Posts Tagged with ‘Youtube’

It's fairly obvious that YouTube is trying to clean up its act in light of the Viacom suit, clearing out any potential copyright issues. But when prominent YouTubers are impacted, does the seemingly overzealous housekeeping cause more damage than it helps? Seesmic CEO and popular YouTube user Loic Lemeur found himself on the wrong end [...]

You have the most successful touchscreen handset on the market, your brand image could sell contacts to the blind, and guess what?  You are largely responsible for a roadblock in the advancement of mobile social networking.  What I'm referring to is the fact that new iPhone applications are not allowed to run continuously as a [...]

I have read and re-read Judge Stanton's decision in the Google/Viacom suit more times than I really should have. At first, I was as outraged as everyone else, assuming that Judge Stanton was one more government figure without a clue how the Internet even works. So I called my mother, who works in the courts, [...]

If you've been lingering around Profy for a while, you might recall that I recently covered the mobile social platform Fring along with others like Xumii.  You might also recall that Fring opened its API to developers interested in designing mobile social applications.  Just a few weeks since that announcement, developers have already delivered two [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]