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New C-SPAN channel on YouTube
Posted on: April 23, 2008
- In: C-SPAN | channel | googleblog | new | YouTube
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As the 2008 election progresses, more and more voters are tuning into YouTube to stay on top of the action. Our You Choose ’08 platform now features content from candidates, news organizations, and voters, and we’ve made it easier than ever to see where the candidates stand on each of the major issues in this election. The next big stop on the campaign trail is Pennsylvania, so we’re partnering with C-SPAN to collect videos from voters across the country who will answer the question, “What is the most important issue to you in this election?”
This is our fourth voter video program. We started in Iowa, went on to New Hampshire, and then went national on Super Tuesday. With C-SPAN, we’re adding a new twist: in the week leading up to the Pennsylvania primaries on April 22, we’ll be on the C-SPAN election bus throughout the state, collecting videos straight from the campaign trail.
. In a way, YouTube politics has given voters everywhere the opportunity to create their own “C-SPANs” and make the election all the more transparent and accessible to voters everywhere. And that’s a fundamentally good thing. So tune into C-SPAN’s YouTube channel in the coming days to check out the videos we’re getting from voters — and to submit your own.
Comedy, Funded By Warner Bros
Posted on: April 22, 2008
- In: Comedy | Funded | Studio 2.0 | Warner Bros | Warner Brother’s | YouTube
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New series Viralcom takes Dan Ackerman Greenberg’s theory of viral video one step further into a fully fledged viral video machine.
The series comes from Warner Brother’s Studio 2.0 and takes a look behind the scenes at the web’s hottest “User Generated Content” studio for an exclusive look at the “real” viral video industry: a digital Hollywood where the A-listers are celebs (Chris Crocker and the Chocolate Rain guy make an appearance), and where favorite YouTube classics are professionally produced.
Promo above and the first two episodes below the fold for those interested.
Incredible walking robot ‘Big Dog’
Posted on: April 4, 2008
- In: Antarctic | Big Dog | Boston Dynamics | DARPA | Futurist.com | Incredible | Open The Future | robot | YouTube
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Check out this incredible video of Boston Dynamics’ robot ‘Big Dog’. The quadruped robot stumbles on ice, maneuvers through snow, climbs over blocks and recovers after being kicked. ‘Big Dog’ is being developed in association with DARPA for use as an Army pack horse that doesn’t tire.
The robot has a certain ‘AT-AT’ quality, doesn’t it? It’s amazing how creepily lifelike its movements are. If you had to trek across the desert or Antarctic, would you like a ‘Big Dog’ around carrying your gear?
[via Futurist.com and Open The Future, Youtube video by Boston Dynamics]
- In: controversial | Dailymotion | Dutch | Europe | film | Fitna | Internet | Islam | lawmaker | LiveLeak | Muslims | Portable Video | response | YouTube
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Officials braced for protests as a lawmaker posted on the Internet a controversial video about what he sees as the threat of Islam to Europe. Some Muslims say they expected worse.
PARIS — A young Muslim girl in a head scarf calls Jews “apes and pigs.” A nonbeliever is beheaded and another is shot. Verses of the Koran are juxtaposed with horrific images, implying that one begets the other.
The new film by right-wing Dutch legislator Geert Wilders, first posted on the Internet late Thursday, had everyone from the Dutch prime minister to soldiers in Afghanistan braced for angry reactions from offended Muslims. Even before the film was released, there were protests this month by 15,000 people in Afghanistan, with many burning the Dutch flag.
And a spokesman for the Amsterdam police said Friday that the force was on alert and that extra officers would be on the streets in Muslim neighborhoods this weekend.
Before Friday’s midday call to prayer, police were busy contacting imams to gauge reaction at the city’s 50 mosques. But as of late Friday, reaction there appeared muted.
“They were all disgusted by the film, but so far there isn’t a big explosion,” said police spokesman Arnold Aben. “In fact, it’s quieter than usual here today. Sort of like a holiday.”
The 17-minute film, “Fitna,” the Arabic word for strife, was first posted late Thursday on Wilder’s Freedom Party website. The site crashed immediately with heavy traffic, but within minutes the film was available in Dutch and English on the British-based website LiveLeak, which also froze up briefly. By Friday, the film was all over the Internet — on YouTube, Dailymotion and other shared-video sites. LiveLeak later took down the video, saying its staff had received “threats of a very serious nature.”
Wilders has said he made the film to call attention to what he sees as the Islamic threat to Europe — which he compares to the fascism that led to World War II.
Not everyone was impressed.
