Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on March 28, 2007 by CyberNet.

Not to be confused with youtube.com/mobile which allows you to upload YouTube videos from you phone, the new YouTube Mobile will make it easy to watch your favorite videos from your cell phone, rate them, and comment.

Back in November last year, Chad Hurley, one of YouTube’s founders mentioned that a mobile service would be released in 2007.  We knew it would be coming, we just didn’t know the specifics. This new service (http://m.youtube.com) will be launched in June for the U.S., and one month prior for European Users.

According to GigaOm, the site will have 800 different “editorial picks” that users would be able to select from to stream onto their phone to watch. Eventually they would hope to make it the full experience where any video could be selected. Now the question comes up about the accessibility of Broadband Internet on your mobile phone to view the videos. Hopefully cell phone service providers have changed some of their policies to make this possible.

Last August Ryan wrote about Verizon’s “Unlimited EVDO Wireless” which wasn’t so unlimited.  In fact, a Verizon customer was cut-off from his “unlimited” wireless for using more than 40 times what the “norm was”.  After looking at the fine print of the Verizon contract, we found this:

Services cannot be used: (1) for uploading, downloading or streaming of movies, music or games; (2) with server devices or with host computer applications, including, but not limited to, Web camera posts or broadcasts, automatic data feeds, Voice over IP (VoIP), automated machine-to-machine connections, or peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing.

I haven’t gone to seek out the fine print for Cell Phone Internet services recently, but if other providers have similar statements in their contracts, this could cause quit an uproar!

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Since Christmas is the season of giving, here we are with word that the YouTube channel is now available over on the Roke 3 player, and it will take into effect for folks who happen to live in the U.S. Canada, U.K. and the Republic of Ireland. As for those who happen to own other player models, fret not – it is but a temporary delay as the YouTube channel is tipped to be made available only on other player models in the year to come, which is not too far away, actually.

With the YouTube channel being made available, it more or less rounds out the industry-leading selection of streaming entertainment in due time for the mad holiday season. You should also be able to enjoy some of the annual year-end best-of video lists including YouTube’s very own compiled list of top trending videos that was introduced in the week before. YouTube has become so much more than just a place for you to upload your latest vacation videos, and it has more or less a little bit of something for everyone.

Apart from that, there is also the “Send to TV” feature which allows customers to pair a smartphone or tablet to YouTube on the Roku 3. Doing so is a snap, where all you need to do is to connect your device to the same Wi-Fi network that the Roku is hooked on to, and using a single click, you can then send videos to your Roku. [Press Release]

YouTube Now Available On The Roku 3 original content from Ubergizmo.

The YouTube app is now available on Roku 3, and it features full HD streaming and a send to TV feature from your phone. Might we suggest this Beyonce video as a candidate for the first thing you watch?

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Can you believe it? We are about to kiss goodbye to 2013, and 2014 will soon be upon us like a flurry. Well, at the end of each year, most folks are rather reflective in nature, thinking about what has gone past, and there is also a renewed sense of hope for things to change for the better in the year ahead. YouTube has decided to do their bit with their annual list of some of the more memorable videos throughout the year, and considering how 80% of all views on YouTube hail from outside the US, it just goes to show how involved the global community is when it comes to driving pop culture.

The Fox has been watched more than 275 million times, which makes it the highest trending video for the year. Apart from that, record-setting numbers were hit when it came to PSY’s post-”Gangnam Style” performance. 1.7 million plus of DIY “Harlem Shake” videos were uploaded, numbering more than the souls living in Manhattan. As part of the celebration of the aforementioned moments, over 60 top creators on YouTube decided to collaborate on a video for everyone which you can enjoy above. It is stuff like this from YouTube that we love, not violation warnings served to gaming channels. [Press Release]

YouTube Shares Some Impactful Videos For The Year original content from Ubergizmo.

Surprise, humans spent a lot of time watching YouTube in 2013. And that time wasn’t spread equally among all videos. Nay, some videos got more than their fair share of eyeballs. Here are the most popular YouTube videos (and music videos) of 2013, for your viewing pleasure.

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