Digg adds video thumbnails -- We were waiting for Digg to do this, because of all the other sites popping up with Digg-like features to rank items like videos, such as Fanpop. See Digg Videos here.
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Digg's video section now features preview thumbnails of YouTube and Google Video content. Why don't they go ahead and embed the full video right on the Digg article page? (Via Blogoscoped)
"WorldTV Internet TV Charts" wants to be the meta-video site -- Its site, WorldTV.com, tracks the most popular online video clips across four sites (Google Video, YouTube, Digg Videos, and Videosift). Ironic, perhaps, but the results seem oddly uniform. Lots of "girl" videos.
Yahoo Photos has facelift -- See Yahoo Photos here. There's photo-tagging and sharing features, much like Flickr, which Yahoo has acquired. Even as the sites become more similar, they remain seperate and there are no plans to merge them. Yahoo Photos is also offering you drag-and-drop now, and has also opened its APIs to developers
Video site YouTube is making "significant revenues" -- That's what chief executive Chad Hurley said at Digital Hollywood in San Jose. This is relevant because the perceived problem for YouTube until now has been inability to make money. Word is, YouTube is burning through serious cash for video hosting costs, and whispers about the problem continue because the company has refused to comment on it.
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Gizmodo has an exclusive on Mirosoft's music player, the Zune -- It shows a picture and describes it in detail. It mentions the scroll wheel isn't a wheel, however, and so "kinda sucks." But until we try it, we'll wait and see.