YouTube to test ID software
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Online video site YouTube is to test a new video fingerprinting technology to address copyright concerns.
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Yahoo is planning a more complete YouTube-like video portal, where users will be able to view and share videos, create playlists and interact with others.
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Adobe has released its online video editing software for users of YouTube and MTV.com. Adobe Premiere Express is a free, Web-based video remix and editing technology that is designed to be easy and fun to use.
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The beta release of this YouTube competitor is easy to use, but lags in content.
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YouTube launched a Korean-language interface to its popular video streaming Web site Wednesday.
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Latest spam blast invites recipients to see themselves in a video, but 'YouTube' link leads to malware.
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YouTube's new video fingerprinting technology is designed to help copyright owners identify content uploaded without permission.
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(InfoWorld) - Lycos was set to go after a portion of the popular online video and social networking spaces Thursday by launching a service that lets users create video playlists composed of footage from several Web sites. Users of the service, called Lycos Mix, will be able to select video from YouTube, Google Video and MySpace to create playlists. The free service, currently in beta testing, uses Lycos technology that allows both real-time chat and permanent comments. Lycos Mix users will create their playlists by going to the three video sites and selecting clips, then linking them to the playlist. Lycos has also compiled its own playlists for categories such as arts, comedy, food and music. Lycos internally tested Mix and in the process created the site's first 1,000 playlists, said Lycos product manager Eric Austrew. The service lets participants make their playlists public, which allows anyone to add a video to the list. Alternatively, they can make the lists private, so only the playlist creator can add videos. A moderated option allows anyone to submit videos but gives the playlist owner posting authority. Within about two months, Lycos hopes to announce studio partnerships that will allow the service to offer licensed content, said Chief Operating Officer Brian Kalinowski. Mix isn't Lycos' first foray into Internet social networking, which centers on users with shared interests coming together to view, post and experience content. In November 2006 the companyÂ launched Lycos Cinema, which permits users to simultaneously watch and chat about feature films provided by Lycos partners. Kalinowski sees the distinction between the services in Mix's emphasis on using video from other Web sites, while Cinema users pick from static content. The Web video trend is hot, as evidenced by Google's $1.65 billionÂ purchase of YouTubeÂ last October, but copyright issues are still causing concern. Google's latest intellectual property spat occurred last week whenÂ Viacom International demandedÂ that 100,000 of its clips be removed from the site. Google said it complied with the request. To circumvent this issue, Lycos Mix embeds the other Web sites' players on its site. This allows Mix to stream the videos instead of storing them on Lycos' servers. The other sites are responsible for copyright issues, since they're hosting the content, Kalinowski said. Kalinowski sees Lycos' service as different from other social networking sites because it draws attention to specific content rather than a user profile, he said. The service's ability to aggregate content from assorted video Web sites also differentiates Lycos' offering, Austrew said. "You can only talk about what is on YouTube on YouTube; you can only talk about what is on MySpace on MySpace," Kalinowski added. Mix will display banner ads and possibly search-based ads, Kalinowski said. As the user base grows, Lycos may also play video ads before and after the clips. YouTube and the other video sites will benefit from Mix, because it offers another way to market and distribute their content and services, Kalinowski said. Although the online video market arguably is quite crowded, with players such as AOL Video and Yahoo Video, in addition to MySpace, YouTube and Google Video, Kalinowski believes Mix is entering the scene at the appropriate moment. Lycos is a leader in the youth market, he said, and this is a good time to leverage that advantage.
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YouTube has begun encoding videos in a new format to improve quality and save battery life on wireless devices.
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Measuring time on page instead of hits is likely to hurt Google but help YouTube.
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Video site YouTube is launching filtering tools to clamp down on video sharing without permission.
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(InfoWorld) - A broad group of companies and associations covering most of the Japanese entertainment industry is calling on YouTube to be more proactive in policing its Web site for copyrighted material. In a letter sent Monday to YouTube Chief Executive Officer Chad Hurley and Chief Technology Officer Steve Chen, the group requests YouTube start a system that proactively identifies and removes copyrighted material rather than making rights holders find it and send in complaints. "Taking into account the current status of your service, we believe that your company should not just wait for rights owners to take the 'Notice and Take down' procedures but should bear the responsibility to prevent, in advance, copyright infringements such as illegal uploads and distributions, or to avoid those infringements," said the letter, a copy of which was distributed to media Tuesday by the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC). Monday's letter is signed by JASRAC and 22 other organizations including the Motion Picture Producers' Association of Japan, the Japan Video Software Association, the Association of Japanese Animations, all of the major commercial TV broadcasters, the Japan Satellite Broadcasting Association, the Recording Industry Association of Japan, and Yahoo Japan Corp. It comes a month and a half afterÂ YouTube deleted 29,549 filesÂ based on a complaint filed by JASRAC. The association said the files in question infringed on the rights of 23 Japanese content companies. Neither that complaint or YouTube's action didn't stop users uploading content to the site, and plenty of clips from Japanese TV shows can again be found on YouTube. "We are seriously concerned about the current situation where the Notice and Takedown scheme, aimed [at preventing] copyright infringements, is not functioning well due to the large amount of illegal uploads," the letter said. "While we expect you to promptly take adequate and necessary measures to prevent copyright infringement on the YouTube Web site, until you do so, we request you to take provisional measures ... in order to prevent illegal uploads of audio-visual works, which copyrights are neither owned by the persons posting the works on the Web site themselves nor licensed by the right owners." The preventative measures requested by the group include the posting of a message in Japanese on the YouTube home page warning that posting copyrighted material can be illegal; that users may be liable to civil or criminal prosecution; and a register of names and addresses of users posting content and the termination on-request of user accounts that are used or have been used since June 2006 illegally to upload copyrighted material. The group also requests a reply to the letter by Dec. 15. YouTube could not be immediately reached for comment. Â
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The ability to view and upload videos to YouTube is coming to some LG Electronics Inc. cell phones later this year.
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Content-recognition software could address a major entertainment industry concernâ songs and videos being posted on the Web without permission.
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US Internet search giant Yahoo has launched a video-sharing service in a move that it hopes will enable it to capitalize on a hot online trend being blazed by the popular young YouTube website.
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Adobe Premiere Express is a free, Web-based video editor for users of YouTube and MTV.com.
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The popular user-generated video sharing site YouTube will begin testing video recognition technology in conjunction with partners Time Warner Inc. and The Walt Disney Co.