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YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley used a YouTube prank to promote a new video-sharing service today, sparking speculation over whether or not he's taking us all for fools.

"Since @YouTube is ending, we're launching a new video site... Welcome to http://MixBit.com! @MixBitApp This time it's not a contest!" he tweeted today.

Since @youtube is ending, we're launching a new video site... Welcome to MixBit.com! @mixbitapp This time it's not a contest!

The tweet plays off YouTube's prank for April Fools' Day. The company declared … Read more

The best April Fools' pranks are absurd but also have a kernel of believability at their core just big enough to reel people in.

While the notion that YouTube has been a 8-year-long contest and Google is finally choosing a winner and shutting the site down tonight is pretty hard to swallow on its face, Google did shock many people by announcing the shutdown of Google Reader recently. Perhaps Larry and Sergey are beginning to go all Howard Hughes on us?

That's how the below video just put out by YouTube operates. The basic premise is that YouTube has … Read more

SAN FRANCISCO--YouTube today added a way for developers to publish live videos from their mobile applications.

A new set of application programming interfaces, or APIs, introduced today by the company at the Game Developers Conference, lets developers push out a video stream of an app for live viewing.

In practice, this means game developers can add some code into their existing games, then publish gameplay live from a smartphone or tablet.

Such a system has been in place for a handful of desktop gaming titles, including Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of … Read more

Communicating with the help of images is powerful, but it often requires additional work, and that can be discouraging. ShapeOnYou for Mac can fulfill your need to add simple 3D shapes as support materials for your work. It is designed to be quick and easy to use and won't require any modeling to achieve satisfying but simple results.

ShapeOnYou for Mac consists of a 3D vector shape library that allows easy export to images. Those images can then be used in your text document as illustrations. The program itself already contains basic shapes and other examples that are of … Read more

Of the 750-plus channels Roku has to offer, there's one big guy missing from the pack: YouTube.

Considering its front-and-center presence on other platforms -- like Apple TV and Samsung Smart TVs -- its conspicuous absence might seem odd. But, Roku's CEO offers a logical explanation, noting that "YouTube insists on using HTML5 for its UI," and seemingly refuses to build a Roku-specific app.

YouTube's absence hurts so bad that even third-party developers have created channels almost exclusively designed to stream YouTube, only to be pulled days or weeks later.

As of this writing, there … Read more

It used to be a new business pitch. Now, it's a Hollywood movie.

It used to be an intimate affair. Now, you're having to keep an eye and an ear on the fact that it'll be a visual and aural feeding of 5,000 supposed friends.

Now, it seems, if you're committed to going down on one knee, you have to be down with who is going to script the event and who is going to direct it. You might even need a few co-stars to make the production big enough.

Indeed, as the San Francisco Chronicle proposes it, … Read more

Increasingly, the iPhone and iPad are being used as primary e-mail readers by their owners. They are fast, agile, and more accessible when on the go than a traditional laptop, and are therefore used more readily for checking and replying to messages. But iOS was never built for opening and handling zip files, requiring a third-party app of some sort. While other apps offer a plethora of options, if you need a free, easy-to-use option for opening your zip folders, Zip Browser is a good option.

Zip Browser comes as a free app, though there is a paid upgrade that … Read more

It's unlikely you've spent much time online in the age of Facebook and Twitter memes without seeing at least one motivational or "demotivational" poster. You know the type -- an image framed in black, usually with a single word beneath the image and perhaps a caption that explains it. It might be a fireman coming out of a burning building with the title "Courage" or, if snarky, a cat standing up to a dog at dinnertime. These are fun, and a chance to be incredibly creative, so if you're interested in making your … Read more

Video Tube Free for YouTube is exactly as it sounds: a free app for browsing, sharing, and interacting with content on YouTube. While YouTube has since released an official app that offers most of the same features in a very similar interface, there are still a few reasons to recommend Video Tube, even if you also use the YouTube app or the YouTube mobile site.

Video Tube works right out of the box without the need for logging in or registration. In fact, Video Tube has no options to log in in its free version, instead allowing you to save … Read more