Don’t be surprised if more YouTube-sourced content starts to appear on news sites and in televised news programs.
Tags: always-willing, Citizen, clips videos, mobile, Review and Story, televised-news, youtube, youtube direct
Twitter generates nearly 10 percent of social media global hits to websites, according to new research from StatCounter. The report found that Facebook is still the main source of traffic to global websites with almost half (48%) of social media hits followed by StumbleUpon with 25 percent. The data for March is based on 13 billion page views across the StatCounter network of member sites. The analytics firm just recently added social media to the categories its tracks.
Tags: Facebook, page-or-twitter, Review and Story, Social, Social Media, still-the-main, website-traffic, youtube
Storage solutions firm Seagate said today that it will allow users of its FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player to access content from Netflix, YouTube, vTuner and Mediafly. The new content offerings are available to existing FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player owners through a free, firmware update that can be downloaded from Seagate, and will be included in all future product shipments. The FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player allows users to view collections of photos, movies and music saved on a FreeAgent Go portable device or any other USB-connected storage device. “FreeAgent Theater+(TM) HD media player plays an important role in the evolution of how people are now enjoying digital media,” said Dave Mosley, executive vice president, Sales, Marketing and Product Line Management at Seagate . “We first envisioned this product as a way to move highly valued family photos and videos from the PC environment to the home entertainment center, but it has now become much more. The combination of access to local storage and streaming media playback with access to a wealth of online content makes the FreeAgent Theater+(TM) HD media player a valuable addition to modern home entertainment systems.”
Tags: agent-theater, content offerings, evolution, Management, marketing, media-player, mosley, netflix, playback with access, product, Seagate, seagate-netflix, storage solutions, vtuner, youtube
More business Internet traffic goes to Facebook than to any other website, according to a new report by managed security firm Network Box. Network Box looked at 13 billion URLs used by businesses in the first quarter of 2010 and found that 6.8 percent of all business Internet traffic goes to Facebook, a one percent increase over the last quarter of 2009. The report also found that more business bandwidth is taken up with YouTube videos than anything else: 10 percent of all corporate bandwidth is taken up watching YouTube videos, an increase of two percent since the fourth quarter of 2009. “The figures show that IT managers are right to be concerned about the amount of social network use at work,” said Simon Heron, Internet security analyst for Network box . “There are two real concerns here: firstly that employees will be downloading applications from social networks and putting security at risk; and secondly the amount of corporate bandwidth that appears to be being used for non-corporate activity.” The main concern IT managers have about security in coming year is employees using applications on social networks while at work (43%). Thirty-six percent said they are concerned about malware passed via networks such as LinkedIn or Twitter, and employees clicking on links sent by their contacts on social networks.
Tags: all-bandwidth, Facebook, image server, internet traffic, Linkedin, Simon Heron, Social Networks, windows-update, yahoo, youtube
Today, another nine exhibits from the Viacom-YouTube were released, and while Google will no doubt get around to spinning the documents its own way, Viacom has already had a go.
Tags: before-google, business model, copyright policy, enabler, Eric Schmidt, excerpt-comes, from-the-viacom, Legal, nature, sergey brin, user experience, viacom youtube, viral-premium, youtube