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If you are a YouTube user, then you specifically know the issues of watching videos on YouTube via the browser. The page load, the flash player refresh and all the other numerous issues contributed to me wanting a standalone application to do that. I hope you too are in that group.
Well, our prayers have been partly answered. DeskTube Lite is the new software which will now enable us to watch YouTube videos outside of a browser. This new software is currently free and offers …

YouTube CopyRight School's Russell

YouTube has launched a video depicting what it feels about copyright infringement and piracy by its users and have presented a video depicting exactly what can happen if such an event happens.
The video shows a fictional character Russell is Pirate attire and is related to users uploading content to which they do not have any rights. The video also mentions some distinctive forms of copyright infringement which people often think as not to be …

A rebel carrying an RPG in Misrata in Libya

Muammar Gaddafi’s siege of Misrata and the hammering that the rebels received there weren’t known to the outside world in full reality until the videos from there started appearing on YouTube. Five students made it a point to go out with their cell phones and amateur video camera to shoot the real war ongoing in the streets between the rebels and Gaddafi’s soldiers.
Ignoring sniper fire, artillery shelling and advancing tanks, …

If you thought that YouTube can get your talent seen worldwide, you got that right. And if you thought that posting actions illegal in your area on YouTube will go unseen, then you got everything wrong.
Yes, that was what happened to a man in Naples, Florida. 20 years old Christopher Gill, was seen punching another man in the face with a fist in a YouTube video. Mr.Gill had hit one Mr.Nathan Golf with a closed fist, one that Gill called the “baseball punch”.
When alerted of the …

Facebook Inc. has been holding exploratory discussions with possible partners about how to gain traction in China, where a firewall blocks access to any content the government considers inappropriate, forcing users to private network services to gain access to the world’s biggest social networking website.

China currently blocks access to Facebook Twitter, and YouTube.  Google Inc., which owns YouTube, stopped offering service in China because it decided not to censor its …

Will $100 million make you leave your television set and get you glued to YouTube for entertainment? Well, I’d say yes, but neither are you or me getting that 100 million….

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YouTube has plans to spend anything over or up YouTube channels for entertainment and what not. Yes, YouTube is planning to create content niche webisodes or channels as they might be called. These are just pages with content revolving around a niche or topic and Google has not finalized anything as far …

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 …

The Microsoft Windows Live Team, which develops and maintains Hotmail, announced that users can now connect to their LinkedIn and Netflix accounts from their Hotmail inbox following an update to its Active View service.

PC Magazine said the Active View feature is one of the reasons it named Windows Live Hotmail 2011 as its Editors Choice for webmail.  Hotmail members have already been using Active View to watch YouTube or Hulu videos and view Flickr photos right from their inbox.  Microsoft …

Google is signing up major stars to provide original content for YouTube in order to increase user engagement, and profits.  Source familiar with Google’s plans say the search engine giant has been offering top talent cash advances for letting their name be used for new channels, which will be based on certain themes or categories of interest like video, food, music, and games.

YouTube is the biggest online video website in the world, boasting in excess of 2.5 billion views every day.  …