Back in September rumors started flying about regularly scheduled programming coming to YouTube in 2012.  There was talk that YouTube was negotiating with some big studios and celebs to bring a constant stream of TV-quality content to their viewers.  Well folks, the time has come.  Just hours ago, YouTube announced that new original channels will start appearing on YouTube next month.  Over 90 channels have been announced so far.


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The Weather Channel for iPad app got a major update this week to version 3.0.0. The update includes a completely new design, a 3D spinning globe (map), a news and social tab and HD video of news and weather forecasts. People using an iPad 2 will see animated weather backgrounds reflecting local conditions. The news and social tab includes weather news, tweets from Weather Channel experts and contributed weather photos from people nearby.The weather interface shows five days of general weather co [...]

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In recent years we’ve seen a rise in government on YouTube, from the United States to the UK, Israel and beyond.  More and more politicians are making their way onto YouTube, to open up a new channel of conversation with their constituents, and the latest to jump on this bandwagon is Germany.  Yesterday, the German federal government launched their new YouTube channel, Bundesregierung, and announced that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be answering citizens’ questions via YouTube next month [...]

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It appears that YouTube is becoming the popular method for governments to reach out to the public. You may have heard that YouTube...

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Yesterday afternoon the Sesame Street YouTube channel was taken offline following a lewd hacker attack in which many of the channel’s videos were taken down and replaced with pornographic video clips.  The channel returned to YouTube this morning, but the incident has left a bad taste in the mouth of Sesame Street fans the world over because, seriously, who would do something like that?


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Children hoping to watch Sesame Street on YouTube on Sunday were greeted with quite the opposite. The channel was hacked, all videos deleted, design modified and graphic porn uploaded. A...

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question_the_answers.jpg Looking for answers? Social media is a great way to find what you need. Whether it’s crowdsourcing an idea, looking for the best way to accomplish a daunting task or asking how others have experienced something – tapping into your online communities has become a good way to find answers. The question is, which social network is the best for finding those answers? Is in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Quora… or how about the [...]

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The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC) and Twitter are teaming up with The Weather Channel Social, an integration of local, weather-related Tweets across TWCC's television, Web and mobile platforms.


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The Weather Channel and Twitter have teamed up to create 220 customer local Twitter feeds for cities with populations of 100,000 or more. Weather-related tweets range from 200 per minute on an average day. An active weather day can bump this number to as high as 500 weather related tweets per minute.The Weather Channel Teams up with Twitter to Launch the Weather Channel SocialIf you have an iPhone, The Weather Channel 4.0.0 app update includes a new "Social" tab at the bottom that provides acces [...]

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"Heeeere’s Johnny!" Johnny Carson (1925-2005) may have stopped hosting The Tonight Show in the early 90s, but he’s still remembered as the original King of Late Night and now, thanks to YouTube, his show will live on forever.  This week an official Johnny Carson channel launched on YouTube, featuring some of the most memorable moments from the show.


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UK television broadcaster Channel 4 is to stream programming live on Facebook for the first time when it broadcasts the T4 On The Beach festival live this weekend, BroadcastNow reports.As part of the show, Channel 4 will place four dedicated cameras around the site allowing Facebook users to watch live music acts from the side of the stage, view interviews with artists and view events backstage and in the green room.Viewers will need to access the T4 Facebook page, which currently stands at more [...]

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