Posts Tagged ‘Youtube’
CNN reports that President Obama will address the nation live Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET about the latest on the BP oil disaster. In related news, Google has announced that people are invited to submit their questions about the disaster on Google Moderator and vote for the ones they think are most important. About 15 minutes after the president’s speech, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will answer the questions on the White House YouTube channel.
As of 4:30 p.m. PT, the White House YouTube channel had 98,098 votes on 3,692 questions from 7,498 people.
The number of unique viewers of online video increased 1.6 percent year-over-year, from 133.7 million unique viewers in May 2009 to 135.9 million in May 2010, according to new data from the Nielsen Company.
YouTube came in as the top online brand ranked by unique viewers for May 2010, with 101.34 million unique viewers. Facebook and Yahoo! trailed behind with 26.2 million unique viewers and 24,200 million respectively.
YouTube announced today that it is testing a new feature called the YouTube News Feed, which it is working on with the University of California at Berkley’s Graduate School of Journalism. The feature would track news as it breaks on YouTube.
Google launched today YouTube’s You Choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit, an updated toolkit designed to help candidates create more effective campaigns and deliver more direct messages.
Steve Jobs wants to save us from Adobe Flash, our PC’s and Now Porn
Steve Jobs has gone crazy. Taking the bait on a late-night e-mail from Valleywag Editor Ryan Tate, Jobs defended Apple’s App Store for offering “freedom from porn,” among other things.