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7M flock to YouTube for Baumgartner's edge-of-space leap
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-10-15 00:30
The world is turning to YouTube to watch Felix Baumgartner's daring stratospheric skydive this morning.
At last count, the video-sharing site's live stream of the high-altitude jump had attracted more than 7.2 million viewers. They are currently watching the last stages of egress before Baumgartner jumps from approximately 128,000 feet.
Baumgartner is attempting to set four records: the fastest freefall (an unprecedented Mach 1), the longest sustained freefall, a free fall from the highest-ever starting point, and the highest ascent in a manned balloon.
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Google Says It Won’t 'Manually' Review YouTube Vids for Infringement
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-10-05 01:12
Google-owned YouTube on Thursday corrected a statement it made the day before, and now says the company will not manually review copyright-infringement claims before its system automatically blocks disputed footage.
The mishap occurred when Thabet Alfishawi, rights management product manager for YouTube, wrote in a YouTube blog post: “We’ve improved the algorithms that identify potentially invalid claims. We stop these claims from automatically affecting user videos and place them in a queue to be manually reviewed.”
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YouTube launches new iPhone app ahead of iOS 6 release
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-09-11 09:23
Days before iOS 6 lands on iPhones without the familiar pre-installed YouTube app, Google has released a new version with some significant upgrades. (Grab the app here.)
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Google to YouTube Users: Don't Be Evil
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-07-25 23:37
Google is trying to clean up the Web, one comment at a time. Earlier this week it introduced a new feature designed to drain the online cesspool better known as YouTube comments.
YouTube has long been the repository of anonymous, illiterate, hateful, and just plain brain-dead comments since its inception. Now Google is trying to gently urge people to post videos and comments using their real names -- more specifically, their Google+ identities -- in the quaint notion that if people are held accountable by name, they might possibly act a little less like jerks. Maybe.
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YouTube Adds Face Blurring
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-07-19 00:21
YouTube can turn anyone with a camera into an eyewitness reporter, but that can be a problem when the subjects of the video need to stay anonymous.
To address this issue, YouTube has added a face blurring option to the site's built-in photo editor. When users apply the option, YouTube tries to detect and blur all faces automatically. The option appears under “Additional Features” in YouTube's Video Enhancements tool.
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