Pakistani filmmaker Faraz Siddiqui for the first time has claimed spot along with two Nepalis in the finals of the 2010 US State Department’s ‘Democracy Video Challenge ’.
This challenge is in its second year and drew nearly 700 entries this year. Contestants from 83 countries created short films on themes based [...]
PTA has blocked youtube & Wikipedia as well after Facebook and Foreign office has recorded protest over blasphemy offense at international level. I personally agree with the facebook ban & protests all over Pakistan against the blasphemous day”, however, I think blocking Blackberry & now youtube is a bit extreme.
Nonetheless, International media must play their [...]
So are they going to block the whole internet one by one? It would take ages.
Pakistan has blocked access to the popular video sharing website YouTube.
No official reason has been given for the move, but one internet service provider said it was aimed at containing “blasphemous” material.
On Wednesday a Pakistani court [...]
We’ve written about Twitter client Sobees, which is working to create the best social media client on the market, competing with both TweetDeck and Seesmic. Today Sobees is releasing a new version of its Windows native desktop app built in .NET, complete with realtime search, a redesign and more.
The new client includes support for Facebook, [...]
I got another shocker of my life yesterday when I heard from my peon in the office about YouTub. He was saying to me that sir please open up the yesterday’s talkshow of Javed Chaudhry on youtub on the computer because he wanted to see the verbal brawl between Rashid Qureshi and Khawaja Asif.
First I [...]
YouTube is the world’s online video portal, but if a recent patent application filed by Google is any indication, it may be looking to become an interactive gaming portal as well.
The patent, “Web-based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos,” was filed by Google (Google) earlier this year but published this month. [...]
Looks like Google is really going full steam ahead with its shortened URLs. Only a week after the search giant launched its own Goo.gl short URLs, its subsidiary YouTube is launching its own short URL service: youtu.be.
In a blog post announcing the new feature, YouTube writes that the short URL will be used exclusively for [...]
Erik Qualman has been doing his homework on the social media phenomenon that has been spreading faster than (insert your own tasteless swine flu metaphor here).
His new book called Socialnomics comes out later this month. I think you’ll be hearing a lot about it in the days to come because there is no hotter topic [...]
As long as there has been email and Usenet, funny things have spread virally across the Internet. But with the rise of YouTube and other social video sharing sites, we’re now getting funny videos passed around on a regular basis. YouTube and sites like it have enabled a sort of global, crowdsourced version of [...]
If you are Google, then you can afford to just dust away $1.6 billion on a site like YouTube. YouTube has been declared one of the worst failures by the Time Magazine and as more and more people are uploading their shots on the YouTube, the more this Titanic is sinking under in it’s own [...]
