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  • December 2007

    • 'US Americans' Love Videos

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Dec 27, 07 2:54 PM CST

      'US Americans' Love Videos

      With small-screen stars ranging from ditzy beauty queens to potty-mouthed pint-sized landlords, Americans increasingly gathered around the YouTube watercooler in 2007. They racked up 100 billion views on various video sites, ABC News reports. Cultural commentators liken the phenomenon to cavemen swapping tall tales around campfires, but 78% of us do it at work. More »

      Tags

      Internet  • YouTube  • online videos  • video  • viral video  • Miss South Carolina

    • Colorful Cube 'Next Big Thing'

      newser  |  BBC  |  Dec 26, 07 5:42 AM CST

      Colorful Cube 'Next Big Thing'

      Santa is already kicking back and thinking what will be under trees next Christmas. High on the list is the Fentix cube, an innovative, colorful, electronic device that can detect up from down. Inventor Andrew Fentem tells the BBC it can be adapted for many uses - games platform, puzzles, as a computer interface, and game controller. More »

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      YouTube  • iPhone  • Nintendo Wii

    • Campaign for Young Voters: Vote 4 Me! Pls?

      newser  |  McClatchy Newspapers  |  Dec 24, 07 10:17 AM CST

      Campaign for Young Voters: Vote 4 Me! Pls?

      New technology has given presidential hopefuls a host of new ways to transmit the "Vote For Me" message, McClatchy reports. Campaigners are using social networking sites, YouTube videos, instant messaging, and even text messaging in a bid to gain an edge with young voters. But their target audience seems more bemused by it all than fired up with campaign fever. More »

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      election 2008  • YouTube  • technology  • campaign  • telecommunications  • text messaging  • instant messaging

    • TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Dec 24, 07 9:47 AM CST

      TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

      YouTube buzz is tough to manufacture, and so far NBC’s “Quarterlife,” the network's experiment in TV-quality production for the web, hasn’t managed. The last dozen episodes have each drawn around 100,000 views between MySpace and YouTube combined, which isn’t many eyeballs in the TV world. Regardless, NBC will complete its web-to-TV play by broadcasting the series in February, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Internet  • television  • YouTube  • NBC  • Disney  • web traffic  • Quarterlife

    • Queen of YouTube

      newser  |  BBC  |  Dec 23, 07 8:24 AM CST

      Queen of YouTube

      Look who's using YouTube. The British Royals have just joined the ranks of YouTube users with the launch of a "Royal Channel" on the video-sharing Internet site that showcases recent and historical clips of the queen and her family. On Tuesday the queen will broadcast her 50th anniversary Christmas message on the channel, which she hopes will make the talk "more personal and direct," BBC reports. More »

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      Great Britain  • YouTube  • British royals  • Christmas  • Queen Elizabeth

    • Microsoft, Viacom Ally to Check Google

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 20, 07 9:34 AM CST

      Microsoft, Viacom Ally to Check Google

      Microsoft and Viacom joined forces to counter Google's growth in the ad market yesterday, with a 5-year, $500-million partnership. Microsoft gets audio and video content from Viacom, and is a preferred partner in online gaming. Viacom will switch its ad placement from DoubleClick, which Google is about to buy, to Microsoft's Internet ad company, aQuantive. More »

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      Google  • Microsoft  • YouTube  • Internet advertising  • MTV  • Viacom  • DoubleClick  • Comedy Central  • Paramount  • aQuantive

    • Striking Writers Turn to Web Biz

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 17, 07 4:18 AM CST

      Striking Writers Turn to Web Biz

      Dozens of striking film and TV writers are creating new companies that would bypass Hollywood studios and present original video entertainment directly on the Internet. Three groups of writers are working on ventures similar to United Artists, the production company created by Charlie Chaplin and other stars who wanted to break from the studio system, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

    • Video Caught in Copyright Claim

      newser  |  Wired  |  Dec 13, 07 1:18 AM CST

      Video Caught in Copyright Claim

      A parody video about the return of an Internet bubble by Bay Area group Richter Scales has been taken down from YouTube for copyright reasons, after a photographer complained about one of her images being used, Wired reports. The group claimed that it since it was satire, it was fair use, but Lane Hartwell said she was sick of her images being stolen. More »

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      YouTube  • copyright  • photography  • Flickr  • photographers

    • On YouTube Anti-Vaccine Vids Trump Science

      newser  |  Canadian Press  |  Dec 6, 07 5:21 PM CST

      On YouTube Anti-Vaccine Vids Trump Science

      A new JAMA study reports that when it comes to at least one important public health subject on YouTube, theories rejected in the medical community have trumped official information in viewership. Controversial anti-vaccination videos are getting more hits and higher ratings than those touting the accepted science. The findings appear in the latest issue of the medical journal. More »

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      YouTube  • vaccination  • American Medical Association  • immunization

    • U(Tube) Can't Touch This!

      newser  |  NPR  |  Dec 5, 07 3:59 PM CST

      U(Tube) Can't Touch This!

