Ice cream has never been this horrifying until these Little Baby’s Ice Cream ads.
The Philadelphia-based shop which offers premium ice cream has just released a video, titled Little Baby’s Ice Cream – “This is a Special Time”, with all the makings of a viral video of the creepy

YouTube has urged its infamous commenters to provide their full names in their accounts.
BetaBeat, the first to discover the notification, said that users who will comment on or upload a YouTube video will be asked to “start using your full name on YouTube.” It will also ask for permission to post your full name on the video-sharing site via a linked Google+ account if you have one. Users who will decline to provide their full ID are required to choose a valid reason for doing so, such as …

The new Youtube design, which is currently available to only a few testing participants, resembles the Google Plus layout. (Image: Engadget / June 14, 2012)

YouTube has changed its design to look like Google’s social networking site Google Plus. For now, only a few people can see this new design; people who participate in tests facilitated by the firm.
One look at the redesign screenshot reveals that YouTube has really adapted the style of Google Plus. For one, it has more white space; …

YouTube launches new human rights channel. (Image: kuollut sielu (CC) via Flickr)

YouTube recently launched the “human rights” channel. It features videos from activists all over the world, and is accessible here: Human Rights Channel.
YouTube has teamed up with WITNESS and Storyful. WITNESS, co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel, is a nonprofit organization that supports activists documenting human rights activists by giving them digital cameras, while Storyful is a “social …

Ignore YouTube’s Minority Stars At Your Peril, Money-Wise

Online investors are increasingly looking to top personalities in YouTube who belong to non-white minorities as the latest candidates for stardom in terms of investment earnings – if they get discovered in time.
Washington Post this morning said there is a new spotlight on top personalities in YouTube who command millions of viewers, and may be ripe for discovery by major advertisers online.
The Post’s Hayley Tsukayama mentioned …

Hearst Magazines is entering the sphere of YouTube streaming, with its own TV channels (Image via WN)

Popular magazines Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire with an international outreach are launching their own channel on YouTube.
Five women’s magazines from the house of American media conglomerate Hearst have launched the channel on YouTube. The channel, called Hello Style comes from magazines like Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Seventeen, and Real Beauty.
Teaser of the …

Tom Pickett, a high level executive for YouTube, said the video sharing website owned by Google will make its website more social, integrating social networking across platforms, and is aiming to more than double its annual ad revenue in India and other emerging markets.
 
Pickett, who is in charge of global content for YouTube, was in India for a tour this week and told Reuters: “YouTube has been lacking great social features. Commenting and sharing have been part of YouTube, but the …

Español: Logo Vectorial de YouTube (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you create compelling video content and bummed out at having to watch other more “popular” creators make money on YouTube, your wait is now over. YouTube has lifted its stringent requirements that saw only a handful of creators benefiting from the massive advertising revenues made from ads served on YouTube.
In a blog post on the YouTube Creators blog, YouTube says now anyone with compelling content can make money …

Youtube founders will launch Zeen, a magazine creating app (Image: via Zeen's Facebook page)

According to reports from Fusible, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, the founders of YouTube, are coming up with an app called Zeen that allows users to make beautiful magazines. Just like YouTube, except this time, it’s not videos but magazines.
That is the only information available regarding Zeen according to Fusible, although you can go to zeen.com and sign up with a username for reservation. …

NetSpective aids Youtube for Schools by improving on its content filtering system (Image: George Wong via ubergizmo.com)

YouTube is a great resource of educational videos for all kinds of subjects, and when YouTube For Schools rolled out, school administrators and teachers could now use these resources to teach kids without being exposed to the uglier side of the video sharing site, such as harsh comments and racist remarks.
However, this new feature from YouTube is far from perfect. …