Latest victim of online hacking is none other than “Sesame Street” official YouTube Channel. On October 16, contents of page disappeared and page displayed porn videos resulting in temporary shutdown of the channel.
In response to the hacking, Sesame Workshop has issued a press release. On its official facebook account, it wrote “We apologize for any inconvenience our audience may have experienced today on our Sesame Street YouTube channel”.
Further, it said “Our …

YouTube announced on Sunday its offering for artists to sell products directly from the world’s most visited video streaming website.
In a post on the The Official YouTube Blog, senior technical account manager Christian Weitenberner said, “With 800 million people per month coming to YouTube, you have a pretty big stage to share your music, and now we’re adding features to also make YouTube your box office, merchandise table and music store.”
Dubbed as the Merch Store, the new …

Pakistani Government may ban Google and YouTube if these websites don’t cooperate with local agencies in investigation of terrorist incidents, reports PTI. The warning came from Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik while talking to reporters at the headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency.
Malik said that if Google and YouTube don’t cooperate for investigation of crime and terrorism incidents, they could be banned in Pakistan. The government would be compelled to do so, said …

Mafia movie classic “The Godfather” was available on YouTube, all two hours and 57 minutes of it, for a short while, until Sony Pictures worked together with the video sharing website to have the account that uploaded it disabled.
 

The Godfather available on YouTube for short time.

Movie junkies around the world have become spoiled by the easy availability of good feature length movies on the internet for free or very little cost.  But it was still quite unusual to find a …

Google has integrated Google+ Hangouts to YouTube, allowing users to stream and watch videos with friends in just a single click.
The new Google+ Hangouts link, which essentially is an addition to the Share menu, resides at the lower right corner of each YouTube video.
Google+ members can start inviting friends to watch a particular video clip together after clicking the link.
Apart from including Hangouts in YouTube videos, Google also made some changes to the Google+ interface.
Users will now …

The social media website StumbleUpon drives more than 50 percent of referral traffic from the leading social media websites, more than Facebook and YouTube combined according to a report from StatCounter.
 

StumbleUon drives more referral traffic than Facebook

StumbleUpon is a web search engine that finds the most relevant and best web content for its members based on their interests.  Web page recommendations are driven by user ratings which create collaborative opinions about the …

Two large dogs can be seen paddling towards shore in the foreground of surf in Australia, with just one problem, three or four even bigger sharks are swimming between them and the shore. What to do?  The dogs don’t seem concerned even as you the viewer brace yourself to see something horrible on this the latest viral YouTube video, and the narrator who kindly brings the sharks to our attention, becomes increasingly excited as the dogs paddle ever closer to the circling sharks, who show no …

Pop music sensation Rihanna toppled the Queen of Shock off her Facebook throne when she logged 40,616,457 fans this week, 40,000 more than the number of admirers Lady Gaga currently has.
 

Gaga Rihanna YouTube Twitter

Mother Monster now has the second highest number of Facebook fans with 40,575,791.  Randi Zuckerberg, marketing director for Facebook, noted that Gaga had finally slipped from first place, when he tweeted on Thursday “Sorry Gaga! As of today, Rihanna has passed Lady Gaga …

Pop singer Taylor Swift got on Facebook on July 5th to announce that her newest single “Sparks Fly” has shot up the Social 50 from the 21st to the 14th position.
 
Swift’s fan base on Facebook has enjoyed substantial growth, increasing from by 269,000 fans and her Twitter followers also jumped up by 73,000, a 20 percent week-on-week increase.   Swift garnered 22,400 status Likes and 9,200 comments when it was reported just a day after her Social 50 announcement that she would have …

youtube lady gaga supended

Lady Gaga’s official YouTube account has been suspended because of multiple violations of the website’s policy regarding copyright.
 
There are little details yet as to why the Queen of Shock has been blocked from the current reigning King of online video, although Time Out Tokyo explained it is probably because she posted footage from her recent ten minute appearance on the Fuji TV show SMAP X SMAP, during which she performed a variety of songs from her …