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May 17, 2009
The Web-Built Youtube Symphony Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall
International Musicians Come Together Online and Onstage
San Bruno, California - Darius Klisys never dreamed of performing at Carnegie Hall. Though an accomplished musician, with nine albums to his name, he lives in Lithuania, with an ocean separating him from New York City. Not only that, he makes his music on the birbyne, a traditional but relatively obscure Lithuanian reed-pipe that never has been a standard instrument for a symphony orchestra.
[more] May 09, 2009
YouTube slowly building ad-friendly content
One of these days, Google is going to need to find a way to wring money out of YouTube, but at least it has a lot of room to grow.
If you're a glass half-full kind of person, then a report out Friday from Bernstein Research's Jeffrey Lindsay (as spotted by MediaMemo) should resonate. One of YouTube's main revenue-generating issues is that companies don't necessarily want to advertise next to videos of a fireman lighting himself on fire, or TMZ's bizarre interview of the Houston Rockets' Ron Artest, both among the most popular videos on YouTube at the moment.
But Lindsay believes that YouTube has been able to increase the number of videos suitable for advertising to around 9 percent of YouTube's inventory. That doesn't sound like much, but it's up from around 3 percent last year, according to MediaMemo, and could reach 15 percent next year.
[more] Oct 11, 2008
Hackers using fake YouTube pages to attack computers
Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical software.
A deceptive YouTube attack evolving as it spreads on the Internet is part of a growing trend of hackers to prowl popular online social networking communities in which people trustingly share web links and mini-programs.
"We are seeing tools like this not just for YouTube, but for MySpace, Facebook, America Online instant messaging ...," Trend Micro software threat research manager Jamz Yaneza told AFP on Thursday.
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