Posts under ‘Resources - Media Sharing’

Via Cnet news
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
From a MySpace-related suicide to hate speech on YouTube, the world of user-generated content has been plagued by plain, old nastiness since its early days.
That’s why, as part of the Family Online Safety Institute conference in Washington, D.C., YouTube parent company Google has unveiled an “Abuse and Safety” resource [...]

Via Mashable

December 4, 2008 - 9:38 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins Add a Comment

TalkShoe this afternoon released a major upgrade to their live podcasting platform, one that allows for a call to be created mobile, on the fly and independent of a connection to the web.
CEO Dave Nelson [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Serkan Toto on November 18, 2008

Why do certain videos on YouTube become mass phenomena while the vast majority of videos just get a handful of views, if any?
Riley Crane, an American post doctoral fellow currently researching at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH university in Zurich/Switzerland, says he has [...]

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November 18, 2008 - 3:18 am PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 4 Comments

A topic I’ve tackled several times here at Mashable has been the question of Hulu versus YouTube in terms of their advertising strategies. My friend Frederic Lardinois over at ReadWriteWeb brought the topic up today in [...]

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November 6, 2008 - 9:55 am PDT - by Adam Ostrow

YouTube is set to begin offering full length feature films within “30 to 90 days” according to CNET. Parent company Google is said to be discussing a deal with at least one of the major movie studios that would [...]

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November 1, 2008 - 4:01 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski

I’ve said it twice before already, but I’ll reiterate: This is the YouTube election. Yes, Twitter has played some part. Reputable bloggers on all sides of the fence, too. But YouTube has been the glue that’s bound this big beautiful [...]

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ovember 1, 2008 - 5:03 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski

It was this past Thursday, in our review of another review service, when I figured that Google should seriously consider generating automated translations for YouTube clips to build on its relatively young captions capability. Well, today it began to do [...]

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November 1, 2008 - 9:52 am PDT - by Paul Glazowski

I don’t know whether to think recent calculations for mobile video consumption (or lack thereof) via the four top wireless carriers in America are just a little bit Halloween spooky, a big point of concern, or perhaps a good omen.
It’s [...]

Via the New York Times
By Saul Hansell
Many people watch free, advertising-supported episodes of shows on sites like Hulu.
The conventional wisdom is that people on computers only have the attention span to watch very short video clips. But it’s clear that getting network programming on their own schedule makes it increasingly worthwhile for some viewers to [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on October 25, 2008

It’s not a big new feature but it’s certainly one that will come in handy:YouTube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a video’s URL. It’s pretty surprising that this functionality wasn’t available earlier, [...]