YouTube goes international in nine languages
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The popular video-sharing website YouTube announced the launch here Tuesday of international services in nine languages, in a fresh step by parent company Google to deepen its presence in Europe.
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InfoWorld - Popular video-sharing service YouTube opened its second Chinese-language Web site on Thursday, localized for people in Taiwan.
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Japan's prime minister has begun posting English-language messages on the video-sharing Internet site YouTube in an apparent bid to raise his country's international profile
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Buzz Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BZTG) is pleased to announce the pending release of The Buzz Box. The Buzz Box will allow users to send and receive emails in 11 foreign languages, including English, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Korean and Dutch.
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YouTube is expanding its mobile service to include virtually all of the videos available on its Web site, hoping to widen its sway on pop culture.
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Google announced that it had adapted its free online document and spreadsheet service to a dozen languages.
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YouTube's second Chinese-language Web site is localized for Taiwan.
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YouTube continues to grow faster than the overall market for online video.
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YouTube Mobile will allow users to view videos, send links to friends and upload videos directly from phones.
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Anyone with an Internet connection can watch videos of bombings and sniper attacks against U.S. forces _ shot and edited by Islamic militants and broadcast on YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing Web ...Comment
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The world&#39;s top Internet search engine Google is looking to launch YouTube in South Korea later this year to capitalise on the fast-growing user created content market here, a report said Friday.
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(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ launched versions of its video sharing service YouTube in French and other languages on Tuesday. Localized versions now exist for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. TheÂ French siteÂ features titles and help pages in French, and the top video is a welcome message from French rapper Kamini, who began promoting his brand of rural rap through YouTube's English-language site last November with a video clip entitled "Marly-Gomont". For now, the international sites draw on the same database of videos and rankings as the U.S. site, but in time Google plans to add country-specific video rankings and comments, it said Tuesday. Today, the French site displays French-language content and rankings previously posted to the main site. "The big thing for YouTube in 2007 is access," YouTube founder Chad Hurley said at a Google news conference in Paris on Tuesday. Hurley and his co-foundersÂ sold YouTube to GoogleÂ last October for $1.65 billion. "We have a goal to put YouTube on every screen, and we mean on mobile devices and in the living room. Right now it's restricted to your browser, to your PC, and we want you to be able to take that same content and bring it to your mobile phone and be able to watch it in your living room," Hurley said. Plans to reach those other screens are already under way: on May 30, Apple announced it will put YouTube in the living room by building support for it into a future software update for itsÂ AppleTV set-top box, while on Saturday YouTube launched a version of its site for mobile phones. However, it will require partnerships with mobile phone operators, and months or even years of work, before YouTube Mobile offers the same experience as the Web site offers PC users today, Hurley said. Over half of YouTube's traffic today comes from outside the U.S., Hurley said, and delivering localized versions of YouTube is a way for the company to capitalize on that. However, expanding internationally may expose YouTube to the kinds of censorship issues that Google has been experiencing in China. "I think a platform such as YouTube has to respect local laws and customs," YouTube founder Chad Hurley, adding that the company is developing ways to enable the fine-grained control of content required to do that. In preparation for the launch of the new sites, YouTube has already signed content partnerships with the British Broadcasting Corp.; French 24-hour news channel France 24; Spain's Antena 3 and Cuatro TV; RÃ¡dio e TelevisÃ£o de Portugal; the Dutch VPRO and NPO; European football clubs such as Chelsea FC, AC Milan, Barcelona FC, and Real Madrid, and nonprofit organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and MÃ©dÃ©cins du Monde, said Google. In the past, Google's cultural initiatives such asÂ Google Book SearchÂ have faced criticism -- from the head of the French National Library, Jean-NoÃ«l Jeanneney, among others -- for the way in which they encourage the dominance of U.S. values by making it easier to find cultural resources in English than in other languages. Linking with producers of local cultural content and making it easier to search that material may improve Google's image in some countries. That said, YouTube has proved popular in Europe despite only having an English-language interface until now. In France in April, its U.S. site had almost as many visitors as the French-language pages of local video sharing service DailyMotion, according to market researcher comScore,Â (DailyMotion also offers services in a number of other languages, including English, German, Russian, and Japanese.) One European language notably missing from the new crop of YouTube sites is German. YouTube is already the No. 1 video sharing site in Germany, according to Comscore, narrowly ahead of the German-language service MyVideo operated by MyVideo Broadband SRL of Bucharest, Romania. In Germany, it's more important to understand the German viewer's mind-set than their language, according to Anca-Alina Seghedi, CEO of MyVideo. "Most of the German users of video communities already speak English, at least sufficiently to navigate on an international web site. That means the language barrier is not the main decisive point for users to choose their favorite web sites," she said Friday. MyVideo may be better placed to understand Germans than YouTube, said Seghedi. "It is questionable whether they will be able to adapt to the German consumer tastes, which has been quite an important aspect of MyVideo's success in Germany." At Google's news conference on Tuesday, YouTube international manager Sakina Arsiwala said: "We have to talk to more people on the ground. We were not ready for Germany yet, from the product side or partnership side. We would love to be in Germany." (James Niccolai in Paris contributed to this report.) Â
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In time Google plans to add country-specific video rankings and comments.
