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Feb 20, 2008 10:28 AM CST

Spanish Voters Hit YouTube

Hundreds query candidates, but site's influence still uncertain

(Newser) - It's not only in the US that Internet video is changing politics: Ahead of Spain's neck-and-neck March 9 election hundreds of voters have posted questions for Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his opponent on YouTube. Zapatero has responded to several, Reuters reports, but the more strident—such...

GoogleTV Heads List of Best New Internet Hoaxes

Feb 14, 2008 2:46 PM CST

GoogleTV Heads List of Best New Internet Hoaxes

Glowing Mountain Dew, UFOs also make list

(Newser) - The Internet probably doesn’t need more false information, but some of the recent hoaxes have been so good that ComputerWorld had to recognize them. Here’s their list of best new tomfoolery:

GoogleTV made thousands log into GMail over and over and over.
Many thought the UFO Haiti video

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Sexes Split on Web Watching Habits

Feb 14, 2008 8:48 AM CST

Sexes Split on Web Watching Habits

Study finds women like Web TV, while men like short, funny clips

(Newser) - Women like watching network TV on the web, while men would rather click around and watch short, funny clips, a Nielsen Online study has found. The survey, Nielsen's first major one of its kind, found women are twice as likely to go to network web sites, and men in the...

Damon Wayans Launching Comedy Website

Feb 7, 2008 4:13 PM CST

Damon Wayans Launching Comedy Website

Star hopes to use WayOutTV.com to 'nurture' new comics

(Newser) - Actor/comedian Damon Wayans is launching a new comedy video website, WayOutTV.com, which will feature videos from amateur comedians “overseen” by Wayans, the Los Angeles Times reports. The "My Wife and Kids" star is hoping to turn the site into an informal production studio to guide young talent...

Obama Song Video Scores 12M Views

Feb 7, 2008 2:38 PM CST

Obama Song Video Scores 12M Views

Celebs sing along with Barack's NH concession speech

(Newser) - A video that sets a Barack Obama speech to song—and juxtaposes 36 crooning celebrities with the Democratic candidate—has landed more than 12 million hits online in less than a week, the Boston Globe reports. Scored by singer will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, “Yes We...

US Must Regain Principles, Says Former Gitmo Prisoner

Feb 6, 2008 3:32 PM CST

US Must Regain Principles, Says Former Gitmo Prisoner

'We want to respect America again'

(Newser) - On YouTube, Adel Hassan Hamad is the face of the anti-Guantanamo movement, the subject of two much-watched videos. In December, the innocent Sudanese aid worker was finally released, the Christian Science Monitor reports, and though he is suing for the five years he spent in captivity, he says he's not...

Advertisers Lukewarm on Social Sites

Feb 5, 2008 3:15 PM CST

Advertisers Lukewarm on Social Sites

Networking, video-sharing users not prime marketing targets

(Newser) - Facebook and YouTube are runaway success stories when it comes to attracting Internet users, but they lag in attracting ad dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. Advertising on social networking and video-sharing sites is relatively new, and therefore most vulnerable if economic worries lead to advertising cutbacks. Firms also worry...

Video Sparks Hacker War vs. Scientology

Feb 4, 2008 4:04 PM CST

Video Sparks Hacker War vs. Scientology

Embarrassing Cruise clip disappears; mayhem ensues

(Newser) - After the Church of Scientology removed a video of Tom Cruise calling his religion a “blast” from YouTube, the Internet world declared war. Hackers have been furiously shutting down and “Google bombing” Scientology's website while free-speech protesters gather and pranksters send white powder in envelopes to LA-area Scientology...

Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy

Feb 3, 2008 6:50 PM CST

Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy

Dell's "ReGeneration" contest sparks Graffiti users to post green art

(Newser) - Most blog posts, Flickr pics, and YouTube vids are junk, a Los Angeles Times blogger laments, but Facebook has drummed up a cyberspace winner called Graffiti. The online painting tool has had more than 8 million users and sparked fine submissions in Dell’s “ReGeneration Contest," which asks...

Cruise Out to Save World in Wacky Video

Jan 16, 2008 9:00 AM CST

Cruise Out to Save World in Wacky Video

Calls Scientology 'rough and tumble, wild and woolly, and a blast'

(Newser) - The latest Tom Cruise thriller is a Scientology testimonial video circulating online in which the weirdly intense actor promotes the faith as the way to save the world, and urges fellow Scientologists to "educate to bring a new reality" to non-believers. "When you drive past an accident,"...

