Gadgetopia

And the YouTube award goes to...: Just watch -- YouTube will become a franchise, like MTV. The video-sharing Web site announced Monday that it will hold the first YouTube Video Awards to recognize the best-user created videos of 2006.

YouTube to share revenue with users: So could this be the start of homegrown TV? Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users. Say you have an idea for a funny little show. You stick it on ...

YouTube: More visitors than rival sites combined: That s some crazy market share. YouTube, which has had to pull copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites ...

Only a 'moron' would buy YouTube, says Mark Cuban: This is kind of a wet blanket. Billionaire investor and dot.com veteran Mark Cuban had harsh words for YouTube, the online site that lets people share video clips, saying only a "moron" would purchase the wildly popular start-up. Cuban, co-founder of ...

NBC pulls YouTube channel: This really, really sucks. There were a lot of Monday mornings around here where we would replay the latest Digital Short. [ ] the relationship had run its course. NBC got buzz for a revived Saturday Night Live and The Office, and YouTube, through the sheen of ...

I m not a big music guy, and this isn t a music blog, but I ve finally come to acknowledge that YouTube is a fantastic repository of music. It took me a while, I know, but my 13-year-old son has a habit of playing DJ on weeknights for about an hour ...

Can Improve Reader Comments?: The Freakonomics blog tackles a question that we ve talked about before: does paying for something mean you ll take better care of it? The discussion here is comments, and the comparison is MetaFilter ($5 to join) or YouTube (nothing to join). Bertrand’s comparisons leave him wondering what ...

Utube, YouTube, whose tube?: Bummer for this guy. One place where YouTube's success isn't being celebrated is in the offices of Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp. near Toledo, Ohio. The company, which sells used machinery for making tubes to clients worldwide, has seen its site utube.com knocked off line ...

NBC - Saturday Night Live - Special Treat in a Box: If you watch Saturday Night Live, you probably noticed that they finally matched Lazy Sunday this weekend with another Digital Short that -- I'm embarrassed to admit -- had me rolling on the floor laughing. The short had a ...

My Documents: A Cro-Soft Community Building thing! Here s a great skit on YouTube, in the tradition of Abbot & Costello s Who s on First. Anybody else have trouble explaining the whole My Computer/My Documents thing to a newbie?

Video results for 'ms. dewey': Remember Ms. Dewey, the hot search engine chick? People have apparently been pushing her buttons, so to speak, and finding the Easter eggs that get funny responses, then they're recording them and posting them to YouTube. Via Pop Candy.

YouTube - Mindstorms Autofabrik: This is so cool, I might die. It's a video of a factory made out of Lego Mindstorms that makes cars...from Legos. Yep, they're self-aware now, folks. And they reproduce. Will you be ready when the Legos come for you?

BumpTop Prototype : This is farily insane. It's a prototype of a Windows desktop replacement that emulates real-word physics and real-word methods that people use to organize stuff on their real desks. Keepin' it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen Watch the YouTube video. At ...

GodTube competes with YouTube: I had never heard of this before, despite its apparent success. [ ] the site was identified earlier this year by comScore as the fastest growing on the Web. GodTube.com, a video-sharing site with Christian content, drew more than 4 million unique visitors during October. It maintains ...

www.myspace.com/crab: Honda is using MySpace for an impromptu ad tie-in with their Element. There's a profile for the crab ("Maybe little pinch?") from the ad, which I find hysterical (you can view the video on the site). Trivia: the voice of the Honda Element is Owen Wilson. This is one ...

Scientists simulate jet colliding with World Trade Center: A very high-quality, five-minute simulation of exactly what happened when one of the planes hit one of the towers. Found via this CNN article, which says: The 3-D animation, part of a Purdue study that took two and a half years to ...

Clever little sh*t: This is brutally funny. Watch the YouTube video that started it -- I'd have fallen for it if I had seen it. Last Friday a YouTuber by the name of "Mark Erickson" posted a video claiming to reveal an easter egg in Gmail that unlocked an invite ...

Crazy for Line Rider: We talked about Line Rider the other day. Now, David Pogue from the New York Times has written about what's becoming a phenomenon. It's spawned an entire mini-subculture of Line Rider nuts, who spend hours drawing elaborate fantasyscapes for their little sledder guys, and then capturing ...

Mineral Oil Submerged Computer: A neat little project with an accompanying YouTube video. I like the last step in the process. The mineral oil has considerable specific heat capacity, which means it can absorb lots of heat without having to vent it out to the surrounding air. Because of this, ...

BlendTec apparently makes a heck of a blender, and they apparently have a heck of a marketing department. They're put together a series of videos called "Will it blend?" where they tried to blend...well, all sorts of stuff. And they usually succeed. They put this out on YouTube: Golf balls, ...

Two years ago, we posted about C etait un Rendezvous, a short movie shot in 1976 showing a supposedly breath-taking drive through Paris in the early morning. We said this: The entire film is shot from the bumper of the Ferrari (a 275 GTB) as it jams through the streets of ...

Microsoft and Harrah s unveil high-tech interactive bar table : The Microsoft Surface video that came out last year was the butt of many jokes ( the future of computing will be a big-ass table ), but lookie here Microsoft and Harrah s Entertainment introduced a high-tech interactive bar table Wednesday that lets patrons ...

Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine.: This is an interesting article on Second Life, which I think is the next YouTube in terms of its effect on the Internet. Really, really big things are going to happen with this. By early January more than 3,000 ...

Ever wonder what would happen if you threw a ball out the back of a moving vehicle at the same speed the vehicle was moving? I have my little brother & I argued about this when we were kids, but Dad would never let us try it. Some Japanese ...

Open-Source Spying: This is a long, but incredibly interesting, article about how outdated the technology in the U.S. intelligence community is, and how current Web technologies like blogs and wikis might help them get up-to-date. I loved this article -- it confirms everything I've ever wanted to believe about what ...

Real Racers Actually Use Gran Turismo To Train: Interesting bit about how people are using Gran Turismo to train actual racers on various tracks. [ ] GT creator Kazunori Yamauchi clocked over 1,000 [virtual] laps on a famous German track and then had a go at it in real life. In ...

Meme: You hear the word 'meme" a lot these days, referring to stuff that gets passed around via email, usually. (Apparently it rhymes with "theme," not "them" like I thought.) Well, there's a lot more to it, and this page is an interesting read. Did you know the term was ...

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing: I saw this on X-Play years back, but Digg just reminded me of it. It s perhaps the worst video game ever created. The box of Big Rigs states that the player may race trucks across the country, with cops chasing [them]. GameSpot considered this ...

Now, I realize that Hulu got lot of crap for being a YouTube ripoff, and I know NBC got a lot of crap for pulling all its stuff off every video sharing site in the world, but Hulu is awesome. Seriously. I don t know how I ended up there today, ...

PHP Sucks, But It Doesn t Matter: Jeff Atwood essentially closes the PHP sucks argument by agreeing with it, then explaining why it doesn t matter. The TIOBE community index I linked above? It s written in PHP. Wikipedia, which is likely to be on the first page of anything you search for ...