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YouTube launches Campaigns, a “digital thermometer” for non-profits

, Oct 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you've worked with a non-profit organization before, then you undoubtedly know what a funding goal thermometer is. It's essentially a giant thermometer drawn onto a poster board and colored in with red marker whenever a non-profit gets a donation. Today, YouTube added something similar to that to some of its videos. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 12, 2012

, Oct 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Welcome to Friday, folks. The weekend is here once again, and what better way to kick off the festivities than with a Windows 8 purchase? The new OS went up for pre-order today, while a number of other Windows 8-related stories were popping up all over the place. For instance, we found out that the marketing campaign for Windows 8 cost Microsoft a whopping $1.5 billion, and a collection of HP computers were spotted running Windows 8 on the show floor of one Best Buy store in Minnesota. Read The Full Story

YouTube search rankings no longer based on clicks

, Oct 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

The days of using thumbnails of scantily-clad and well-endowed women to drive clicks to your YouTube videos - thereby placing them higher in the search results - are over. Today, YouTube announced that it's changing what it bases its search rankings on. Instead of determining search placement by looking at the number of clicks a video has received, YouTube will instead be basing its search results on the time spent viewing the video. Read The Full Story

YouTube Original Channels boosted with international content

, Oct 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has extended its YouTube Original Channels with more than fifty new options, including content from the US and Europe. Launched in late 2011 as a way of highlighting - and more successfully monetizing - original content being created for the YouTube audience, Original Channels has, Google says, been a huge success: 800m viewers watch 4bn hours each month, in fact. Read The Full Story

Presidental Debate streaming video feed on Xbox Live, YouTube tonight

, Oct 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Just a friendly reminder for all of you politically motivated folks out there, the first of three presidential debates will be going down tonight. Those with a subscription to Xbox Live Gold will be able to stream the debate on their Xbox 360, with Microsoft giving users the ability to participate in polls as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama verbally duke it out on stage. The debate kicks off at 9PM Eastern Time, and Major Nelson says that those who watch three of the four scheduled debates (one of those is the vice presidential debate, keep in mind) will get a free Halo 4 suit of armor for their avatar. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: September 28, 2012

, Sep 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

It's Friday once again folks, with most of you already enjoying the weekend. Today, the iPhone 5 launched in 22 additional regions around the world, setting Apple's plan to have it in over 100 countries by the end of the year on track. Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized for the sad state of Apple Maps today (recommending some other Maps apps in the process), and we took a closer look at his words in a new column. Even more surprising is the fact that the iOS App Store now features a download page specifically for other Maps applications. Read The Full Story

Google now allows original quality YouTube video downloads

, Sep 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you've got a collection of videos up on YouTube right this minute that you'd just love to have in a folder in your secure harddrive back home in their original format, Google has just answered your prayers today. In another lovely update to their Takeout menu, the Data Liberation Front has added the ability for users to download the videos they've uploaded to YouTube back down in their original format: "your videos in. your videos out". Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: September 27, 2012

, Sep 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Welcome to Thursday evening, everyone. This afternoon, RIM delivered its quarterly report, and even though it didn't look too good, it was still better than quarterly reports of the past. Samsung is teasing a new Galaxy Note II event for October 24, while Google turned 14 years old today and celebrated with a brand new doodle. Qualcomm introduced a pair of new processors for mobile devices today, and a series of new iPhone patents deals with things like disappearing buttons, 3D displays, and invisible speakers. Read The Full Story

Google exec arrested in Brazil, will appear in court

, Sep 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google's head of operations in Brazil, Fabio Jose Silva Coelho, was arrested yesterday for disobeying authorities to take down YouTube videos that criticized a local politician. He was released today after signing a document saying that he promised to show up in court on a date that has yet to be determined. Read The Full Story

YouTube-funded TV show will air on ABC in October

, Sep 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

There are tons of YouTube channels that crank out awesome videos every week (The Slingshot Channel being one of my favorites), and we wish that some of them would become full-fledged TV shows. It looks like that's about to become a reality for one YouTube channel in particular. Everyday Health will receive its own TV show starting in October. Read The Full Story

YouTube enhances caption translation for video creators

, Sep 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

In an effort to accommodate video creators and viewers using YouTube from outside the United States, the Google-owned company today implemented a new set of caption translation tools. These new tools see the Google Translator Toolkit integrated with the YouTube Video Manager, and the process of getting translated captions on your videos seems to be pretty straightforward, if not a little labor-intensive. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: September 11, 2012

, Sep 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

This morning you'll want to head back to our LG Intuition hands-on before we ramp up for our full review later this week - phablet giganticism! A column you may want to peek in on as this week continues with tablets before the massive smartphone storm is Tablets are for fun, Laptops are for work. Then jump in on our hands-on action with Everything Everywhere 4G LTE - brand new and speedy quick! Read The Full Story
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