      Dance is lighting up small screens all over—witness “Dancing with the Stars,” “So You Think You Can Dance?,” and Jud Laipply's “The Evolution of Dance”—currently the most viewed clip on YouTube. But it's going to be Hammer Time again, as dance-icon MC Hammer seeks to tap this phenomenon with DanceJam, a YouTube-style site focusing only on dance videos. More »

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      YouTube  • dance  • Dancing With the Stars  • MC Hammer

    • iPhone Tops Google Search List

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Dec 5, 07 12:28 PM CST

      iPhone Tops Google Search List

      The iPhone topped Google’s list of fastest-growing search terms this year, reports Reuters. "iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006,” said a Google rep. “It didn’t exist.” The list was dominated by social networking and celebrity terms. iPhone Webkinz TMZ More »

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      list  • Google  • Apple  • Facebook  • YouTube  • iPhone  • MySpace  • search engine  • Heroes  • TMZ  • Transformers  • Webkinz  • Club Penguin

    • Nielsen Wants Role as Online Video Cop

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 5, 07 10:11 AM CST

      Nielsen Wants Role as Online Video Cop

      Television ratings giant Nielsen is getting set to take a new role—video piracy cop. The company says its new service, Digital Media Manager, will fingerprint programming to make sure videos can be posted on Internet sites like MySpace and YouTube only if they have owners' permission, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »

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      Google  • YouTube  • MySpace  • Nielsen  • DVD piracy

    • '08 Race Adds Google Pilgrimage

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Dec 2, 07 10:29 AM CST

      '08 Race Adds Google Pilgrimage

      Where Detroit once beckoned to any candidate who would be president, the 2008 field is making increasing pilgrimages to the Googleplex to showcase their tech savvy, reports the New York Times. And YouTube, which didn't even exist in the last presidential election, has launched YouChoose ’08, a modern version of Sunday morning news shows politicians use to explain their platform. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • John McCain  • election 2008  • Google  • YouTube  • John Edwards  • Detroit  • campaign trail

    • Taser Trooper Cleared

      newser  |  Deseret News (Salt Lake)  |  Dec 1, 07 6:46 AM CST

      Taser Trooper Cleared

      A Utah Highway Patrolman who Tasered a motorist in the back has been cleared of wrongdoing, the Deseret Morning News reports. A public-safety panel found that cop Jon Gardner had been justified in zapping motorist Jon Massey as he was walking back to his car after a traffic stop. Gardner has been getting death threats since Massey posted a dash-cam video on YouTube, where it's been viewed over a million times. More »

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      YouTube  • police  • Utah  • highways  • Taser

  • November 2007

    • GOP Debate Turns Testy

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 28, 07 7:37 PM CST

      GOP Debate Turns Testy

      Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney wasted little time getting into attack mode tonight as the eight Republican candidates squared off in a feisty debate. Romney said Giuliani encouraged illegal aliens to settle in NYC when he was mayor, and Giuliani accused Romney of employing illegal aliens at his home, which he labeled a "sanctuary mansion." At one point, the audience booed Giuliani when he persisted in his attack, the AP reports. More »

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      Mitt Romney  • Rudy Giuliani  • Republicans  • YouTube

    • New Trend May Have Fans Shout, 'I Want My ITV!'

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Nov 26, 07 2:41 AM CST

      New Trend May Have Fans Shout, 'I Want My ITV!'

      MTV just may become a thing of the past, thanks to a new wave sweeping the Net called “interactive video.” Encouraged by the popularity of music videos online, but frustrated by poor web quality, producers are allowing users to create their own video-viewing experience. Indie favorite Arcade Fire released their new single by letting fans click through the band’s clips. More »

    • Juan Carlos' 'Shut Up' Still Ringing

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Nov 19, 07 3:37 PM CST

      Juan Carlos' 'Shut Up' Still Ringing

      A diplomatic misstep by Spain's king has rung in a $2 million windfall: A ringtone of Juan Carlos asking Hugo Chavez "Why don't you shut up?" has been downloaded about 500,000 times. Many fans are student foes of the Venezuelan president. Several versions use actors to avoid copyright issues, but one lawyer says even using the expression might violate Juan Carlos' rights, the Guardian reports. More »

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      YouTube  • Hugo Chavez  • Spain  • ringtones

    • Americans Turn to Web TV, And Advertisers Too

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Nov 16, 07 12:56 PM CST

      Americans Turn to Web TV, And Advertisers Too

      As broadband Internet access becomes all-pervasive, more Americans are turning from the tube to YouTube—and Madison Avenue is taking notice. The New York Times looks at the advertising industry's foray into online television, eager to get their products in front of the young, male, affluent audiences of Internet channels like Blip.TV or Blame Society. The technique is different, with product placement at the heart of the strategy. More »

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      television  • YouTube  • advertising  • Internet advertising  • McDonald's  • web video  • Madison Avenue

    • Inside the 'PayPal Mafia'

      newser  |  CNN  |  Nov 15, 07 4:55 AM CST

      Inside the 'PayPal Mafia'

      They may be the most brilliantly successful—or luckiest—or both—small group of entrepreneurs in history: PayPal alumni who, like founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, left the company to create $30 billion worth of innovation: YouTube, Facebook, Slide, Yelp, Digg, investment firms, philanthropies, solar-power companies, an electric car maker and a Mars colonization plan. Fortune Magazine infiltrates the "PayPal Mafia" for clues to their success. More »

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      Facebook  • YouTube  • eBay  • Silicon Valley  • PayPal  • Peter Thiel

    • The Very Best of Viral Video

      newser  |  PC World  |  Nov 12, 07 2:00 PM CST

      The Very Best of Viral Video

      Humor, embarrassment, obscenity, and silliness are a recipe for success in the age of YouTube. PC World clicks on the classics of a young medium: Bush and Kerry Sing "This Land Is Your Land": JibJab puts itself on the map. The Coke and Mentos Experiments: Geysers of soda set to music? Thumbs up. Back Dorm Boys: Two Chinese students passionately lip-synching to the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" create an instant classic. More »

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      list  • YouTube  • viral video  • George Lucas  • Chad Vader  • LonelyGirl15

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