Monday, April 5, 2010

Google borgs another company

Google makes another interesting purchase, and today’s lucky lottery winner is online streaming video service Episodic, who are as gullible as oysters in a walrus’s tummy happy as clams about being acquired by thieving lying turncoat mental patients joining a world class widely despised respected brand. My guess is Google needs to add some pizazz and income potential to YouTube and none of the geniuses in the people’s republic of engineers running the show beneath management didn’t have an inclination or desire to work on that problem. Whaddya’ do? Buy some brains and intellectual property who’ve already solved the problem. Ta’ da! Enter Episodic, bring in the lawyers, sign the contracts, borg the technology into YouTube, and cross your fingers and hope that baby makes a bigger revenue to line Squirrel Boy’s coffers.


Wednesday, March 31, 2010

NewTube

YouTube’s got a new look.  Get more details here and here, and you can opt-in for the new design here.


Thursday, March 25, 2010

YouTube takes a dive

Conspiracy theorists are having a field day.  Wikipedia goes down yesterday (though not for me, and Lastangelman kept writing me asking if I still had access to it) and now YouTube goes down today.  It was for about an hour. Are there some Chinese hackers at work due to the recent Google news? Maybe….maybe not.  CNN reports here.


Friday, February 26, 2010

Inside YouTube

CNET’s James Martin took a terrific set of shots, going inside the world of YouTube. Check it out.


Friday, February 12, 2010

YouTube goes into safety mode

You can now lock down the type of content you find on YouTube. Info here from the New York Times.


Friday, January 22, 2010

Hope For Haiti Now update

Remember, this show starts tonight at 8pm ET/PT.  YouTube is streaming it here.


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Haitian quake YouTube slideshow


Tuesday, December 1, 2009

iTunes, Hulu and YouTube: The New TV Networks

As the platform wars rage amongst the clouds, a new battle is being fought for your eyeballs and it ain’t HBO, NBC, or FOX.

BTW, ever wonder why they don’t have pocket HDTVs, yet, or why they haven’t bothered making converters for your old portable televisions? It’s because of your mobile phones, jackasses. People can get TV content off the mobile net, including sportscasts. And if you wanna’ watch old MASH or I Love Lucy reruns, there’s portable DVD players that can do that, too.

Makes me wanna start a pirate analog station,

just for the fun of it.


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Viacom finds a smoking gun in YouTube lawsuit

Whoops. Meanwhile, Eric tells reporters that he and the wonder twins have not yet found the “evil room.”

Riiight.