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Bappi Lahiri - Koi Yahan Nache Nache ~ Video Killed the Radio Star

2008-11-08T09:01:00.000-08:00

One of Bappi Da's most popular song
Koi Yahan Nache Nache - Disco Dancer

copied from
Video Killed the Radio Star

whatever the case, music rocks.

YouTube in 1985

2008-11-06T09:57:00.001-08:00

You Tube Office

2008-11-06T09:09:00.001-08:00

We have seen Google’s Mountain View Headquarters as well as Google’s office in Zurich. This time around let’s take a look at the office of Youtube, the popular video sharing website which was acquired for US$1.65billion in Google stock. Youtube’s office space is located in San Bruno California and even have a lovely large swimming pool. Definitely one of those offices you would love to work at.

Check out more of Youtube’s office with 10 more pics after the jump.

Source: Office Snapshots

Who do you trust, on YouTube?

2007-12-11T09:55:00.001-08:00

Looking for quantitative proof that people prefer dark intimations of doom over well-meaning public service announcements? Researchers at the University of Toronto analyzed 153 YouTube videos that addressed the topic of health risks associated with vaccinations. Guess what? The videos that portrayed vaccinations negatively were viewed more often and rated more highly.

Even more distressingly, in a "Research Letter" published in the Dec. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the authors reported that the anti-vaccination videos were also more likely to be filled with "unsubstantiated" assertions that contradicted the "reference standard" employed by the researchers for assessing that ever-so-slippery subject: "truth." The standard is the 2006 Canadian Immunization Guide. Among the claims the authors considered unsubstantiated are the assertion that there are links between thimerosal and autism, or that HPV immunization may increase high-risk sexual behavior.

The conclusions are presented with restrained rhetoric but it's clear that the results of their analysis disappointed the researchers. What ever happened to the theory that good information drives out the bad?

Approximately half of the videos posted were not explicitly supportive of immunization, and information in negative videos often contradicted the reference standard.The video ratings and view counts suggest the presence of a community of YouTube users critical of immunization. Clinicians therefore need to be aware of Internet video-sharing sites and should be prepared to respond to patients who obtain their health information from these sources.

Of course, if you don't accept the Canadian Immunization Guide as the arbiter of truth, you are unlikely to be alarmed by the high rankings and popularity of YouTube videos railing about the evils of vaccination. How the World Works is going to refrain from tiptoeing into that postmodern morass. But before we join in the mass wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth by the medical community, it might be worth considering that YouTube might be the beginning of the journey toward enlightenment, and not the end.

I went to YouTube and searched for the keywords thimerosal, autism and vaccinations. The first hit was Part 1 of a series delivered by a Dr. Rashid Buttar, a sober-enough sounding man who calmly explains his reasons for believing that thimerosal is a deadly toxin. I then did about 15 minutes of Googling to get some context on Dr. Buttar.

On Nov. 20 the North Carolina Medical Board formally accused Buttar of unprofessional conduct. Among the charges: providing "unproven and wholly ineffective therapies," and charging exorbitant fees. A copy of the complaint can be found here. An article in the Charlotte Observer covering the controversy is here. Further Googling indicates that the autism community on the Web, such as it is, is split between those who regard Buttar as a hero fighting against an entrenched bureaucracy out to get him, and those who think he's a snake-oil-selling quack.

My own opinion, judging from the contents of the North Carolina Medical Board's complaint, is that Dr. Buttar is not a man I personally would go to for medical advice. But I could be wrong; maybe he has been, as he claims, unfairly targeted by a "rabid dog" medical board. But there's a larger point here. The University of Toronto researchers are alarmed at the popularity of what they regard as inaccurate medical information. But taken in total, our ability as consumers of information to gain context for and judge the accuracy of the information presented to us has taken a qualitative leap forward since the mainstream debut of the Internet.

If 15 years ago, Dr. Buttar had come to Berkeley, Calif., and given a speech outlining his views on thimerosal, it would have required a not insubstantial amount of legwork to get a sense of where he stood on the quack/healer spectrum. A day or two of reporting might have been required just to discover that he was embroiled in a fight for his medical license in North Carolina, much less top obtain a copy of the actual text of the formal complaint.

My guess is that information seekers who go to YouTube looking for information about autism and vaccinations will not stop there -- they'll use the same tools to do additional homework. And yeah, clinicians need to be aware of this, because like it or not, they are going to be dealing with patients who have been reading up. Some of them may be misinformed. Others may be better informed.

NEW YORK -- Google's YouTube said Monday that it is expanding its Partners Program, a project that lets users who upload videos to the site share in r

2007-12-11T09:54:00.001-08:00

NEW YORK -- Google's YouTube said Monday that it is expanding its Partners Program, a project that lets users who upload videos to the site share in revenue created from their content.

