How and What US People watch on Internet.

According to data released today by the comScore Video Metrix service. Having for the first time achieved the milestone of 100 videos/user, the video-sharing site reached an all-time high of 14.6 billion videos viewed in May.

Here is the complete content from comScore Video Metrix service

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Videos Viewed
U.S. Internet users watched nearly 34 billion videos in May, with Google Sites ranking as the top video property with 14.6 billion videos, representing 43.1 percent of all videos viewed online. YouTube accounted for the vast majority of videos viewed at the property. Hulu ranked second with 1.2 billion videos, or 3.5 percent of all online videos viewed. Microsoft Sites ranked third with 642 million (1.9 percent), followed by Vevo with 430 million (1.3 percent) and Viacom Digital with 347 million (1.0 percent).

How and What US People watch on Internet.

Vuvuzela Button now on Youtube.

Vuvuzela the Music instrument in FIFA World Cup 2010 to cheer up their respective teams finally made it to the Popular video sharing site Youtube.

Though many are criticizing for the decibel it makes let see what reaction emerges.

Vuvuzela Button now on Youtube.

Bing Entertainment goes online.

Microsoft's Search Engine, Bing has forayed into Entertainment Search Business with the launch of bing.com/entertainment .

It's a new vertical centering on music, movies, TV and games.

Bing Entertainment goes online.

Viacom loses its $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Video sharing site Youtube [UPDATED].

The billion-dollar YouTube-Viacom case has finally been resolved, and the winner is … YouTube. In a statement published to its company blog this afternoon, YouTube writes, “The court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube.

This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement.”

Viacom in its lawsuit originally filed in 2007 had claimed that YouTube deliberately infringed on its copyrights and knowingly allowed offending content to remain on its site.

Viacom loses its $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Video sharing site Youtube [UPDATED].

Pak court bans Google, Yahoo, Hotmail.

A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material though officials today said they had not received any instruction to block the sites.

Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material.

Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named Muhammad Sidiq who claimed these websites were publishing sacrilegious material.

Pak court bans Google, Yahoo, Hotmail.

US Football match might set new Net Record.

The match between the U.S. and Algeria on Wednesday could set a new record for internet traffic.

Akamai's Net Usage Index, which tracks visitors per minute on the company's vast network of websites. In the minutes following Landon Donovan's game winning goal in the 91st minute of action (which sent the US to the round of 16), traffic spiked to 11.2 million visitors per minute, which move the event past the 2008 presidential election as the second highest traffic day of all-time.

The overall traffic record was set earlier this month during the first day of World Cup action, where traffic exceeded 12 million visitors per minute. We'll wait and see what the final numbers are from Akamai, but for the moment, it looks like Donovan's goal will go down in Internet history at least as a solid No. 2.

US Football match might set new Net Record.

LinknedIn gets overhauled, likes,follows and comment section appears[VIDEO].

Over the next few weeks, LinkedIn will be rolling out a complete overhaul to its Groups feature to make creating and following conversations easier and more engaging.

Previously have to click either “Start a Discussion” or “Submit News” to add a conversation to a group. Now both of those functions have been combined via a publisher box that is prominently displayed at the top of the page.

LinkedIn’s follow system has also been expanded. You may not know this, but the business social network actually gives you the option to “follow” individuals if you want to see what they’re saying in different groups, but aren’t his or her connection. That feature is now prominent, not only for people but for conversations as well. If you stumble across a great debate in a group and want to keep tabs on it, all you have to do is click “follow discussion” and it’ll appear in your news feed and in your inbox.

LinknedIn gets overhauled, likes,follows and comment section appears[VIDEO].

This Man Will Do Anything You Tweet Him.

David Perez must be one trusting guy. Because for the next six days, he's agreed to do anything you want him to do, as long as you tell him to do it over Twitter.

Breaking the law is out, he said. And maybe nothing that will make his mom wince too hard. But everything else sent to his Twitter account, @DavidOnDemand, the 29-year-old Chicagoan said, is fair game.

"There will definitely be antics involved in this," Perez said.

And as he embarks on his bold and potentially bizarre adventure, his Internet-enabled masters will be able to follow along with a stealth cam attached to his glasses that will stream live video over the Web.

