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YouTube: the talk of Tinseltown

News More than just teenagers and 20-somethings have begun flocking to YouTube, the fast-growing video-sharing site. According to numbers provided by traffic-tracking company ComScore Networks, YouTube received 4.2 million unique visitors in February.

31 March 2006, 11:09

YouTube signs up Paris Hilton for ads

News With a little help from Paris Hilton, video-sharing site YouTube today announced the launch of two new advertising concepts that take their cues from the site's own user-generated content. Like other YouTube videos, PVAs can be rated, commented...

23 August 2006, 12:38

YouTube 'very close' to filtering system

News Google is very near enacting a filtering service that would prevent copyright content from being uploaded to video-sharing site YouTube, chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Monday. The filtering system was supposed to have launched last year at...

17 April 2007, 10:08

YouTube urged to help stop cyber bullies

News Video-sharing sites such as YouTube have a "social responsibility and moral obligation" to stop the online harassment of teachers, according to a government minister. Education Secretary Alan Johnson said the providers of video-sharing sites need...

11 April 2007, 10:27

News.blog: YouTube to share revenue

News YouTube is about to show us the real meaning of 'sharing'. YouTube has confirmed to the BBC that it will share the revenue it makes for videos -- but only with those videos' true copyright owners. That's an interesting move given that part of...

29 January 2007, 9:38

News.blog: YouTube updates API for developers

News Google's YouTube announced last night that it is expanding its API to allow more direct access to the service. The updates to the API allow developers deeper access into YouTube for video uploading, and allow "chromeless" players, or players...

Tags: youtube, videos, service, api

12 March 2008, 8:57

News.blog: YouTube to push for live video

News Although streaming video on the Web is nothing new, it has yet to make its way onto YouTube. Live video has long been on YouTube's wish list, Chen says amid the din, but with Google's resources at hand, it's expected to become a reality sometime in...

Tags: youtube, chen, interest, hand

3 March 2008, 9:11

News.blog: YouTube crowned 'Invention of the Year'

News YouTube bashers often argue that the video-sharing site offers little more than a place for people to watch other people behave as fools. Fans say that YouTube, a service that allows anyone to post videos on to the Web, is a new form of communication.

7 November 2006, 9:01

YouTube back on in Pakistan

News Pakistan has lifted a ban it imposed on YouTube on Sunday, YouTube has said. YouTube becomes] unavailable because all the BGP speaking routers on the internet believe Pakistan Telecom provides the best connectivity to

Tags: traffic, protocol, youtube, protocols

28 February 2008, 9:13

YouTube inks three content deals

News YouTube announced on Monday partnerships with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and CBS that let their artists' music and videos be included in original content posted on YouTube's site.

10 October 2006, 10:00

News.blog: YouTube tests high-quality video

News YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference on Wednesday, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. Although YouTube's goal, he said, is to make the site's vast library of content available to...

Tags: videos, youtube, high quality, resolution

16 November 2007, 8:44

News.blog: YouTube sued by UTube.com

News YouTube's popularity is proving to be a headache for a company with a similar Web address. The lawsuit alleges that YouTube is confusingly similar to Universal Tube's UTube.com, which sells tube, pipe and rollforming machinery.

2 November 2006, 9:23

YouTube to widen mobile service

News Popular video Web site YouTube is opening up its service to run on millions more phones capable of providing high-speed wireless YouTube, a unit of Google, says it is extending its service from a handful of phones to a broader range of devices used...

Tags: consumers, screens, ericsson, wireless

25 January 2008, 9:02

YouTube launches local language sites

News Literally, it might be known as Voustube, Voitubo or Vocetubo, but the world's most popular video-sharing site introduced local-language sites in nine countries on Tuesday that will all just go by YouTube.

20 June 2007, 11:06

News.blog: YouTube launches online editing tool

News YouTube has begun offering a Web-based editing tool that is apparently provided by Adobe. Representatives of YouTube and Adobe could not be reached for comment on Saturday morning. YouTube follows such competitors as Photobucket and Yahoo Video...

18 June 2007, 10:19