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YouTube Fights Global Poverty With “In My Name”

Via Tech Crunch 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 … Continue reading

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How Greenwald’s Brave New Films Spreads Its Political Message Online

Via MediaShift by Simon Owens, 1:24PM Last month, Politico’s Mike Allen asked presidential hopeful John McCain the seemingly innocent question of how many houses he owned. McCain’s response — “I’ll have my staff get to you” — became a major … Continue reading

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YouTube is the Ultimate Sharing Site and Google Needs to Capitalize on That

Via Mashable September 17, 2008 – 7:08 am PDT – by Stan Schroeder 3 Comments Sometimes, you don’t have to think of new improvements and features for your web service; your users do it for you. Such is the case … Continue reading

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Chad Hurley On The Future Of YouTube: We Will Conquer Every Screen

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on September 16, 2008 YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley wrote a post this morning about the future of online video and YouTube specifically. Hurley notes that 13 hours worth of videos are uploaded every minute … Continue reading

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Terrorists No Longer Invited to Broadcast Themselves

Via Mashable September 12, 2008 – 11:51 pm PDT – by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 8 Comments Back in May, I wrote about Joe Lieberman and the list of terrorist propaganda videos he found on YouTube.  He and his staff identified … Continue reading

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Google Trounces Web Video Competitors With 5 Billion Views

Via Tech Crunch by Don Reisinger on September 10, 2008 comScore on Wednesday announced its latest data showing July 2008 Web video views. And although everyone expected Google to beat up on its competitors, the company did so in convincing … Continue reading

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Politicians Battle For Narrative Control On The Web

Via WebProNews By Jason Lee Miller – Wed, 09/10/2008 – 3:47pm. And what businesses can learn from it There was a time, if your only source of information was the Internet, when it seemed Ron Paul was a shoe-in for … Continue reading

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YouTube Takes Another Shot at Journalism

Via Mashable YouTube has announced a contest for aspiring documentarians and journalists to take home $10,000 for creating a series of journalistic pieces to go towards beefing up their “reporter” content selection. This isn’t the first thing they’ve done to … Continue reading

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The revolution will be streamed: RNC arrests rooted in YouTube

Via ARS Technica By Julian Sanchez | Published: September 09, 2008 – 08:25AM CT A series of preemptive police raids on Twin Cities anarchist groups prior to last week’s Republican National Convention roiled the blogosphere, after prominent progressive writers such … Continue reading

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SubPLY: Making YouTube Captioning a Reality

Via Tech Crunch by Roi Carthy on September 2, 2008 A few days ago YouTube announced the addition of Closed Captioning support to its videos. One small problem though… YouTube included neither the tools nor the services to help video … Continue reading

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