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YouTube Makes Annotating Videos Easier
YouTube first introduced annotations last June, but starting today, Google's popular video sharing site is making it even easier to add text comments into your own videos. Whereas before you had to go into a relatively complicated annotations editor to add your comments, you can now just click on a spot in the video during playback and the annotations editor will open automatically. Google has also made it significantly easier to add links to other content on YouTube into your annotations.
Pixelpipe: Post Anything, Anywhere
Given the constantly growing number of micro-blogging, photo sharing, and video hosting sites, it is getting harder and harder to keep all these accounts updated. One of our favorite application to post media files to a variety of services is Pixelpipe. Pixelpipe takes care of the distribution of your files, so that you can simultaneously post a picture to flickr and Facebook, and send a message with a link to that picture to Twitter. Thanks to a large number of updates in the last few weeks, Pixelpipe has become even more versatile than ever before and now lets you share almost any kind of file.
The YouTube Government: Why Is YouTube Getting Preferential Treatment?
Lately, there has been a trend for government agencies and elected officials to put their videos up on YouTube. While we commend them for doing so, we can't help but wonder if this is, in the end, a positive trend. After all, while YouTube is definitely the most popular video sharing site, it is definitely not the only one. Yet, as we reported this morning, Congress is putting its videos on the site now, and President-elect Barack Obama is also making regular appearances on Google's popular video sharing service.
Can the New TV.com Challenge Hulu?
CNet's TV.com used to be a relatively bland TV listings site with some additional content. Since CBS bought CNet last year, however, TV.com is slowly turning into a full-blown online video destination site that is starting to resemble Hulu. Today, CBS announced distribution deals with PBS, Sony, Showtime, MGM, and Endemol that will greatly expand TV.com's line-up of shows on the site. Thanks to this, it looks like TV.com might be able to challenge Hulu, though CBS is also clearly emphasizing a different set of features on its service.
Will Music Labels Make a Deal with Hulu and Shun YouTube?
According to a report by the Financial Times, some of the larger music labels are looking into creating a single destination site for their artists' video content. The Financial Times cites two unnamed label representatives who argue that Hulu (and not YouTube) would be the most likely partner for this venture.
New Study Says You Watch A Lot of YouTube at Work
According to a new report by Nielsen Online (pdf), most online videos in the U.S. are watched at work between 9am and 5pm during the work week. 65% of all online viewers use this time to watch their favorite online videos, while only 51% watch online videos during this time on the weekend. Not surprisingly, weekend nights between 11pm and 6am attract the fewest viewers.
The Age of Grainy Web Videos Has Come to an End: YouTube Turns on HD
Just about three weeks ago, we reported that YouTube was testing high-definition videos, and today it seems like this feature has been officially released. A large number of videos that fulfilled YouTube's criteria for HD encoding now sport a 'watch in HD' button instead of the old 'watch in high quality.' We have not seen any official statement from YouTube about this yet, but you can already find a lot of HD videos on YouTube now if you do a search for 'HD' on the site.
Kyte Announces Branded Mobile Sites
Kyte, the popular video streaming platform, announced a new product tonight: branded mobile web destinations. These new sites will allow brands to easily create and monetize their own video-enabled sites for mobile devices.
As we reported earlier this year, Kyte is slowly moving away from user-generated content and is focusing on large brands and content producers instead. Among the launch partners for the new branded mobile sites are two Interscope recording artists: Lady Gaga and the All-American Rejects.
YouTube Tests HD Videos
According to a report by Wired's Meghan Keane, YouTube is testing stereo sound as a default option for videos and is also offering very high quality HD versions of a small selection of clips. We weren't able to find a lot of videos that were encoded in the 720p HD format, but it is important to note that this is different from the 'watch in high quality' option YouTube already offers, which only features a resolution of 480x360 and which doesn't look half as good as the 720p option.
It would not surprise us if Google was adding these options to give professional content producers and TV networks more of an incentive to upload their content to YouTube instead of using Google's competitors.
Boxee Raises $4 Million for Open-Source Media Center
These are clearly not the easiest times to secure financing for a startup, but Boxee, which makes an open-source media center application that works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and the Apple TV, just announced a $4 million investment from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark and Fred Wilson from Union Square will join the Boxee board.
Boxee, which is still in private beta testing, is a media center solution that allows you to play back content from third-party providers like Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central, or Last.fm through a very slick interface.
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