Category: Web 2.0
Orb Networks launches its own mobile YouTube features
It's not just Vodafone looking to offer YouTube to mobile users. Orb Networks has unveiled a new feature in its placeshifting MyCasting service. The feature lets users share internet videos form their PC with friends' mobiles, sending links as text…
MySpace launches MySpace Mobile exclusively with Vodafone
Good news if you are addicted to MySpace and have a Vodafone mobile phone – you can now access your site on the move with MySpace Mobile, which is available exclusively in the UK to Vodafone customers. MySpace Mobile will…
Viacom asks YouTube to take down 100,000 videos – including home movies
Viacom's demand that Google remove over 100,000 video clips of its copyrighted shows be removed from YouTube is reasonable enough, on the face of it. Yes, the clips are effectively promoting the actual shows, and if Viacom hasn't grasped that…
BBC to launch its own YouTube channel?
MediaGuardian is reporting that the BBC is in advanced negotiations with Google to launch a branded channel of Beeb promo clips – initially on Google Video, but possibly also YouTube at a later date. The channel would show clips of…
Unsigned singer/songwriter gathers recording budget from Web 2.0 community
Sure, MySpace can get you a bunch of fans if you're an unsigned artist, but it can't get you the cold hard cash needed to record an album. One site that could is SellaBand, which gets unsigned acts to upload…
And the most popular Web videos are…
YouTube might be the most famous video-sharing service, but there are dozens more trying to grab a piece of its video pie. Yet you'll often find the same videos posted across several of them. How do you work out which…
United Talent Agency scouts online videos for new movie stars
The next Tom Cruise? He's probably on YouTube. By which I mean the popular video-sharing site has plenty of loons leaping on and off furniture. But United Talent Agency thinks the film stars of the future may be lurking online….
Adobe releases Flash Player 9 for Linux
Linux fans rejoice… Adobe have announced that version 9 of their Flash player is now available for the popular open source operating system, and brings it into line with the Windows and Mac OS X versions….
Cellswapper: an answer to those lengthy mobile contracts?
Mobile contract lengths have been creeping from 12 to 18 months in the UK, while it's reported that to get an iPhone on US operator Cingular, you'll have to sign up to a TWO YEAR contract. Cripes. So what to…
Interview: Phanfare co-founder Mark Heinrich on the death of free photo-sharing services
While at CES last week, I caught up with Mark Heinrich, chief technology officer and co-founder of Phanfare. It's an online photo and video sharing service that stands out through its use of a subscription model, charging $54.95 a year….