"You'll be able to see and hear everything I do," he said.

This Man Will Do Anything You Tweet Him.

Virgin America Offers Free Flights to Twitter Influencers.

Virgin America has partnered with Klout, an analytics service that tracks users’ influence on Twitter (based on variables such as the quality and number of followers and retweets), to extend free flights (plus tax) to influencers in Toronto.

The offer includes free round-trip airfare (Wi-Fi included) between Toronto and San Francisco (SFO) or Los Angeles (LAX) between June 23 and August 23. Those who received invitations for the offer — whether or not they decide to accept the flight that comes with it — were also invited to Virgin America’s Toronto Launch Event on June 29.

Klout measures data through user-created content, indicating influence through interaction and size of networks. It then tabulates a score as its influence metric through 25 variables broken into three categories: True Reach, Amplification and Network Scores.

Virgin America Offers Free Flights to Twitter Influencers.

Facebook Location Features similar to Twitter Confirmed and will be out Soon.

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed to press in London today that Facebook will indeed be launching location-based features in the near future.

According to reports, the young CEO told attendees at a local Facebook Developer Garage event, “We are finishing designing our application soon and hope to offer it soon.”

In March, The New York Times reported that location features would be launching in April. In May, Advertising Age said location would come to Facebook in June.

Facebook Location Features similar to Twitter Confirmed and will be out Soon.

Facebook Posts to Appear in Real-Time Search Results.

OneRiot, one of the world’s leading real-time search engines, which will provide the search results of Facebook posts.

OneRiot already pulls data from blogs, Twitter, Digg and millions of other sources all over the social web.

Facebook data that will appear in OneRiot search results include publicly shared links on user profiles and publicly “liked” stories from all over the web.

This news comes just a few days after Bing announced it would be serving Facebook and Twitter posts in search results, too. Google also added Facebook Pages to its real-time search offering in February this year.

Facebook Posts to Appear in Real-Time Search Results.

Google Releases Command-Line Tool for YouTube, Docs, and More

Google has launched a simple but very useful app for computer nerds everywhere: GoogleCL, a command-line tool that allows users to do everything from upload folders to Picasa to adding appointments to a Google Calendar.

Google CL is a Python (Python) application that makes Google Data API calls through the command line. A command-line interface (CLI) is an interface where the user can tell the computer to perform specific tasks by typing commands. You’ve probably seen them before, most likely via the MS-DOS command-line interface. The CLI is in contrast to the mouse-based interface that we all use today, known as the graphical user interface (GUI).

Googlers from the Street View team created the application for their own use, but have now turned GoogleCL over to the general public. It accepts commands to Google Calendar, Google Docs , Google Contacts, Picasa, YouTube , and Blogger . Here’s an example command:

             $ google calendar add “Social Media Day SF Party at 7pm”


Google has provide a list of sample scripts to get started, but we bet that page will expand with more commands and more supported Google services over time. It’s a great combination of the command line and the cloud. If you want to get started, you can download GoogleCL and the necessary Python library client here and here.

Src & Text: [mashable]

Google Releases Command-Line Tool for YouTube, Docs, and More

WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan.

As the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks remains underground in fear that the U.S. will detain him, the site is preparing to release a leaked video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that is said to be more shocking than the Iraqi video that sent its controversial leader into hiding.

Julian Assange, who has been garnering more attention since it was announced that Pentagon investigators are looking for him, told his supporters in an email this week that he has a classified video of a U.S. attack on Afghan civilians.

In an interview airing today on "Brian Ross Investigates," a weekly investigative news magazine show airing on ABC News Now and Hulu.com, a member of the Icelandic Parliament who has worked closely with Assange said the Afghan video is expected to be released shortly.

WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan.

There is no need to pay for the usage of Facebook.

If you go to Facebook.com and search for the terms "Facebook free" or "Facebook charge," you'll find hundreds of groups with names like, "If 1 Million People Join Before 9th July 2010 Facebook Will Stay Free!" or "If Facebook Charges A Fee We Will Discontinue Using It." Some of these groups have dozens of users, others have thousands.