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Google Inc. launched versions of its video sharing service Youtube in French and other languages on Tuesday. Localized versions now exist for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.
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A quick jump from an idea to a network offering news and documentaries from around the world, with a library of 800 music videos.
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Just in time for Halloween, Google&#39;s YouTube became available again in China Wednesday, two weeks after it was blocked.Although Chinese Internet regulators don&#39;t comment on why sites are blocked,&#160;YouTube&#39;s blocking&#160;seemed to be tied one or two events: the 17th Communist Party Congress, the Chinese Communist Party&#39;s most important meeting, held every five years; and the launching of YouTube&#39;s traditional language site in Taiwan, both during the same week in the middle of this month. The YouTube Taiwan site is also available in China.However, while YouTube can be viewed again, Blogspot is once again unavailable, one of several sites that see-saw between being allowed or prohibited. Although attempts to reach Blogspot&#39;s homepage rerouted to Blogger.com&#39;s simplified Chinese homepage, neither Blogspot owner Google&#39;s official blog nor the infamous Chinabounder blog -- which features the sexual exploits and political rantings of a foreign English teacher in Shanghai -- could be reached.Blocked throughout the recent changes&#160;is the English-language site of Wikipedia. Its Chinese-language site is&#160;almost always unavailable&#160;here.China regularly blocks access to Web sites that it finds objectionable, including those dealing with politically sensitive subjects such as the Falun Gong religious cult and independence for Taiwan and Tibet, along with some pornographic sites.&#160;
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AOL, which is trying to grow its online advertising business worldwide, has localized its video search site for eight countries and added two languages for its India portal, the company said Wednesday.AOL has extended the local versions of its Truveo video search site to France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the U.K. Within two months, versions will be launched for Australia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia, and Turkey, the company said.Truveo came under AOL&#39;s wing&#160;in early 2006, and the company has sought grow the site as its traffic figures have risen with increased demand for online video.Unlike Google&#39;s YouTube, Truveo doesn&#39;t store content but instead indexes it from sources around the Internet. Truveo can pull some videos into a window embedded in its Web site, or direct users to where the video is hosted. Truveo also groups videos by category, and AOL has created some localized popular categories, such as cricket-related clips for India.AOL&#39;s main site for India is in English, but the company said it has added new content channels in Tamil and Hindi that cover news, astrology and movies. AOL said more than half of Indians who are active online users -- about 30 million people -- prefer reading in their own native language.AOL, which is owned by Time Warner, is trying to change the focus of its from providing Internet access to helping people find and view content. The company had seen a sharp drop in subscription revenue, which still counts for the majority of its profits.Earlier this month,&#160;AOL said it would cut 2,000 jobs worldwide, or about 20 percent of its workforce, while&#160;building up its online advertising business. It recently acquired three online ad firms and started Platform A, a new subsidiary in charge of selling online ads across its Web properties.&#160;