YouTube Celebrity

YouTube has been called many names over the years, from video archive to learning tool, from jukebox to news site. It is now a talent scout’s paradise now. Yes, that is exactly what is happening out there now.
The internet has produced and promoted numerous talents and we know the famous ones among them – Justin Bieber, Charice, Lily Allen, Sandi Thom to name a few of those. The msot famous and contemporary icon in this list might be the young, 17 year old …

When Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim made YouTube in the February of 2005, they had envisioned it to be a video sharing site or portal. Over the years, it had grown up from that to be called many things including teaching tool, a digital soap box, a news source, a digital jukebox, a video archive and many more. Now, it is coming to use in more ways than these.
Yes, YouTube is paving the way in many respects, especially for many individuals who are now empowered to expose the inhumane …

YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011

The Grand Finale of Google’s YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 was a massive hit and in fact turned into a world wide acclaimed event. In addition to that, it has turned into the most watched YouTube streams to date when it was viewed on stream 33 million times all over the world, specifically in 189 countries.
The three and a half hour event was held in Sydney’s iconic Opera House on the 20th of March, this year. It was streamed live and also …

What would you do after you sell your company to Google for over one and a half billion dollars? This was exactly what Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-creators of the most popular video sharing website in the world, YouTube, asked themselves.

YouTube Founders – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim

Along with Jawed Karim, the duo had started YouTube 6 years ago. We recall that at a time, they had offered to sell YouTube to Google for $5000. Their offer was turned down saying that …

A girl student of the University of California, Los Angeles raked up a stir around campus when she posted a video on YouTube mocking fellow students from the Asian community of their voices in library.
Yep, and now the entire world seems to have gotten on top of Alexandra Wallace, the girl in question. Videos after videos have come up on YouTube ranting on it or abusing it.
Latest comes from minorities or the abused, as they can be called. Most people who have been abused before by racists have …

YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011

An exuberant mix of musicians, tons of videos, live projections, smart programming, social media and video technology being launched from all pads, a classical music outreach on a global scale – that was the reports coming about YouTube Symphony in Sydney.
This was the grand finale to the week long events and concerts by about 101 young musicians from over 33 countries. The participants had auditioned online for the orchestra led by conductor Michael …

You might have heard about AOL going into head count cutting mode. Yes, they have been doing that for some time now. But if you wanted to know something good, it’s that YouTube is hiring.
Yeah. The internet video giant, owned by Google is on an expansion mode.
YouTube will engulf as much as to increase its workforce by up to 30% in 2011. YouTube notes that it is one of the most highest surge in this regard for the company in the past 6 years.
 
Why is YouTube adding to its workforce? …

Did you know that for every video you watch on YouTube, someone might be getting paid? Yes. This is true and in a way most of the videos come with ads today that give part of the earnings to its uploader.

This is what 1 Million Dollars look like

The earnings are like advertisements we seen on sites, and is provided when a YouTube user registers his account with Google’s Channel Partner program. There’s nothing for the viewer to lose than some time with the ad if it is embedded …

Charlie Sheen’s ongoing public meltdown due to excessive drug use and what appears to be an overdose of self-delusion, based on a recent interview with InfoWars Alex Jones, has inspired a surge of YouTube videos.  A haggard, even skeletal looking Sheen, repeatedly insisted during his interview that he has cured his addiction just mentally, just like that, by blinking.
The talented actor, whose intense performance in the movie Platoon many in my generation vividly recall, is now giving us …

Microsoft’s latest upgrade to Bing Bar, with a deeper integration to Facebook, immediately grabs attention and outpaces Google’s upgrade to its Social Search feature.
Google made a promise to start combining Social Search results on results pages according to relevance, pulling content even from the tail of results pages, and gauging how many times links and videos circulate a user’s friends list.
This effort came late for Google when it launched Social Search over a year ago; however, …