Posts Tagged with ‘Youtube’

The explosive growth of video on the internet has brought with it an increasing strain on servers and the need for more storage space. With video iPods, PSPs, iPhones and many other mobile devices offering video playback, it has become necessary to offer videos in multiple different formats which takes up more space and eats [...]

With more and more people getting on the web each and every day, the concern on privacy on the internet is becoming more and more important. Web 2.0 has turned the tables in allowing anyone to take part in online activities, whether that happens via blogging, keeping up with friends at MySpace, or uploading your [...]

Sooner or later I will end up suing YouTube I just know it, but in the mean time pop star Prince is next in line. The music artist plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for copyright infringement for using his music. According to Prince YouTube cannot claim that they have no control over [...]

Say you’re a devotee of the music-centric social Web creation MyStrands. Surely some of you in the Profy readership can be categorized as such. Well, if so, you no doubt like what you’re already getting from the service, but as is generally the case, you might…kind of…maybe…want a bit more. More, at least, in visual [...]

Dailymotion, once a newsmaker solely for its hand in the illicit proliferation of copyrighted content, has in recent months (or is it years?) made great headway to cast the image of its former self aside and put its best, non-illegal foot forward, using its records of viewer numbers, among other figures, to attract legitimate licensing [...]

You may remember my recent post about how the joint venture between News Corporation and NBC Universal had earned a valuation of $1 billion, even though it had yet to be named since it's March announcement. Well, now a decision has been reached. In news that is well overdue, NBC and News Corp. have now [...]

Blogger, Google's free blogging service, underwent some updates this week, the first of which involved a technical problem with the blog publishing and hosting service and introduced a new feature that gives publishers the ability to upload videos to their sites. Publishers who use Blogger had been experiencing trouble performing various editing and posting operations [...]

By now, you’ve likely heard or read about YouTube’s official debut of overlay advertisements, distributed by a system dubbed, appropriately enough, InVideo. If you’ve browsed the site quite a bit in the past few days, chances are you might have already seen one or two or more such spots presented in the new format. If [...]

Since the early days of the web, the online subscription model has existed. For many companies it was a primary source of revenue, and as subscribers increased, so did profits. Now, with so many free services popping up during the web 2.0 phase of the internet, it seems that fewer and fewer people are willing [...]