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YouTube adds Creative Commons

Jun 3, 2011
There's a new section on YouTube that offers video clips listed under a Creative Commons license. So if you're making a video and you want to use ...

YouTube to show new movies

Apr 26, 2011
This one is said to be "imminent" and possibly launching as soon as today or as late as next week. YouTube will begin renting movies, allowing you...

Episode two of Mortal Kombat web series posted

Apr 19, 2011
There's a new hit TV show. On YouTube. It's a reboot of the Mortal Kombat property (originally a video game, later some movies, probably a...

Cute YouTube video of primate turns into bad news for the endangered species

Mar 30, 2011
There's this really cute video on YouTube of a slow loris getting tickled. So cute. It just raises its arms up in the air and enjoys a little...

YouTube collecting evacuee videos

Mar 24, 2011
There's an effort underway in Japan to record and post short identifying messages from earthquake evacuees on YouTube. There are about 150 messages...

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You can now take a stroll down Memolane

Mar 9, 2011
It's a new start up based in San Francisco and Denmark. Here's how it works. Users can allow Memolane to troll accounts on Facebook, Twitter,...

New Flaming Lips song is complicated

Feb 15, 2011
That's because the band has released it as twelve separate YouTube videos, which all must be played at the same time in order to hear the song....

Sprint launches weird new phone

Feb 8, 2011
The Kyocera Echo was launched by Sprint last night. It runs on Android and it has two screens. Why would you need two screens? Because it's twice...