All the stories tagged with YouTube
is a video-sharing website where users can upload videos. It is currently (7/2012) the largest such site, and was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who all worked at PayPal before. While it mainly featured movies from regular folks (and some illegal user uploads) at the beginning, but eventually YouTube grabbed enough market share to attract higher quality content over the years. Now, there is something for everyone, and YouTube continues to push for high-quality content, while keeping the support from amateur video-makers. The company was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.6B.
Gateway LT32 Netbook Sports A Dedicated Social Networking Key
07/07/2010, Social networking addicts who are looking for a rather compact notebook that emphasizes social networking might want to check out the Gateway LT32 netbook. It’s probably targeted at the younger crowd as it sports a dedicated function key for accessing [...]
YouTube to enable one to skip ads
06/30/2010, Ads are prevalent everywhere you look, and some others are harder to catch due to their subtleness. YouTube has finally come to see the light by working on a button which lets you skip ads with but a click later [...]
YouTube Adds A Vuvuzela Button To Its Videos
06/24/2010, If you’ve been following any news related to the South African World Cup, you’ll undoubtedly have heard of the many complaints over the noise caused by the vuvuzela, a trumpet-like device that is capable of making quite a bit of [...]
YouTube Video Editor is cloud-based
06/16/2010, Cloud computing is certainly catching up with normal local applications on your desktop and notebook, but there are still some concerns about the model, especially data security and availability of service when you need it the most. YouTube, the insanely [...]
New WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player Supports Netflix
06/09/2010, Can’t get enough of your Netflix movies? The folks over at Western Digital (WD) understand this, as the company has just announced its WD TV Live Plus HD media player that ships with Netflix support, allowing you to browse titles, [...]
YouTube To Offer Live Streaming Soon?
06/04/2010, YouTube is obviously the big cheese when it comes to online video streaming, but one thing that is lacking is live streaming for the general populace. That being said, things might change real soon as it seems that pictures of [...]
InterPad: All Four On One Interactive Pad Concept
05/24/2010, The InterPad concept is a rather weird one, and seems to be designed for folks who are hooked on sites and services such as Facebook, YouTube, iTunes and your webcam. It allows you to switch between said programs and services [...]
YouTube gets more than two billion hits each day
05/17/2010, YouTube is huge – just how huge? Well, it has nearly double the number of people who tune into the US’s trio of prime time TV stations combined, and that figure tops the 2,000,000,000 mark. We’re talking about two billion [...]
Verizon FiOS introduces YouTube and Internet Radio for customers
04/26/2010, Folks who own a FiOS DVR and have installed Media Manager on the PC can hit the update button to take advantage of the latest additions, including support for YouTube and Internet Radio. Those running on Macs are left out [...]
YouTube Store Goes Live
04/23/2010, Looks like Hulu isn’t the only online video streaming service that has decided that a subscription model is the way to go. Now even YouTube has a store, the YouTube Store to be exact. The store will offer users paid, [...]
Sim City Population Clocked At Six Million
04/16/2010, Think you’re the best at Sim City? YouTube user Thelmperar claims to have maxed out Sim City 3000 with his creation of Magnasanti. You can check out the video after the jump, but if you want a few stats, it’s [...]
Google Acquires Episodic
04/03/2010, Google looks like it’s seriously working to improve YouTube, as the search engine giant has just acquired Episodic, as has been confirmed by Episodic’s official blog. Apparently Episodic’s technology will be put into YouTube, which would seem like the logical [...]
Will The Nintendo 3DS Perform Like This?
03/30/2010, Curious what Nintendo’s upcoming 3D-toting 3DS will look like? Well, this video shows a rather funny idea of how the Nintendo 3DS might function. It’s obviously just a joke, but it’s still cute. Check out the video after the jump.
