“A tablet that’s a great PC. A PC that’s a great tablet.” The jury is still waiting to hear all of the evidence. The reviewers are dying to get their hands all over the device. The bloggers have opinions that are, to some extent, biased based upon their opinion of Microsoft. Love it or hate it, Microsoft has generated the type of buzz that they were once able to enjoy and that Apple has taken in recent years. The Windows 8 device has many unique features. While you wait to see what the device will actually do, here’s the full launch video from yesterday’s press event. One thing that should be noted is that…

There are two reasons to never watch trailers of movies that you already know you’re going to watch. You get to see things that make you worry that it won’t meet your expectations. In this case, it’s the last line of the trailer that acts as a stark reminder that Christian Bale, as talented of an actor as he is, still uses the barely-intelligible smoker’s voice when in the Batman persona. Expect parodies such as the one beneath the trailer. The second reason is that, if it’s a movie that you’re dying to see, you only get teased into wishing for a time machine. That’s the point of a trailer, I suppose. Here’s…

The online video world is dominated by YouTube with others such as Vimeo and Metacafe picking up the scraps. They are free, convenient, and practical for most website owners to use. Those who need more flexibility or something proprietary turn to self-hosted video players to fill their websites and we have an excellent graphic that breaks down the four majors. Major brands who want more control over their videos often turn to players rather than YouTube, giving them the ability to “own” their content more easily. GM, Disney, Dell, and AT & T are just some of the brands who look to YouTube second…

Original content is the cornerstone of most content channels, but YouTube has been conspicuous over the years as a place for finding unoriginal content. Much of the site is absolutely unique, but there has always been a strong lean towards posting content that originally appeared elsewhere. Google’s push to change this hit a tipping point yesterday as they announced plans to add 100 more channels of unique content to their lineup. Celebrities, news publications, and brands were amongst the channels being created. Name such as Reuters, Jay-Z, and The Onion were amongst the list of those receiving…

With over 12 million monthly visitors, word must get out to keep people from going to MySQL(dot)com until they get things sorted out. This isn’t a minor annoyance. The exploits inserted by the hackers are extremely malicious and work in the background. There is no need to click on or accept anything. Simply visiting the site can cause major permanent damage to your hard drive and currently only 6 out of the 43 major malware protection services are even able to detect it. The administrative access to perform the hack and inject the exploits, known as the BlackHole Exploit Pack, was sold through a hacker…

If there’s only one certainty in life, it’s change. If there’s only one certainty in social media, it’s that people will hate Facebook changes for a little while, but will get used to them and adapt. It happens every time. This will be no different. There has been outrage over the recent changes and more keep rolling in from f8. We will moan. We will gripe. We will swear off the site, but that won’t last. Eventually (within days, even hours) we’ll be back on Facebook figuring out where they moved everything and realizing that, once again, the change wasn’t as bad as we thought. Here’s Timeline. It’s a…

MakerBot, the company that brought us the 3D printer to “democratize manufacturing” has been making the news a lot lately with their clever stunts and interesting business model. Their most recent stunt involves Stephen Colbert, and it’s a doozy. We first looked at 3D printers last month. The technology is astounding, bringing us a step closer to Star Trek replicators. MakerBot and their premier offering, The Thing-O-Matic, tapped Comedy Central’s host and pundit of The Colbert Report to make a replica of his head. In true open source fashion, they put the data collected online, allowing designers…

Not everyone loves cat videos, but everyone watches cat videos. The animal is a natural for videos – they just do dumb or funny things regularly. As a result, the internet and YouTube viewers in particular are attacked by a constant onslaught of cat videos. Most believe that these videos come from average, everyday cat-owners who happen to be videotaping their pets often enough to catch the hilarity. The truth is revealed in the video below. From CGI to puppets, it’s all scripted. It’s all fake. We have been deceived. …

There were many who tagged this year’s E# convention as a disappointment, but there were some games that got more buzz than others. Saints Row, while not getting the attention, did wow some people with their release, particularly on YouTube. From the official E3 channel, users were able to vote on their favorite trailer and Saints Row emerged as the winner. YouTube has it currently featured on their home page. The trailer is fun but definitely for a mature audience. …

YouTube announced a couple of moves that will make users happier. First, they are allowing HD preview images to be used on high-quality videos of 480p of higher. As they stated in their blog, people often decide whether or not to click through on a video based upon what they see in the preview image. As you can below, the differences are clear. The other change they made was to allow users to remove the YouTube logo from the bottom right of the video. Instead, the “modest” branding can be found when you hover over the title. It can now come in the form of a text variation of their name. At the end of the video…