Video-making, -sharing, and -viewing are huge and growing online and on-phone activities, so much so that they're now just part of our media landscape. ComScore just released its mind-boggling July figures, with the Top 5 video-viewing and -sharing destinations being Google sites (YouTube, basically) at 143.2 million viewers last month); Yahoo! sites at 55.4 million; Facebook at 46.6 million; … [Read more...] about All things video: Key feature of online life
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Video Barbie tight with fast-growing Foursquare
Foursquare, the service that allows people to text to the world when they've arrived at the corner donut shop (that's called a "checkin") just passed the 100 million checkin mark, Mashable reports. That's not registered users – more like 100 million Facebook updates – but it says something about the growth in geolocation apps' and games' popularity. "Foursquare has experienced massive growth in … [Read more...] about Video Barbie tight with fast-growing Foursquare
Videochatting kids spied on via their Webcams
If the Jessi Slaughter story wasn't enough to convince parents that kids' bedrooms are not great places for Webcams, maybe this news out of Germany will help. A man in the Rhineland area "has been arrested for spying on more than 150 girls in their bedrooms by hacking into their computers and using their webcams to watch them," TheLocal.de reports. A computer security expert who gives talks about … [Read more...] about Videochatting kids spied on via their Webcams
Pure kidvid: Kideos and Zuitube
For summer vacation downtime, kid-friendly online video is always an option – but it's good for parents to know there are alternatives to Safety Mode-enabled YouTube. The new kid on the block in the kid video category is Kideos.com. It joins Zuitube.com, the video part of children's Web browser Kidzui that was so popular it became its own Web site. For parents who have created "white lists" of … [Read more...] about Pure kidvid: Kideos and Zuitube
Fun video contest for Net users (& producers) 13+
Hey, aspiring filmmakers and video producers (in Canada and the US), here's a project for you: Produce a two-minute video about Internet safety with your videocam, cellphone, or Webcam, and enter it in TrendMicro's "What's Your Story?" contest (you have to be 13 or older). Choose from one of four topics: "Keeping a good rep online" (and avoiding TMI), "Staying clear of unwanted contact" (e.g., … [Read more...] about Fun video contest for Net users (& producers) 13+