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YouTube launches 5 Year Anniversary Celebration Page

May 17, 2010 By 9 Comments
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YouTube has launched a new channel in celebration for its five year anniversary this month. The channel is a host to many user submitted videos discussing how YouTube has changed their life over the past 5 years, and how it's affected their use of social networking sites and internet media in general. You can find the channel called YouTube FiveYear with just over 10,000 subscribers already, and growing quickly. The amount of user submitted content is enormous, and all this growth comes at … [Read more...]

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Streaming Videos of History Channel’s America: The Story of Us

April 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
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A riveting documentary and informative series just started last night on History Channel. Simply entitled America: The Story of Us, it contains featured interviews and discussions with important political leaders from everywhere around the US. Luckily for those who missed it, History Channel has some clips streaming from their website. It appears to be a multi-part documentary series, and History Channel has spared no expense at running up to date pictures and videos from the series on their … [Read more...]

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MailBrowser – Simple Gmail Plugin for Managing your Contacts

April 24, 2010 By 3 Comments
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For a long, long time have I been looking for a great Plugin for Gmail to help manage my contacts. I send a lot of e-mails to a lot of different people, and it's difficult to sort through all of my mail and attachments without getting lost in the thousands upon thousands of messages. However with the new browser plug-in MailBrowser, it's actually pretty simple. Currently only supported on Firefox and Internet Explorer, the plugin seems to run perfectly and works on mostly all OS' (Windows … [Read more...]

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How Metacafe Stacks up against Video Streaming Apps

April 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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It's no doubt when it comes to social media and web video, YouTube takes the cake. Currently within top 5 Alexa rank and also owned by the #1 search engine and website online, YouTube has everything backing it. Google doesn't control the monopoly though, there are so many cool video streaming services out there each with their own to offer. Metacafe has shown substantial promise and growth since it's initial launch in 2003. I've been a fan of the site for a while, and ever since they released … [Read more...]

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YouTube Rolls out new User Interface for Flash Video Player

April 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Having seen YouTube roll out new video and profile pages over the past few months, it's been obvious there's been a new Flash User Interface in the works for the common video player. Well as of today, YouTube has finally released the newest UI to most video pages, and are slowly trickling down throughout all videos over the next couple of days. I'm interested to see what else YouTube may have in store for the design. From my use of the design thus far I can tell it's surely a lot easier to … [Read more...]

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Behind the Scenes at Watch-Series.com: Free TV Series Streaming Online

February 16, 2010 By 11 Comments
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I have to admit, I hate TV. It's something that most people base their entire schedule around, without even realizing it. You want to be in front of it by 8PM for your Monday night line-up, or on Sunday's you enjoy marathons of your favorite shows. It's not to say this doesn't work for some people, but it definitely doesn't work for me. I found Watch Series a couple of months ago when I was looking for a few shows to watch online. I have found every other show I've wanted to watch straight … [Read more...]

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Interview with Virtual Online Gaming Community FactPile

February 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
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There are so many great online gaming communities. Video games have taken a huge rise in popularity over the years, and what a better way to celebrate your favorite games than hanging out with like-minded people on a fun and active community? FactPile does just that, collecting all gamers and tech-lovers from around the globe to interact and enjoy the community. You can share battle stories, hold virtual fights and tournaments, discuss the latest gaming articles or even write your own! The … [Read more...]

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