Daily Traffic Doubles for YouTube and Friends

Jan 10, 2008 5:47 PM CST

Daily Traffic Doubles for YouTube and Friends

Study credits rise in broadband service for boom on video-sharing sites

(Newser) - Daily traffic for online video sites such as YouTube has doubled over the past year, paidContent.org reports. A study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 15% of their sample of adults said they had visited an online video sharing site “yesterday” or the day...

China Moves to Restrict Online Video Sites

Jan 3, 2008 3:01 PM CST

China Moves to Restrict Online Video Sites

Impact of laws, slated to take effect Jan. 31, remains unclear

(Newser) - China appears set to clamp down on online video sites with a new set of regulations that restricts content and organization, the Wall Street Journal reports. The regulations, to take effect Jan. 31, require sites broadcasting online video to be owned or controlled by the state, and to censor and...

Laughing Tots Make TV Debut

Dec 31, 2007 5:34 PM CST

Laughing Tots Make TV Debut

YouTube's giggling babies now starring in latest crossover ad campaign

(Newser) - Babies with belly-laughs are the darlings of YouTube—one video has been seen by more than 35 million viewers—and now AIG is deploying them to sell financial instruments. Slate finds the AIG giggling-baby campaign instructive of what works and what doesn't in adapting YouTube videos to TV. For one...

'US Americans' Love Videos

Dec 27, 2007 2:54 PM CST

'US Americans' Love Videos

Internet phenomenon scores big in 2007

(Newser) - With small-screen stars ranging from ditzy beauty queens to potty-mouthed pint-sized landlords, Americans increasingly gathered around the YouTube watercooler in 2007. They racked up 100 billion views on various video sites, ABC News reports. Cultural commentators liken the phenomenon to cavemen swapping tall tales around campfires, but 78% of us...

Colorful Cube 'Next Big Thing'

Dec 26, 2007 5:42 AM CST

Colorful Cube 'Next Big Thing'

Huge demand expected by next Xmas

(Newser) - Santa is already kicking back and thinking what will be under trees next Christmas. High on the list is the Fentix cube, an innovative, colorful, electronic device that can detect up from down. Inventor Andrew Fentem tells the BBC it can be adapted for many uses - games platform, puzzles,...

Campaign for Young Voters:
Vote 4 Me! Pls?

Dec 24, 2007 10:17 AM CST

Campaign for Young Voters: Vote 4 Me! Pls?

Candidates employ new technology to reach youth

(Newser) - New technology has given presidential hopefuls a host of new ways to transmit the "Vote For Me" message, McClatchy reports. Campaigners are using social networking sites, YouTube videos, instant messaging, and even text messaging in a bid to gain an edge with young voters. But their target audience seems...

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

Dec 24, 2007 9:47 AM CST

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

NBC hopes made-for-web show can defy so-so traffic numbers

(Newser) - YouTube buzz is tough to manufacture, and so far NBC’s “Quarterlife,” the network's experiment in TV-quality production for the web, hasn’t managed. The last dozen episodes have each drawn around 100,000 views between MySpace and YouTube combined, which isn’t many eyeballs in the TV...

Queen of YouTube

Dec 23, 2007 8:24 AM CST

Queen of YouTube

Christmas message to be broadcast on new Internet 'Royal Channel'

(Newser) - Look who's using YouTube. The British Royals have just joined the ranks of YouTube users with the launch of a "Royal Channel" on the video-sharing Internet site that showcases recent and historical clips of the queen and her family. On Tuesday the queen will broadcast her 50th anniversary Christmas...

Microsoft, Viacom Ally to Check Google

Dec 20, 2007 9:34 AM CST

Microsoft, Viacom Ally to Check Google

Partnership aims to counter search giant's ad growth

(Newser) - Microsoft and Viacom joined forces to counter Google's growth in the ad market yesterday, with a 5-year, $500-million partnership. Microsoft gets audio and video content from Viacom, and is a preferred partner in online gaming. Viacom will switch its ad placement from DoubleClick, which Google is about to buy, to...

Striking Writers Turn to Web Biz

Dec 17, 2007 4:18 AM CST

Striking Writers Turn to Web Biz

Top writers plan to bypass studios with original online programing

(Newser) - Dozens of striking film and TV writers are creating new companies that would bypass Hollywood studios and present original video entertainment directly on the Internet. Three groups of writers are working on ventures similar to United Artists, the production company created by Charlie Chaplin and other stars who wanted to...