Posts Tagged with ‘Youtube’

Young Balladeer Pays Tribute To Social News Site Digg.com

Paul Glazowski

So, how’d you spend your pseudo-religio-slash-gungho-consumero holiday break? Watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the upteenth time? Had your standard overfill of the eggnog once more? Finally put to paper a solemn vow to wreak damage upon all the world’s sweater makers?
We at Profy did what we do best. We spent our precious free moments [...]

Google Expands AdSense Revenue Sharing Program At YouTube

Paul Glazowski

News outlets all across the media sphere yesterday published stories on YouTube’s decision to grow its pilot ad revenue sharing program to encompass interested parties in the general public.
The company, owned by Google, was known for several months to operate a limited, roughly 100-user program to formulate a system by which registered site members [...]

YouTube Owner Breaks The Rules With ‘AtGoogleTalks’

Paul Glazowski

We all know of Google?s established time limit for user-submitted material to be uploaded to YouTube. Ten minutes. That?s it. No more. Have a good twenty minutes or more of highlights from that Little League baseball game you?ve wanted to share with the extended family via the video host? It ain?t happening. At least not [...]

Brightcove.TV Throws In The Towel On YouTube Clone

Michael Garrett

In news that shouldn't be too surprising, Brightcove has announced that its YouTube-style consumer video community, which currently resides at the Brightcove.TV domain, will soon be closed.
As of December 17, 2007, users of the video service and community will no longer be able to upload videos, as the website will be refocused to provide a [...]

In Face Of Copyright Controversy, Yahoo! and Sony Agree To Share Ad Revenue

Paul Glazowski

The Associated Press reported this week that Sony BMG “inked a licensing deal with Yahoo! Inc. that clears the way for people to upload files with music or video content by the record company’s artists” to Yahoo!-owned sites.
The terms of the agreement stipulate that Yahoo! share revenue amassed through advertising associated with its [...]

Missouri Town To Vote On Proposal That Will Make Bullying Illegal

Paul Glazowski

We spoke earlier this week of the joint YouTube-Beatbullying development that, you guessed it, addresses the issue of thuggery perpetrated both on school playgrounds and ones constructed on the Web. This next story, though not specifically related to the abovementioned announcement, also concerns the act of cyberbullying.
It has to do with a particular [...]

Hulu - A Very Impressive Free Video Service

Michael Garrett

The wait is over (at least for me), and now I have finally received a chance to test out Hulu, the recently launched video service that had me scratching my head just a few short months ago.
Early on in the development process of Hulu, there seemed to be no clear focus on what exactly the [...]

YouTube Teams With Charity To Establish Anti-Bullying Channel

Paul Glazowski

You’ve seen it happen. You may have experienced it yourself one or more times in your youthful years. For an unlucky percentage of the global population, the horror can even continue into the stretch of taxpaying careerdom.
“It”, or “the horror”, is, you may have already guessed, bullying. Yes, bullying. The punches, the slaps in the [...]

Internet Television Series ‘Quarterlife’ Reviewed

Paul Glazowski

Back in September, we brought you word that an Internet television series, dubbed “Quarterlife,” would debut in November. As of last week, it was released.
Produced by Hollywood notables Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, Quarterlife has had just short of two weeks to make some first impressions with the public ? and the press [...]

YouTube To Deliver Higher Quality Video With New Player By Feb 2008

Paul Glazowski

YouTube, a global Web-based phenomenon if there every was one, has proven itself, over the course of its existence, both as an independent service and one held under the dominion of Mountain View, to be a very effective outlet for everyone from amateur paparazzi to diarists to people-strangely-obsessed-with-unboxing-electronic-goods to get their clips out to the [...]