Vimeo, the video hosting and sharing site that acts as a sort of thinking-man’s YouTube, has begun closed tests of a complete site redesign and a bunch of new features. Wanna get involved? Read on to find out how. Read more
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The internet is a minefield. Every turn online is a possible pitfall in terms of your reputation and your general way of life. What’s worse is that many of the more friendly and innocuous-seeming services are often the worst; there are multiple ways to ruin yourself on the web. Here are the worst… Read more
We’ve just stumbled across something rather special. Remember the marble and ball runs you used to make as a kid with bits of Lego and old toilet tubes? Your wildest creations have just been bested beyond belief. Read more
YouTube has recently released its pick of the choicest viral videos for 2011, based on views. But the most viewed aren’t necessarily always the best. Allow us to fill in the blanks with our proper list of 2011’s finest online celluloid. Read more
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is, as we’re sure you’re aware, fairly popular. Popular things online have a tendency to wind up on YouTube in all manner of fan-altered ways, and the warmongering game shouldn’t expect to escape that fate. Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you the Modern Warfare Dubstep mix… Read more
Fenton the dog (or Benton, if you’re that way inclined) has become an internet superstar this week, joining the ranks of such elite viral video canines as the stoned birthday dog and the one that enjoys a bit of skateboarding. The video that made him the an online hero has now spawned an inevitable flow of YouTube mashups, so we thought we’d bring you the best. Read more
YouTube redesign, you say? It’s true. The video-hosting website has undergone a major facelift that it’s currently trialling among developers. If you want to experience the clean new look yourself, all you need do is follow our simple instructions. Read more
Getting caught in a YouTube vortex need no longer be a lonely experience. Google+ Hangouts, the social network’s video chat feature, have migrated to YouTube. Watching YouTube videos in Hangouts has been an option since Google+ launched but YouTube has now added a button to begin chats directly from videos.
Click the Share menu beneath any YouTube clip and you’ll now find an option encouraging you to watch the clip with friends on Google+. Click the link and a new window opens allowing you to choose which Google+ Circles you want to share the clip with. In the case of the classic Baby Monkey (Going Backwards Of A Pig), we chose all of them.
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