Mar 22

ComScore: Microsoft becomes second for online video in one month

Posted in: Google, Microsoft, Online, stats, streaming, streaming video, StreamingVideo, Today's Chili, video, Yahoo, YouTube

Earlier this month, we got word that Bing had surpassed Yahoo! as the world’s second most used search engine, and now Microsoft’s solidifying its place as runner-up, coming in behind YouTube as the internet’s number two provider of streaming video, with 48 million unique viewers in February. According to ComScore’s latest ranking of online video providers, the software giant went from number seven to number two in just one month, bumping Yahoo! down to third place. Of course, YouTube is still way out in front, with over 140 million visitors, but given the speed with which it leaped ahead, we’d say Bing is doing something right. Check out more online video results after the break.

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ComScore: Microsoft becomes second for online video in one month originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 20

This Week’s Best YouTube Videos: Nuclear Boy, Black Friday, First Person Mario, and More

Posted in: Miscellaneous Tech, Today's Chili, videos, YouTube

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Have you ever wondered what Super Mario Bros. would look like as a first person shooter? Maybe you’ve watched coverage of last week’s earthquake and the ensuing tsunami in Japan and wondered exactly how terrifying it would be to be there? Maybe you’re not quite sure about the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, and could use a primer. There are videos for all of those questions and topics in this week’s YouTube roundup.
An adorable animation that describes the nuclear issue in Japan so clearly that a child could understand it (and that probably needs to be run on major news networks here in the US,) an amazing video from a driver’s dashboard camera as the tsunami comes up over the seawall next to his vehicle and engulfs him (he manages to escape,) a baby who is honestly terrified of his mother’s nose, and a video of some lady singing that no one really noticed until the Internet converged to make fun of her. Stay classy, Internet.
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Mar 16

2007 YouTube Video Award Winners…

Posted in: Google, Today's Chili, videos, Web Sites, YouTube

This article was written on March 21, 2008 by CyberNet.

The second annual YouTube Video Award nominees were announced last week (view 1st annual here). After a week of voting, the winners have been chosen! YouTube does this to reflect on the year and recognize the best videos of 2007, although now that we’re three months into 2008, we’ve just about forgotten the happenings of 2007. Winners get “bragging rights, a trophy and a special invitation to an event later this year.”

Below you’ll find a “YouTube viewer” to make it easy to switch between the videos, but it only works if you have JavaScript enabled. In no particular order, here are our favorite five YouTube Video Award Winners for 2007:

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To checkout the complete list of winners, click here. Have a favorite? Let us know in the comments below!

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Mar 16

Google buys Green Parrot Pictures, looking to make YouTube vids easier on the eye

Posted in: Google, Online, Software, stream, streaming, Today's Chili, video, web, YouTube

If you can’t fix it, buy someone who can. That must be Google’s rationale behind this latest acquisition, as the proprietor of YouTube has just bought Green Parrot Pictures, a company concerned solely with enhancing and improving the quality of video content. Through the use of some fancy motion prediction algorithms, the Irish startup has been able to build a name for itself over the past few years, and now it’s been snapped up by the biggest fish in the online video ocean. The removal of flicker, noise and blotches from poorly executed recordings sounds nice, but we’re most excited by Green Parrot’s video stabilization feature. With all the cameraphone video being uploaded nowadays, there’s plenty of camera shake populating YouTube’s archives, and the addition of such a potent post-production technique seems like a veritable boon to us. Check out video demos of the stabilization algorithm and Green Parrot’s other technologies below.

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Mar 13

This Week’s Best YouTube Videos: Massive Earthquakes, Cyndi Lauper, Charlie Sheen, Crazy Cheerleaders, and More

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Some of the most viewed videos this week appeared moments after Friday’s magnitude 8.9 earthquake rocked Japan, and the subsequent tsunami washed over Sedai, in Miyagi Prefecture. There are plenty of videos of the devastation, the fires, and the water, but some of the most impactful videos are first-hand accounts filmed with cell phones that illustrate exactly how terrifying being in an earthquake can be. 
Aside from the events in Japan, the biggest hits on YouTube this week included Charlie Sheen’s appearance in a Funny or Die skit that either brings out the crazy in full force or proves to us all that he’s a marketing genius, Cyndi Lauper performing to soothe stranded passengers at an airport, a cheerleader who flips her lid, and more.
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Mar 11

YouTube Going on Hiring Spree

Posted in: Google, Miscellaneous Tech, Today's Chili, YouTube
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What’s this? Honest-to-god good news in the face of on-going economic disaster? Why it sure is. Looks like YouTube will be expanding its staff by around 30 percent, making 2011 the video site’s biggest year of hiring. 

