Dailymotion has decided that it isn’t going to wait for you to decide what to search for anymore. The video site has announced the launch of what it’s calling “on-demand, curated content hubs” collecting videos based around news stories and search trends on the site, with the intent of making it easier for users to find what they’re …
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Google Docs Launches Video Sharing and Playback
Google Docs, the convenient tool for reading and writing documents and creating spreadsheets online, announced this week that it’s adding video sharing and playback to its ever-growing list of capabilities.
This means that videos can now be embedded and played in documents themselves. Videos can be up to 1GB in size, and the file …
Is a 3D SI Swimsuit Video a Brilliant Idea or Cheesy Scheme?
The past decade has brought about the proliferation of Sports Illustrated‘s Swimsuit franchise in the form of videos, YouTube channels and iPhone apps. But, for SI readers looking for more bikinis on an even larger variety of media, you’re in luck.
Sports Illustrated has teamed with Sony to unveil its first ever 3D Swimsuit video, …
Is YouTube Trying to Buy Up Popular Online TV Networks?
The New York Times is reporting that YouTube may be attempting to acquire Next New Networks, a company that owns 25 episodic video networks operating within the all-encompassing Next New Networks brand.
Some of the videos to emerge from under Next New Networks’ banner have gone on to become incredibly popular. Two of them—Bed …
Looxcie Takes Oversharing to the Next Level
In an age of oversharing thanks to services like Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, etc., do we really need to see what you’re actually seeing and doing, too? Looxcie thinks so.
The douchey Bluetooth looking earpiece is actually a camera that’s constantly recording (up to four hours at 320×480 at 15fps) whatever it is that you’re …
MOG Gets a Roku Channel
One of our favorite on-demand music services, MOG, is expanding to one of our favorite set-top boxes, Roku, today. The MOG Channel will stream music at 320kbps and includes MOG’s wonderfully awesome “MOG Mobius” music discovery engine that allows subscribers to listen to true artist only stations or mix it up at their leisure.
To …
Zombies Vs. Vegans: “If You Eat Meat, You’re Already Dead”
As far as arguments for going vegan go, you have to give David Agranoff credit for trying something different, if nothing else. The Portland-based founder of Try Vegan PDX has written a novel in which vegans are the only people on Earth safe from becoming zombies when chemicals used in animal products start to change everyone else… Oh, …
5 Mad Men Scenes That Prove Betty Draper Is A Great White Queen
I know what you’re thinking: January Jones? As X-Men: First Class‘ uber-bitch, Emma Frost? Surely that’s not going to work.
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I share your concern, but want to offer these moments of hope. Yes, Betty Draper may not seem like the White Queen that we’ve come to know, love and …
Duck Hunt, Mario Kart and Sonic on Super-Easy Mode
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We’re late on this, but in case you didn’t see it, College Humor knocks it out of the park with this “If Games had Super-Easy Mode” parody video.
The Duck Hunt and Pac-Man moments made me LOL but the guys at CH deserve extra props for the deep Battletoads …
Plants vs. Zombies Dance Off At E3
Happy Thursday, everybody.
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Exclusive: Sony PlayStation Move Tech Demo
I mentioned in our story last week that we’d have another exclusive tech demo video of the PlayStation Move. If the multiple window portion of last week’s video impressed you then you’ll likely be blown away by everything else Evan and I saw while we were in California at the PlayStation headquarters. Words won’t do it …
The Daily Dose
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
What Stan Lee Thinks Of Donald Glover’s Spider-Man Casting Campaign [via MTV Splash Page]
Gadgets:
Apple’s Worst Security Break: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed [via Gawker]
AdMob CEO: Apple’s New Mobile Advertising Rules Will Hurt Developers …