YouTube
Summary
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, BBC, Vevo and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos.
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A new way to make six figures on the Web: teaching
Miguel Hernandez, the founder of a company specializing in explanatory videos for startups, said he spent about three hours a day for three weeks making an online video course explaining his craft. But, last year, that one video series earned him nearly six figures on the online course platform Udemy.
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Can Web-Only Original Programming Finally Stick?
The days of skateboarding dogs holding sway on the web may be numbered. Technology companies and advertisers are professing their belief in the value of professionally produced original content.
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Local newspapers' crisis: is hyperlocal journalism the answer?
Many apologies for the hiatus in my serialisation of What do we mean by local?* I am pleased to return with an extract from a chapter by David Baines, a lecturer at Newcastle university.
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Uefa ramps up digital presence in Champions League final run-up
Ahead of this Saturday's Champions League final, Uefa is engaging with fans on a host of digital platforms and will live-stream its 'Ultimate Champions' exhibition game on Google+, YouTube and its own website for the first time.
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Google to meet French regulator on privacy policy
PARIS (Reuters) - Google will meet with France's data protection watchdog next week to answer questions about its new user privacy policy as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French regulator.
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Is Turner’s Funny or Die deal the start of a trend?
Has a rush of new alliances between large cable programming conglomerates and independent producers of online video begun?.
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Twitter and Reddit as crowdsourced fact-checking engines
Social networks like Twitter and web communities like Reddit often get criticized for being the source of nefarious rumors and false news reports, including the deaths of innumerable celebrities who are very much alive. But just as fakes and hoaxes can spread more widely and efficiently through the web than they can in print or other forms of media, they can be debunked more quickly as well.
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Lampooning video of New Jersey's Christie, Booker goes viral
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A video made by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to spoof himself and Newark Mayor Cory Booker - in which Booker repeatedly bests Christie with effortless acts of heroism - went viral on Wednesday.
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Flipboard + public radio could be a killer combo
“Want to keep mobile users engaged longer?” I wrote a year ago. “Just add audio. ”.
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Google to meet French regulator on privacy policy
PARIS (Reuters) - Google will meet with France's data protection watchdog next week to answer questions about its new user privacy policy as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French regulator.
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