President Obamaa promised change while on the campaign trail and he certainly has brought a lot of it during his first year of presidency. The President recognizes that the internet and technology are valuable tools that have limitless possibilities to connect him with the rest of the nation. By utilizing online franchises such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, Obama’s administration is trying to make this the most “transparent” administration of all time.

During the interview with citizentube, the President answered questions that were submitted by actual citizens. These questions were then voted for online and the questions with the most votes were asked during the interview. Many of these questions were video questions submitted via YouTube. More »

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Ever since its creation, it seems that the video sharing website YouTube has grown legs and is going for gold. Bought out by search engine giant Google, the website has recently announced that it will be testing out a movie rental service starting on Friday. More »

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From Htcyou: What happens when a really well made and superior product is released, and no one buys it? Based on the number of unboxing videos for the Nexus One, I assume that every unit sold has had its unboxing recorded and then uploaded to YouTube. From Patrick Boivin comes the most wicked and creative unboxing of any smartphone. My only question is, what took him so long? More »

Since being uploaded four weeks ago, this funny but also slightly sad YouTube video has received nearly 1.8 million views. In it, Desi, a black man, cannot get HP’s facial recognition system to track his moments, yet his white colleague Wanda has no problems being scanned by the HP machine. More »

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Probably not if the the 5th grader in question is named Mackenzie. Mackenzie can type an astounding 115 wpm. According to various Internet souces, the average non-professional typing speed is 50 wpm. In this Youtube video featuring Mackenzie showing off her speedy fingers, Mackenzie claims that 115 wpm isn’t enough for her. She’s aiming for 200 wpm. And here I thought I was being impressive with a speed of 89 wpm. More »

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YouTube is being taken to another level. A group of students at Japan’s Keio University have decided that we all need to watch YouTube videos while warming something up in a microwave. Yup, these guys put together a concept where, depending on how long it takes for you to warm something up, a video of that same length would play. Once it’s over, the food gets warm up. More »

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Are you ready to rock? Here comes U2! Tonight, U2 will be the first of bands to stream their global concert live on Youtube, straight from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Just like Youtube announced earlier this week on their site, 16 countries will be able to view the show live: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, U.K., U.S. Other countries were excluded due to streaming regulations. More »

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A new Nielson survey reveals that people are on Facebook three times more than Google. People spend an average of 1:53:21 on Google compared to the 5:46:04 on Facebook. For comparison’s sake, YouTube’s average time is 1:17:20. These number place Facebook, the 4th largest website in the world, at the top spot in terms of time spent on their site per visitor. The average time actually increased from July to August from 4 hours and 39 minutes to 5 hours and 46 minutes. So what does this all mean, are we wasting our time doing absolutely nothing? By the look of these numbers, I’d say yes we are. More »

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Google may finally have a plan to make some money from YouTube. YouTube Execs are planning to offer a $3.95 charge to rent a movie, which is the same price Apple charges for movies and very close to video-on-demand prices. If Google can get movie studios on board, they’d be competing in a very crowded field. Apple, Netflix, and Amazon all offer movie rental services but YouTube is the most popular video site, so it may become a decent competitor. It’s just a question of whether or not users are willing to switch from their current rental services to go with YouTube.

The deal is reported to be in the early stages, with a final agreement three to four months away. Google has been pressed for the past few years to make money but have yet to come up with a solid revenue stream. YouTube has a great chance to make a splash in the video rental market. YouTube had over 121 million viewers in July according to ComScore. More »

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You’ve probably seen those creepy Palm Pre ads with Tamara Hope that make absolutely make no sense and scare the heck out of you. The more I watch these commercials, the more I start to hate Palm Pre phone. It’s a great phone with a wonderful OS but if Palm continues to release these ads, it’ll just freak people out from buying the phones.

Palm decided to release a new, more toned down version of the phone but is still creepy. Check it out here. Take a look at all these videos after the break. More »

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Samsung is bringing some heat to the HD handheld video recording department with their new Samsung HMX-U10 Full HD camcorder with 1-button YouTube upload. Samsung’s device is capable of taking 10 megapixel pictures while still recording video in 1920 x 1080 Full HD. The device is being released to compete against the likes of Flip UltraHD and Creative’s Vado HD video cameras. (More pictures after the break) More »

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Ziggytek ran a post a few days ago stating the ease of sharing pictures and videos with the new iPhone 3GS. Today Google confirmed those reports.

In Google’s YouTube blog, they’ve reported an increase of video uploads by 400% each day of video since the release of the iPhone 3GS. More »

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Tokyo’s legendary Akihabara continues to deliver the goods by way of Toshiba interactive billboards. Hanging outside the Akihabara location of Yodobashi Camera is a huge electronic billboard that uses its real time data access to display on-going matches between game players. Up to 6 players can play against each other per session, and can connect via YouTube, More »

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