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Best YouTube videos 2011
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Salad Fingers from YouTube becomes action figure
TOY FAIR 2012: Spoons 4,600 reads
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100 years in 10 minutes: 1911 - 2011 (video)
All the major events 3,800 reads
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Year in review 2011: October
FEATURE Early Winter tech 3,400 reads
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Google gives Nyan Cat tribute in Ice Cream Sandwich
8-bit Android love 3,250 reads
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Salad Fingers from YouTube becomes action figure
TOY FAIR 2012: Spoons 24 January 2012 14:20 GMT TweetSalad Fingers, the downright strange but also fascinating YouTube animation is to get his own collectors action figure. Pocket-lint was at the Toy Fair in London to check it out.
Created by David Firth, the Salad Fingers character has become...
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YouTube and NBC put Super Bowl commercials in one place
Online Ad Blitz announced 24 January 2012 10:59 GMT TweetSunday 5 February is a massive day the football calendar. Chelsea and United are set to square off at the Bridge and Lowestoft Town travel to Cray Wanderers for a big match in the Isthmian Premier. Yes indeedy, we're set for a day of sporting brilliance.
So,...
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Barack Obama ready to Hangout in Google+ circles
YouTube powered interview planned 23 January 2012 9:41 GMT TweetEver wanted to hangout with President Obama? It's not likely to happen given his busy schedule and the fact that he's always surrounded by a team of trained assassins. Not a hangout with a lower case h at least, but a Hangout is on the cards.
That's...
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100 years in 10 minutes: 1911 - 2011 (video)
All the major events 3 January 2012 9:09 GMT TweetSo, it's 2012 now and many of us are looking forward to all the surprises and treats that await us over the next year. YouTube video collector and creator derDon1234 has taken the time to look at the previous 100 years, however, from 1911 - 2011 in...
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Year in review 2011: October
FEATURE Early Winter tech 30 December 2011 15:00 GMT TweetAs the Winter begins we retreat once again to our tech filled dens. Luckily October had them filled with all sorts of nice tech treats. Everything from the Nokia Lumia 800 going on pre order, to games like Battlefield 3 and Arkham City hitting our...
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Best YouTube videos 2011
FEATURE Top 10 watched vids this year 21 December 2011 9:03 GMT TweetThere were more than than 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) playbacks on YouTube in 2011, but what were the 10 videos that we, as a global audience, watched the most? What were the videos that just had to be shared?
YouTube has released the top...
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YouTube hits 1 trillion playbacks in 2011
That's a whole lot of Nyan Cat 20 December 2011 14:31 GMT TweetGoogle has announced that, in 2011, there were more than 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) playbacks on YouTube. That works out at roughly 140 for every person on earth.
If that doesn't blow your mind then perhaps the news that, excluding major...
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YouTube for Schools tunes in educational videos
Online learning portal launched 12 December 2011 16:44 GMT TweetGoogle has launched YouTube for Schools, a network setting that teachers and school IT bods can turn on to grant access only to the educational content from YouTube EDU.
As well as highlighting all of the educational video on offer, YouTube...
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YouTube gets a major redesign
Face lift ahoy 2 December 2011 11:28 GMT TweetYouTube has had one if its most significant face lifts yet, now sporting a redesigned look built entirely around its popular channels. Sat on the left of the page is a selection of channels that will populate the home page with relevant content.
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Disney movies available to rent on YouTube
Streaming classics 24 November 2011 12:44 GMT TweetDisney and YouTube are set to bring hundreds of classic movies to the video streaming website, as post on the YouTube blog revealed a small selection of the films to come. Titles like Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean as well as animation classics...
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Google gives Nyan Cat tribute in Ice Cream Sandwich (video)
8-bit Android love 18 November 2011 11:16 GMT TweetLurking in the settings menu of the latest version of Android on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus you'll find a little hidden treat: a tribute to Nyan Cat, the YouTube-smashing 8-bit Pop-Tart cat shooting rainbows out of its behind.
To access the treat...
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Charlie Bit Me viral earns parents cool £100 grand from YouTube
Viewed over 386 million times 14 November 2011 12:26 GMT TweetAn innocent and cute video of 3-year-old Harry and his 1-year-old brother Charlie, that was posted on YouTube 4 years ago, has netted their parents a staggering £100,000 through the video site's payment scheme, AdSense.
The 1-minute clip, which...
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Disney and YouTube video deal aims for child-friendly rebranding
"Go where our audience is" 7 November 2011 8:59 GMT TweetYouTube and the Walt Disney company have joined forces in order to bring both companies a greater share of the online children's market. Disney bringing a much-needed child-friendly factor to YouTube, and YouTube giving Disney a cooler edge.
The...
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Life in a Day: Now available in full on YouTube
Sir Ridley Scott-produced documentary now online 1 November 2011 11:53 GMT TweetLife in a Day, the YouTube documentary which boasts Sir Ridley Scott as an executive producer and is directed by Kevin Macdonald, has been made available on the video sharing site in its entirety.
The film is made up of 1,125 clips, that were...
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UK Goverment demands YouTube remove videos
Terrorist content taken off line 26 October 2011 8:57 GMT TweetGoogle has recently released its bi-annual Transparency Report which states that there have been 135 requests from the government and police to remove videos which may cause a threat to national security.
The 135 requests were made from the...
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