Google recently made the announcement that they would shut down their video hosting service Google Video for good. I have covered the announcement in Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To Know. Google posted two deadlines: The service would shut down for visitors on April 29 which meant that it would no longer be [...]

Categories: Google

Before Youtube, Google tried to conquer the video hosting niche with a service that they called Google Video. When they discovered that they could not compete with Youtube, they bought that service and made people forget all about Google Video. There are actually many similarities to Google’s attempt in past years to get a foothold [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

Google announced today that they will start offering movie rentals at their popular video portal Youtube. The five initial movies from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance Film Festival will be available from Friday on for US Youtube users with additional movies from partners being offered in the following weeks. The limitations of the movie rentals [...]

Categories: The Web

Youtube and other video portals on the Internet have come a long way since the beginning of the online video boom. What started with low resolutions has now grown over the year to keep pace with the high definition development in the TV, digital camcorder and media market. Youtube announced yesterday in the official Youtube [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video

After the fiasco that Microsoft experienced when they made the announcements that they would turn off the MSN Music servers one would have thought that other companies would not follow that lead and would have learned a lesson from it. Microsoft backpedaled quickly after it became apparent that the public was not that pleased with [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry

Stage 6 was a highly successful video portal created and maintained by the creators of the DIVX codec to showcase among other things the power and quality of the DIVX codec. This was reached by providing high quality videos on the portal opposed to lower quality videos on other portals like Youtube. The service however [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video

If you are looking for a convenient way to download lots of videos from video portals like Youtube, Dailymotion and even, ehem adult related ones, you might want to try out the software Free FLV Converter by Koyote Soft. The tool offers a search box that pulls video results from the portal (or all of [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

It seems that more and more specialized websites appear that list videos from sites such as Youtube and Google Video. At the beginning websites that would post lists of tv shows and movies were the most common ones and they are still very popular. Other websites emerge now that only list anime, sports or music videos.

Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video

Watching videos at Youtube and Google Video is not really that comfortable. The search is pretty basic, as are the categories offered and the options to change settings like when viewing it are limited as well. There is also no way to create your own categories at those video sites and fill them with videos that you found.

Categories: Music and Video, Software, Tools