“It is not very original,” Yusuf Altuntas, deputy chairman of a Muslim umbrella group based in The Hague, said in a phone interview. “We have seen many of these images before. There was no shock so we don’t think there will be problems in Holland. I can’t speak for in the Middle East.”
Altuntas had worried the film would set off riots around the world after Wilders hinted that it included images of the Koran being torn. There is the sound of paper tearing at the end of the film that a viewer might conclude is the Koran, but the text explains it is not pages from the Muslim holy book but rather from a phone book.
“It is not up to me but up to the Muslims to tear the spiteful verses from the Koran,” the text reads.
Wilders, who has full-time police protection because of assassination threats from Islamic extremists, has built a political career fighting what he calls the “Islamization” of the West.
Although his party gets less than 15% support, he is known for stirring emotion in a highly tolerant country with one of Europe’s fastest-growing immigrant populations from Muslim countries.
On Friday, Wilders, 44, told reporters that he was happy there hadn’t been violence after the film’s release. “My intention was not to provoke riots,” he said, according to Agence France-Presse. “On the contrary, I want to encourage debate.”
The new video was met with several counter-videos on the Internet on Friday morning, and the blogosphere was crowded with back-and-forth. On YouTube, a man from Pakistan had put up his own video saying that “Muslims love Jesus Christ, Moses and all prophets of all religions. . . . They respect all scriptures.”
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said in a statement that “the vast majority of Muslims reject extremism and violence.”
“In fact, the victims are often also Muslims. We therefore regret that Mr. Wilders has released this film. We believe it serves no purpose other than to cause offense.”
How to Unclutter YouTube
Posted on: March 13, 2008
- In: How to | Unclutter | YouTube
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Not to say this is useful to everyone – when you visit the YouTube homepage perhaps you want to randomly explore – but here’s how to unclutter the YouTube homepage. First, opt-in for the new personalized homepage by visiting youtube.com/iyt. Now jump over to the customization settings, uncheck every box, and hit Update. When you visit the YouTube frontpage now you’ll see it’s a bit more empty.
You can remove even more stuff by customizing your user stylesheet. In Firefox, create or open a plain text file named userContent.css in the folder %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[some name]\chrome (where “some name” is a folder with different names; also see how to find this folder on non-Windows systems). In Internet Explorer, open Tools → Internet Options → Accessibility, check the the “Format documents” box and point to your stylesheet. In the stylesheet write the following:
.hpSideBlock, #baseDiv #footer, .feedmodule-promoted,
#hpMainContent h1 {
display: none !important
}
Restart your browser for this to take effect and load YouTube.com… which now looks similar to the following:
From this utter blankness you can still go back to the customization options and add some elements, like the one containing today’s popular videos:
To undo all of these changes, first visit youtube.com/iyt?optout=true to opt-out of YouTube’s personalized experiment. Then disable your user stylesheet by e.g. deleting it (Firefox) or unchecking the options box (Internet Explorer).
[Hat tip to Googling Google.]
- In: Announces | Anticlimax | API’s | More | Open | YouTube
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Erick got all excited, but in the end it was a bit of an anticlimax. YouTube’s big announcement today is more open API’s that will allow developers to upload videos and video responses from any where.
From the YouTube Blog
:
We try really hard to make YouTube as open as possible…Nevertheless, we worried that we weren’t open enough. So, we pulled some all-nighters and added some powerful new ways to integrate YouTube content and community into other websites, desktop applications, video games, mobile devices, televisions, cameras, and lots more.
For users, the exciting news is that they will be able to actively participate in the YouTube community from just about anywhere, including the online destinations and web communities they already love and visit regularly. For partners and developers, YouTube has grown into much more than a website. It has become an open, general purpose, video services platform, available for use by just about any third-party website, desktop application, or consumer device. We now provide a complete set of (CRUD) capabilities for uploading, managing, searching, and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube “cloud,” managed by us. We do all of the hard work of transcoding and hosting and streaming and thumbnailing your videos, and we provide open access to our sizable global audience, enabling you to generate traffic for your site, visibility for your brand, or support for your cause….
The number of possible new applications is endless. Electronic Arts has enabled gamers to capture videos of fantastical user-generated creatures from their upcoming game, Spore, and publish these directly into YouTube. The University of California, Berkeley is bringing free educational content to the world, enhancing their open source lecture capture and delivery system to publish videos automatically into YouTube. Animoto enables its users to create personalized, professional-quality music videos from their own photos and upload them directly to YouTube. Tivo is providing its users a rich and highly participative YouTube viewing experience on the television.
If anyone won the iPod, Erick will let you know in the morning.
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