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Weekend Open Forum: Your favorite music and streaming sources
- Music is among the most primitive forms of entertainment and self-expression, with the oldest confirmed musical instrument -- a bone flute -- dating back at least 35,000 years, and it's believed the human voice, hand clapping and other bodily-derived noises…
Happy Birthday: YouTube turns six, passes 3 billion views per day
- YouTube is celebrating its sixth anniversary today with an announcement that the popular video sharing site, a subsidiary of Google, is now getting more than 3 billion page views per day. The number is a 50 percent increase over last year.
YouTube starts rolling out movie rentals from Hollywood
- As expected, Google has announced that YouTube is now offering some 3,000 full-length feature films from major Hollywood studios available to rent. This brings the total number of movie titles available to rent on YouTube to over 6,000. The service,…
YouTube founders buy Delicious from Yahoo
- YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired Yahoo's Delicious for an undisclosed sum. The once popular service, founded in 2003, enabled people to bookmark websites, tag them and discover new sites from other people. It's regarded as one…
YouTube getting ready to launch Hollywood movie rentals
- After years of rumors, YouTube is finally launching a movie-on-demand service over at youtube.com/store. Google has charged users for movie rentals for over a year now, but the search giant is finally moving to stream mainstream Hollywood movies from the…
Google backpedals: offers Google Videos to YouTube transfer option
- After hearing from users that the migration off of Google Videos was unnecessarily difficult, Google has decided to eliminate the April 29, 2011 deadline. Google Videos users can rest assured that they won't be losing any of their content as…
Google starts converting YouTube videos to WebM
- Google has announced that all new videos uploaded to YouTube are now transcoded into the WebM codec, in addition to the H.264 codec. Google developed WebM, an open media file format for video and audio on the Web, and its…
Google launches YouTube Copyright School for copyright offenders
- Google has launched a new education push to ensure that its YouTube users understand copyright law. The company has released a new tutorial on copyright, a redesigned copyright help center, and tweaked its rules for copyright offenders.
Google entering live streaming business with YouTube Live
- YouTube has already live streamed a number of popular concerts, sporting events, and interviews, but most were one-time deals. Now Google wants to crank it up a notch, and has announced YouTube Live.
Google to spend $100 million on original content for YouTube
- Google is reportedly looking to spend as much as $100 million to fund professionally produced video content exclusively for YouTube. The move would come as part of a major overhaul this year designed to get more people to watch YouTube…
Yahoo to Google: what you paid for YouTube is "still crazy"
- Speaking on a panel at the Global Technology Symposium in Menlo Park on Friday, Steven Mitzenmacher, Senior Director of Corporate Development at Yahoo, took a swipe at Google while discussing acquisitions. First he said that his company went through a…
Google acquires Green Parrot Pictures, YouTube to benefit
- Google has acquired Green Parrot Pictures, an Irish digital video technology company that makes tools to manipulate both video and images. The search giant will integrate Green Parrot Pictures' tools, which helps make videos look better, reduce required bandwidth, and…
YouTube to grow staff by 30%
- Google's YouTube has announced that 2010 was a great year for the website. As a result, this year search giant wants to grow the number of people working at YouTube by more than 30 percent, which will make it the…
Google to launch YouTube movie service in the UK
- Google is planning on growing YouTube to include an unlimited subscription service for movies in Europe, starting with the UK, before expanding to the US. The search giant has been talking with Hollywood studios for months, according to executives who…
Weekend tech reading: First 25 minutes of Crysis 2 hits YouTube
- A video of the first 25 minutes of gameplay from Crytek's Crysis 2 has snuck out - after an early build of the game leaked onto torrent sites yesterday.
Google using YouTube to highlight Egyptian protest footage
- YouTube has been highlighting Egyptian protest footage for days, but Google has now outlined the ways it is making sure the world knows what's going on in the unstable country. In addition to developing a "speak-to-tweet" service that lets anyone…
YouTube starts rolling out new homepage to all
- After testing a redesign of its homepage via "countless user studies and community surveys," YouTube has begun rolling it out to all of its users. The experimental homepage was first tried by millions of users who wanted to give it…
YouTube mobile traffic triples in 2010, 200 million views a day
- YouTube now exceeds 200 million views a day on mobile, after seeing its traffic triple in 2010. Google's costs are clearly increasing for the video sharing website, so the company is doing what it does bets: adding more ads.
YouTube removing 15 minute upload length, for some
- YouTube videos are about to get longer. The company says it is lifting the 15-minute limit on uploaded videos, beginning with a subset of users. These individuals have never violated copyright rules and have followed YouTube's community guidelines. Some content…
Viacom: YouTube ruling will "completely destroy" copyright
- Media giant Viacom has filed its appeal of a June ruling in favor of Google's YouTube, the latest move in the companies' ongoing battle over alleged copyright infringement. Viacom wants to overturn a previous ruling that the company feels let…
YouTube launches ads that you can skip
- YouTube has officially launched its new TrueView ad format, which lets users skip ads they're not interested in. TrueView is currently only available to advertisers with managed accounts, so the format isn't all that widespread on YouTube just yet.
YouTube: 35 hours of video uploaded every minute
- YouTube has announced the latest upload data; every minute that passes, over 35 hours of video is uploaded to the video sharing website. In other words, YouTube gets over 50,400 hours (2,100 days worth) of new video content every day.
Turkey reinstates YouTube ban days after lifting it
- Less than a week ago, Turkey lifted a 30-month ban on YouTube after videos containing offensive material were removed. The access didn't last long, however, and the site is banned anew, according to The Wall Street Journal.
YouTube passes 1 billion subscription milestone
- YouTube not only gets 2 billion video views per day as one of the biggest video sites in the world, but now it has announced that it crossed the 1 billion subscription mark. In other words, YouTube is now sending…
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