It seems that spammers have finally found a new target for their campaigns: Youtube. If you have lately performed a search on the video hosting platform and decided to sort the results by upload data you might have been in for a shock depending on your search query. Searches for popular games or applications for [...]

Categories: Google

Most video portals like Youtube or Dailymotion display lots of contents next to the videos that they host on their websites. This includes advertisements, user comments, the site navigation and other features like related videos. Those elements can be a distraction especially for sensitive Internet users. Turn Off The Light is an extension for the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Youtube is not really optimized for low bandwidth Internet connections nor for slow computer systems like netbooks. Most computer users who access Youtube with that hardware notice that the experience is not as pleasant as it could be. Youtube Feather is a new Youtube Labs project “to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest [...]

Categories: The Web

There is definitely no shortage of web browser add-ons and software programs that allow users to download videos from the video portal Youtube. We covered possibilities in the past like Youtube Download or Youtube Batch Downloader. Youtube Manager on the other hand adds to that by not only providing the means to download Youtube videos [...]

Categories: The Web, Windows

Microsoft Live Video Search provides a great way of searching for videos online. It is not only indexing various popular video portals like Youtube, MySpace Video or MSN but also crawling websites in the search for new videos. Read the following before you start complaining that it surely is like all the other video search [...]

Categories: Online Services

If you visit Youtube you might have noticed the “watch in high quality” link beneath some videos on the video portal. The high quality link leads to a video with a better resolution and quality that is more enjoyable to watch than the low quality versions. High quality videos on the other hand demand a [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Video Crawler is AT&T’s multimedia search engine. The service is currently in Beta and provides access to videos and other multimedia files of more than 1600 different websites including the popular ones like Youtube, MySpace or Dailymotion. The search engine is indexing the contents of those websites and providing a search engine so that users [...]

Categories: The Web

The video portal Dailymotion added high definition video support back in February. High definition content is not for everybody especially not for those users who use a low bandwidth connection or hardware that is incapable of handling the load caused by the contents. That seems to have been a major concern for the developers over [...]

Categories: Music and Video

Youtube sits tightly on its spot as the number one video portal in the world. It’s extremely hard to compete Youtube, comparable to the problems that search engines have to compete with Google. One way of dealing with this challenge is to provide a specialized video service. 5Min is one of those specialized video portals. [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web