URL shorteners are all the rage these days…they allow you to take a really long URL and shorten it to just a few, cryptic, characters. They are must haves if you are posting long URL’s to Twitter or sending them in emails. And now Google/YouTube has joined the game with their own URL shortener for [...]
Google (YouTube) announced last week, that starting this week, YouTube will begin displaying videos in full 1080p HD. Up to this point, YouTube only offered 720p HD video. YouTube will encode new video uploads at their full resolution and will re-encode previous uploads to their full resolution too (assuming the videos are/were uploaded at 1080). [...]
In one of the more innovative twists on web video, a new site called TubeRadio is taking the huge library of music available on YouTube and making it as easy to find and organize as iTunes. TubeRadio is 100% free and web based…there is nothing to download or install. Just go to the site, type [...]
One of the major benefits of web video is that it levels the playing field…it gives the “little person” the power to achieve what could not have been achieved otherwise. A while back I did a post about how a guy fought back by using web video after his guitar was damaged by an airline. [...]
This spring YouTube quietly started a new offering called News Near You. With it, YouTube intelligently senses what region you’re accessing their site from and serves up news stories from your local area. Up to this point, it has been met with some fear by major news organizations, as YouTube’s parent company, Google, has played [...]
