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Boxee Hooks Up With Facebook To Make Live TV Social

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Boxee will give you the ability to share what you're watching straight to Facebook with a new expansion of the integration of the service into its software. Those of you with the Live TV dongle attached to your Boxee Boxes will be able to share ...

YouTube Is Social Media - How Machinima Targets YouTube's Social Power

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I had the pleasure of spending some time at the Machinima LA Offices not too long ago, and I got to talk to a lot of great people about all the different facets of life at Machinima. One of those was Allen DeBevoise, the CEO. ...

Did Google Forget About Video? New Personalized Search Doesn't Extend To Videos

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So Google recently made a change to their search results that rolls in content from your Google Plus account and your Picasa account. The idea, to hear Google tell it, is to make the search results more personalized and more useful to each user... to ...

Google+ Strategy For Taking On Twitter & Facebook: Choke The Life Out Of Them

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You've probably seen the news that Google Search is now infused with more personalized content from your Google Plus and Picasa accounts--I say you've probably seen the news because it's everywhere. They're calling it Search Plus Your World. I'm not interested in rehashing the details ...

Dating Rules From My Future Self: High Concept Comes To Web Series

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2011 saw some very interesting science fiction and drama shows hit the web.  Comedy will always rule, but there's definitely room for other genres and those continue to build audiences.  How about combining some very light science fiction to a romantic comedy?  Dating Rules From ...

Logitech Brings 1080p HD To Home Video Conferencing With New Webcam

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Logitech is announcing today a new webcam that allows up to 1080p video conferencing when used in conjunction with the compatible software. The Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 will also be able to do 15MP still images with one-touch uploads to social networks. "People are increasingly ...

Online Video Predictions For 2012 - The Reel Web #20

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This week in our look at the Reel Web we talk about how mobile viewers are watching our videos longer than desktop views are and how Facebook dominates Twitter in video sharing. Also, we review YouTube's new "Slam" voting feature and what they're doing to ...

Nielsen's Top Online Video Destinations & Web Brands Of 2011

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A lot changed in 2011. Of course... a lot stayed the same too. Nielsen's year end numbers chart everything from the top web brands to the top social networks and the top online video destinations. And looking over the lists, there's an awful lot of ...

Google Plus Is Adding 625,000 New Users Per Day

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Ever since the launch of Google Plus, Paul Allen over at elance has been crunching some numbers based on their company data. And in the rare moments Google has given official numbers, Allen's have been remarkably close--as when Larry Page stated there were over 40 ...

Your Video And Social Media--The YouTube Creator Playbook Conclusion

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So what have we learned from The YouTube Creator Playbook over the past three months?  I'll tell you what I got most out of it.  Being a success on YouTube requires more than making great content and simply uploading it to the site.  In fact, ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The Sucky Edition

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Well, YouTube can't redesign every week, and they did that last week... so this week's online video news cycle belonged to some of the other players for once. We had several bits of rumor and speculation on the future of Netflix, Google Plus' beefed up ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The 'Even More YouTube News' Edition

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Just over a week ago, YouTube completely and radically changed their layout and overall site design. But if you thought the big changes and announcements were done for a while, you were wrong, because YouTube spent this week pushing out several more changes like a ...

Hyundai Christmas Ads Make YouTube Creators Into Celebrity Pitchmen

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I need to take a few minutes and give some love to Hyundai. The car company has embraced online video in ways most brands haven't dreamed, and they've almost sort of become a champion for the scores of YouTube creators hoping for a shot at ...

Netflix On Facebook App Closer To Reality In US

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This is the kind of news that is really like one-third of the total, overall news.  The House of Representatives passed a bill called HR 2471 that amends 1988's Video Privacy Protection Act, which will allow consumers to decide whether or not they will allow ...

Social TV Comes To Sony Bravia Connected TVs

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A recent firmware update for the 2011 Sony Bravia TVs brings with it the ability to do some social networking right on your TV without ever leaving the program, something I have stated I would like and I'm sure some others would as well.

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