Don’t count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving up on P2P, and introduced some social networking features around the video viewing experience to battle established
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Raise your hand if you’ve watched a YouTube video. Cool, the “play” button definitely works but that’s just the start of where the YouTube experience can begin. Every week we release new tools, or enhancements to current ones, to help you make better videos, connect with one another, and understand your audience. We tell you about them in this blog,
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Today we’re launching a new blog series that will let you know about some recent additions to the YouTube Nonprofit Program – these are partners who are already making a difference in the YouTube community and beyond.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium only became a nonprofit partner in February, but they’re already making big waves on YouTube. This video, which uses undersea
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Filed under: Gaming, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Toy Bot Diaries is a fun little series of platforming games with a physics twist — you probably saw it on those early iPod touch gaming commercials. It features a little robot jumping around levels with a grappling hook and some magnetic boots. If you haven’t picked it up yet, now’s the
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We’re big fans of of Microsoft Surface, the interactive multitouch tabletop that acts a bit like an iPhone on a much larger scale (though the technology used is completely different). In fact, we like the Surface so much that we’re one of the few private organizations to actually have one. So today when I saw some new technology
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Peripherals, Software, iTunes, Developer
Why, you might wonder, would we want another media program — isn’t iTunes enough? But a new app called Doubletwist (by DVD Jon, creator of the old DeCSS DRM-stripping software) looks to answer that question by taking an iTunes-style interface, and expanding it to pretty much anything you’d want to do with
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What happens when you make paid search ads both relevant and visual? Searchme, the search engine startup which presents results as a stack of full-page previews that you can flip through, is hoping to find out with the beta launch of AdView. Its first foray into advertising, AdView is SearchMe’s version of AdWords, except that instead of selling
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What happens when you make paid search ads both relevant and visual? Searchme, the search engine startup which presents results as a stack of full-page previews that you can flip through, is hoping to find out with the beta launch of AdView. Its first foray into advertising, AdView is SearchMe’s version of AdWords, except that instead of selling
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On Sunday evening, the Academy Awards were handed out, and Slumdog
Millionaire swept the field with eight wins, including Best Picture. The world is still reacting to Hollywood’s biggest night — and posting many of those reactions here on YouTube.
For those of you who missed the three-hour plus telecast, CelebTV provides
a great recap
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How do you say Vimeo in French? Google Translate thinks it is pronounced “YouTube.” It is translating the English sentence “videos on Vimeo” into “des videos sur YouTube” when prompted to translate from English to French. When you try to translate Vimeo alone (not in a sentence), the French translation results in “Vimeo.” But in a
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Pluto is discovered 79 years ago and is then declared not a planet in 2006. Lonelygirl15 ponders this and helps the celestial body “adjust to a new peer group”:
Huckleberry Finn is first published in the U.S. in 1885. Tommyandtimmy condense the novel into a four-minute Lego masterpiece – clearly not your father’s Mark Twain:
The Church of Scientology becomes incorporated in
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Google saw healthy growth in the number of search queries on its core U.S. search engine in January, according to comScore qSearch numbers that came out last night. Google’s query growth rate was 38.4 percent, compared to January, 2008, outpacing the industry’s overall 28.6 percent growth in search queries. Any way you slice it, people are still doing
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Filed under: Retail, Apple
We’ve been waiting for this opening for a long time. Way back in July, we posted a photo of what (we thought) was the Greensboro store. It turned out to be a Williams-Sonoma.
Next the launch date got pushed back, as Apple decided to make an even larger store than what was originally planned. This time, we’ve
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Filed under: Retail, Apple
We’ve been waiting for this opening for a long time. Way back in July, we posted a photo of what (we thought) was the Greensboro store. It turned out to be a Williams-Sonoma.
Next the launch date got pushed back, as Apple decided to make an even larger store than what was originally planned. This time, we’ve
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A month ago, we announced that Congress has come to YouTube – you can now find your Senator’s and Representative’s YouTube channels at the Senate Hub and the House Hub. Now, we’re making it even easier for you to engage with your leaders and tell them what you think.
Each week, we’ll highlight a video from a member of Congress that
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The New Yorker is founded by Harold Ross and Jane Grant in 1925. The most popular video on their YouTube channel, NewYorkerDotCom,
accompanies a 2008 piece about a man getting caught in an elevator for 41 hours:
Paris Hilton is born in 1981. itn asks her to describe her perfect date:
Madame Butterfly premieres at La Scala in 1904. theindependent interviews soprano
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With VIZIO and Pioneer jumping out of the plasma game, we can totally foresee sales of Panasonic’s 103-inch PDP skyrocketing. All kidding aside, a startup arcade would be ludicrous to not shove one of these into the center of the action. What you’re looking at above is a mutltitouch air hockey table, made possible by Panny’s ginormous plasma and a
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