Posts Tagged ‘youtube’

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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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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, [...]

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October 14, 2008 - 12:12 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski6 Comments

Want to tell millions of people which lever you intend to pull on November 4th during the U.S. presidential election? YouTube has launched a channel calledVideo Your Vote intended to “shed light on voting in America and show democracy in action through the eyes of [...]

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by Mike Rosen-Molina, September 25, 2008
Tagged: contests, journalism, videocameras, videos, youtube

Whenever news breaks, the first people on the ground, before reporters arrive, are ordinary folks with cameras. Citizen journalists have played an important role in getting us the first glimpses of developing news, from the London transit bombings to the Southeast Asian tsunami [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on October 7, 2008

It wasn’t so long ago that we wondered if YouTube would ever start to flex its marketing muscles. Now it is trying to squeeze more money out of the ads on its homepage and just today it introduced the YouTubevertorial. Starting with music and videogame partners, YouTube will begin inserting click-to-buy links below [...]

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October 4, 2008 - 2:47 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski 

You’ve likely heard often enough about YouTube channels established by news media organizations to distribute material to Web users in a place many are expected to frequent. But do you take those sources up on their offers? Do you subscribe? Do you follow?
This week, [...]

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October 2, 2008 - 9:10 am PDT - by Paul Glazowski 3 Comments

YouTube has been experimenting with various ways to make its voluminous business a very profitable one.
It’s been months since the company first introduced graphical and text-based advertisements within the bottom third of video screens. And several weeks ago it was said to [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on September 30, 2008
YouTube has launched a new feature as part of its Insight tool for content creators that allows members to visually examine exactly where in their videos their viewers gain and lose interest. The new feature, called Hot Spots, displays the dropoff data in a dynamic graph that [...]

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by Mike Rosen-Molina, 12:13PM

Whenever news breaks, the first people on the ground, before reporters arrive, are ordinary folks with cameras. Citizen journalists have played an important role in getting us the first glimpses of developing news, from the London transit bombings to the Southeast Asian tsunami to the Virginia Tech massacre. With the [...]

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by Don Reisinger on September 25, 2008

YouTube on Thursday announced that it’s going to do its part to fight global poverty by launching “In My Name,” a global effort to raise awareness around eight time-bound, measurable goals that the United Nations set back in 2000 to combat global poverty. Known as Millennium Development [...]