YouTube refines homepage feed, adds highlights option

If your channel subscriptions were starting to get a little unwieldy, you might want to tinker with several new feed options rolling out to the site now. Accompanying bigger thumbnails with more detail, users can now hide individual updates, limit them to new uploads or just unsubscribe directly from their feed. Anything that you've already watched on YouTube is grayed out to avoid unnecessary replays, while a new highlight view should ensure over-zealous videomakers don't squeeze out less prolific contributors -- and make some room for the next wave of (heavily-marketed) YouTube channels.

[Source: Engadget]

YouTube breaks records with 4M Creative Commons videos

YouTube topped all records today by tallying up 4 million Creative Commons-licensed videos in its trove -- more than any other video hosting company in the world.

This means that users have literally millions of choices for snipping bits of footage, adding scenes, and building onto videos they're making. Everything in this collection comes branded with the Creative Commons Attribution license, meaning users don't have to get explicit permission to use the content from the creators.

YouTube launched its Creative Commons video library last year and since then it said its users have added in "40 years' worth of video." Much of the content is from well-known media distributors, such as C-SPAN, Voice of America, and Al Jazeera.

Creative Commons licensing has been available for some time on a growing number of video- and photo-sharing sites. Yahoo's Flickr has the record for the most Creative Commons-licensed photos, and Vimeo started up its Creative Commons-licensed videos in 2010.

[Source: cnet]

FRESH Unboxings & Other Channels

BIG NEWS! today sees the launch of a brand new channel. FRESH Unboxings has launched with its introduction video and the very first product unboxing. You can watch the very first video here.

I wanted to let you all know what the new channel will deliver and answer a pressing question… why start up another channel on YouTube?

FRESH Unboxings will be delivery purely gaming related content. Revealing special, limited & licensed editions of products. Here at the Geekanoids studio we get a lot of games, capture devices, headsets etc. So much so, that it could never all fit onto the existing channel. So, new channel, new style, new content and we hope you really enjoy it.

Now onto that question… why start up another channel? That is very easy to answer, Geekanoids is for the Geeky videos. These include the Apple devices & related products, photography, videography, mobile phones and technology videos. DailyTechTV exists for bringing you technology discussion on a daily basis by answering viewer questions. Then there is GeekVloggz, where you see me having some fun & a moan and giving you an insight into the person behind Geekanoids (yes me, Dave the Geek).
Mixing the new gaming related content in with our Geeky videos would be very confusing for subscribers, so it is a natural progression to separate it onto another channel. This gives us scope to build a network of channels that will grow into a major production company with other content producers coming on-board.

So, sit back, click those links and what the awesome content that Geekanoids producers. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our viewers for their continued support, views & comments… stay geeky :D

 

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