Tag: VIDEOS

There's no question that it's faster to purchase a movie from the iTunes store than your local video store -- assuming you have a speedy internet connection. But if you want to get the latest releases as son as they're out on video, you're probably better off making the trek to the video store. Or at least that's what we would have told you yesterday, when it could take weeks or months longer ...

If there's one thing we know about Flickr users, it's that they'r not shy about sharing their opinions. Shortly after Microsoft made an offer to buy Flickr's parent company Yahoo!, images mocking the deal started showing up all over the site. And now that Flickr has added the ability for uses to upload short videos, a large group of Flickr image-only purists has formed a "NO VIDEO ON FLICKR!!!" ...

It's time for YouTube to start earning its keep. Back when Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion a lot of us were wondering how Google planned to make money from the video sharing site. And for a year or so, the company has been talking about embedding ads in YouTube videos. A while back, Google even started offering an ugly ad unit that fits in the border of embedded YouTube videos (pictured ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/07/watch-hulu-videos-outside-of-the-us-with-hotspot-shield/";Since our recent invite bonanza, we've enjoyed the heck out of our Hulu membership. But, since its inception, Hulu has been a US-only party. And, while OPENHulu or TVparadise opened up Hulu to a crowd of non-invitees, international users were still out of luck. Of course if you're ...

Limewire is one of the most popular Peer to Peer file sharing applications around, and it's easy to see why. With its simple but powerful interface, it's the next best thing to old school Napster. One thing that cheapskates and teenagers don't like about it, however, is its tendency to nag the user to upgrade to Limewire Pro for a fee. Enter Frostwire. virtually indiscernible from Limewire, this ...

The world of video advertising has only just begun. Google announced AdSense units using YouTube videos, and now Blinkx will be rewarding users for sharing video online. Google offers AdSense customers a chance to provide exclusive content by placing ads over the top of online videos. But these flash ads can be distracting if you're watching a video. Blinkx takes a different approach by putting ...

Considering YouTube's undeniable 800 lb gorilla status in the video sharing space, it's becoming more and more apparent that the company needs to develop some sort of a system for detecting duplicate video uploads. Even digg and Netscape - who are admittedly social news and bookmarking sites with different issues to worry about - have a decent dupe system, as they both watch for identical URL ...

Apple's new iPhone is wonderful and all, but what if the information you want to sync with it is caught between worlds? Perhaps your contacts are on your Windows PC at work, your music is at home on a Mac and your photography is stored on a friend's notebook. Fear not, power-synching-user, for Gearlog has discovered that the latest iPhone-friendly version of iTunes has you covered: while music, ...

Cellfish is a simple online tool that lets PC users store information in a special online locker, then retrieve them later on mobile devices. When logged into this social network site, you get your own page, like any other social network, and can hook up with friends, so let's just forget about that aspect of the site and get onto the usable part, the Cellfish locker. Users can upload information ...

Now that Pandora is unavailable outside of the US and UK, where do you go for your streaming music recommendations? Aggrega wants to be a sort of Pandora for music videos. You enter an artist and it will pull up videos from that performer and others it thinks you might like. You can improve the recommendations by clicking "I Love" or "I Hate" buttons for each song. But here's the problem. ...

If making websites just isn't your thing, why not let Jimdo help. Jimdo is an easy to use web page creation service. Users simply sign in and create a free account, incorporating pictures from Flickr, text, and videos from YouTube in a Jimdo page. Elements on webpages can be changed with a single click, and there are no page limits. Users can totally customize pages, from background colors, to ...

*UPDATE - Calum in the comments has just notified us that this is a potentially not safe for work site. Seems like he got served some porn content. So be wise if you choose to check this site out. Have you ever wanted to check out a video, or tried to return to a saved video on YouTube only to come across some big red text that reads "This video has been removed". It's a total bummer. Thanks to ...

Digg just unleashed a major update, cranking out a number of new features geared towards more powerful management and customization of the user experience, as well as incorporating multimedia in a big way. Kevin Rose posted an overview of the new features at Digg the Blog, complete with a short video and narration of all the cool new stuff. The first big new feature is an upgraded UI with a focus ...

YouTube is on a quest to add a massive music video library to its extremely popular online database of videos, and is asking major labels to work with them. YouTube has been in talks with major record labels about posting their archives of music videos in their service. This is a drastic, but reasonable move away from a site where people share their own videos, moving towards a more mainstream ...

Videojug is a service that lets users share information. However, it's sharing information in an extremely intuitive way: Sharing through the use of videos. It's a really neat concept that I'm sure will take off pretty nicely given its sometimes funny approaches. Take for an example, a video recently posted on how to make naan bread. The user has put together a nice little directional video on ...