FeVote Adds Scribd, Flickr and YouTube Media to “Suggestion Box”

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Nearly every company has a suggestion box, and for online companies, that suggestion box sends along a nice little email to the “community guy.” When FeVote came around, they made structured suggestion boxes easier for users and companies to manage, and today it’s rolled out some new options ...

The Tribune Launches Several YouTube Channels

Friday, November 30th, 2007

As many content providers have done in the past year, The Tribune is launching branded YouTube channels for its newspapers and television stations. This initiative comes from Tribune Interactive, which is a division of Tribune Company. The group is launching a branded channel for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, ...

In Case You Need to Digg and YouTube at the Same Time

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

What’s the easiest way to keep track of your Dugg YouTube videos? Use a mashup. Paul Yanez has created one such application, which goes by no name but is simply called the Digg and YouTube mashup. Open up the application here, and you’ll see a giant YouTube ...

YouTube Censors Egyptian Police Brutality

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

The shifting policies of YouTube and Google on censorship and free speech continue to throw the relatively clean reputation of the company into jeopardy. Over the last year and a half, several high profile cases of censorship have emerged, creating an indecipherable policy of what is or is not kosher: ...

YouTube and UStream Go Political

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

The Web 2.0 political pressure cooker is heating up this week with several high profile events taking place. Coming up on Wednesday is the much hyped CNN-YouTube Republican debate, with @AndersonCooper moderating. There have been a number of great videos rising through the ranks that I’ve watched, but I’m not ...

More Hypocritical YouTube Censorship

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Google, YouTube, Yahoo and Facebook, along with other large Internet entities are arguably becoming far more powerful than any single governmental entity when it comes to the promotion of or the inhibition of free speech.  There is no doubt that New Media in the form of blogging, video posting and ...

John Howard’s YouTube Plea for Votes…Without a Video.

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Those Australian readers out there will probably be more familiar with this story than the rest of the world, but the election concerning the country’s Prime Minister John Howard has caused quite a frenzy in recent weeks. Actually, it appears that John Howard is the one that’s worked himself ...

UN Wants Your YouTube Vids To Fight Hunger

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

In a (perhaps fruitless?) effort to prove that YouTube is not just a place to post videos of your hamster dancing to David Hasselhoff’s hits, the United Nations’ food aid agency launched a contest for the best short movie with the topic of global hunger. The contest, officially launched by ...

California Brings Driving School to YouTube

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

The California DMV has taken to the YouTube craze. That does sound crazy indeed. But it didn’t stop there. It’s doing the whole social networking rounds, creating a profile on MySpace. The whole shebang. It’s rolling out helpful videos (the most amusing of which ...

YouTube Desktop is Now iDesktop.TV

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

You may remember YouTube Desktop, a video aggregator that came on the scene at the height of the video aggregator onslaught. You can read our initial review here. Well, we haven’t heard from the company since the launch, but that’s probably because its team has been behind the ...

YouTube Fixes Security Vulnerability

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Until recently, YouTube has been vulnerable to cross-domain Ajax attacks due to their open crossdomain.xml policy. I notified them as soon as I discovered the vulnerability, and although I have yet to receive a reply, it appears they have fixed the pro...