If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
Facebook is reaching new heights in the UK — and that means MySpace is slipping.
New analysis out from Hitwise today shows Facebook taking 45 percent of all social network traffic in […]

Spanish microblogging service YouAre has moved into private beta after a year in development.
A lot has happened in the microblogging space in the last twelve months, but Blogs Media, the company behind YouAre has maintained a steady as she goes, get it right development approach. The private beta is planned to last anywhere between […]

Google’s turning a new eye to privacy — a topic high on many minds following its lost battle to protect YouTube users’ data this week.
The recently revamped “Privacy” section — now accesssible at the bottom of the Google homepage — takes you to a detailed listing of all of Google’s policies and procedures. You […]

Google’s getting into the game of home media networks.
The company quietly unveiled its new Google Media Server desktop gadget this week. The tool works with the Google Desktop program to find and catalog all videos, music, and photos on your computer — then stream them to any Universal Plug-n-Play devices in your home. […]

If you haven’t seen Fred yet, Fred is the HOTTEST sensation on YouTube at the moment, with his videos being watched by millions of people. If Fred were a TV show in most countries, he’d be topping the ratings (scary).
So above a dose of Fred, and below some more Fred as well. I’m not sure […]

Qbox is a new tool that lets you aggregate and play music from a variety of social networking sites like MySpace, Bebo, and YouTube. I was pretty pumped when I read a write-up about the idea over at Mashable, but then I quickly grew disappointed when I decided to try the thing out for […]

Non-HD YouTube videos are now available in selected Sony Bravia LCD HDTVs through an attached $300 video module.
Aside from YouTube, Sony is offering content from Yahoo!, AOL, Sports Illustrated, blip.tv, CondéNet’s Style.com, Men.Style.com, Epicurious and Concierge.com channels, Sony Pictures Television’s Crackle, The Minisode Network and Inside Sony Pictures channels, FEARnet, Ford Models, SingingFool and […]

YouTube has opened the door for citizen journalists to get their video reports seen by millions.
The site announced a new Reporter Channel on its blog this afternoon. The channel will accept content from any self-produced news reports, community interviews, student programming, or even amateur commentary. Work from professional broadcast journalists will also be […]

Google is taking the end of the online communications as we know it defense in papers lodged as part of the Viacom/ YouTube lawsuit.
According to AP, Google states that Viacom “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression.”
Google went on to argue that YouTube “goes […]

YouTube has announced plans to offer demographic information in its traffic analysis tool, as The Inquisitr was first to report this morning.
The YouTube Insight feature will now let users see view count broken down into age group and gender. Product managers say the data comes from the birthdate and gender information viewers gave when […]

Google has a new way to make money off viral internet videos.
The company has created a new “buzz targeting” system that identifies high-traffic videos and ramps up its ads for them. It uses a combination of total view numbers and user ratings to find videos on the verge of going viral, then works with […]

Pay negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and movie studios broke down Tuesday over payment for performances of video clips on sites such as YouTube.
The movie studios want to pay actors a flat fee for video shown online, where as the actors want payment every time a video is shown.
SAG President Alan Rosenberg told […]