Tag: YouTube
YouTube Video of the Day – John Kerry questioner gets tasered by US police
It happened a couple of days ago, but this video is already causing a big stir on YouTube. A student at a John Kerry forum asks a few testy questions and as a result, is arrested by US police and tasered. Remember when US colleges were the hotbed of political debate? Not anymore. For a news report on the incident click here and for another angle from someone in the attendance, click here.
YouTube Video of the Day – Britney Spears VMA spoof
Every so often, something takes YouTube complete storm. At the moment, Britney Spears’ performance at the MTV VMA awards is subject to the most ridicule. Here’s just one of many videos taking the mickey.
AOL unveils BlueString media-sharing site. Yes, it's in beta.
AOL has launched a new site called BlueString, which offers users 5GB of online storage to share music, photos and video clips for free. That’s around 1,600 songs, 10,000 photos and 600 videos, to be specific.
Man urinates on dying disabled woman to get YouTube kicks
I wish that headline was a joke, leading into a funny story. But no, it’s the literal truth: Hartlepool resident Anthony Anderson is in court for urinating on 50-year-old Christine Lakinski as she lay dying in a doorway, while filming it on his mobile phone and shouting “This is YouTube material!”.
YouTube Video of the Day – Emoticon suicide
You’ve already been informed of the birthday of the humble emoticon. Well, it seems they’ve had enough of our (fickle web users) ways and now… it’s time for one last “act of desperation”. Good bye cruel (virtual) world
YouTube Video of the Day – Sky Writers
This cracking video features lightwriting in London by the Lichtfaktor crew. An amazing new technique achieved by setting the camera to long time exposure and writing with flash lights on the landscape. You can see more of their work by visiting ww.skymovies.com/starwarsVstartrek
YouTube Video of the Day – Child prodigy scratch DJs
DJ Sara – 8 years old. DJ Ryusei – 5 years old. They make me sick.
It's fun to sue the Y-O-U-T-U-B-E
Last week we had Prince going a bit mental over his internet rights – now it’s time for wedding party favourites The Village People to try and close down YouTube.
The ‘People’ have employed a man dressed like a lawyer…
P2P file sharing could cut up to 95% off video hosting costs
A new study suggests that video publishing services such as YouTube and MSN Video could save up to 95% of their bandwidth costs by implementing some kind of peer-to-peer file sharing system. Researchers from Microsoft in collaboration with the Polytechnic…
Opinion: Why it's now COOL to be a GEEK
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
This is possibly the most important techno story I’ve seen all week, it’s officially ok to be geeky. A new list of the UK’s most coolest brands has been released and the top 10 contains SEVEN firms related to gadgets, gaming and the internet. So if that’s not a reason to embrace your virtual friends and give thanks I don’t know what is.
The iPod was only pipped into second place in the CoolBrands 2007 by James Bond’s favourite car, the Aston Martin, and you could argue there’s something geeky about being a fan of that motor. No longer is it nerdy to be geeky – because both are different…
