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YouTube Hacked: XSS Attack

by Jeff Weisbein July 4, 2010

YouTube has become a victim of XSS (cross site scripting) attacks. The attacks which started this morning appear to be the work of a group of 4chan users. The origin of the attack seemed to revolve around no other then Justin Bieber (screenshot below), claiming that he died in an accident sometime this morning and [...]

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YouTube vs Viacom Lawsuit Thrown Out

by Jeff Weisbein June 23, 2010

In a battle between the companies dating back to 2007, today a judge has rendered a decision to throw out Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube because the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement. What exactly does that mean? It [...]

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YouTube Unveils New Player

by Jeff Weisbein April 28, 2010

It appears YouTube is in the process of rolling out a new video player on the site. Several videos have already seen changes to the player, while some still seem to play in the old version. The new YouTube video player is definitely different, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing in this case. I, [...]

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YouTube Changes the Default Embed Size for Videos

by Jeff Weisbein March 4, 2010

YouTube announced in a blog post today that they are changing the default embed size for videos on YouTube. Before today, the default embed size used to be smaller than the size displayed on YouTube.com. That is all about to change. YouTube has now changed the default to a larger size, the same size as [...]

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How To: Download YouTube Videos

by Jeff Weisbein February 1, 2010

YouTube is the largest video sharing site on the web. There is so much video on it, you can essentially find anything from amateur to professional content. Music videos, informative videos, stupid videos, television shows, movies, and more – it is all on YouTube. Well, sometimes you may want to save a particular video for [...]

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How To: Build A Successful Website

by Jeff Weisbein September 18, 2009

Over the past 2-3 years, I have learned a lot about the Internet and how the industry works as a whole. When I first started BestTechie back in 2003, I had no idea what I was doing – I was just a 13 year old kid with a website. In late 2007, I started to [...]

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YouTube Redesign Focuses On Search

by Jeff Weisbein August 13, 2009

Maybe you noticed (and you probably did) – YouTube redesigned the header of their website. It now focuses on search. Granted, YouTube is owned by Google this seems like a logical move. The YouTube search also now has advertisements and what YouTube is calling Featured Videos on the side of the results. Very similar to [...]

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The Video Bay: Pirate Bay’s YouTube Competitor

by Matt Hodges June 28, 2009

About two years ago, the makers of the ever-popular torrent website, thepiratebay.org, announced that they were working on a new project called “The Video Bay”. A few weeks ago, The Video Bay opened up a test version to the public. The public trial has since been disabled, but the site is still up. Currently, anyone [...]

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Download Your Own YouTube Videos

by Jeff Weisbein June 9, 2009

I just logged into my YouTube account only to find the option to “Download MP4″ (see screenshot below). I attempted to provide the link to someone else to see if they too were able to download the video, however, they were not. At this current time I have been unable to find an option to [...]

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YouTube Introduces Realtime Functionality

by Jeff Weisbein April 25, 2009

After logging into my YouTube account I noticed a small bar on the bottom of my browser window reading “Realtime Sharing”. YouTube has been playing around with realtime statistics for a while (provided you enabled them), however, now they seem to be completely implementing the realtime system into place. It is still opt-in, so you [...]

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