Tag: YouTube

YouTube Changes Default Size on Embeds
YouTube has changed the default size for embedded videos. By default they're getting bigger at either 480x385 for a 4:3 video, or 640x385 for a 16:9 video. YouTube says it went...
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YouTube Expands Auto-Captioning Program
Whether they're used for the benefit of the hard of hearing, people who speak a different language, or just folks who want to watch videos while at work or in a library, caption...
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Tufts Brings YouTube Into The Admissions Process
YouTube's a site that's been used by nonprofit organizations to address serious human rights issues.  It's also a site that's been used to exhibit children kicking adults i...
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Google Video Compression Developer Acquisition Complete
Update: Late Friday, Google announced that it closed the On2 Technologies acquisition, valued at about $124.6 million, after On2's shareholders voted to ap...
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YouTube Streams Tiger Woods Press Conference Live
Most people I know are pretty tired of hearing about Tiger Woods, but the world is still apparently eager to hear what he has to say at his press conference today. Currently, &q...
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US Speedskating Taps Facebook And Twitter
United States Speedskating is turning to social media to connect with fans and build on publicity generated by the recent sponsorship of Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Nation....
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YouTube Advertises Presence Of New Iran Protest Clips
Yesterday, Iranian authorities enacted a ban on Gmail, saying they'd introduce a government-sponsored (and presumably government-monitored) email service to replace it.  No...
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YouTube Safety Mode Goes Beyond Human Review
This week, YouTube launched Safety Mode, an opt-in setting that helps users screen out potentially objectionable videos. We asked YouTube how it works. For example, is there hum...
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The Latest in Google’s Effort to Make the Web Faster
YouTube has just launched a "Speed Dashboard", which makes speed information about videos available to users. YouTube's C...
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Online TV Shows May Get More Ad-Heavy
For the most part, online video has been much less ad-heavy than television programming. It is this very fact that has likely been a large part of the medium's popularity. Thing...
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Clicker Partners With UCLA On Online Video Site
Online video guide Clicker said today it has partnered with UCLA on a new service bringing online entertainment and university video content to students via the school's Web por...
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YouTube Launches its Univision Channel
In November, YouTube announced that it had struck a partnership with one of...
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YouTube Getting Serious About This Video Rental Thing
YouTube recently started experimenting with renting video content as a potential new way for content producers to make money, which led to the question:...
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Is The Viral Video
We’re sure you’ve either seen or heard about “General” Larry Platt’s American Idol audition, Pants On The Ground. Not sure how you...
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YouTube Movie Rental Experiment Fails (So Far)
On Friday, YouTube started a movie rental experiment involving five motion pictures from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance Film Festivals.  Now, although the trial run is several...
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