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 chops. After all, half the fun of discovering content on YouTube comes from sharing it with friends.
As I mentioned yesterday, the crux of YouTube RealTime is its omnipresent toolbar. After… Continue Reading
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 users to track the activities of friends within the site. The feature aggregates actions like comments, online status, and viewing habits, and then broadcasts them to a persistently updated toolbar…. 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 the incident seems to be growing at a rate of more than 100,000 views per hour. The site reports:
As of today at 11 am EST there were over 550 copies… Continue Reading
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 her birthday party, one worthy of MTV’s reality series My Super Sweet Sixteen (where spoiled rich teens throw lavish, themed tantrums to celebrate their coming-of-age, often with ponies and Range… Continue Reading