YouTube started the project in May but, initially, the only way to gain entrance was from an invite from the video-sharing site. Google, though, has opened the program and now any content creator in the U.S. or Canada can apply to monetize their videos.

A Google spokeswoman declined to say how many users originally were in the Partner Program or how many would be added to the expanded versions. She noted, though, that the size of the program has doubled since May and the number of monetized videos has grown by 10 times its original size.

New partners would be judged on "popularity of the user's videos, number of subscribers, the user's involvement with the YouTube community and the user's track record of compliance with the YouTube terms of service," the spokeswoman said. The program is intended for users "who regularly produce videos intended for viewing by a wide audience rather than those who upload personal videos to share with friends," she said.

More than 100 users have since been added to the new program, including Tay Zonday of "Chocolate Rain" fame, and several hundred more could be added in the coming months.

Videos on YouTube are monetized through semi-transparent overlay ads and banner ads.

A bold sales pitch on YouTube

2007-12-11T09:49:00.001-08:00

Mark Littell was an athlete. Now he's an athletic supporter.

The Associated Press finds that the former major league pitcher has one of the most unusual products on the market - the Nutty Buddy, a form-fitting cup that sells for $19.95 and promises maximum comfort and protection for the higher price. He has a Web site (www.nuttybuddy.com) and a most persuasive YouTube clip, showing him being struck in the cup by a ball thrown from a pitching machine.

Littell, 54, has put $40,000 into the project. He says his cup is a better fit than the standard shell-shaped one. The big corporations express doubt. Littell says: Bring it on.

"Let's get the CEO of every cup company," he says. "You put your cup on, and I'll put my cup on, and we'll see who's left standing."

And that ain't the Pepsi Challenge.

Porn producer sues YouTube knockoff

2007-12-11T09:47:00.000-08:00

Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times

Vivid Co-Chairman Bill Asher, left, with co-founder Steven Hirsch in their L.A. office. "We've decided to take a stand and say 'no more,' " Vivid Co-Chairman Steven Hirsch said. "We will go after all the free sites."

PornoTube and its parent firm are accused of profiting from piracy.

By Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 11, 2007

A major porn producer filed a lawsuit Monday against an X-rated knockoff of YouTube, alleging that it profited from piracy by allowing its users to post videos that include copyrighted material.

Vivid Entertainment Group filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against PornoTube and its parent, Data Conversions Inc., which does business in Charlotte, N.C., as AEBN Inc.

The suit is apparently the first of its kind in the adult film industry, which has done a better job than the major Hollywood studios in finding ways to profit from putting entertainment products on the Internet.

But in the last year or so, the rapid increase in consumption of all manner of videos on the Web has in some ways hurt the porn producers more than the mainstream companies because consumers of adult fare often get what they are looking for in clips of five minutes or less. Free short clips are easy to find on the Web, undercutting the established porn producers, which earn most of their money from long-form videos.

"We've decided to take a stand and say 'no more,' " Vivid co-Chairman Steven Hirsch said. "We will go after all the free sites."

In legal terms, the Vivid suit echoes the claims of a lawsuit Viacom Inc. filed this year against YouTube, which is owned by Google Inc. The question at the heart of both cases is just how hard a website must work to ensure that users don't post videos belonging to someone else.

The law on that matter is unsettled, attorneys said. YouTube and other sites have compromised with some mainstream producers, agreeing to split ad revenue generated while their clips are played.

Hirsch said he wasn't interested in negotiating a similar deal or in constantly keeping watch for Vivid material popping up without the company's permission.

"I can't be a policeman, and I don't intend to be," Hirsch said.

Vivid has an additional beef with PornoTube. Although Vivid is required by law to record the ages and birth names of its performers, PornoTube has an unfair competitive advantage because it doesn't always comply, according to the lawsuit.

An AEBN executive didn't respond to a request for comment.

The suit accuses PornoTube of hosting excerpts of tapes that include such Vivid titles as "Night Nurses," "Where the Boys Aren't 7" and the private work of TV personality Kim Kardashian. The suit seeks damages of $150,000 per infringed work.

Other porn companies also are upset by the explosion in Web video sites, many of which rely on user submissions that borrow heavily from copyrighted material.

"What's happening in the industry is an unacceptable amount of theft," said Jon B., a vice president at Red Light District who asked that his full name not be used because family members don't know what he does.

He said Internet piracy might be reducing his company's profit 35%.

The executive said suing websites was likely to prove futile because so many existed and because file-trading occurred over decentralized networks, leaving no single party to sue.

Instead, he said Red Light was considering suing individual downloaders for pirating copyrighted material, as the music industry is doing.

