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YouTube Party Over For IE6 From March 13, 2010

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“YouTube in IE6” May Be History From March 13, 2010:

YouTube has started warning the users using old browsers about it’s support for such old version s of the browsers.

As seen on  this YouTube FAQ page, the users using old version browsers will see the following message starting from March 13, 2010:  (And remember Internet Explorer 6 fellows, this one’s for you)

YouTube in IE6 may be history

In mid-2009 we started notifying users that YouTube would stop support for certain older browser versions. If you’d like the best YouTube viewing experience, we recommend that you upgrade to the most recent version of your browser.

Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.

While they may not stop supporting Internet Explorer 6 completely it says that all the upcoming new features to be incorporated in YouTube may not be supported by browsers like IE6, Firefox 2.0, Firefox for Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther – version 2.0.0.20 etc.

This applies to the following browsers:

  • Any browser older than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
  • Any browser older than Mozilla Firefox 3.0
  • Any browser older than Google Chrome 4.0
  • Any browser older than Safari 3.0+

Striker : First Bollywood Movie To Be Premiered Online

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Striker, the latest Bollywood (Hindi) movie produced by the Indian Film Company in association with Studio 18, becomes the first ever Bollywood movie to have its World Premiere on YouTube.The movie was released on February 5, 2010.

One of the partners in the movie productions, Studio 18 has announced earlier that the movie will have international premiere on YouTube.The movie is made available to all the viewers world-wide except in India, where it’s having theatrical release.The movie is available for free to all the Non-US internet surfers, however US viewers will have to watch it on a rental basis.

The movie, starring Siddarth in the lead role  is available via Studio 18 official YouTube account: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5f-jUpUp8o]

Well, the full movie video in YouTube was taken off from online yesterday after they had experienced some technical glitches but finally managed to get back it online only on the next day (6th Feb 2010).All though the reviews aren’t really good, it’s certainly a thrilling experience to watch the DVD quality version of the  just released movie in YouTube like I did.

Striker movie full online

And the guys in India, I’m sure lot of you guys know the trick to to watch it, right? Anyway its really something new that the producers of the movie has tried and it’s worth appreciable and I’m sure there are lot of movies to follow this.

The movie is released in Indian theaters in Hindi and in Telugu (dubbed version) on Feb 5, 2010.

Studio 18 Official channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/studio18

Now IPL 3 would be the next biggest thing that I’d love to watch LIVE.

YouTube To Stream IPL Matches Live From India

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YouTube IPL LogoGoogle India has just struck a nice deal with Indian Premier League (IPL) organizers that would enable to stream the IPL season 3 cricket matches live from it’s video-sharing site YouTube.

Google now holds the exclusive online rights of the IPL matches for two years.All the matches would be broadcasted with a delay of 5 minutes from the original live feed.

The live matches can be watched online from IPL’s YouTube account http://www.youtube.com/ipl.

With around 60 matches to be played, the tournament would be starting from March 12, 2010 and will run till April 25, 2010 in India.

IPL on YouTube March 2010

It’s probably the first time that Google is broadcasting a live sporting event.However IPL fans in USA may just have to stick to other unofficial live streaming sites as they wouldn’t be able to watch this coverage from YouTube.

BTW, the coverage also includes match highlights, interview of the man-of-the match player for that day, all wickets, top sixes of the match,award ceremony, pitch report etc.

Goo.gl, Youtu.be URL Shorteners

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There seems to be URL shortening competition going around the web off late.Every one is going crazy about shortening those looooong URLs, thanks to twitter.

Now it’s Google turn, Google has launched 2 such URL shortening services.

1.Goo.gl :

Goo.gl service has been launched for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner.Just install latest Google Toolbar for Internet explorer to be able to use this.

Google toolbar with Share option

Share goo.gl links in Google toolbar

As shown in the above screenshot, the shortened goo.gl link can be shared with your friends in various social networking services.

Creating Goo.gl links Using Firefox

But as of now there’s no such option in Firefox version of the Google Toolbar.But still, there is a Firefox extension which will do the same for you without installing the toolbar.

Goo.gl Bookmarklet:

(Thanks to Matt for this Bookmarklet)

Goo.gl This  <goo.gl bookmarklet link with prompt for copying

Just drag it to the your bookmarks in case of Firefox, Safari, Opera(?) or just add it to Favourites in case of Internet Explorer.

Goo.gl Bookmarklet URL Shortener

Video:Google Toolbar with Share

2.Youtu.be :

If Goo.gl isn’t enough for you, there’s a new dedicated URL shortening service Youtu.be which shortens the YouTube URLs whenever you favourite a video using your YouTube account.

Using Youtu.be Manually:

Replace the "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" with "http://youtu.be/"

Or just copy the video-id (the string after ‘?v=’ in the YouTube URL) of the video(cebbvcMW5Uo in this case) and paste it after ‘youtu.be/’ part.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cebbvcMW5Uo

http://youtu.be/cebbvcMW5Uo

Facebook too is getting into URL Shortening service with ‘fb.me’

Happy URL shortening folks…

YouTube Launches Real-Time Comments Search Similar to Twitter Search

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YouTube is testing a new feature ‘Real-Time Comments search’ and this feature has been launched in ‘TestTube’ where in the YouTube engineers and developers test out the upcoming features.

This new search however, is pretty much similar to that of ‘Twitter Search’.

“The full comment will appear on a continuously updated results page, and “trending topics” indicates the hottest topics of conversation on YouTube at that particular moment.”

[Access Real-Time Comments Search Page]

youtube comments search Twitter search

Like Twitter search results, YouTube also displaying  ‘Trending topics’, the hot searches that are being made in YouTube right at that moment.

Similar to Twitter, search results get updated whenever a new comment arrives (It has to be that way, since they are meant to be real-time updates).