Tag: WEBVIDEO

We're not going to write much here because this screenshot says it all. Some outfit called Wonder-Tonic wrote this bit of code called Cageflix to add the epic thespian's entire 49-film-strong oeuvre to your Netflix queue. Using a "complicated and seductive Web-based tango" (otherwise known as oAuth, an open-source protocol that allows secure API authorization), Cageflix only requires your ...

Google is shaking up the sports world. According to The New York Times, the company recently broadcast a live sporting event on YouTube for the first time. About 50 million fans tuned in from around the world (minus the U.S., where the event was broadcast on delay) to watch the Indian Premier League's eight-team cricket tournament. It's not the NBA Playoffs, but the 60 live matches drew about a ...

Though he is one of the best-looking men in the world, and the representative of everything both cool and weird, it turns out Johnny Depp is into exactly what we here at Switched are into: hanging out and watching the best YouTube videos. In Vanity Fair's upcoming cover story on Depp, writer Douglas Brinkley and the megastar, despite hanging out on his Bahamian island and motoring around on ...

During our quest to stay abreast of the latest Web memes -- and to break up the doldrums of your day with some comic relief -- it has been impossible to ignore the explosion of "Play him off, keyboard cat" videos. If you're not familiar with this cute little virtuoso, keyboard cat interrupts awkward and painful moments with some sweet, jazzy piano riffs. The original video was created by Brad ...

4chan.org's /b/ message board is filled with pranksters who have nothing better to do with their time but make life difficult for everyone else. The notorious mischief-makers' most recent stunt -- Porn Day -- sent employees at YouTube scrambling as the site was flooded with XXX-rated content. The videos were uploaded and attached to seemingly innocent search terms, like "Jonas Brothers." In ...

Actress, activist and former Woody Allen flame Mia Farrow is in the ninth day of her hunger strike for Darfur, which she has been chronicling on her own YouTube channel, the L.A. Times reports. According to the Times, the 64-year-old, noticeably gaunt Farrow has committed to a three-week hunger strike, during which she will consume only water, in order to raise the public's awareness of the ...

Providing further proof that the Internet is not, in fact, "good for nothing," Marc Stephens, a 28-year-old naval engineer from Cornwall, England, watched a quick how-to baby video on YouTube, and successfully delivered his baby daughter, Gabriele. According to the Daily Mirror, this all happened on March 21st, but apparently the Stephens only spilled the details about how the baby actually was ...

Certain people do certain things that they certainly should not do. The person responsible for this awesome video (which we picked up from Gadling) is definitely one of those people. The CAA (the Australian Version of the FAA) is investigating after a man nearly flew his model plane into a real Virgin Blue jetliner as it landed in western Australia. The man had outfitted the model with a video ...

There are plenty of controversial things on YouTube, not least of which are videos showing fights between minors. We've covered this trend before, and responders to our straw-poll voted overwhelmingly that the videos should be removed from the site. Apparently, there are parents out there who would disagree and some, such as 37-year-old Dawn Morris, who would actually encourage the fighting. ...

Apparently the shame and incredibly long jail sentence facing Bernie Madoff aren't enough to discourage scores of imitators from taking to the Internet and launching their own Ponzi, or pyramid, schemes. According to a report by the Better Business Bureau, YouTube has been flooded with videos from would-be scam artists. According to the report, analysts at the firm TubeMogul have identified ...

Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips Comedian Andy Dick is great at making people uncomfortable, intentionally or not, and that's what he'll be doing on his new online show, 'House Arrest with Andy Dick.' The Atom.com "talk show" makes light of Dick's legal trouble, which has him wearing an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet after pleading guilty to misdemeanor drug and battery ...

Have you ever needed to unload a couple pounds of "carrots" in a hurry but didn't flush them because you were worried they might get stuck in your toilet? Worry no more, because St. Thomas Creations has a product for you and everyone else who has difficulty finding a commode capable of handling their needs. The company lauds its Quattro Flushing Technology as "the most advanced flushing system ...

The practice of remixing has been going strong in the music industry for ages, and, over the years, artists like Girl Talk and DJ Shadow have elevated the act to an art form. But, we guarantee you've never seen a remix quite like this before. Artist Kutiman, a funk practitioner from Israel, has created a project called ThruYOU, in which he cunningly weaves a selection of videos from YouTube in ...

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Post a video demonstrating your musical talents on YouTube, of course. In hopes of being named to the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra, amateur and professional musicians from over 70 countries submitted more than 3,000 videos to be judged by members of professional orchestras including the Berlin, New York and Hong Kong philharmonics. After the pros narrowed ...

Cats are often labeled as lazy, manipulative and generally useless by the cat-hating portion of society (dog lovers). We choose to think of them as efficient, evil geniuses obsessed with shiny/noisy objects and sunlight absorption. Whatever your take on the subject may be, you will no doubt find this video provocative. We assume most of you will use it as evidence in your case for, or against, ...