The Google video site will be adding around 200 staff members to its current ranks of around 650. YouTube is looking for folks to fill in a diverse range of positions throughout the world, with a number located at the company’s headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Says YouTube HR exec Jeff Ferguson, “We now have aspiring filmmakers and musicians building their careers on YouTube, activists opening our eyes to global issues and individuals telling their stories in ways that only video can capture. And because we believe that technology and platforms like YouTube are giving rise to the most diverse set of faces and voices ever seen or heard in human history, us YouTubers really enjoy and feel proud to work here.”
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Mar 08

YouTube’s Payout Broken Down

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This article was written on February 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

On Wednesday, a regulatory filing that Google made with the SEC revealed the details of the Google/YouTube deal. And in that deal were some unlikely recipients, many of which became instant millionaires.

First we’ll start with the obvious co-founders, Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jarwed Karim.  Between the three of them, their payout totaled $700 million in Google Stock. And to think, it all started in a Menlo Park Garage two years ago, and all three of them are still in their 20′s.

Chad Hurley received Google shares worth a total of $345 million. Steven Chen received shares worth $326 million, and Jarwim Karim’s chunk was valued at $64.6 million. Sequoia Capital who backed YouTube received stocks worth around $442 million.

YouTube employees, and others with connections to YouTube  became instant millions are well including the office manager, and co-founder Chad Hurley’s parents.

Now to the un-likely recipients. How about talk show host Maury Povich who wasn’t too fond of YouTube to begin with because of the countless shows of his that were posted to YouTube over time.  He’s getting a payout because of a contribution he made to a venture capital fund managed by Sequoia Capital who dumped millions into YouTube.

When asked about his payout, Maury said “It’s like I caught lightning in a jar, I had no idea I even owned a part of YouTube.” I bet he feels different about YouTube now!

Other people that got a chunk of the payout include:

  • Electornic Arts Inc. Chariman Lawrence Probst III – 2.4 million
  • Yahoo co-found jerry Yang – $160,000
  • Netscape Communicatiosn co-founder Marc Andreessen – $120,000

There were even two schools that got a chunk:

  • Notre Dame – 18.8 million
  • University of Southern California – $14.6 Million

Of course this is the short list of people that received part of the payout.  There were many, many others with associations with YouTube or Sequoia Capital who walked away with a few extra bucks in their pocket.

Below is a graph which clearly shows YouTube’s explosive growth in 2006. They’ve definitely made a name for themselves and have a few million to show for their hard work.

Source: CNN

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Mar 08

Next New Networks purchased by yesterday’s old YouTube, more custom content on the way

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Next New Networks purchased by yesterday's old YouTube

Tired of the unprofessional, poorly-lit, generally unfunny clips that get uploaded to YouTube by the thousands every day? How about some rather more professional looking but still potentially unfunny content? Welcome to YouTube Next. That’s what Next Now Networks is calling its new focus, “supercharging content creator development on YouTube” after being bought by that company, which itself is still a fairly recent Google acquisition. The Next New Networks goal was to work with independent “talent” to develop their online following, helping them find “paths to revenue.” Along the way that company found itself somewhere south of $50 million dollars, according to The New York Times, and has lost its CEO in the progress. What’s next for the two? More YouTube superstars, naturally.

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Mar 06

This Week’s Best YouTube Videos: Shuttle Launches, Tiger Blood, Robot Armor, Rick Rolls, and More

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The best that YouTube had to offer this week runs the gamut from a robotic exoskeleton that will either make your jaw drop in wonder and amazement (or creep you out) all the way up to a hilarious remix of the now infamous Charlie Sheen interview that will also get you up to speed on the whole Charlie Sheen thing if you haven’t been paying attention. 
That’s only the half of it, though. There’s a shuttle launch taken from a truly unique perspective in this week’s video lineup, a trailer for what could be the theatrical embodiment of every Internet meme ever seen, and more.
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Mar 03

Tokyo Girls Collection x YouTube for live-steam fashion

Posted in: Fashion, Google, Today's Chili, YouTube

Google is on a mission to connect with Japan at the moment. Following its More With Google ad demonstrating its image-searching as a fashion show, now it is actually participating in a real one, namely Tokyo Girls Collection.

And you don’t get more utilitarian and user-friendly a fashion event than the popular Tokyo Girls Collection, which famously innovated a whole new platform for mobile phone interaction, e-commerce and brand showcasing.

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In collaboration with Google, Saturday’s Tokyo Girls Collection event at Yoyogi in central Tokyo will be streamed live on a special official YouTube channel, with three screens on offer for web visitors to view. The planned eight hours of realtime footage will include happenings on the main stage, backstage interviews with participants, and reports by the MC, says FashionSnap.

Mirroring the actual event, retail is integrated into this new digital version, with links to buy the fashion items online as they are showcased. After the live streaming is over there will be also be selected video highlights available.

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Apparently you can even submit questions to the models and stylists through the Tokyo Girls Collection channel, as long as you have a Google account and are signed in. This replicates online the edge the now biannual TGC has always pushed of bringing closer together the power-house triumvirate of models, young fashion fans and e-commerce.

This also follows a precedent set by the major fashion shows and brands around the world, who have been live-streaming their events. Louis Vuitton even recently broadcast a collection via facebook, followed just hours later by 360-degree viewable images of the clothes.

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