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New YouTube video animation tools

YouTube has a new set of animation tools available.  Some of them you might already recognize like Xtranormal, which they have already been available.  But now the new animation tools are fully integrated into YouTube, so you can just create animated videos easily with your YouTube account (no extra sign up’s or anything required).  I just created a quick animation with GoAnimate just to see how easy it was to do.  It was fairly simple, and as you can see animations are great for creating memes.

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Guess who’s back? Hint: Look at him, now back to me

Looks like another viral campaign is coming from the Old Spice guy.  It was a huge success before, so makes sense for Old Spice to try it again.  After this though, I think they will probably need to think of a new catchy promo.

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Pres. Obama State of the Union & exclusive interview live via YouTube

Tonight at 9pm President Obama will address the nation to deliver the State of the Union. You can watch it live via YouTube here.  Additionally, you can ask questions for President Obama which selected questions will be asked to him in an exclusive interview with YouTube on January 27.  A cool thing about the questions are they can be voted up/down, so I am assuming that may play into which questions get asked.

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New iPhone parts leaked (photos)

New parts for the iPhone were leaked to YouTube earlier by Global Direct Parts (as they intentionally show in their backdrop). Unfortunately, the video was removed from YouTube by Apple.  However, we were able to find a copy of the video (which since has been pulled too) and snag some of the pics that were shown.

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Wireless carriers openly considering charging per service

via radtastification by Engadget

Love the internet while it’s still awesome.  Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and Vodafone want internet users to pay more for the data they use.  They don’t believe the internet should be a free service, so this is a real picture of a proposed plan to go into effect.  Different carriers will have different plans.  For instance this plan has YouTube at a fixed rate while another plan may have Facebook as a fixed rate.  The scary thing about all this is, it’s most likely going to happen. 

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Top 15 viral videos of 2010

2010 was another great year for viral videos. Video’s that went viral this year were autotuned a lot, making them go even more viral and be more popular.

Throughout the entire year I have been favoriting all the viral videos that I come across. Some not so popular as the rest. I took the top 15 viral videos and embedded them for your viewing (and listening) pleasure. Let’s hope in 2011 we have some real good ones!

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YouTube and Nat Geo’s Planet Inspired Contest

YouTube is running a contest in partnership with National Geographic called Planet Inspired.

“Planet Inspired offers YOU the chance to creatively express your love of Planet Earth and share it with others” it says on the contest web page hosted on YouTube.

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Vintage posters of your favorite online brands

I came across these vintage posters via One Up Web (thank you!). These are really well put together and have all your major online brands like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.  These remind me of the Kent State Folk Festival vintage posters.

I posted some of them here, but you should do yourself a favor and check them all out. Hopefully they will make more. I can never get old of these.

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YouTube tries to improve search results with Topics

YouTube has a new product called Topics. Topics allows you to do a normal search and come back with results and topics similar to what you are searching for.

In addition to the results listed, you can filter, sort add to favorites and more. It’s not fully released so you will need to test it through YouTube’s test environment called TestTube. To ‘opt-in’, go here.

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Musicians wanted on YouTube

If you are a musician, YouTube is looking for you. YouTube just expanded their Partner Program globally. This program is aimed at indie artists who can use YouTube as leverage to get their music heard and make money while they are at it. And the best part, all artists will retain all rights to their music. It’s a pretty sweet deal. It’s a free and easy way to get heard and make some side change. So, what are you waiting for?

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Court orders Google to release users identity

A Supreme Court Judge has ordered Google to turn over the IP address and any other identity information Google can provide to the courts regarding a case where a particular user was slandering former actress and model Carla Franklin on YouTube via the comments section of her videos.

Per her lawyer’s comments to press, the comments made on YouTube “were made with the intention to harm Ms. Franklin’s reputation and interfere with her relationships, employment and livelihood”. She is petitioning the court for Google to provide this user information so that she can sue the commenter on damage to her character.

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