now it's China's turn.
In addition to YouTube, most news sites are being censored with a keyword block. Any page that contains words such as “Tibet” or “Dalai Lama” are being blocked, as well as Google News, most major world news outlets, Flickr, and Wikipedia.
With only 143 days left until the Beijing Olympics start, [...]

On 3 March, the Armenian government declared a 20-day state of emergency after confrontations between the former president and security due to tensions after the contested elections that took place on 19 February. As part of the state of emergency, the government declared that the only news that can be published by the media outlets is news that comes directly from the government.
As Global Voices notes, all television stations in Armenia are either state-owned or owned by businesses with close [...]

Barack Obama and Ron Paul aren't the only two politicians who've made the most out of Web 2.0 tools in running their campaigns. Just like her Western counterparts, 89-year-old grandmother and Malaysian parliament candidate Maimun Yusuf has turned to the Internet for her campaign, fighting for a parliament seat controlled by Malaysian's current ruling coalition.
Maimun has 7 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren, and is registered as an independent candidate. With very little money, she has turned to supporters (24 volunteers) to [...]

The news popped up on Twitter almost immediately; YouTube was down. After the Amazon S3 outage earlier this month, I'm sure everyone was wondering if YouTube was to blame or Google themselves had gone down. We now know what happened; in Pakistan's attempt to block the video-sharing site due to what it considered to be offensive material about Islam. In doing so, they hijacked some of the IP addresses directing traffic to YouTube, propagated the hijacking to other DNS [...]

FriendFeed seems to be the aggregator on everyone's Facebook profile these days. Made up entirely of ex-Googlers, it seems to have taken off, at least as my updates seem to keep telling me.
Linking up feeds from 28 supported services (including the usual StumbleUpons, Twitters, YouTubes, and Flickrs), FriendFeed allows you to keep up with what your contacts are doing in one centralized location, via either your FriendFeed page or the corresponding Facebook application.
If this is all sounding familiar, you are [...]