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Manipulating YouTube Thumbnail (Poster Frame)
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This is a nice blog Squidoo post about changing the “poster frame” of a YouTube video. I call them thumbnails, but poster frame works. The Cro used my video to show how you can see the thumbnails on a video, and generate a higher resolution one by changing some digits in the URL. Recently YouTube…
YouTube Founders May Provide Custom Magazines
ByNalts
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen may be hoping to do for digital magazines what they did for online video. According to Fusible, the duo have launched Zeen, and you can reserve your username for this cryptic new offering that may allow users to create and share custom magazine currations. Zeen announced on April…
Why YouTube Subscribers Don’t Matter
ByNalts
In general, YouTube creators (and viewers) are a bit obsessed with sheer numbers of subscribers. It’s fool’s gold, friends. While early views are often predicated on developing a subscriber base, as a creator’s presence on YouTube matures, subscribers simply don’t matter nearly as much as people think. What matters is quality not quantity. I’d trade…
Ridley Scott Creates User-Generated Documentary (Life in a Day)
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On July 24 individuals from across the globe will be videotaping moments from their day, and submitting for potential inclusion in a film produced by Ridley Scott (see his explanation video). “Life in a Day” may be the first crowd-sourced film, and will be directed by Kevin Macdonald (see the film’s YouTube channel, “LifeInADay” for…
Why Squeegees Is Hysterical and ABC’s Financial Quagmire
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Why Viacom Plus Joost is “Game Changing”
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Want to watch shows from MTV, Comedy Central or Spike via broadband? Want to check out Paramount movies? Then you’ll need to switch from YouTube to Joost. No sooner did Viacom order YouTube to pull content, they’ve licensed hundreds of hours of content to Joost, a start-up formed by the founders of Kazaa and Skype (see Wall Street Journal)….
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I gotta get an attorney.