Category: YouTube

YouTube is filled with bad lip syncing, lousy pranks, and (now) police evidence. It seems it's become quite popular for folks to videotape themselves throwing liquid on drive-through workers while yelling "fire in the hole," and, of course, posting it on YouTube. Well, it seems that the Pittsburgh Police Department isn't laughing. An employee at an area Subway was recently pelted in the eyes ...

It seems a number of U.K.-based advertisers have taken issue with the content displayed alongside their advertisements on Facebook. First Direct, Vodafone, Virgin Media, Halifax and the Prudential have withdrawn their ads on the social networking site when it was revealed that their advertisements were being displayed on the Facebook page of the extremist, far-right British National Party. ...

Oh Cranky Pants, will you ever run out of things to be bitter about. John Dvorak is quickly becoming tech journalism's old man on the porch... with a shot gun. With columns such as 'Down With Dumbing Down,' 'Shut Up About the iPhone Already,' and 'Is Everyone Over 30 Useless?,' it's no wonder we've simply taken to referring to him as 'Cranky Pants.' His latest article should be called "What's the ...

This election cycle is becoming the year politics go super-digital. Take a quick look at any of the candidates' websites -- each one reveals a host of buttons linking to the various candidates' digital outposts on various social Web services. Each site has a blog, a MySpace page, and a YouTube channel. Each one also provides tools to help supporters organize. This is not just the result ...

The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which is made up of companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over copyright warnings used on books, DVDs, CDs, a sports broadcasts. The CCIA says the warnings blatantly overstate the legal restrictions placed on such material and don't do a good enough job explaining ...

YouTube is more than just an outlet for wannabe comedians, light saber freak outs, and web cam footage of scantily-clad ladies. According to the BBC investigative journalism program 'Panorama', it is also home to exceedingly violent videos featuring children. Videos include children engaged in fist fights, a child who slams a hand gun against a police car, and another child who jumps up and down ...

YouTube, which is of course owned by Google at this point (and so will half the world soon), is elbowing in on the political scene starting tonight by hosting Presidential debates in conjunction with CNN. Questions for the debate have been submitted via YouTube, and CNN editors have chosen the best and most interesting. It's not often that one gets an opportunity to pose questions to ...

Embedded YouTube players are those ubiquitous bastions of crappy camera work and pre-teens lip-syncing to pop hits. Embedding on your own Web site allows you to display any content available on YouTube without the burden of having to host it yourself. Sure they're functional, but not very fun. Same gray and red color scheme, same YouTube layout and related videos. Rejoice: YouTube has heard the ...

(WARNING! Explicit lyrics in the above video.) Crunch Gear is running a contest, and a fun one at that. All you have to do is send in a video, via e-mail, YouTube or any other video-sharing service of you going medieval on your land line phone. Take a bat, a crowbar, a 20 pound sledge -- it doesn't matter -- and destroy that vestige of land line-based communication. The best entry wins a prize ...

If you were going to create a list of the top personalities when it came to digital music, chances are you'd put Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO and iTunes figurehead, in the #1 spot. No surprise, then, that that's exactly where he landed in 'Blender's' "Powergeek 25" list. He tops the list of "behind-scenes-players reshaping the way people listen to, buy and watch music," and while we're not sure ...

Dancing all night can use up a lot of energy, or create it -- at least that's what a group of Dutch-researchers-cum-nightclub-impressarios hope when they're done with the Sustainable Dance Club (SDC). Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the researchers and architects behind the SDC are working on creating a club that will use solar power, wind turbines, low-energy-using LED lights, and rain ...

Steve Jobs called the iPhone "the best iPod ever" back in January, but just how well does the iPhone stack up to the claim? We know it can make calls, surf the Web, and do all kinds of other smartphone-type tasks, but is it good enough replace your trusty old iPod or Nano? For more on these questions and other iPhone-as-iPod related points, check out Rolling Stone's in-depth iPhone review (written ...

What do you get when you cross YouTube and your jerk friend who's always trying to pay people to do stupid stuff? You'd probably get Monster Dare. Part social video sharing site, part giant dare pool. Users can make dares, then others can contribute to the pot. The first person to upload video or photo proof of the completion of a dare can collect on the bet. All payments are made through Pay ...

In a bid to better compete with YouTube for the eyes and ears of Web users (but not in a creepy, serial killer kind of way), MySpace is re-launching the less than impressive video component of its site. Tomorrow, MySpace Videos will be torn down like the Stardust Casino to be resurrected as a separate site, MySpace TV. The most important change, other than the new URL, is that you no longer ...

Jealousy is a bitter fruit. The Sarcastic Gamer has decided that since he can't afford Microsoft's Surface, he'll just mock it. It's just a bit of comedy, but it should help all of those out there whose hearts are still all aflutter over the Surface. We're just as guilty as any of feeding the hype, so it's good to be reminded every once in a while that, hey -- its just a really expensive ...