Tag: Videos
Men's Health releases new iPhone-friendly workout videos
Men’s Health Magazine and PumpOne, makers of online videos, have partnered to launch iPhone and iPod-compatible workout videos, offering a range of affordable videos that will show users how to get the most from their exercise regimes.
At just $10 (about £5) a pop, with some being free, the videos are cheaper than getting a personal trainer, and should ensure that you don’t bust something by trying to go it alone with those heavy weights you’ve seen glistening in the gym…
Viacom wins right to sift through YouTube user data, all four terabytes of it
In the long running battle between Viacom and Google over YouTube hosting copyrighted videos, Viacom has now won a ruling to allow it to access a complete set of video viewing records, totalling some four terabytes of data.
Google argues that the data, which lists every IP address and the videos watched, would infringe on its users’ privacy. The judge used Google’s own argument — that IP addresses don’t personally identify an individual — to throw out that objection.
Google's finally making money off YouTube, with longer-length videos now allowed
In an attempt to monetise YouTube, their owner Google has decided to allow longer videos to be uploaded to the site, including full-length episodes and films.
Don’t get too carried away looking up the latest Indiana Jones flick just yet, as only selected companies have been allowed to break the current 10-minutes length criteria so far. The recent release of an episode of the TV show The Tudors is an example of what will be uploaded under these new rules, with money obviously swapping hands somewhere along the way…
Denver alien footage hits internet!
Denver man, Ron Peckman caused a big stir over the weekend when a lack of anything even remotely exciting happening in the rest of the world saw his bid to form an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission rocket him to the height of news media fame.
Well, actually it was his claim to have genuine footage of an alien prowler that captured most people’s imagination, and of course, we want to see it for ourselves. And, errr, here it is!
Aliens are real! Denver man has "visual confirmation", wants to form Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission
A Denver man is pushing city officials to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission following the discovery of a video tape that he claims shows an authentic, living, breathing, all-American space thingy…
Opinion: Is it time for YouTube to be regulated?
Jonathan Weinberg writes… Regulation? On the web? You must be thinking I’ve swallowed some happy pills to make a statement like that. After all, the whole premise of the Internet has always been find anything you want, anywhere – hasn’t it?
But while it’s near on impossible to bring in blanket rules and laws to cover the whole of cyberspace, I do think it is time some sites were forced to put their hands up and take much more responsibility for their actions – and that starts with YouTube.
A poll out today found YouTube is the most popular user-generated site in the UK after attracting 10.4 million people in January. That is a 56 per cent increase in traffic compared to 2007 and just shows the reach it has.
The success of the video-sharing site has been phenomenal. Such fast growth over the years undoubtedly causes problems and makes it difficult for any company to keep up with the demands of hosting such a vast wealth of moving images…
MySpaceTV to host endless Britney Spears videos thanks to deal with TMZ
Guess what, everyone? MySpace is still going!
And it’s still doing deals to cram yet more content onto its already bewilderingly packed and ramshackle pages, with news that it’s embracing the dodgy celebrity paparazzi scene.
TMZ, the famed gonzo celeb-stalking channel, will provide a few exclusive videos of something like Britney Spears GETTING OUT OF A CAR each week…
VIDEO: Reporting from the show floor at ATEI 2008
In case you don’t know, ATEI is a massive trade show for the arcade and amusement world. It’s mainly for businessmen to go to and do serious business, but there’s one very good reason everyone should register and attend – loads of arcade machines all set to freeplay!
So I went. And did a video. It’s a bit long, but you get to see lots of people having fun playing new games, including SEGA’s ultra-odd floor-based-TV game UFO Stomper.
Here are the edited highlights:
Joost to enter live-streaming market early 2008
Now that Joost has opened the floodgates and are allowing minions in willy-nilly, they’ve announced a huge incentive for people to join up. From early 2008, they’ll be live-streaming TV in the US, as well as their usual pre-packaged video fare.
Sadly it looks like it’ll start out streaming sports first, and then hopefully enter the full-blown television…
Opinion: Panorama fight video expose proves the web needs policing
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
It takes a lot to shock me and I thought – having worked on and with the internet for the past seven years – that I knew the majority of its positives and negatives. But I’m truly appalled by BBC1’s Panorama investigation into real-life violent videos uploaded onto the web.
Shown on the channel last night, reporters looked at the people who film the sickening scenes, those who have fallen prey to the stupidly named “happy-slapping” attacks (do you see the victims smiling?) and it also focused on the firms allowing such videos to be shown to millions of cyberspace viewers…
