Proving that some comedies are both ageless and accessible to new audiences all the time, the Monty Python bunch have launched their own YouTube channel.
Having been featured on the video-sharing website for years in 'unofficial fan homage', form, the 70's comedy troupe has decided to take matters into their hands and present clips in high quality for free.
The channel blurb says: "For 3 yea
Proving yet again that the ability to reproduce has almost nothing to do with the ability to parent, ABC News reports on a video uploaded to YouTube by a father egging his toddlers into fistfights.
Before you embed YouTube videos in PowerPoint slides, always think of the medium(s) you’ll use to deliver that presentation.
It’s not uncommon to see presenters in conferences struggling to get the video right thus breaking the entire rhythm of their presentation.
There is no arguing that YouTube is the most popular video sharing site out there, but that isn’t to say that there aren’t things about it that annoy users. With that said, there are a wide array of plugins for Firefox to make the YouTube user experience that much better. Here are over 20 that will let you save your favorite videos before they disappear, stop them from autoplaying when you come to a page, and more.
Hulu may knock YouTube from its perch as the top-rated video website.
If Hulu pulls ahead in 2010 or so, it will underscore the value of professional programming over amateur offerings and will pose a setback to Google’s (GOOG) apparent plans to conquer the world. Hulu is owned by News Corporation (NWS) and NBC Universal (GE).
But more than that, Hulu’s ascendancy shows that traditional media companies can turn a profit online without giving up control of the content as the recording industry did with iTunes, the Financial Times reports.
Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube video and posted on Obama's transition site, Change.gov, once the radio address is made public on Saturday morning.
If you visit Youtube you might have noticed the “watch in high quality” link beneath some videos on the video portal. The high quality link leads to a video with a better resolution and quality that is more enjoyable to watch than the low quality versions. High quality videos on the other hand demand a faster Internet connection which is probably the main reason why Youtube has not enable the high quality option by default.
YouTube and MySpace are two of the hottest social Web sites on the Internet, and with good reason. One is a huge database of video content, the other is a social networking powerhouse. It's easy to add a YouTube video to your profile on MySpace.
Think you've got the best YouTube video of a person falling down a flight of stairs, or a cat battling a printer? Advertise it with YouTube's new Sponsored Videos service.
The new service lets you select a few keywords you'd like to associate with your video, like "falling down" or "cat battles." You then set a budget to decide how much you're willing to pay to have your video promoted; you can determine whether you want to spend 10 cents or $20.
After being banned from accessing sites such as YouTube and MySpace in 2007, the men and women protecting our nation will be able to view viral videos like everyone else, albeit in a watered down version. Delve Networks, a Seattle video publishing company, helped the military launch TroopTube, where members of the armed forces, their families, Defense Department employees, and supporters can upload and view streaming videos.
