YouTube RealTime: Great for socializing and ads?

YouTube RealTime: Great for socializing and ads?

I have to admit, I was a little skeptical when I heard YouTube was working to bring real-time interactivity to the site. But now that I’ve tinkered with the feature (dubbed “YouTube RealTime”), it’s clear that the popular online video portal was ripe for social… Continue Reading

YouTube goes real-time with new notification toolbar

YouTube goes real-time with new notification toolbar

It looks like YouTube has been bitten by the real-time bug too. After the recent real-time overhauls of sites like Facebook and FriendFeed, YouTube is now tinkering with a similar notification feature imaginatively called “YouTube RealTime,” reports TechCrunch.

Much like Facebook’s news feed, YouTube RealTime allows… Continue Reading

Bush shoe incident goes viral as 3.7 million watch

Following President Bush’s Sunday news conference with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki in Baghdad, during which Bush ducked not one, but two shoes hurled at him by an angry journalist, the video of the dramatic event has gone viral.

According to NewTeeVee, the online video of… Continue Reading

Dear Facebook, please make me a supermodel

Dear Facebook, please make me a supermodel

Public event listings on Facebook have been used to influence politics and organize protests. But now events organized through Facebook — and their chaotic aftermath — may just lead to… a modeling contract?

Two weeks ago, British teen Georgina Hobday posted a Facebook event to announce… Continue Reading