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YouTube to Deliver the Excitement that is Local News

Sometimes, after a long stint of watching dudes hump ottomans on YouTube, I get in the mood for some local news. Luckily, YouTube has got my back. They’ve just entered a deal with Hearst-Argyle Television to deliver local content from some markets in the Northeast, including weather, news and entertainment programming. The markets will get…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jun 5

Real Network’s Media Player Rips Youtube Vids and More

RealPlayer used to be cool, until iTunes and Windows Media Player made it obsolete. The new RealPlayer is badass for one reason: It can rip net videos, even those on YouTube and from video streams, with a single click. It won’t work on DRM’d enabled content. But so many sites use Flash players as their…

Tech News Brian Lam May 31

EMI, Apple and YouTube Officially In Love Triangle; Warner Music Attempts Solo Project

Apple adds YouTube to Apple TV. EMI tracks are now sold DRM-free on iTunes. The triangle completes itself today, as EMI announced that it would share a bunch of EMI music videos on YouTube, and even “let” users integrate some of EMI’s copyrighted material into their own homemade productions. Let’s see what happens when (yes,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 31

Video: Jobs Says “Fake Steve” is “Pretty Funny” and Other Semi-Revelations

You like the Steve Jobs? You hate the Steve Jobs? We gave you the textier version yesterday, now here’s a clip of his All Things D appearance, in full technicolor moving picture, for you to comment on in your own special way. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-at-d-now-264586 Jobs on YouTube Weirdness, Windows Love and “Fake Steve”

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 31

YouTube on Apple TV – It’s Official

Click to view It goes live in a few weeks. Read more in the liveblog. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-at-d-now-264586 All Things D at Giz [Gizmodo] YouTube Coming to Apple TV CUPERTINO, California-May, 30, 2007-Apple® today announced that it’s bringing the Internet’s most popular originally-created content from YouTube to the living room with Apple TV™. Beginning in mid-June, Apple…

Tech News Brian Lam May 30

YouTube Pay for Play Could Trigger a Revolution

YouTube will start paying some “select” uploaders, doling out wads of hard cash to video makers with ongoing series that have proven to be popular with viewers. YouTube’s mentioned this idea before, and is still not saying when the largess of its parent company Google will start billowing out, but it’s now asking for all…

Tech News Charlie White May 4

Flip Video Lowers Bar For YouTube Videos Even More

If you had a hard enough time wading through the millions of horrible home videos to get to the good ones on YouTube now, wait until old people start putting stuff up there. Pure Digital’s Flip Video camcorder is designed to be easy to use for non-techies, complete with built-in USB adapter and software to…

Tech News Jason Chen May 1

If You Want Joost, You Gotta Have Friends

Today marks the first day of YouTube competitor Joost’s commercial availability. That’s right, it’s out of “expanded beta” and open to an “unlimited number”—cue record scratch noise—”of friends, family and colleagues of existing beta testers.” Maybe it’s not beta, or expanded beta, but I am going to call this interim period “expanded expanded beta.” The…

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 1

YouTube Leashed: “Claim Your Content” Is On Its Way

It may sound like a game show for accountants, but Claim Your Content is actually the name of YouTube’s new content monitoring tool. As near as we can figure, it’s an automated feature that accompanies every user-uploaded video. Content owners, including such publicly announced Claim Your Content charter members as the NHL and the NBA,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Apr 17

Microsoft Silverlight Pits High Def WMV Against Flash For Web Streaming

Seeing as the rise of YouTube and Google video has pretty much made Adobe’s Flash the de facto standard for Web streaming, you’d have to be a fool to try and introduce a browser plug-in for a new format. Either a fool, or a company with deep pockets. How deep? Try “This is madness! This…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 16

Apple’s Knowledge Navigator (1987)

In 1987 Apple Computer produced a concept video for a hypothetical product called the Knowledge Navigator. Having a normal conversation with your computer as though you were conversing with a friend seems to be the most paleo-futuristic aspect of this video. The inefficiency of such a system certainly raises questions about the user interfaces of…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 3

