Christiaan Van Vuuren bas been stuck in quarantine for tuberculosis for two months. He’s sick, and not in the sense of being sick, sick. He’s making the most of his isolation, though, learning how to record songs on his laptop and making music videos, Twittering and making friends on Facebook. And while Van Vuuren may […]

You probably know that YouTube is, by far, the top video destination on the Web. Here are some things about YouTube, though, that you probably don’t know: 5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About YouTube Videos People now watch a lot of YouTube videos. The average US Internet user watches over three hours of YouTube […]

Old Spice’s latest commercial, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, is awesome in a dozen different ways – but it’s also a great example of corporate viral video that works. How many ads get two million views in two weeks on YouTube? Old Spice doesn’t have to have to put a URL in their […]

Dan Rayburn has published an interesting, but savage, critique of YouTube over at Business of Video. In it, he argues that YouTube is stifling innovation and couldn’t survive without Google’s deep pockets: YouTube didn’t contribute to the technology of the industry at all. They haven’t created any codecs, new delivery protocols, created any industry standards […]

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley marked the 5th birthday of the Internet video site today with an official statement at the YouTube blog: When we registered the YouTube domain on February 14, 2005, we set out to create a place where anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could share a story with the […]

YouTube today introduced its Video Speed Dashboard – a free service that shows you your video speed compares to the average for your ISP, your region, your state and more. The service also plots your video speed over time: According to YouTube: The goal with this dashboard is to give you insight into what your […]

TweetDeck has announced an updated TweetDeck desktop client, with improved social media features. This official video demonstrates the new features. Highlights of TweetDeck 0.33: View media from Flickr, YouTube and Posterous; Better column management; Edit searches; and Automatic Twitter API management. It’s available now at the TweetDeck site.

Kevin Nalty (Nalts) has published a free eBook on How To Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent Nalty explains, “The original motive in publishing this was to help people avoid getting scammed by stupid products or services that promise to boost your YouTube views.” He originally published How To Become Popular on YouTube Without […]

This video of the rumored Apple iPad has turned up on YouTube, and has a lot of people wondering if it’s the first video of Apple’s new tablet computer. Screams fake to me, though. Let me know what you think! Real or iFake?

Nicholas Gramenos came to the Las Vegas Courthouse Monday morning to report for jury duty – but found himself witness to a shootout between court security and Johnny Lee Wicks, who is reported to have been upset over a reduction in his social security benefits. 65 year old Court Officer Stan Cooper was shot and […]