"If it scares them enough, if it can take away 20% of the illegal downloads, we'll be doing the best that we can," he said.

Hirsch said the Internet remained a positive overall for Vivid, helping to provide new ways to generate revenue to make up for declining DVD sales.

Piracy has always existed, but it's more detrimental for the company as it tries to sell more of its content over the Web, Hirsch said. Competing with free Internet videos is bad enough, but competing with free versions of Vivid's material is maddening, he said.

Industry revenue as a whole is up, but it is getting split into more pieces, said Farley Cahen, publisher of Adult Video News Online magazine.

"In the past, it was peer-to-peer networks" that took a modest amount of technical ability to use, Cahen said. "Now, there's PornoTube, XTube, RedTube -- any kind of -Tube you can think of."

"There are longer and longer clips that are free, and the companies are at a loss over what to do."

joseph.menn@latimes.com

Google - YouTube marriage?

2007-11-01T12:01:00.000-07:00

The WSJ reports (sub required) that Google is in talks to acquire video-sharing site YouTube

for roughly $1.6 billion.

But it cites only “a person familiar with the matter,” which is frustratingly vague. As we’ve said before, everyone talks to everyone in this place, and they’d be silly not to. It would be an intriguing play, but also just the sort of buzz YouTube would like to have circulating in order to get Yahoo and Microsoft pounding at its doors. ;)

See chart below for evidence that YouTube continues to leave Google behind:

123Network brings to you the LARGEST gallery of PARIS HILTON

2007-08-02T07:33:00.000-07:00

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Two more Alternative to mGinger, adMAD.Mobi, Sms2india

2007-07-01T09:25:00.000-07:00

Seems the mobile world is getting a clean new revolution. More websites have come up for the mGinger & adMAD.Mobi concept. So more for us if at all this thing has to get a huge success. So friends here are two more of from this upcoming breed.

mGarlic
mGarlic.com pays you to read ads on your cellphone! These ads are only about your interests. Not only that, you get to decide when you want these ads.
Check it out and sign up here.

m-earn
How do you like the idea of getting paid to receive SMS? m-earn promises you just that ! These messages would only contain offers and discounts based on your own interests. You also get to decide the number of ads you receive and their delivery times! There is no limit to what you can earn by referring your friends and relatives. Your mobile can now easily pay its own bills !
Check out and sign up here.

Hope these ventures earn us and them a good amount of money. I wonder if companies will be willing to advertise on this medium. Hope they don't bleed out sooner. What do you think? Whatever be it. We have some option to earn a small penny somewhere in the future.

mGinger, adMAD.Mobi, Sms2india - Get paid to read ads on your cellphone

2007-06-07T09:40:00.000-07:00

Well, well, well. Now it seems the advertisement world is coming up and getting geared for yet another much awaited revolution. You must have already heard about mginger, where you get paid for reading smss on your mobile phone. So now one day you will have to keep your mobile silent for the smss which come to your inbox. So what are you thinking. The fun has just begun.

It was just mGinger till a few days ago. And now it seems the competition has come up in this field too. The idea was unique but not protected. Gung ho!!! Even you can start such a website. Well I was just think where will all this end up. Ultimately, its we who will suffer the most. Our inboxs will be filled with loads of advertisement or say spam messages for which we have ourselves subscribed.

So, now we see and talk about the alternative to mGinger or say alternative to adMAD.Mobi or else alternative to Sms2india (Fully functional from 11th June, 2007). Uff!! So much. Well, for your kind information all the above mentioned websites need a INVITE. So someone need to send you an invitation to sign up for their money making programs.

mGinger
I guess the first in this field of new age advertisement. All leading newspapers and television news channels have also done up with this new funda. Till I am writing this the membership would have crossed over 7 lakhs. What say? And what are you waiting for?
Sign up here now.

adMAD.Mobi
The new one in this arena. Came to know about it from my brother. Well, the above one was also discovered by my brother. When I write this it would have had 16000 members. Hope it increases soon. Benefit for you and also me.
Sign up here now.

Sms2india
I found this when I was hopping through the net or better say when I was googling. Not at all a clean interface. To much of a mess. May be they are not fully launched thats why they are not completely ready. Many features are not available yet. It says of have a full launch on 11th of June, 2007. Hope it come in the much required competition. Well, this website does not provide any invite link. The invite system is very tricky and as far as i know not even a full proof also. They simply ask for writing the username of the person who have invited you. Well, lets see what happens soon.
You can write code102 as referral id when asked. Visit and signup the website here.

So folks. Enjoy and invite everyone possible. Its a new trend to get you money by just reading ads on your cellphone.

