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This article was written on April 19, 2007 by CyberNet.

Back in January, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley confirmed plans to share revenue with users who upload original content to YouTube. At the time, he said not to expect it right away, but also not to expect one big release. Instead, the feature would be rolled out over the period of a few months.

Several sources are reporting that YouTube is now in fact ready to start rolling this feature out as soon as next week.  Revenue would be split 50/50, and users will have the option of selecting whether they want the ads at the beginning or the end of their video.

This continues YouTube’s quest to promote creativity which they thrive off of.  Recent numbers indicate just how important original, creative, non-copyrighted material is for YouTube. While many people thought they really needed the big media to stay afloat, they’ve proven that they don’t.

YouTube wouldn’t be the first online video service to split revenue with their users. Revver and Metacafe have shared the wealth with their users, and some of them have made a pretty penny off of it. The more popular your video becomes, the more money you make — which will help push the creative content.

Also keep in mind that YouTube’s filtering system is set to debut soon– perhaps “claim your content” and revenue sharing will be launched at the same time?

Source: Mashable

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

MySpace TV has launched. Go take a look for yourself and the first thing you’ll probably notice is that it has a very familiar resemblance of YouTube. Yep, MySpaceTV blatantly copied YouTube in more ways than one. While it makes sense for MySpace to take a video-sharing route, they could’ve at least put some effort into making the site their own.

Download Squad puts it best when they say, “If you can’t beat them, become them” because that’s exactly what they did.

Some of the similarities that initially stood out for me:

• Upload Videos – same location, both use arrow icon
• Tabbing – same location, just a different order plus one additional tab with MySpace
• Featured Videos– front and center!
• Related Videos– when watching a video, related videos are to the bottom right. Same exact location as YouTube

I guess on the bright side, if you’re familiar with YouTube and you’re thinking about using MySpaceTV, there won’t be many changes to get used to!

Mashable put together a great comparison of the two that points out twelve different similarities. This doesn’t really come as a surprise though, because it seems everybody copies one another these days.

Hopefully for MySpace, their new TV site will fair better than MySpace News. Remember that? There was a decent amount of hype surrounding it when it launched back in April. I just went to check on it today and there are only a few votes for each news story. Rather pathetic if you ask me.

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This article was written on February 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

When Viacom pulled out the carpet underneath YouTube, I’m sure YouTube wasn’t expecting it was because there was someone else coming into the picture. Viacom left, and headed on over to Joost which is just getting their start. On the Joost site, they say that they’re a new way of watching TV on the Internet with channels, programs, and adverts.

So now just a couple of weeks after Viacom ordered the 100,000 videos be removed from YouTube, Viacom has made a new deal that involves the licensing of hundreds of hours of programming from networks like MTV, Comedy Central, Spike, and even movies from Paramount.

What makes Joost more appealing for Viacom is that users aren’t able to upload content themselves.  That may not be very appealing for some users who’d like the option for uploading their content, but what is appealing is that Joost will be running full episodes, and to boot? High-quality resolution, which is something you wouldn’t find from YouTube.

No financial deals about the agreement have been disclosed yet, however, typically Viacom has gotten two-thirds of ad revenue for their compensation.

Joost has a sign-up if you want to get in on the beta testing. They say that they’re getting thousands of applications a day, so it may take time for them to get to you. Sign-up is here, and just requires basic info.

A couple of interesting facts: Joost was started by Niklas Zennstrm and Janus Friis. Recognize those names? They were the two founders of file-sharing service Kazaa, and Skype. They swept up $2.69 billion when Skype was acquired by eBay, so clearly they’re not running into problems financing the Joost deal.

Source: Reuters [via Gizmodo]

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This article was written on July 19, 2007 by CyberNet.

We had heard about a corporate version of YouTube coming, but all of a sudden YouTube launched a new feature for everyone that lets you customize the YouTube player. It’s definitely a unique aspect that I think some sites will really grasp onto, but as it stands right now it looks as though you can only choose from a few default themes.

I tried it out (as you can see above) and it is actually pretty nice. It makes it easy to embed an entire playlist of videos (from some you’ve uploaded or added as a favorite), and you can even have it show the playlist along side the video so that people can easily navigate between them. This is actually really useful for when videos are broken up into a series because each video wouldn’t have to be embedded separately. If you decide to choose the standard-looking player, which I used above, users can navigate between the different videos using the thumbnails at the bottom which normally represent the related videos.

It will be interesting to see what route Google decides to take on this, and it really has me wondering whether users would be able to completely customize the theme later on. I guess that could be one of the perks for the corporate users though.

And if you haven’t seen the "Quick Change Artists" video that I embedded check it out. It’s pretty cool, although I can’t quite figure out how they do it.

Source: Google Operating System

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Tonight, President Obama will deliver the annual State of the Union address, and while partisan politics (and some great shots of various people nodding off) will rule the night, the US government is getting into the Web 2.0 game in a big way tonight. The speech — scheduled for 9:00 pm ET — will be streamed live on the web, and immediately following said speech, the White House will host an ‘Open for Questions’ event on Twitter making use of the hashtag #sotu, while other government officials will answer questions submitted on Facebook, as well as the White House website’s webform. On Thursday night, the President will also answer questions on YouTube. We’ll let you know if and when the government hatches a plan to answer questions on Yahoo! Answers.

[Image Credit: Pete Souza for the White House]

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