maximumpc.com - 10/29/2009
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Maybe it’s something to freak out about, then maybe it’s not. The New York Times is reporting that YouTube will be phasing out its own accounts and requiring its members to use a Google login .
Freaky? Yeah, says the Times. Each social networking service develops its own culture. When ...
Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?
news.cnet.com 10/6/2009 —
Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google's YouTube may have uncovered evidence that employees of the video site were among those who uploaded unauthorized content to YouTube.
In addition, internal YouTube ...
YouTube is Bigger than You Thought--1 Billion Views a Day
maximumpc.com 10/9/2009 — One billion views a day? That’s a whole lot of the Evolution of Dance, Susan Boyle, and Tron Guy. But it all depends on who’s doing the counting. Officially, according to comScore , YouTube in August had surpassed 10 billion views which, no matter how you slice it, is a whole lot of views. ...
YouTube Goes High-Def
overclockersclub.com 12/2/2008 — YouTube may be the most well-known video site on the web, but as more and more sites emerge, YouTube is quickly finding it's losing the battle on image quality. Sites like Hulu, Sling.com and Vimeo all feature larger videos with higher resolutions. YouTube is trying to remedy this with its ...
YouTube to drop support for IE6
neowin.net 7/14/2009 — YouTube will soon be dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 as it attempts to move users to a "more modern browser". Google, who owns YouTube, is pushing for users to upgrade to Chrome, Firefox or IE 8. It's no surprise that they are pushing for ...
Google Dashboard Launches
i4u.com 25 days ago — If you're anything like me, you use a lot of Google products on a daily basis. I frequently make use of Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, and Picassa, and I've also got a YouTube account that I use every once in a while. Switching between different pages to ac...
White House exempts YouTube from privacy rules
news.cnet.com 1/23/2009 — Update: 12 hours after posting this story, the White House (partially) reversed itself. The rather dubious YouTube-only waiver from federal Web privacy rules has been maintained, but the White House Web site has been updated to limit the exposure of ...
White House: C is for cookie, it's good enough for YouTube
arstechnica.com 1/29/2009 —
It's nice to see that someone at the White House is reading the work of privacy maven Chris Soghoian. Less than a day after Chris drew attention to a special YouTube exemption in the privacy policy for WhiteHouse.gov—permitting ...
Movie Studios Discuss Ways to Rent Films Over YouTube
online.wsj.com 9/2/2009 — BY SARAH MCBRIDE, JESSICA E. VASCELLARO AND SAM SCHECHNER Google Inc.'s YouTube is in discussions with major movie studios about streaming movies on a rental basis, a test of whether the online video giant can persuade its millions of users to pay ...
YouTube begins experimenting with downloadable videos
arstechnica.com 1/19/2009 — Tools for grabbing videos from YouTube have existed for some time now, but Google's video portal began experimenting this weekend with allowing users to download a high-quality H.264 version directly from a video's site. The feature appeared first on ...