Category: YouTube

It's the worst nightmare for the networks: YouTube beating broadcast television in the ratings. Recent polls suggest it's that's already happening, but our most recent Switched Show (listen here; direct link to mp3) suggests we're not so sure -- and that we've got some strong opinions on the subject of how you'll watch television in the not so distant future. PLUS: We read our personal tech ...

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has been mighty busy as of late. Hot on the heels of its study that revealed that people like to Google themselves, but like to Google others even more is a fresh batch of stats about how teenagers communicate. The survey of 12 to 17 year old boys and girls turned up some shocking information -- teens still prefer a good old-fashioned landline phone to ...

Just when you thought YouTube was starting to be old news, along comes a survey that the video sharing site is far more popular than ever, and is kicking the pants of its competitors. According to a new survey, 65 percent of those polled watched a video on YouTube this year, up from 42 percent last year. That's a huge jump in popularity, mirrored by a huge jump in page views (shown above). ...

Happy belated birthday, blogosphere! In case you didn't know, December 17 was the 10th anniversary of the term 'Weblog,' which was shortened to 'blog' at some point. The term started with a man, Jorn Barger, who used the phrase to describe his Web page where he posted links of interesting things he found around the Internet. Back in 1997, blogging was hardly the phenomenon it is today. Some of ...

The last time you were on YouTube, what were the most popular vids on there? You'd probably expect something with a funny baby, something political, something featuring cats, and probably a video focusing on the average male's favorite human anatomy part. What you likely wouldn't expect, though, is a video featuring a teacher talking about global warming, which is precisely what has turned out ...

The social networking phenomenon is pulling in new users and new applications every day, it seems. Add to the growing maelstrom of activity a new service from mywaves, a Sunnyvale, CA-based firm that brings even more video to mobile phone users. Now available in Nokia's content catalog -- called Download! (we like their enthusiasm and want to see more exclamation points) -- mywaves purports to ...

The power of so-called New Media is again on display as a YouTube political attack ad makes mainstream media headlines. Wired reports that a 58-second video vilifying Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has generated 47,955 hits since Thursday on the popular video Web site. The ad, made by 29-year-old Republican Keith Emis, criticizes the former governor of Arkansas for paroling ...

With presidential campaigns in full swing and every candidate trying to exploit the Internet for his own nefarious uses, you'd think it would be be no surprise to find political notables in other nations doing the same. However, it's hard not to be at least mildly shocked when learning that terrorist group Al-Qaeda is posting YouTube-style videos online and asking for comments and questions ...

And you thought everything was going to High Def in a handbasket? Here's more evidence we live in a lo-fi world: a more YouTube-capable experience is out from Helio, maker of the Ocean, an already cool mobile communications device (the word "phone" just doesn't cut it) that provides video, GPS and a whole slew of other features in addition to making calls. Many mobile phones already let you ...

Adobe Flash Player just got a bit of an upgrade the other day, one affectionately known as 'Moviestar.' The third update to Flash 9 adds a couple of features that may not immediately mean that much to the average user -- support for the H.264 codec, AAC audio support, and hardware graphics acceleration. So what does that mean for you, the web-video-obsessed public? It means a much greater quality ...

A video that depicts a man arguing with, and then being beaten by, a swarm of teenage girls on a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, is currently under investigation by the New York City Police Department. Kadejra Holmes, an aspiring filmmaker from Harlem, uploaded the video on November 7, but when she was asked about the video by investigative site The Smoking Gun, she pulled the video. She ...

YouTube is getting all the hype, but it's a far cry from the immersive, long-form esc..., er, entertainment offered 24-hours-a-day on broadcast networks around the world. Unfortunately, broadcast moves on a broadcast schedule, and while PVRs such as TiVO let to time-shift your prime-time lineup, they need you to know what you want to record before it airs. Through the miracle of the ...

The Apple TV, after garnering some initially positive press, has faded into obscurity. Apple won't even release sales numbers for the tiny device, and Steve Jobs recently dismissed it as a "hobby." So what happened? Apple usually has unprecedented success with its consumer electronics, and has a knack for creating a market where one didn't previously exist. But the Apple TV did not find much of ...

In its testing phase right now, SyncTV is pioneering some new ground with pay-for-what-you-want television and media programming. Initially, the service will be computer-based only, allowing users to download their favorite show or whole seasons of television programs by subscribing to their favorite channels for $2-$4 a pop per month. The service works with to any Windows-, Linux-, or ...

YouTube, an online video sharing service that you may have heard of at one point or another, is upping its resolution. At the NewTeeVee Live conference yesterday, co-founder (and now super-mega-rich) Steve Chen confirmed that high-quality video streams are on the way. But it won't be exclusionary: he said their aim is to make YouTube content available to everyone, so they're now testing a ...