The 2010 World Cup begins today in South Africa, and apart from watching matches live on TV or streaming online on your pc, there are other ways to follow the World Cup: Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, YouTube and the best sport news websites and blogs have prepared something special for football fans worldwide.
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YouTube announced the integration of the Google Moderator module on YouTube channels. Google Moderator supports real-time discussions on websites, allowing YouTube channel owners to request questions or ideas on any topic from the audience. User-submitted videos or text messages can be voted up or down by the audien...
Google’s monetization strategy for YouTube will hurt Apple this time. YouTube could become a fierce competitor for iTunes, Netflix and other online (and offline) movie rental services: starting from today, the rental service will allow US users to rent Sundance Film Festival movies for 48 hours at prices ranging fro...
An interesting video was recently posted on YouTube by Thomas Power of Ecademy. He is suggesting that with an estimated 1 billion members by 2012, Facebook could begin offering financial services to its user base and, in effect, become a bank. He goes on to say that Facebook could also introduce things like peer to ...
Yesterday, I was checking out one on my favourite blogs, Digital Buzz, when I came across a brilliant piece of work done for Heineken. It was inspiring and it has been amazing to see how positively people are reacting to it online. But first off, please take five minutes to view the masterpiece that is Heineken’s ...
YouTube and Vimeo began testing HTML5 video players that in the future will replace Flash ones. Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer (with Chrome Frame installed) users can test HTML 5 videos on YouTube, but Firefox users can’t yet because the browser doesn’t support the H.264 video codec.
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Today I experienced a phenomenon that erased any doubt I may have had about the power of social media. I usually come across several blog posts and am on twitter throughout the day. This morning, I stumbled across a post about an unruly London Underground employee who got into a verbal altercation with an elderly pa...
In a move to capitalize on the massive growth of the online video market, Google launched Promoted Videos, an auction based video ad platform. The video ads are displayed in the YouTube search results, the YouTube homepage, video watch pages and recently across the AdSense network. As of yesterday, advertisers can p...
