YouTube

Blink-182′s Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge Live on YouTube

by Jeff Weisbein October 5, 2011

In a post by Google’s Bradley Horowitz, he announced that blink-182′s +Mark Hoppus and +Tom DeLonge are going to be live talking about Google+, their tour, and their new album (Neighborhoods) at 3pm PST (6PM EST) today. They will be streaming it live on the YouTube channel AtGoogleTalks. If you are not familiar with the Google Talks YouTube channel [...]

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Would You Rent Amateur Content from YouTube?

by Jeff Weisbein June 13, 2011

Relatively recently YouTube started to allow content creators to rent their content to people willing to purchase it. Now that got me thinking. Would you rent amateur content? And if so, how good would it have to be and how much would you be willing to pay? I’m not sure I would and I create content for [...]

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5 Reasons Why YouTube Live Has Great Potential

by Mike Mansell April 8, 2011

By now I’m sure you’ve heard about YouTube‘s new “live” venture which will allow users on the already popular video sharing site to stream content live to YouTube’s vast audience; much like current streaming services like Ustream and Justin.tv already offer. While YouTube has previously covered live events in the past, the site is now [...]

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Why YouTube Is Google’s Largest Asset

by Mike Mansell April 8, 2011

When three former PayPal employees first launched YouTube back in 2005, the conceptual idea of a mainstream video storage and streaming service was far-fetched at best. Sure the Internet was growing at the time and the site (if successful) had unspeakable potential, but when it boiled down to it Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim [...]

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YouTube Taking the First Steps to Produce In-House Content

by Mike Mansell December 16, 2010

For years now, YouTube has been seen as a well-known and trusted video sharing website. In fact, the site has become a de facto of forms for video storage and distribution, and has only grown larger since Internet giant Google purchased the site in 2006. One of the most important aspects of YouTube has been [...]

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YouTube to Increase Video Upload Time Limit to 15 Minutes

by Jeff Weisbein July 29, 2010

According to BoingBoing, YouTube will soon increase the maximum duration of uploaded videos from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. While this move may not mean much to most people, it will definitely be helpful to those of you who are not YouTube partners who use YouTube as a publishing platform your content. Obviously, the increase [...]

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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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