Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
Last time it was Yahoo swallowing Flickr, now my YouTube & Google accounts have been linked to the collective.
Um, ok. Now what? What exactly just happened? Don’t worry, they’ve simply merged the member databases and now you can probably share information between the sites. Oh, and by the way your gMail contacts can see [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
The interweb has done it again! A video ad for US-based department store JC Penney is working viral magic. It’s winning praise from ad agencies and You Tube fans. It even won an award at the Cannes Advertising Award last week. It even has the potential to transform JC Penney’s boring [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
I love the UI…and the quality of the image. but despite the hype… the selected betas… the secrecy…the so-called web2.0 superstar CEOs… huh….. content? did someone forget the content?? Joost just blows.
Conversely - new kid to watch… Blowtorch. It’s a bona fide Hollywoood studio headed by the director [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Now that I see Apple’s new iPod Touch delivering the full YouTube eXperience. I finally understand the Apple TV & YouTube product. You see, none of Apple’s products really compete with each other. The iPod touch won’t replace your iPod Shuffle; you’ll want both for different reasons. iPod shuffle is discrete [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
A while ago we mentioned here on SM that it’d be nice if Apple integrated its iMovie features with YouTube. We suggested it marry the iMovie feature which lets you pick mp3 tracks from iTunes to put into your homemade video clips. Then simply upload directly to YouTube. It’d be far better than YouTube’s current [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Well, it was rumoured here not very long ago by Baxter that Amazon was in the process of linking in YouTube commercials for their products. Noticed this week, is one of my favourite places to shop online, TigerDirect.ca.
They now have YouTube video commercials for some of their products such as this Pentax Camera.
We’re not [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2007 by Baxter
Rumour has it that text reviews are simply not enough any more for Amazon. “You just cannot convey in text what you can with video.” So YouTube will be hosting advertisements for Amazon products. The rumour also states that there are now over one hundred products on Amazon with video clips on their pages. Manufacturers [...]
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Posted on April 6th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
follow up post..
In case you haven’t read, RealityMarkets is a fun way to follow news events such as whether the next US president will be a Republican, or whether Daniel Briere will score 100 points in the NHL. The fun twist is that not only can you see a wonderful aggregate list of news, web, [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
From YouTube’s testTube labs comes audio swap for your YouTube videos. This feature works great and is fun to use. You upload a video to YouTube with or without an audio track and then you pop over to the audio swap where you can choose from a selection of songs to pop into your video. [...]
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