Chinese streaming video website Ku6 (NASDAQ:KUTV) announced this morning that it will become a YouTube content partner, and distribute its videos on a new Ku6 YouTube channel. After the announcement, Ku6 shares, which had fallen below a dollar a month ago, enjoyed a bit of a resurgence today (see chart below). By becoming a channel operator, Ku6 can distribute its video content to a wider audience. We got in touch with a Ku6 representative this afternoon who tells us that user-generated content will be the main priority, but self-produced content ...
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Jan 9 2012
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10 Predicted Trends In Indian Social Media for 2012
Indian social media grew by leaps and bounds in 2011. Indians witnessed the true power of social over the course of the year – whether it was bolstering the IAC movement in India or MTV India being awarded the best social media TV program by Mashable. It has been a year of amazing social media campaigns but also a year of great fiascos. I feel social media momentum will only grow more in a country where 70 percent of the population accesses the Internet through mobile . There will be ...
Dec 21 2011
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Top 10 YouTube Videos in Singapore in 2011, Yam Ah Mee Included
It has been a festive week but things are still pretty busy, as we have round-ups and retrospectives for 2011, as well as preparation for our Startup Asia conference in February 2012. Here’s another 2011 rewind list, but this time it comes courtesy of the folks at Google Singapore. The ten videos below are, as you might expect, filled with humor, parody, and remixes. “Nice Guys” by YouTube celeb, Nigahiga, clinches the top spot in Singapore. Local remix, the “Yam Ah Mee meme” was ranked third. How’s that for creativity, Woz? Catch all ...
Dec 30 2011
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NBA Player J.R. Smith Not a Fan of Chinese Net Censorship
As the NBA lockout continues on, shooting guard J.R. Smith is spending his time in China, having recently signed with Zhejiang of the China Basketball Association. But according to Sheridan Hoops, he’s finding the rules of the internet game in China are not quite what they were at home. After trying to update Twitter, he discovered that it wasn’t working. But eventually he found he could send tweets using his Blackberry. .bbpBox{background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/348403928/x2_8d3cba2.jpeg) #C0DEED;padding:20px;}Dear china the fact that u won't let me work my Skype on my desktop or twitter ...
Oct 20 2011
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YouTube Officially Launches in Singapore
Thanks to the folks over at ZDNet for pointing out that YouTube has just launched a localized Singapore site (with a very sharp logo, see right), which can be accessed at YouTube.com.sg. YouTube says that this will be a boost to local content creators and providers. The report cites YouTube Asia-Pacific director of product management Adam Smith, who points out that the new site should go a long way towards building Singapore’s conversation with the rest of the world through video: Through localizing YouTube in Singapore, the site will deliver more of ...
Sep 27 2011
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Google India Ropes In Bollywood Superstar Shahrukh Khan to promote Google+. But Will It Work?
Google India head Rajan Anandan yesterday announced in a press conference that it has joined hands with the Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan to promote its new social network, Google+. He also added that the actor who is often referred to as the “The King of Bollywood,” will be one of the first Indian celebrities to join Google+. As per the agreement, Shahrukh Khan will participate in live video chats with fans using the Google+ Hangouts feature over the next couple of weeks. In return, the Internet giant will promote Shahrukh’s forthcoming sci-fi ...
Sep 20 2011
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YouTube BoxOffice Gets 11.5 Million Views in 3 Months
It looks like YouTube Box Office is working pretty well for Google India. In a blogpost in its official blog, Google India today announced that it will start showing two full-length movies on its Boxoffice YouTube channel every month. Explaining that the channel has received an overwhelming response since its launch three months back, Google said that Boxoffice has already received over 11.5 million views in India. Also it is the 20th most subscribed channel of all time with 23,069 subscribers at the time of writing. The company has previously showcased blockbuster movies like Band Baaja Baarat, 3 Idiots, Bheja Fry 2, and ...
Sep 14 2011
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Google Debuts Its YouTube Partner Program in India
Google has today officially announced the launch of YouTube Partner Program in India, after selectively rolling out to a few partners last December. This partner program was kick-started by YouTube in 2007. It enables regular YouTubers, who create original and popular videos, to offer their viewers a high-end branded experience by providing the ability to completely customize their channel. It also offers its advertising solutions so that producers can monetize their videos in return for a 30 percent cut in the generated ad revenue. YouTube helps promote these videos and provides various analytical ...
Sep 13 2011
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Loiloscope: Unique Video Editing Software From Japan, A Peek At Version 2
Loiloscope is a video editing software from Japanese start-up firm Loilo Inc, which was founded back in 2007 by two brothers, Koji and Ryutaro Sugiyama. Both worked in gaming industry, Koji for Bandai Namco and Ryutaro for Sega. Since Ryutaro was a designer he worked with a lot of video editing software, but was really frustrated with software that was available. His brother, being a programmer, created VJ software (they used to VJ in college) which eventually became the basis for Loiloscope. Some of our readers might recall that the software ...
Sep 6 2011
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The Google Puzzle: A Crazy Browser Brain Game from Google Japan
We missed this when it initially dropped back in August, but after playing around with it a little bit this morning, I thought we’d tell you about it. In cooperation with SCRAP, Google Japan has developed a very unusual browser-based puzzle game called — wait for it — The Google Puzzle. It poses a number of challenges revolving around Google’s many services. The end goal is to save the ‘O’ which has mysteriously been trapped in a browser pop-up. Caution, there be spoilers up ahead! The first puzzle I was given involved ...
Sep 6 2011
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Kickstarter-Funded Film ‘Blind’ Portrays Post-Nuclear Tokyo
In the past we’ve written about how many creative individuals have used the crowd-funding service Kickstarter to raise money for projects or start-ups. It has proven especially useful in Japan after the March 11 earthquake, particularly in helping with measurement of radiation (see Safecast and Smart Radiation Detector). Those projects were very much driven by a need to find out more information about the radiation threat in Tokyo. In the absence of reliable, easy-to-understand data people get scared. And the latest Kickstarter project from Japan is an attempt to visualize ...
Aug 26 2011
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Recording Industry Assoc. of Japan Seeking $3 Million From Youtube Download Site
This week one of the many web services that allows you to download YouTube videos has been shut down as a result of a lawsuit from copyright owners in Japan. 31 companies including members of The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) filed a class-action lawsuit against Tokyo-based TubeFire.com on August 19th claiming that the service violates copyright law by enabling its users to copy and convert YouTube videos. According to the RIAJ website, the companies filing the lawsuit are* table.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;} .tableizer-table td ...
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