Now you can edit a video that’s already on YouTube. See the YouTube Blog for more information, and the brief video below… Of course I tried editing videos I’ve posted, and did find the option to “edit video” in my video library. But the icon seen in the image to right (orange) didn’t show up… on…
A lie-detecting video camera may be out in a year, and allegedly works 2/3 of the time. Cool stuff via Crave: Hassan Ugail of Bradford University worked with colleagues at Aberystwyth University and the U.K. Border Agency to develop a camera that picks up on changes in blood flow and expression in a subject’s face when…
The duo that founded YouTube bought Delicious from Yahoo. Okay. Fair point. As far as serial entrepreneurial ventures go, this is not as intriguing as Flip Cam (Pure Digital) founder Jonathan Kaplan going into the melted cheese business. (See video). But this one’s a bit more fascinating to me because I got to meet Chad Hurley…
A couple deer (fawns to be precise) wandered a Publix supermarket in Suwannee, Georgia. The noises of the frustrated fawns (see YouTube video below) sounds freakishly human. In an moment guilty of at least two cases of irony, James Chronicle — a founder of a Suwanee-based non-profit called the Georgia Animal Protection Society — “chronicled” the…
If you like this first “Where’s the Girl” video below (“Save Miranda” by Zoochosis), you also may like the second wonderfully cute but edgy dancing-sheep-girl video titled “Thanks Smokey.” Good luck getting that hypnotic sheep-dancing song out of your head the next time you see an adorable animal… after you watch the Smokey clip, I recommend closing your…
AdAge reports that music videos vanished from YouTube on Monday because a 13-year-old Pakistani kid (using a YouTube Partner account called iLCreation) flagged VEVO channels with copyright claims. It was widely reported this week that music videos for artists including Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Shakira and others were temporarily taken down. But how…
YouTube has been recently experimenting with a wealth of new ad units that go far beyond the adjacent display ads or lower-screen “InVideo” ads that sneak up. While pre-rolls are still rampant, the variety and quality of the creative is making them more bearable and effective. Here are some examples, and I’ve seen my own revenue per…
Let’s pretend we all share a common definition of social media. Video’s role toward that should be obvious. It’s another way to be social, and arguably more media. While online-video isn’t all social, it’s hard to imagine having a robust social-media presence without video. At the least, video is more social than the written word,…
Check it out. Walmart’s Vudu rentals is like the Bing of online-video rental. That means it’s #3, but by such a distance it almost doesn’t matter. iTunes has 65% share, followed by Zune video marketplace at 16% (a surprising 15.9 percent more than I would have guessed). Vudu is third, and while it’s up from…
Sure most BlueRay disc players have the ability to stream YouTube and other content. But it’s 2011. Walk away from anything that requires physical media and, gasp, has moving parts. Here are 8 plus ways to stream videos from the Interweb to that big-ass monitor your mama calls an HDTV. CNet reviews the collection, and…