With the release of the Chromecast came the second wave of Google’s vision for ultra-simple “flinging” of content from your Android device to a larger display. As the Nexus Q took a belly dive, the much smaller and simpler Chromecast took hold, it being small enough to fit in a person’s pocket and able to […]
Virgin Mobile has introduced what it called “BlinkWashing,” an advertisement system of sorts that — with permission — uses your webcam to track your eyes while watching a YouTube video, causing the advertisement to change every time you blink. The company is showing off the feature on its YouTube page, where anyone with a webcam […]
It seems that the floodgates have been opened by YouTube, as the video hosting site has begun to allow users to beam videos to their Chromecast devices regardless of which website that they are on at that particular point in time. The addition of Chromecast support was embedded to its web player on the quiet, enabling users of Google’s TV dongle to “send” videos that are shown on third-party websites directly from their browser to their TV.
In the past, casting was only supported from YouTube.com, so this is definitely a step in the right direction. Several Chromecast users did start to report that recently, they managed to see the dongle’s play to TV button popping up on embedded videos on Google+, in addition to other sites. A YouTube spokesperson said this, “With more videos coming to YouTube every minute we’re always experimenting with ways to help people more easily find, watch and share the videos that matter most to them. As always, we’ll consider rolling changes out more broadly based on feedback on these experiments.” This is one move that makes plenty of sense for YouTube, as it could allow folks to view videos for longer periods of time, and in turn, YouTube will be able to show more ads, now how about that for a win-win situation?
YouTube Allows Users To Beam Videos To Chromecast Devices original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Anyone wanting to stream YouTube videos through a Chromecast currently has to visit YouTube’s website or run one of its mobile apps. Viewers may soon have more options, though, as Google has confirmed to GigaOM that it’s publicly testing Chromecast support for embedded YouTube clips on third-party web pages. Right now, access is random at best — the “send to” button only appears some of the time, and might not be available to everyone. The company says it’s monitoring feedback from these experiments, however, and it could offer embedded video support to more Chromecast owners if all goes well.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Internet, HD, Google
Source: GigaOM
Google Keep stores its content in Drive, but it doesn’t pull content from Drive. That may change, however, as Google Operating System has spotted some unused Drive integration code within the Android app. They suggest that users could attach Drive files to their notes and either view them directly or open them in third-party software. Media hounds wouldn’t have to upload video, though — there’s mention of embedding YouTube clips. The code doesn’t guarantee that Keep will be file-savvy in the near future, but it does show that Google is at least considering such an upgrade.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Google
Via: The Next Web
Source: Google Operating System
Google+’s Hangouts On Air is a nice feature for broadcasting yourself to the world, but it’s been a bit of a one-way street when it comes to interacting with your droves of adoring fans. Mountain View will be addressing that problem over the next few days with the rollout of Live Q&A, a feature that lets On Air hosts solicit, select and answer Qs you can A from up to one million simultaneous viewers. Those questions will be timestamped and added to the YouTube recording of the video, as well. The full version of the feature is coming to the desktop version of Google+, with read-only hitting Android devices.
Filed under: Internet, Software, Google
Source: Google+
Glass still isn’t quite ready for the consumer, but Google’s wearable platform just keeps getting better and more powerful thanks to frequent software updates. Today’s version bump brings YouTube to your search results and also grants access to those with Google Apps accounts. It also brings the Shazam-like Sound Search from Android to your head-mounted display. Most interesting though, is Vignettes, which allows you to lay your current Glass display over a photo to produce an image like the one you see above. Think of it like a screenshot tool for your real, very nerdy life. One can only imagine that eventually Vignettes will get a video mode, but for now its still photos only. If you’re one of the lucky Explorers you can download the update now. The rest of you will have to live vicariously through the photos at the source.
Filed under: Wearables, Google
Source: Google Glass (Google+), XE9 Release Notes
Filmmaker Casey Neistat and Mercedez-Benz don’t pair easily in people’s minds. One’s a YouTube renegade, the other is the manufacturer of cars you can’t afford. And yet! They teamed up and made an ad. The result is as surprising and weird as you’d expect it to be.
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There is some fantastic art on YouTube. There are also some hideous comments on YouTube. Probably more of the latter than the former. But hey, at least there aren’t YouTube comments on all art.
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If you’ve been keeping an eye on your mobile device, you’ll know Google has started to roll out a new logo for YouTube starting just a few weeks ago. Instead of the plump “YouTube” logo that we’ve all come to know, the application now has a red background with a play button placed in the middle of it, keeping things very simple. It looks like Google has further rolled out this change in its logo as both its Facebook and Twitter profiles now also adopt the simplistic look the mobile apps have portrayed. (more…)
New YouTube Logo Makes Its Way To Service’s YouTube, Twitter Profiles original content from Ubergizmo. 
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