123Network starts SMSFUN service - SMSs for your mobile inbox

2007-05-31T08:50:00.000-07:00

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Video Accelerator for YouTube

2007-05-09T21:06:00.000-07:00

Download Video Accelerator for YouTube

One of the worst parts of all online video playback is the wait. I generally have an incredibly fast connection available and yet I'm still waiting for files to playback. YouTube is one of the worst offenders because their playback is designed to feed you small file chunks as you need them. Video Accelerator for YouTube solves this problem by placing multiple requests for file parts, getting files to load and playback faster than they would without Video Accelerator for YouTube. By using this app, you spend more time watching video and less time waiting to watch video. A built-in search makes it easy to find videos from your desktop and bookmarking makes it easy to find videos you liked for a second viewing later. The premise is the same as other download accelerators - open more requests for the same file and get the whole thing faster. As of this writing, Video Accelerator for YouTube only speeds up video playback times for Windows XP and Windows 2000, but Vista support should be coming soon. [Windows 2k/XP $0.00]

Convert YouTube videos to MP3

2007-05-09T07:49:00.000-07:00

If you have seen any video on youtube with a nice audio sound or background music and you want to download that audio as mp3 file than you can download it with free YouTube to MP3 Converter . This software application is very handy and easy to use . It converts *.flv video files to *.mp3 files .

How it will work :- Just paste youtube video url in input bar and give mp3 file name in output bar , after that just click download and convert button and you can save youtube video's as mp3 files . This program is free and you can download this software from softpedia.com . Image by softpedia.com

ActiveShare launched

2007-05-05T07:59:00.000-07:00

YouTube announced the addition of a few new features overnight. Here’s a summary:

Most importantly, YouTube has added an Active Sharing feature, to let you see who’s watching your video, and videos that other users are watching. The last six videos you watched display on your Channel page, and when someone visits one of these videos they may see your name listed in the “who’s watching” box. This history tracking feature can be turned off. Additionally, you can rearrange the order of your favorites videos, and a module that automatically approves comments from friends but requires approval from everyone else.

Any user’s Channel can now be filtered by Most Recent, Most Viewed, and Most Discussed, and gone more lax with comments limits, meaning you only have to type in a CAPTCHA once per login session. You can also unblock users, and browse Partner channels by Most Viewed, or through an alphabetical listing.

The Active Sharing feature may freak out a few users here and there, but it seems to be a pretty nifty way of finding more users to connect with on the site, and have easy access to the videos you’ve just viewed. In other recent YouTube news, they are testing (in closed sessions) a pre-roll and post-roll ad system for videos.

Put YouTube Videos on MySpace Profiles

2007-05-05T06:43:00.000-07:00

MySpace made a few changes to the way they handle YouTube videos that makes the process of adding video to your MySpace Profile page a little easier. At the same time, it's a slightly more confusing process than my previous method for adding YouTube videos to your MySpace blog. MySpace automatically changes the YouTube video embedding code to fit MySpace requirements, so you need to make sure you add the autoplay information in the right spot if you want a video to start automatically on your MySpace profile home page.

To add a YouTube video to your MySpace profile page, make sure you're logged into MySpace. Click on the Edit Profile link next to your photo.

For this example, I'll add a video at the bottom of my About Me section. First copy the embed code from the YouTube video page.

Next, scroll down to the bottom of your About Me section and paste the code you just copied from YouTube.

If you don't need the video to start playing automatically, you are finished at this point. Click the Save All Changes button at the top of the page and your video will appear on your profile.

To make the YouTube video start automatically, you need to do one more step. Locate the section of the YouTube that says value="http://www.youtube.com/..." where ... is the rest of the URL. Before the closing quotation mark add &autoplay=1 to the end of the link. Now click Save All Changes and the video will be on the front page of your MySpace profile, starting automatically.

Add YouTube Videos to MySpace blog

2007-05-05T06:14:00.000-07:00

First click in the box in the About This Video section where YouTube has the Embed code. This automatically selects all the code in the box.

Either use Ctrl+C on the keyboard or right click this box and select Copy to copy the code.

After logging into MySpace, click on the link to your Blog below your profile photo.

On the Blog page, click the link to Post New Blog on the left hand side.

Add a Subject for your post. Click the link that says If you can't input your Blog, click here. This is an important step because it keeps MySpace from messing with the YouTube Embed code.

Paste the Embed code from YouTube in the Body section of your blog post by either using Ctrl+P or right clicking and choosing Paste from the menu. Delete everything before

You should only have the equivalent of what's highlighted in the screenshot below:

Click Preview & Post to make sure the video is there, then click the Post Blog Button.

Welcome

2007-04-30T07:50:00.000-07:00

Hello bhai log.