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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
YouTube has added a new feature which is focused at making videos more personalized and interactive. Users can now add annotations to the videos which they upload on the site. Using this feature, users can add notes, comments, YouTube video and channel links within the the video. To use this service which is in beta [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Spinvision.TV lets you create a video playlist and watch YouTube videos from around the world on a 3D earth model. The site is sponsored by flickrvision which lets you see flickr photos on a 3D earth or world map as and when the photos are uploaded. Spinvision’s user interface is nicely built and very easy [...]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
AOL India has launched its Video portal focused on Indian audience. The portal is powered with AOL’s video search technology, Truveo. As per AOL, Truveo has indexed over 170 million videos from 16 countries across the world. The content on AOL India Video site is more aligned towards movies, music and celebrity news. There is [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008

Sony has integrated the YouTube API in its PlayStation 3 games which will allow the developers to create games with added YouTube related features. The integration will allow for creating games that enables the users to upload in-game video captures directly to YouTube. Mainichi Issho, a popular PS3 game in Japan, is the first to [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Twitter is filled with messages about Microsoft blocking MSN and Windows Live Messenger messages with YouTube links from being delivered to recipients. All the messages having YouTube links come back with a message saying that the link could not be delivered to the recipients. This block seems to be related to the recent launch of [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Vidnik is a cool open source application for Mac OS X which lets you record movies directly using the iSight camera and then upload the movies to YouTube from a single interface. You can also use Vidnik with any other Quicktime compatible camera as well as use previously recorded movies for uploading to YouTube. It [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

YouTube has launched its localized version for Indian users. The Indian version of the video sharing site is hosted at http://in.youtube.com. Though the Indianized version will have video content from all over the world, the difference lies in the “Videos being watched right now..” and the “Featured Videos” section. These sections will feature content catering [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008

Google has made some cosmetic changes in the Google Video service and has added some new features as well. The changes are focused on the ability to find a particular video with various parameters. Home Page Facelift: The Google Video home page now has tabs for easy access to popular videos like “Hot Videos”, “Most [...]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

When Max Kiesler proposed Emily Chang for marriage on Twitter, the entire world of Twitterers witnessed a nice and sweet use of Web 2.0. Now, we also have a not so good use of Web 2.0 in the form of a video posted on YouTube by Tricia Walsh-Smith, wife of Shubert Organization’s president Philip Smith. [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Twitter, the most successful startup in 2007, has changed the way people talk and communicate with the world. It has made the world talk and pass on the message in just 140 characters. This post is a collection of videos from the web for about using Twitter for various useful tasks and having fun. If [...]