The Case of the Disappearing YouTube Video

Robert Cringely takes issue with YouTube’s blind compliance with DMCA requests by looking at a pulled interview that reportedly potentially poses problems for Steve Jobs in regards to a lawsuit between Apple and Burst.com. The problem is that the actual copyright holder, Oregon Public Broadcasting, never filed a request, but it was pulled in the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 31

Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3

If you’re not familiar with Orb, it’s both a streaming and a broadcasting solution to get audio and video onto your TV. They’ve just introduced a new version of Orb MyCasting that works with the Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 game consoles. This means you can now play back pictures, music, and movies sitting on…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 22

Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor

The equivalent of the 1992 US Men’s Olympic basketball team has just gotten together to develop a competitor to GooTube. That’s right, NBC, Fox, AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! have united Captain Planet style and formed a web video site not made up of crappy clips people don’t want to watch. Broken by CNBC—with snide…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 22

Viacom’s Hypocrisy Could Defuse YouTube Lawsuit

Anyone checked out iFilm lately? Ars Technica did, and found several videos that were guilty of copyright infringement. Were any Viacom videos part of that roundup? Nope, because Viacom owns iFilm. Wait, what’s that you say? Viacom couldn’t possibly own a company that violates others’ copyrights because right now they’re suing YouTube for a billion…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 20

YouTube Hosting Video Awards Show

As if watching their videos all day long weren’t enough, the folks at YouTube have found another way to waste your time—with an awards show. The Google-owned site famous for its user-provided videos will be handing out seven awards in categories ranging from “best comedy” to “most adorable video.” Users have all week to vote…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 19

Viacom to Google: You Owe Us $1 Billion

Viacom is getting pissed off at YouTube, and has decided to shakedown its parent company Google Inc. for $1 billion in damages for stealing its programming. Viacom says there are more than 160,000 clips of its programming on YouTube, including segments from VH1, Nickelodeon and especially Comedy Central. The dustup is getting ugly, with Viacom…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 13

Justice Department Just Wants to Know Who LonelyGirl15 Really Is

The Justice Department is bored with monitoring your phone lines. They want to take it up a notch, which means they want to be able to see those pictures you took last weekend of you and your friends out at the bar. It’s for national security, see. Yeah, the government wants access to sites such…

Privacy & Security Adam Frucci Mar 6

To The Fair! (1965)

With the same type of optimism presented in 1939’s All’s Fair at the Fair this 1965 film of the World’s Fair in New York gives the impression that people can come together and bask in the beauty of our ever-improving world. The sincerity of the narrator is incredible, “A suspended theater with a film on…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 6

Apple/YouTube Spank iPhone Skin Maker For This Video

For those who tuned in a little late, we’ll run you through the story. It all starts when one guy makes an iPhone skin that can run on his PocketPC. For a few days before Chinese New Year, I’ve actually been quite busy developing my very own iPhone interface for the PocketPC. After looking at…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 4

YouTube to Deliver the Excitement that is Local News

Real Network’s Media Player Rips Youtube Vids and More

EMI, Apple and YouTube Officially In Love Triangle; Warner Music Attempts Solo Project

Video: Jobs Says “Fake Steve” is “Pretty Funny” and Other Semi-Revelations

YouTube on Apple TV – It’s Official

YouTube Pay for Play Could Trigger a Revolution

Flip Video Lowers Bar For YouTube Videos Even More

If You Want Joost, You Gotta Have Friends

YouTube Leashed: “Claim Your Content” Is On Its Way

Microsoft Silverlight Pits High Def WMV Against Flash For Web Streaming

Apple’s Knowledge Navigator (1987)

The Case of the Disappearing YouTube Video

Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3

Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor

Viacom’s Hypocrisy Could Defuse YouTube Lawsuit

YouTube Hosting Video Awards Show

Viacom to Google: You Owe Us $1 Billion

Justice Department Just Wants to Know Who LonelyGirl15 Really Is

To The Fair! (1965)

Apple/YouTube Spank iPhone Skin Maker For This Video

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