Posts Tagged ‘youtube’

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by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008

Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube. If [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on December 15, 2008

The video above of a man throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad on Saturday is sure to live on in infamy for many reasons: the sheer brazenness of the act, the incredible lack of adequate security surrounding [...]

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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 [...]

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by Michael Arrington on November 19, 2008
Video infrastructure site Delve Networks launched TroopTube in partnership with the Department of Defense a few days ago as a more secure alternative to YouTube, which the DoD banned in 2007. TroopTube is basically Youtube, but without the embedding feature, and the DoD has moderation [...]

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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 14, 2008 - 10:38 am PDT - by Adam Ostrow

Some signs of how President-elect Barack Obama will use his massive Internet following are starting to surface. The President’s weekly radio address, a staple of American politics since the Franklin Roosevelt administration, will be posted to YouTube, starting this [...]

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By REUTERS
Published: November 12, 2008
Filed at 9:05 a.m. ET

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - YouTube will venture into webcasting later this month, in an effort to take the video sharing Web site’s popularity to a new level by showcasing the talent behind its most viewed videos.
The site, owned [...]

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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 [...]