Facebook Video extension for Mozilla Firefox
Facebook is the most popular social network on the web today. The service allow members to upload and share videos with friends.
However, they have made it very tough for these videos to be downloaded or embedded on third party services.
Facebook Video is a Firefox extension that comes handy in [...]
YouTube Subscriptions updated with new features
Google has updated the subscription feature of YouTube with new capabilities.
The new changes can become quite cumbersome for heavy users of the service.
The new features are designed to enhance the social networking aspect of the service.
Here is the description from Google help pages:
Now, subscribing to someone means subscribing to [...]
U2 concert to be live streamed on YouTube
Google owned video sharing service YouTube is collaborating with the popular music group U2.
YouTube would be live streaming the upcoming U2 Los Angeles concert this weekend.
This streaming feed would be accessible from around 16 countries and it would be free.
YouTube would make available a [...]
YouTube launches real-time comment search on TestTube
Google owned video sharing service YouTube has launched a new feature in their TestTube section.
This new feature enables you to search for comments being posted on YouTube in real-time.
This is similar to Twitter Search which lets you checkout what is being said on the service at any [...]
YouTube now shows information about video being played
YouTube developers recently revealed that the service is now delivering one billion video views everyday!
They have also updated the YouTube player. You can now get information about the video being played.
The data information includes: resolution, bit-rate, frame rate, file size, the number of dropped frames, [...]
Hulu Desktop for Linux launched!
Hulu has announced the launch of Linux edition of Hulu Desktop.
Hulu Desktop for Linux for now available through the Hulu Labs. This means that the application is still in beta but at least its available now for the users on the Linux operating system.
They have also launched Hulu [...]
Muzu is a new rival to YouTube
Muzu is the latest web service which aims to take on Google owned video sharing service YouTube.
Muzu is currently offering thousands of hours of high-quality music videos in addition to episodes of television shows including The Tube and Top of the Pops.
The service is based [...]
YouTube and Facebook users facing problems today
Mashable has reported that two of the most popular online destinations (for wasting time let me add!) are facing problems today.
YouTube has been going through scheduled maintenance which is lasting for a bit too long.
Even Facebook is said to be problematic for some of their users. [...]
Google has a video rating problem on YouTube
YouTube developers have blogged about a peculiar problem.
They have posted a graph showcasing what kind of ratings is given by users on their service to the videos.
The graph clearly showcases that the 5 star rating is the most common rating. 2, 3 and 4 star are [...]
YouTube update has some cool features like resume support on long videos
Google updated their YouTube video sharing service earlier this week.
Here are some of the cool features:
1. Google has added a friend suggestion feature which would work similar to Facebook. You would get to see suggestions based on your history of shared video links. They [...]
