Google has confirmed that they have found tens of thousands of dollars in advertising purchased by Russian operatives as part of a misinformation campaign aimed at the last election. It continues a trend first found on Facebook, where similar ads had been placed in an attempt to fan instability and […]
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YouTube turns ten – Happy first decade
Some websites feel as if the Internet was designed with them as a planned fixture, weaving seamlessly through websites and making so much sense it’s hard to imagine an Internet without them. One of those sites is YouTube, the video hosting site that is now ten years old. Currently, YouTube […]
YouTube will introduce Google+ comment system
YouTube hasn’t changed their format for awhile, though small updates have been made. Today they announced that they will be switching up the way they handle comments, including sorting them by relevance rather than date, and connecting it all with Google+. Not only will relevant comments be given full priority […]
Youtube founders release new video app, MixBit
For several months we have been hearing rumors of a new video app by the founders of online video mega giant and internet game changer YouTube. Today it has finally been launched, and we have been introduced to MixBit. Unlike YouTube, which is primarily for sharing and viewing videos, MixBit […]
YouTube Founders crazy enough to build DIY Magazine Site
This is nothing new, and many would say the founders of YouTube are insane to think that making yet another Do-It-Yourself magazine site is going to go anywhere. However, YouTube was not the first of its kind either. Google was certainly not the first of its kind. There must exist […]
Facebook was the Most Searched US Term in 2011
Out of the 1,000 top search terms throughout this past year, Facebook was #1 in the U.S. It is the third year running, and a 46% increase over 2010, coming in at 3.10% of all searches for 2011. If you include variations on the term facebook that occurred in the […]
VEVO have big plans for the Future
A few years ago music videos were everywhere; literally. Not only were they being rapidly pirated, but they were also being distributed by countless people and there was very little monetization of them. That’s when two big names in the recording industry (Sony and Universal) teamed up to create VEVO. […]