Tag Archive for ‘YouTube’
YouTube is playing both sides of the fence now. Despite the fact that Google technically owns the media sharing website, they cannot simply ignore the 1.7 million iPhone users who may or may not be part of the YouTube network (and it is likely that most of them are YouTube users).
Originally, not having HTML5 on YouTube meant that iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad uses would have to use apps to view links that led to videos that were hosted on the video sharing website. Now, there is no need for that. According to the latest update from YouTube, the mobile version of their website will now be using HTML5 as a new standard.
In many ways, this is already predictable. After all, HTML5 really is a great new format for replacing Flash. The only issue is that many existing websites were made, designed and executed using Flash, there is also plenty of web content, such as ads and games that use the Flash format. This has made the shift from Flash to HTML5 a slow one –one that Apple is not happy with.
Several months ago, when Apple released the SDK for the iOS 4, it came with a developer’s agreement that basically ruled out the use of Adobe’s Flash Professional as a creation and compiling tool for iPhone apps. This made it harder for developers to create apps for Apple, and at the same time, it made the Flash developers want to work with Google instead.
Anyway, despite the tension and competition between Apple and Google, the fact that the iPhone 4 sold so much –despite not having Flash support is significant. In some ways, it shows that people simply do not care about what formats are supported or not –and in this regard, whatever format works with Apple’s new device is going to be the new standard.
Tags: Adobe-Flash, Apple, Apple-iPad, Apple-iPhone, Apple-iPhone-4, apps, Google, HTML5, YouTube
Many smart phones will allow a user to instant take a video recording of almost anything. And chances are these videos are shared with friends and families online on various file and video sharing sites like YouTube before they are posted on Facebook.
In many ways, this little convenience is something that users should be careful about. Uploading a video is quite easy (especially when there is a stable and fast internet connection), but the repercussions of doing such could be bigger.
Take the previous case of a Google video which showed a young boy being bullied. The case ended with three of Google Italy’s top heads taking the blame for the psychological damage that the video has brought. Despite the fact that Google does not control the content that is uploaded by users, many feel that they are responsible.
Since Google also owns YouTube, the same argument has also been made –not only because of an uploaded video’s potential effects, but also because of the fact that a large chunk of videos online contain copyrighted material. Viacom has filed a case against Google regarding this matter. Despite the fact that they lost the case, it drives in the fact that there is an issue with the content that is being uploaded to the video sharing site.
Copyrights are not the only issue that YouTube users should be wary of, after all, Google already takes measures to help out the copyright owners (if copyright owners request that certain videos be taken down, Google cooperates with them).
Being careful about how personal and private videos are shared is also important. While it may be nice to upload that video taken at a cousin’s recent wedding, be sure to ask permission from the people who are heavily involved in the video –more often than not, people find themselves tagged in embarrassing moments caught on camera that are publicly displayed by their contacts on Facebook and other social networking sites.
Tags: copyrights, Facebook, Google, Google-video, Internet, smartphones, social-networking, Viacom, video, YouTube
There is a new announcement that many tariff subscribers should be wary about: the old unlimited internet access is no longer available, networks are now categorizing data usage rates into samples of 200MB, 500MB and more. It is a very big move from having 1GB to just 200MB, and while it is reported that the average mobile phone user consumes less than 200MB each month, every user should be aware.
Of course, if you are already on a plan and are planning to simply renew, then the network operator is obliged to keep you at the original rate you have. On the other hand, data plans for new subscribers have to be watched and monitored in order to ensure that monthly usage does not surpass the given allowance.
According to O2, the new plan will also keep users informed and up to date with text messages summarizing data usage. But users will still need to be aware that certain things will drain their allowance. First off, refreshing advertisements –just because a person has loaded a page on the internet does not mean that there is not data being transferred. More often than not, ads tend to change; cycle and refresh, which means that it would be wise to disconnect of stop all page processes if you intend to read a long news article or post.
Videos are also an obvious thing to look out for. Despite the relatively small size of YouTube uploaded videos and more, these will add up, and some videos that are only two minutes long could be over 10MB depending on the quality. The best thing that people can do is to minimize the media access on their mobiles. Connect to the web only if needed and for all other purposes, use a netbook or computer instead.
Tags: bandwidth, Data-allowance, Internet, O2, YouTube
