YouTube owner Google has been forced to act quickly to fix a flaw on it’s YouTube video sharing website that allowed hackers to bombard users with pop-up messages, redirecting them to adult websites. The code was placed in the comments section of targeted videos and would run automatically when people watched the clip.

Categories: Google

If you are like us you use Youtube for music discovery. It is an excellent first choice to listen to music from a specific artist or to listen to songs that were recommended to you. Yes, there are other options like the popular music website Last.fm but Youtube is a bit easier to handle in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Youtube is another Google property that has seen changes in the recent past. A Youtube video page can be divided into specific content blocks that are more or less useful to the individual viewer. The video pages display comments, related videos, video descriptions, ratings and footer links regularly. The videos have now usually show in-video [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Tudou.com is the first entry in our new site review series that takes a look at very popular sites that you may have never heard about before. Tudou is the most popular online video hosting site in China with more than 100 million video views and 40,000 new videos per day. While that does not [...]

Categories: The Web

Internet users have lots of choices when they want to download Youtube videos as outlined in our overview article. There are manual options, browser add-ons and scripts as well as desktop applications available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Bulk Youtube Video Downloader is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that works both directly on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

There have been an increasing number of internet censorship instances in the last couple of years including China blocking access to news sites during the Beijing Olympics to that terrible opponent of free-speech, Australia.  Now Pakistan is on the case, blocking YouTube for what it calls “growing sacrilegious content” the BBC has written.

Categories: Music and Video

Have you ever wondered what the trends of tomorrow will be? What people will be talking about? You can now get a headstart with Zoofs, a brand new service that scans Twitter for video links and aggregates them into a most popular listing on their website. According to information posted on the service’s website more [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Many video content creators want to make sure that they videos reach the largest audience possible. To achieve this they upload their videos to multiple video hosting services such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook or MSN Video. Doing that manually can take quite some time. It would involve accessing the service’s website, logging in, selecting the [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services, The Web

Countries all over the world, especially those that claim to be democratic (when in fact we all know that they are not), plan to introduce various control mechanisms to increase their control over the content that is published and shared on the Internet. Cleanternet is satirical website that tries to educate Europeans (and users from [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Security, The Web