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YouTube's Extra 5 Minutes Could Buy More Than Time July 30, 2010 
YouTube uploaders who wish to follow 60s pop-art icon Andy Warhol's advice and grasp their 15 minutes of fame now can do so fully. YouTube has raised the maximum length limit on submissions from 10 to 15 minutes, announced Product Manager Joshua Siegel on the company blog. While an additional five minutes may seem trivial to some, it represents an increase of 50 percent in video length, which is significant.
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The Sweet Smell of Social Media Success - and the Funk of Failure July 16, 2010 
How's this for tying together Old Spice's winning social media strategy and Apple's current iPhone problems: While the cologne and deodorant company is ending the week smelling like a rose, Steve Jobs' tech colossus is in danger of stinking up the joint. Follow along with me as I attempt to marry the two top tech stories of the past few days.
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The CIO's Guide to Business-Class Video July 09, 2010 
As the enterprise progresses toward the goal of proving fully immersive and collaborative capabilities to remote individuals, it is important to realize the value of video not only as a technological achievement, but as a practical business enhancement.
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Google May Steer Devs Web-Ward With Mobile YouTube Refresh July 08, 2010
YouTube's decision to make its mobile Web site compatible with HTML5 may one day be viewed as a turning point in what is shaping up as an epic battle for control of the mobile device landscape. In unveiling the new site on Wednesday, YouTube said its goal is to give mobile device users the same video viewing experience they get on desktop computers.
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Hackers Target YouTube With XXX XSS Attacks July 06, 2010 
Hackers hit YouTube over the weekend, injecting pop-ups, disabling comments and redirecting viewers to porn sites when they tried to access videos. Google clamped down on the problem swiftly and is attempting to figure out who was behind the attack. The hack followed the online publication of a YouTube HTML code injection exploit.
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The Converged Media Road to Success July 03, 2010 
With the introduction of advanced smartphones, e-readers and tablets, it's hardly surprising that consumption of online content has grown exponentially. This has caused turmoil within the media industry. Traditional advertising revenues are declining as new marketing options are emerging.
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YouTube Says HTML5 Not Ready for Prime Time July 01, 2010 
Despite predictions to the contrary, Adobe Flash won't be supplanted any time soon as a major video distribution vehicle on the World Wide Web, according to a software engineer at the Net's largest video sharing site, YouTube. "[W]hile the <video> tag is a big step forward for open standards, the Adobe Flash Platform will continue to play a critical role in video distribution," John Harding wrote.
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Hulu Cranks Up the Volume With New Premium Service June 30, 2010 
Hulu, the TV-network-owned site for watching television programs over the Internet, has announced a new paid subscription service that promises to give users greater freedom to watch their favorite shows online. Hulu introduced the new service, called "Hulu Plus," Tuesday in a blog post authored by Jason Kilar, the service's CEO.
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Judge Nixes Viacom's Mammoth YouTube Lawsuit June 24, 2010 
A judge has ruled in YouTube's favor regarding the video-sharing site's three-year battle with Viacom over alleged copyright infringement. On Wednesday, the U.S. District Court in New York ruled that YouTube had complied with the take-down provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in its handling of Viacom content and thus was not guilty of copyright infringement.
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Android Becomes Flash Mobile's First BFF June 22, 2010 
Adobe on Tuesday unveiled Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile together with a slew of announcements from partners and content providers. The new Flash edition has been optimized for efficient battery and CPU usage, addressing two of the key criticisms Apple CEO Steve Jobs had made of the platform. With its new capabilities, Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile may make some smartphones more adept at browsing the Web.
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YouTube Builds a Cutting Room in the Cloud June 17, 2010
Google has unveiled the YouTube Video Editor, which lets people edit their videos in the cloud. The application lets users merge clips into a longer video or edit down a video, among other things. Google said it will add new features based on user feedback. The video editor is available on TestTube, which is a laboratory of sorts for YouTube.
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Flash Flaw Gives Critics New Ammunition June 07, 2010 
Adobe has reported a vulnerability in several of its applications. The flaw, which Adobe rates as "critical," exists in Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x running on most operating systems. It could crash a victim's PC and let hackers take over the machine. The flaw couldn't come at a worse time.
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Clearing the Picture on Mobile Digital TV May 21, 2010 
More capable, feature-rich smartphones are finding their ways into more consumers' pockets, and for TV broadcasters, this means everyone's carrying a potential television set with them everywhere they go. It's an opportunity many are latching onto -- local broadcasters are working to bring mobile digital television to mobile devices.
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Google Brings an Open Source Gun to the Video Codec Battle May 20, 2010 
Google on Thursday announced WebM, a royalty-free media file format for online video. With WebM, Google has thrown the gauntlet to H.264, the codec backed by rivals Apple and Microsoft, among others. Buried within the new format's FAQ was news about another Google project: Android. The next iteration of the mobile operating system, dubbed "Gingerbread," will be released in the fourth quarter of this year.
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Culture Wars vs. Censorship: What's a Social Network to Do? May 20, 2010 
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have made the world smaller, allowing people located on different continents to connect and communicate as if they were next-door neighbors. At times, however, the conversations taking place on these new technology platforms can offend some of their users' old-world sensibilities, creating consequences that not even the visionaries who created these sites ever imagined.
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Hulu to Keep the Flash Dance Going May 14, 2010 
Hulu stepped into the Adobe-Apple war Thursday with the announcement that it's sticking to Flash for now. "We continue to monitor developments on HTML5, but as of now it doesn't yet meet all of our customer needs," Hulu VP of Product Eugene Wei wrote on the company's blog. Wei also announced updates to Hulu's video player and other features.
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Harnessing the Power of Community for E-Commerce Success May 03, 2010 
How we communicate has always had a dramatic impact on business. The telephone made the "sales call" possible; soap company advertising created a whole genre of radio and TV programming; the Internet enabled the "live demo." Business is about connecting with your consumer. Today, the emergence of social media is again changing the game.
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YouTube's Copyright Fight Flares Up April 27, 2010 
The U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of New York recently ordered the unsealing of court filings submitted by Viacom and Google in Viacom's three-year old, $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google-owned YouTube. The released documents paint a tale of corporate intrigue and greed, and shed light on some behind-the-scenes negotiations and thought processes.
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Viacom Claims Google Used Piracy Threat as Leverage April 16, 2010 
Roughly six months before it bought YouTube, did Google actually share the view of the online video site that other copyright owners had -- that it was a repository for illegally uploaded content? Does Viacom have a smoking gun against Google/YouTube, and does it come in the form of statements from their own senior executives?
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Cloud Browse Flash App Is OK With Apple April 16, 2010
The widening chasm between Apple and Adobe has inspired a number of third-party companies to develop bridges to cross the divide -- that is, workarounds that will let iPad and iPhone users view videos created using Adobe's Flash technology. One company is addressing the problem from the end-user perspective -- and with the apparent tacit approval of Apple.
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