YouTube has quietly begun to offer downloadable versions of videos hosted on its site.
It’s off to a rather limited start, with the selection appearing to be currently limited to videos of president elect President Barack Obama.
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YouTube Is “Coolest Online Brand”
YouTube has swiped aside Internet monsters Google and social networking phenomenon Facebook to win the honour of the ‘coolest online media brand’, according to this year’s CoolBrands survey.
YouTube NOT Doing Live Video
A couple of months back one of the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen, somewhat excitedly announced on video with pretty blogger, Sarah Meyers, that YouTube would be offering a Live version.
There was considerable amount of excitement around this, and a fair amount of terror in the companies that are in the live video space currently.
A Tough Week For YouTube
YouTube will be hiring more lawyers and policy wonks, we suspect, following a week of complaints and legal challenges to the content that is stored on their servers and show to people around the world.
Yesterday the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee published a report (PDF) with included “Risks from the Internet, particularly social networking sites and sites hosting user-generated content.” Most of the media used this to focus on YouTube and how evil it is.
Lisa Nova Plays A Twitter Whore
Lisa Nova is well known on YouTube as making amusing videos where she either plays a character or makes a joke of other people, at their expense.
Her latest target Twitter, or rather Twitter users.
Judge Gives Online Ban To YouTub-er
A UK Judge has banned a 23 year old man from boasting of his crimes on the Internet.
Andrew Kellett has received an Asbo (anti-social behaviour order), normally used for ban people from specific geographic areas.
YouTube Screening Room: ‘Serious’ Content For YouTube
YouTube Screening Room has officially been released following a couple of rumours knocking around about it.
YouTube’s stated intention is that they want to give the opportunity to the “tens of thousands of films” that are produced every year to be seen by a wider audience.
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YouTube Introduce Video Annotation
We were putting a video up yesterday (Virtual Mirror) and we saw that YouTube had introduced a new function – allowing video publishers to add annotations to their pieces.
Hurrah – we’ve been waiting for a feature like this for a long time and had it as a ‘one day’ project for ourselves, for the last five or so years.
House Of Lords YouTube Channel Launches
The UK House of Lords, is to launch it’s own YouTube channel.
Previously seen by some as a stuffy, rather stiff institution, it seems like the House of Lords , or The Lords as it’s normally abbreviated to, is trying to update it’s image and become more accessible to the people. All good stuff that should be supported.
PM Gordon Brown Launches YouTube ‘Ask The PM’ sessions
Gordon Brown. perhaps the least dynamic PM since John “yawn” Major, is looking to get down with the Web 2.0 Krew and get all interactive on our PCs.
In an attempt to attract younger voters, the PM is launching an online version of prime minister’s questions, promising to respond to video clip questions sent in via the Downing Street YouTube website.
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