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SlideShare Goes Beyond PowerPoint and Adds Video

By Frederic Lardinois / May 5, 2010 03:00 AM / Comments

SlideShare, the popular service for sharing presentations, just announced a major update to its platform. Starting today, SlideShare users will be able to upload videos of their presentations, screencasts and other business-related video content. Thanks to SlideShare's LinkedIn app, LinkedIn's users will now also be able to share video on the popular social networking site for professionals.

Top 10 YouTube Videos About Steve Wozniak

By Deane Rimerman / April 29, 2010 10:00 AM / Comments

Steve Wozniak, builder of the first Apple computer, is not as well known as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Yet on YouTube there are more documentaries and recent videos of this man they call "the Woz" then there are of his colleagues. For that, he's become an ideal spokesperson for personal computing history.

In these videos you'll see a young Steve Wozniak give a tour of the Apple history museum, as well as fund a rock concert for a half a million people. Wozniak is also portrayed in a made-for-TV movie about a 1960s underground society of phone hackers, which included Steve Jobs. In more recent years Woz performed on Dancing With The Stars. He's even been filmed doing magic tricks while waiting in line to buy an iPad. There are way too many videos about Woz to pick just 10. So many of our choices were made to try and paint a complete picture of the man. If you know of other videos we've left out that deserve to be mentioned, please post in the comments below.

Skyfire 2.0 Brings Flash Video to Android

By Mike Melanson / April 29, 2010 02:40 AM / Comments

While Flash on the iPhone and iPad certainly isn't in the cards, it looks like it will be coming to Android even sooner than Google VP Andy Rubin said it would.

Mobile browser company Skyfire released version 2.0 today, which brings Flash video to Android along with a few other features.

Millions of People Now Get Live Streaming Video Sent to Their Phones

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 27, 2010 03:27 AM / Comments

Live video, from around the world, streaming right through the phone in your hand: that's pretty incredible. It's not science fiction anymore, it's now something that millions of people have experienced.

San Francisco's Justin.tv announced today that almost one and a half million people have downloaded the company's live-video-stream-viewing app to their iPhones in the first month it's been available. From Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech, to the Future of Money conference, to a lot of content I don't care to watch, Justin.tv is definitely getting traction. This isn't the only company fast finding a lot of consumer interest in mobile video streaming, either.

Top 10 YouTube Videos About Flash Mobs

By Deane Rimerman / April 20, 2010 02:30 PM / Comments

Flash mobs are "spontaneous" gatherings that are organized by emails and text messages. Everyone from celebrities to schools have created them. To keep it real, our Top 10 YouTube list is based only on non-commercial events.

From a giant flash mob shootout in a shopping center in Poland, to a ninja mob at U.C. Berkeley, to a light saber mob in Bristol, these events are a global phenomenon. In Australia and New York City - even a record 3,000 people all freezing in place in Paris - these mobs demonstrate how new ideas for email- and text message-based event organizing have only just begun.

YouTube Streams IPL Cricket Live In U.S.

By Mike Melanson / April 19, 2010 12:05 AM / Comments

When YouTube first started streaming Indian Premier League cricket at the beginning of March, it did so on a time delay for matches shown in the United States. Today, the streaming video service has announced that the matches have become so popular in the U.S. that there's no longer a need to wait - the games will be streamed live here as well.

Top 10 YouTube Videos About Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs

By Deane Rimerman / April 14, 2010 01:00 PM / Comments

Over the past 20 years the two people most prominent in the world of personal computing have been Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Sometimes they've worked as partners, mostly as the opposite. So in the end who wins?

ReadWriteWeb wants you to be the judge. After viewing these 10 videos, it's up to you to decide who gives a better graduation speech, who makes the best cartoon character, and who is better at being funny. Who's the bigger alpha in the dating game, who's better at saying nice things about their opponent, and finally, who is better at leaving their business?

RipCode Brings Streaming Flash Video to iPhone & iPad

By Mike Melanson / April 14, 2010 02:22 AM / Comments

For websites that find themselves stuck in the middle of the ongoing feud between Apple and Adobe, there might be another way out of the mess - Ripcode. According to the company, its latest product is a server-side solution for websites that want to get their Flash-based content onto Apple's iPad and iPhone.

Top 10 YouTube Videos About Twitter

By Deane Rimerman / April 13, 2010 01:00 PM / Comments

Our choices for the 10 best Twitter Videos focus on not just number of views, but on videos that help explain how Twitter has changed our culture. From the most popular video about why a group of teenage girls quit Twitter, to an instructional video about how to you use Twitter, to cartoons, to downright Twitterholics, the culture that is Twitter has been explained in many ways.

Another common theme in these videos is introducing non-Twitters users to the Twittosphere. David Lettermen makes great fun of the all too common question, "What is Twitter?" Twitter in HD, featuring Marina Orlova from HotForWords, covers the early days, as well as the creators of Twitter. If you'd like to know more about ReadWriteWeb follow us on Twitter @rww.

Google Releases Goofy Video Creation Tool

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 13, 2010 04:44 AM / Comments

Google today launched a video creation tool called Search Stories. It's a very lightweight little Flash tool to put together a little YouTube video of a number of search queries set to music. It's mildly amusing but not really useful.

If you've seen LMGTFY (You haven't? Well, LMGTFY) this is just like it, but with less snark and more apparent effort to engage users. I'm trying to have a sense of humor about it, but it's hard. See my handy-work below. On the spectrum of sophistication among read/write publishing innovations, this one will help define the spread.

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