Conan O Brien during the writer strike - highlights
From Late Night With Conan O’Brien 13-02-2008. A clip of the highlights from the writer less shows.
Aimee Allen’s *Unofficial* Ron Paul Revolution Video
Aimee really tried her best to keep this video from being leaked on youtube because its unfinished version and they still have few changes to make. Since its hard to keep people from uploading to youtube, she finally decided to release it due to popular demand. Final completed version will be released within a week or two. hopefully :-). Enjoy the vid
YouTube’s Anti-Piracy Tool
YouTube’s Anti-Piracy Tool - The technology will complement the company’s use of Audible Magic, which identifies audio copyright violations, with a video component. The technology will screen videos after they are uploaded, using digital fingerprint technology that flag and remove a copyrighted video if it is uploaded without permission.
I am really glad that Google is doing something about piracy on youtube but at the same time I really feel that this new tool is going to disappoint a lot of people. I can honestly tell you that I spent few of my minutes on youtube on daily basis. I am fine with having a piracy tool as long the tool doesn’t remove videos from the site. We all know the only reason Youtube is popular is because they give freedom to its users where they allowed to upload anything. The anti-piracy tool will not stop the uploads on the Youtube website but I’m sure that some companies will choose to have their videos removed from the web site. All Youtube fans can do right now is wait and see how this turns out in the next few months.
Youtube video pauses automatically if you open another browser
Maybe I am late at this but I was trying to watch some O’reilly video on YouTube and when I try to open another browser or check email, the video pauses automatically and starts again when I go back to YouTube page. Is this some kind of advertisement tweak from Google and this way if they do place ads on those videos, users will be forced to watch the ads. Thus guaranteeing the advertisers that their video ads are being watched by the User.
We know with tv commercials in the middle of the show most of us get up and go use the restroom, get water or just run around the house. With YouTube, you can’t just let the video run in the background and listen to people talk now. Google wants you to watch the whole damn thing now. GOOOOO Google. There goes my multitasking and at the same time listening to some interesting political conversations on YouTube.
UPDATE - It seems google was testing that feature and now video plays even when you are not watching the video on youtube.