Gamer Culture, Gaming Videos, Technology
The web has undergone a steady evolution of hosted multimedia outlets. As technology permitted, each trend would explode and spread like wildfire across the world. First came free hosting, followed by written blogs, then podcasts, and now the latest sensation: video blogs. But what do these video blogs mean for online journalism?
Business, Gaming Videos, Offbeat Videos
Work sucks. Day in, day out, facing the daily grind as just another wage slave drone trapped under the thumbs of corporate oppressors. But have you ever wanted to really stick it to The Man? We’ve all whispered it under our breath, but one guy finally did more than just talk about what we’ve always dreamed, and took serious action…with the power of YouTube.
We all know that the internet is riddled with those who think grammar, capitalization and punctuation is an outdated and unnecessary art form. These individuals are often looked down upon by grammar snobs as being unintelligent neanderthals who chisel out thoughts with nothing more than grunts and moans. This attitude has brought about a near limitless number of complaints from snobbish message board users and has even brought about a new Mozilla Firefox add-on aptly named the “YouTube Comment Snob,” and those air-nosed grammar elitists are rallying behind it.
Good new for Google: during a court settlement with Viacom in a New York federal court earlier this month, Google doesn’t have to turn over their source code, the code for identifying repeat copyright infringement uploads, copies of all videos marked private, and Google’s advertising database schema. Bad news for everyone else in America who has ever been to YouTube: due to the judge’s ruling, Google has to turn over the I.P. addresses and user names of people who viewed copyrighted videos and the databases concerning those copyrighted videos and how many times they were viewed. The judge deemed the privacy concerns as “speculative.” Why is this an issue worth mentioning? There are several different reasons.
Nintendo Wii, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
There is a pretty elaborate history to the game of Ghostbusters, and it won’t even be released until Q3 of this year. In January of 2007, leaked videos of gameplay for a rumored Ghostbusters game hit the net. While the trailer no longer exists on Youtube, the internet sure did go agog for it. Developers Zootfly came forward shortly thereafter and confirmed that though the game was in development, they sadly didn’t have the actual license for it.
We want to tell you what GotGame is all about.
The only problem is, we can’t. It’s too early to tell you what our true purpose is. In Internet startup language, we’re in “stealth mode.” That means we can tell you a lot of things, but not the specifics of everything that GotGame will be. Not yet anyway.
What we can tell you is what we believe, what sort of work we have done in the past four months, and how we think this is going to make a huge impact on your gaming life.
GotGame is a high power content delivery network, which is, first and foremost, focused on the PC gaming community. It is composed of a variety of content portals, and GotGame Live, an application that revolutionizes how players interact with each other and their games.
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Battlefield 2 may be three years old (well, if you include the expansion released in June 2006, two years), but the community is still alive and kicking. The game is played competitively in MLG and other leagues, and a dedicated community of players, modders, and skinners still abound. Perhaps the best testament to the dedication of these hardcore games is the videos all over YouTube. This particular one shows off a bunch of insane stunts—mostly for vehicles—that you can pull off in game. You have to be one devoted player to put the time and effort in to pulling these tricks off.
TMZ.com, the high-tech mother of all supermarket tabloids, is riding the cutting edge of the internet’s lust for all things salacious and earning itself an unlikely new title: YouTube killer. Editor Harvey Levin and his wacky band of paparazzi won’t be putting a serious dent into Google’s online video superpower any time soon, but they have proven that there’s room out there for independent producers of original content who don’t bow to the ‘Tube… provided they’re bankrolled by Time Warner and don’t know the meaning of words like “shame” and “restraint.”
