Posts Tagged with ‘Youtube’

Beginning Friday, August 3 at 8 a.m., LonelyGirl15 will begin showing its season finale on MySpaceTV every hour for 12 hours in a row. The “12 in 12″ final episodes will follow the cast as they try to find their missing friend. Each episode is usually between 1 to 4 minutes long. Expect the second [...]

Back before YouTube was taken off the market for $1.65bn by Larry, Sergey & Co, a video host with a slightly more infamous existence – it was and still may be the place to go for full-length copyrighted content (television, movies, etc.) that didn’t require knowledge of BitTorrent and such – was making lots and [...]

Ever since Google purchased YouTube last November, critics have been wondering what the search giant will do to reduce and control piracy on YouTube. Google is now knee-deep in litigation concerning this very issue. In March, Google was sued by Viacom, who is alleging copyright infringement on YouTube. Viacom is seeking a hefty $1 billion [...]

Joost, the P2P TV application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has now announced that more than one million users have signed up for its video service, which is still in beta testing and available by invitation only. Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and Joost co-founder, said at a recent Skype press event that the [...]

In the sea of online video services, it gets to the point where you start thinking that one might be much the same as the other. The basic content is the same, just the way it's served and who's providing the content might alter from one service to another. When it comes to National Banana, [...]

The day has come. YouTube is to co-host, in partnership with CNN, a presidential debate tonight between all eight hopefuls for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination. It will be broadcast on CNN at 7pm EST from the city of Charleston in South Carolina. According to YouTube’s figures, “more than 2,000 online videos were submitted to [...]

CBS has apparently recently realized that in order to bring in more traffic and to increase views of its online video, it must become viral… in the sense that they must spread their video content across the web. That did, of course, play a big role in the massive growth of YouTube, which is currently the [...]

Uh, I think not. Why would it? A video host whose only real regulatory role is to take down copyrighted content when copyright owners raise hell (and even threaten or indeed deliver lawsuits to that effect; i.e., Google vs Viacom), YouTube was one of the first of its kind in allowing creativity to flourish and [...]

News Corp. bought Myspace two years ago for $580 million. Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion less than a year ago. Yahoo! offered $1 billion for Facebook, but was ultimately turned down. Even the domain name Vodka.com was sold for $3 million last year. What exactly am I trying to get at here? The fact that there is [...]