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YouTube's fifth birthday: watch its top five videos
It's hard to believe that YouTube, which now streams more than 1bn videos a day, only registered its domain name five years agoPeople who want to see the latest viral videos, very old TV commercials and pop videos,…
February 16 2010, 2:39pm | Comments
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BBC's James Cridland joins Audioboo
Former BBC radio head of future media and technology to advise UK sound-sharing website on Pro serviceJames Cridland, the former BBC radio head of future media and technology, has joined UK sound-sharing website Audioboo. Cridland, who has previously…
February 16 2010, 10:16am | Comments
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YouTube's fifth birthday: watch its top five videos
It's hard to believe that YouTube, which now streams more than 1bn videos a day, only registered its domain name five years agoPeople who want to see the latest viral videos, very old TV commercials and pop videos,…
February 15 2010, 3:29pm | Comments
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US media sites' traffic shows that Facebook is the new threat to Google
The proportion of traffic to US news media from Facebook tripled over the past year - while that of Google News stayed static. Is this the real threat to Google?Perhaps Google's biggest threat doesn't come from Microsoft: perhaps…
February 9 2010, 12:07pm | Comments
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Facebook under fire again over redesign
Social networking site Facebook is once again under attack after starting to roll out changes to its homepageWhen Facebook changed the newsfeed on its homepage last October, the new layout was greeted by a wave of protest from…
February 9 2010, 10:21am | Comments
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Facebook under fire again over redesign
Social networking site Facebook is once again under attack after starting to roll out changes to its homepageWhen Facebook changed the newsfeed on its homepage last October, the new layout was greeted by a wave of protest from…
February 8 2010, 5:08pm | Comments
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YouTube's video choice prompts Firefox fightback
Firefox isn't supporting the H.264 video standard because it's patented and the patent owners want fees: it's not free. But if Google and YouTube make it ubiquitous, will users have a real choice? Should they care?YouTube has recently…
January 25 2010, 1:38pm | Comments
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Seven things you need to know about augmented reality
Smartphones are bringing the once-SF concept of augmented reality into the everyday worldAugmented reality is a lively creative mess. Now that smartphones have relieved us from unstylish fantasies of goggles, the technology is finally getting real. In 2010,…
January 6 2010, 4:12pm | Comments
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Are Hewlett-Packard computers really racist?
Company accused of racism in tongue-in-cheek YouTube video claiming face-tracking software does not recognise black peopleSome people take technical malfunctions with good humour. One of them is Desi, a black man, whose YouTube film about Hewlett-Packard's new MediaSmart…
December 23 2009, 1:12pm | Comments