During a recent press conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said while Facebook users do care about privacy, the question of whether or not Facebook will eventually charge for its service is actually a much bigger concern among the site's 500 million users.

But are these fears justified?

There is no need to pay for the usage of Facebook.

World Cup vuvuzelas buzz on internet.

On 19/6/2010 morning, there were roughly 30 vuvuzela-themed smartphone apps for the open-source Android platform. Another dozen or so were in the Apple's App Store, which sells apps for the iPhone and iPad. Most of these apps turn phones into digital vuvuzelas.

During every World Cup match, thousands of fans, seemingly with lungs like bellows, honk the buzzing horns from start to finish, a nod to South African culture but one that has led some players to complain about being distracted.

World Cup vuvuzelas buzz on internet.

Facebook earned $ 800 mn in 2009.

Facebook's financial performance is stronger than previously believed, as the Internet social network's explosive growth in users and advertisers boosted 2009 revenue to as much as $ 800 million, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

The company also earned a solid net profit, in the tens of millions of dollars last year, one of the sources said.

That growth in profit and revenue underscores how Facebook is increasingly making money off its 6-year-old service, which ranks as the world's largest Web social network with nearly half a billion users.

That sort of performance is likely to whet the appetites of investors keen for a public share float, despite the company's insistence that an IPO is not a near-term priority.

Facebook earned $ 800 mn in 2009.

Beating China, India turns world’s top spam source.

A series of recent reports by Internet security companies found India has become the top spam-producing nation.

After tracking over 3 million spam messages for the week ending June 13, ICSA Labs found the maximum number, 424,224 — or 14 per cent — originated from India. The second biggest source was Russia with 11.5 per cent. While analysts have questioned the fact that China does not figure in that Top 10 list, there is consensus that India is, at the very least, among the top three nations spewing spam.

Similarly, according to the statistics featured by Project Honey Pot, the top country where spam servers are located is India, accounting for 16.9 per cent, with Brazil a distant second at 8.7 per cent. The share of countries where spam has traditionally been known to originate from, like China, has dropped, though that country still remains at Number One in Project Honey Pot’s all time list.

ICSA Labs is a US-based security firm with an anti-computer virus and spam product testing and certification facility. Project Honey Pot is a network that works with US law enforcement agencies, identifying spammers and spambots.

Beating China, India turns world’s top spam source.

Now App Helps Charities Make Money Online

For charitable organizations, Nadanu also offers full access to donor contact information, transaction history and usage patterns; and automated, branded email receipt system; and granular campaign tracking.

The company is also strongly focused on mobile and social distribution and interaction; just today, they a range of mobile apps for Apple and BlackBerry devices as well as some interesting Facebook integrations. Android OS support is expected this fall.

Getzy Fellig, the company’s co-founder and CEO, said in a release “We want to change everything about the way people think, the way people give and the way organizations receive. The availability of our new mobile and Facebook apps blends the best parts of mobile giving ‘any time from anywhere’ with the fun, accessibility and enjoyment of social networking.”

Src & Text: [mashable]

Now App Helps Charities Make Money Online

Google TV Explained in Less Than 2.5 Minutes [VIDEO]

Google has a released a handy video that illustrates just how it works.

The platform  which integrates TV and web content to create one, smooth experience — is said to be a possible foil to the Boxee Box. Boxee’s release date has been pushed back to November 2010 (Google TV will also be available in the fall).

Google TV Explained in Less Than 2.5 Minutes [VIDEO]

Celebrities’ Twitter Followers Have Zero Influence.

Sysmos found that the Twitter followers of social media heavyweights were the most influential of the bunch and followers of celebrities by contrast, have little to no authority.

Celebrities

Celebrities seem to have large amounts of followers with low Twitter authority levels. This could be because they attract everyone from all walks of life. Some people may only be on Twitter to see what their favorite stars have to tweet about.

As the table above shows, most users following these celebrities have a very low authority ranking, partly because they have few followers themselves. Britney Spears has particularly low authority followers, whereas Barack Obama stands out within the three groups with followers who have an average authority ranking of 2.4.

Celebrities’ Twitter Followers Have Zero Influence.