Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’
YouTube is number 5 in Denmark
The Danish Union of Internet Media (FDIM) has recently conducted a quite thorough survey on the Danes online behaviour in January 2008.
Number 1 is Google (surprise surprise!) with 15 millions visits(!) in January. But what's interesting, for me anyway, is that YouTube is at number 5! YouTube had b little over 1.1 million Danish visits in January, which is more that any of the online newspapers here in Denmark.
The only ones to beat YouTube (apart from Google, of course) are:
- Krak (a service which lets you look up addresses and phone numbers and view the results on a map (think white and yellow pages))
- DR.dk (the Danish Broadcoast Association, which gets a lot of visits, apart from the news service, from people viewing the online TV-guides, listening to internet radio, downloading podcasts and reading more about the various shows)
- TV2 (the largest private television channel in Denmark, which (just like DR) gets a lot of visits from people viewing other things than news and watching online television (their main product) - TV2 also offers online games)
So considering all of this, I think it's a fairly good result for YouTube. I for one use YouTube all of the time, sometimes just for listening to music. I had no idea that the service is that popular in this country, though.
My good friend Kim has the entire list [in Danish] (taken from Danish media news site MediaWatch) [also in Danish]. You can download the entire report from FDIM [it's a PDF file and yes, it's also in Danish].
Related postsTags: Danish media, Denmark, Google, Internet newspapers, News sites, Video, YouTube
The life of a first poster
My good friend Jacob told me about this video — it's about the life of a first poster, one of those guys who writes the first post, whether it's a comment to a YouTube video or something else.
Enjoy it — it's actually quite funny.
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YouTube: (again) a case of old vs new way of thinking
I just saw this: Thailand has banned access to YouTube.
YouTube has previous been blacklisted in other countries, Brazil for instance.
This is such a good example of old way of thinking vs the new way of thinking.
The old way of thinking: We believe we can control what gets published. And if someone publishes something we don't like, we can just cut the access to it, and no one will see it. If we please we can also sue the owner of the service where we found it.
The new way of thinking: Anyone can publish, and a lot of people do this. If you cut access to the, in this case, published video someone else will publish it elsewhere on the web. Most important of all, you can't blame "the service", in this case YouTube, for what is being published. Yes, they should remove some content, if it violates the law, when they see it — but running court cases against YouTube, Google or a similar doesn't change a thing.
In what way are you thinking?
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Danish Newspaper Politiken has an article on Thailand banning YouTube.
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Tags: Google, Social web, YouTube
Video: Fatboy Slim live in Second Life
Okay, I'm just going to say in advance, that I'm terribly sorry for posting another uninspirational video post, but projects (both in- and outside of school) take up all of my time at the moment.
I'm not really into Second Life, but I am however into Fatboy Slim (at least the old tracks) so without further introduction; here's Fatboy Slim live in Second Life performing (a segment of) "Right Here Right Now":
If you're a Fatboy fan, you'll know why there's a fat guy in a "I'm number one so why try harder" shirt ;-)
Related postsTags: Off the record, Video, YouTube
BBC strikes deal with YouTube (Google)
A short break here at LinuxForum, and I just found this.
BBC strikes Google-YouTube deal.
Apparently there'll be aone channel for news and two channels for entertainment.
BBC sure seems to be on top of things here. Remember their Zudeo/Azureus deal?
Related postsDownload YouTube videos as…videos
One of my personal heroes, JD Lasinger, has a post with links to how you can download YouTube videos as videos instead of .flv-files.
One is the Spanish site Comunidad UEM and the other is the FLV Converter.
Related postsTags: Social web, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
Google includes YouTube in video search results
I just saw this at the Google Blog: Google has now started to include YouTube videos in the video search results.
YouTube still remains independent, though:
Related postsYouTube, as we've stated previously, will remain an independent subsidiary of Google, and will continue to operate separately. Google will support YouTube by providing access to search and monetization platforms and, when/where YouTube launches internationally, to international resources. YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and the rest of the YouTube team will continue to innovate exciting new ways for people to "broadcast themselves."
Tags: Google, Google Video, Search, Search engines, Searches, Searching, YouTube