Last week Microsoft released a new version of Windows Live Movie Maker that I have to admit is rather impressive. I took some time to play around with it over the weekend, and the Ribbon interface makes creating movies so easy that I actually feel like new computer users could grasp how to do it in a matter of minutes.
Recently EA found themselves in a position where they could admit that there was a glitch in a game, or turn it into an amazing marketing experience. They chose the latter of the two, and it has worked out quite well for them.
Over the last month or so (possibly longer), YouTube users who go to sign-in to their accounts have been seeing a green bar at the top of the page asking them to link their YouTube and Google accounts together.
We like to think of a service called Qik as "live YouTube." It's a video service that allows users to stream live video feed from their mobile phones to the web. Qik launched a private alpha release not too long ago and people like Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble have really helped to create some buzz about it.
There's bad news today for privacy advocates with Wired.com reporting that a judge is ordering YouTube to provide Viacom with the hsitory of all of their users.
YouTube has just added a new feature that will allow people to create videos with annotations. What they mean by annotations is a way for people to add interactive commentary to their videos. On the YouTube page that runs-through what it's all about, they explain how people can use them:
Can you believe it's already been a year since Viacom tried to purge Google's money bank with a $1 billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube? Ever since March of last year (2007) when the lawsuit was filed, we hadn't really heard much of what was going on, until yesterday.
YouTube isn't just a place for the homemade videos of your last surprise birthday party. It has become a place where individuals, companies, presidential candidates, musicians, and others, are able to share a piece of themselves with others. Not only are a variety of people represented on YouTube, but different brands are represented as well.
Today is April 22nd which means it's Earth Day in many countries around the World. It all started in 1970 when the first Earth Day was celebrated to coincide with the environmental movement. Around the web you'll find a handful of different sites celebrating the day by changing their logo. Social Web Browser Flock even launched a new "Eco-edition" of their browser just in time for the day.
Some of you may have experienced this before: you go to watch a video on YouTube only to get a message saying "This video is not available in your country." Unfortunately there are some videos that people in certain countries aren't able to watch because the person/company that added the video put geographical restrictions on it.
