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YouTube Starts Testing Live Streaming

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YouTube has just started testing its new live streaming platform with a few chosen partners including Next New Networks, Howcast, Young Hollywood, and Rocketboom. The testing period began Monday morning and will go on for two days. YouTube released the list of events that will be streaming live through these partners and also announced a […]

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Yelp & YouTube Apps for Windows Phone 7

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is still in development and MS have been teasing with all the features it’s loading it up with and has also put it out for previews by experts. Several previews of the Windows Phone 7 recently pointed out that the device was missing one very big and key feature which could […]

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YouTube’s Video Time Limit Increased To 15 Minutes

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It was announced today, to the pleasure of millions, that YouTube has increased its video time limit from 10 to 15 minutes for all users. YouTube is world’s biggest video sharing site and increasing video limit is one request that its avid users have been making for a while. Well, they heard the pleas and […]

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Russia Bans YouTube Over Racist Content

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A Russian court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has ordered an ISP to block YouTube in the country as the site carries “Russia for Russians”, a video with hateful content against the multiethnic population of Russia. Russia now joins China, Brazil, Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates: countries […]

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Mobile YouTube Gets a Major Update

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YouTube’s mobile website, m.youtube.com , has just received an update revealing a new and improved user interface and support for better quality video for mobile devices. This is being called a major downer for iPhone’s YouTube app which may become irrelevant in the update’s aftermath. Google made the announcement on its YouTube blog calling it […]

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YouTube And Ridley Scott Bring “Life In A Day” For You

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After launching its search for the world’s most creative video last month, YouTube is now giving anyone and everyone around the world a chance to become a film maker and show their product at the next Sundance Film Festival. The project is called ‘Life in a day’ and YouTube has brought on board 2 Oscar […]

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Never Watch a YouTube Ad Again

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Wall Street Journal reported today that YouTube is about to introduce a skip button to allow users to stop playing an ad embedded in a video and will not charge advertisers for ads that were skipped. This was announced today at a Google press conference by senior product manager Baljeet Singh. YouTube began testing skippable […]

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YouTube’s New Record, 14.6 Billion Videos Viewed in May 2010

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American web metrics company comScore released new statistics today which reveal an astonishing increase in the online video viewing trend around the world. The leader among all video hosting sites is who else but Google owned YouTube which received a record 14.6 Billion hits in the month of May alone, representing 43.1 % of all […]

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YouTube’s Search for World’s Most Creative Video

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YouTube has teamed up with HP and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in search of what they’re calling “the very best creative video from around the world”. Video artists can submit their entries till July 31, 2010, 12:00 p.m PT, simply by posting them on YouTube and then submitting them at Youtube Play, a platform […]

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PM Gilani Orders Re-Opening of the Banned Networks in Pakistan

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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani ordered Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to un block all banned social networking sites early Wednesday, Youtube was the first one to return. The news came after almost a week of ban on Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia and several other web pages that reproduced the content that originated the ban. The […]

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YouTube Gets a New Look

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After a long phase of testing and planning, YouTube comes up with a new look. This has generated mixed reviews about the #1 video-sharing website. The millions of users around the world will be welcomed on the site with several changes in the video playback page. Many elements have been relocated where others have changed […]

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