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Camera dude pummeled by Diet Coke and Mentos gone wrong

Shane McGlaun, May 18th 2011 Discuss [5]

Mentos, the pain maker! Back in my day, the thing I would do to make my mom go into a sheer panic was mix pop rocks with Dr. Pepper. She somehow though that you would blow your head off with the mixture, it was rather lame by today's standards. Nothing really happened, but a mean cherry scented case of the burps. Today if you want to wreak havoc with snack foods, what you need is some Mentos and Diet Coke. Read The Full Story

Google Teams Up With Sony Pictures, NBC Universal, And Warner Bros For YouTube Movies

Rue Liu, May 9th 2011 Discuss [1]

Earlier a post on the YouTube blog by chief exec Salar Kamangar tipped that a major announcement would be revealed in a following post today involving the addition of new movie titles for rent on YouTube. And now it looks like all the details are coming in and its confirmed that Google has partnered up with Sony Pictures, NBC Universal, and Warner Brothers to bring 3,000 new full-length feature films taking their total rental catalog up to over 6000 titles. Read The Full Story

YouTube Teases 3,000 New Movies For Rent

Rue Liu, May 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

YouTube chief Salar Kamanger teased in a company blog post this morning that YouTube's movie rental service will soon be adding 3,000 new movie titles. The post mainly expressed their desire to become a destination for not only home-made videos, or those of your favorite YouTube stars, but also a place where you can now find big Hollywood movies. Kamanger said that more details on the new movies will be revealed in a post later today. Read The Full Story

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Less TVs in the US, is it the Economy or the Internet?

Samia Perkins, May 4th 2011 Discuss [11]

I am considered an oddity among some of my friends and family because I don’t have cable. I do have a TV, but I rely on DVDs, Netflix and my Roku player for my television viewing. When someone asks me if I’ve seen a commercial, I just smile and say “no”. In fact, my daughter (at 4 years old) was shocked the first time she watched Nickelodeon when the commercials came on. She had never seen one. But maybe my odd choice is becoming less odd. A new report by Nielsen shows that for the first time since 1992, there are less US households with television sets. To be sure, the vast majority of households still own TVs, but the percentage has gone from 98.9 percent to 96.7 percent. Part of the explanation is the economy, and the change to digital. But is there another explanation?

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YouTube movie on demand service to launch soon

Shane McGlaun, Apr 26th 2011 Discuss [1]

We already know that Google has been eyeing a movie streaming on-demand service for YouTube for a while now. This is all a part of the plan for YouTube to get profitable with the huge amount of traffic the video sharing site has. YouTube has long wanted more quality content that would lure in new advertisers and get them to spend money to run ads along with the video content. Many advertisers are weary of placing ads on user-generated content that is of low quality and may have content that the advertiser doesn't want to be associated with. Read The Full Story

YouTube Boots Anonymous

Kevin Fubar, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [6]

Anonymous has been picking up operations in the wake of WikiLeaks. They are known for spreading their doctrinal messages through YouTube. Today, the folks over at YouTube said, "enough is enough" and pulled the three videos for Operation Sony, Operation Sony Update and Operation Black Out citing Terms of Service violations. Operation Black Out is the most recent video posted by the international hacktivist collective. They voiced their position regarding New Zealand's new copyright legislation, the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill. Does this have anything to do with Anon finally turning their Low Orbit Ion Cannons aka LOIC toward a national entity? Read The Full Story

YouTube video now in WebM format

Shane McGlaun, Apr 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

You can't be online without being familiar with YouTube and the hoards of questionably made videos that are available there for people to watch. I would wager most web users have uploaded videos to the site as well. YouTube has announced today that it is transcoding video in a new format when it is uploaded by the user. Read The Full Story

Youtube Live Streaming Portal Officially Launches

Rue Liu, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

You may soon be able to stream live shows on YouTube if not be live-streaming your own channel on Youtube. The online video giant launched today its YouTube Live portal that will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into YouTube's core platform. The system should eventually roll out to the masses, but will start off with select channel partners to ensure smooth content streaming until all the kinks are worked out. Read The Full Story

Mario 3, 1, 2, and 1

Kevin Fubar, Apr 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

This guy, aqwawaf, made an assisted speed run of four different Mario games running at the same time. Then, he posted the video on Youtube. This video uses four NES emulators all hooked up to a single controller input. The only way to get something like this accomplished is using emulators and save states to tweak Mario's every twitch. This is what's known as a tool-assisted speed run. It's technically possible for a human being to actually perform these movements, but the timing would have to be so perfected that it's virtually impossible. Luckily (?) we can manipulate emulators into doing all sorts of strange stuff these days. If you don't know your Mario games, he's running through two copies of Super Mario Bro's on the right hand side. The left hand side has Mario 3 and Mario 2 stacked top and bottom. Read The Full Story

NES Controller Hacked To Control iPad Game

Rue Liu, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

Have you ever wished you had a controller when playing your favorite iPad games? The large screen can sometimes make movements and actions a little unnatural when playing. Joven of ProtoDojo has answered your call by combining an old NES controller, Arduino, and some micro servos to finally give you a controller for your favorite iPad games. Watch his video demo after the jump. Read The Full Story

Google Buys Video Tech Company For Better YouTube Videos

Rue Liu, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [3]

All those blurry mobile videos you upload to YouTube will start looking better now that Google acquired Irish video tech company Green Parrot Pictures. The 6-year-old company makes "cutting-edge video quality improvement technology that has been used in major studio productions from Lord of the Rings to X-Men to Spider-Man." Their tools not only make videos look better but also reduce bandwidth and improve playback speed. Read The Full Story

Study: Children Under 5 Are Spending More Time Online

Samia Perkins, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Of the children under 5 in the United States who use the Internet, 80% use it on a weekly basis, according to a new report by the non-profit Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Sesame Workshop. The report, titled "Always Connected", put together data from seven recent studies, and shows that small children are using all types of digital media, often using more than one type of media at once. Read The Full Story