The First YouTube Video + YouTubers Mashup!

Here's the first video that was uploaded to YouTube. This is one of the company's three founders Jawed Karim, currently a grad student at Stanford.

Yes, this is how a $1.65 billion company got started.



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This next video, appropriately entitled "YouTubers" is utterly captivating, and speaks volumes to what's happening in the CGM2 (consumer-generated multi-media) space.

It's raw and edgy, but worth all nine minutes. To the cultural anthropologists out there, please take out your notebooks!



Source: ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com

Latest News: Google will not tolerate copyright breach by YouTube.

Search giant Google says it will stamp out any copyright violations when it takes over video-sharing network YouTube later this year, following its $1.65bn acquisiton of the social media website.

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RESfest 10th Anniversary Tour

RESfest is launching its 10-year anniversary tour in the UK, beginning in Bristol at the Watershed today before heading off to the National Film Theatre in London from November 14-19.

Showcasing the most cutting-edge music videos, short films, animation and motion graphics.

highlights include three retrospectives: A Decade of RESfest, a collection of 10 seminal short films from a decade of the festival; Unsung Heroes, a collection of some of the best music videos and a look back at Radiohead's finest music videos; and film rarities from the festival's recent past. Add the English premiere of Rock The Bells, a documentary about reuniting the Wu Tang Clan and LoudQUIETloud, a film about The Pixies (Bristol) and there's quite enough to make it an indispensable event in any self-respecting creative's calendar.

For more on events and screening times, check out the website: www.resfest.co.uk

Source: Shots.net

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Beck of beyond

Doors that turn into windows that turn into a chest of drawers that turns into an armchair that turns into a singer. Yup, it could only be Michel Gondry's latest video for Beck.



The dazzling video for Cell Phone's Dead is from the new album The Information and is only the second time the two have worked together, the last being in 1997 on Deadweight.

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Sony pushes Bravia in first HD ad spot

Sony has teamed up with Sky to screen the UK's first high-definition television ad, which will appropriately promote the Bravia range of HD television sets.

The ad, which follows up the much-hyped 'balls' spot, will be seen in high definition for the first time on Sky Sports HD 2 tonight, during live coverage of the Uefa Champions League tie between Chelsea and Barcelona.

Fallon created 'balls' and the new ad, which was directed by Jonathan Glazer. It features hundreds of litres of paint in numerous colours exploding over a disused towerblock in Glasgow.

It is the first ad to be entirely produced and broadcast in high definition. For tonight's HD debut, a 70-second version will be shown. OMD has handled media for the campaign.

View the Ad here

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Reuters opens virtual office to report from Second Life

Second Life, the virtual reality game world, is to have its own Reuters journalist keeping people in the real world abreast of events in the virtual one.

As part of the move, the news agency will place its own correspondent in Second Life. Called Adam Reuters, in reality he is a London-based media reporter named Adam Pasick.

Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Leo Burnett and Arc Worldwide have also opened offices in the game, which was created by San Francisco-based Linden Labs.

In the game, individuals can create avatars and pursue alternate virtual lives, with their own cars and homes.

The virtual world also has a dark underbelly where users can indulge in digital sex, while in reality they just tap away at their keyboards.

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IPTV/VoD: The World That’s On Its Way

As technology evolves at breakneck speed, companies can spend so much time trying to keep up that they neglect to plan ahead. Alex Cameron, managing director at IPTV firm Digital TX, looks in to the distance, and sees a future with broadcast TV and universal Internet connectivity between all devices…

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Direct a DJ Shadow promo

Pre-eminent hip-hop turntablist DJ Shadow is inviting budding creatives and die-hard fans to come up with the video for his forthcoming single, This Time, taken from his latest album The Outsider.

With Shadow himself judging the competition, the promise of global promotion of the winning video (not to mention a GPB1000 cash reward) and a totally open brief, the stakes are high.

Entrants have until Friday October 20th to get their work in. For more information visit the official competition website at www.djshadowvideo.com

Source: Shots.net

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Google in negotiations to buy YouTube for $1.6bn

Google is in talks to acquire video-sharing website YouTube in a $1.6bn (£857m) deal.

The deal between the companies is expected to be concluded this week. It could mean that Google's online ad program AdWords is rolled out across YouTube.

While all eyes have been on the site and potential acquisitors, one dotcom investor, Mark Cuban, has said that anyone paying for YouTube is a "moron" because the site would be "sued into oblivion" for infringing copyright.

However, there are signs that the record labels, whose videos appear on the site, are more interested in working out how they can use it to market their artists and make money, rather than risk incurring the wrath of the millions of members who are used to getting stuff for free from the internet.

Microsoft and Yahoo! are each trying to emulate the success of YouTube with their own video websites. Microsoft has launched Soapbox and Yahoo! Video made its UK debut last week.

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Addition 10/10/06: Google has put an end to speculation by agreeing to buy video-sharing network YouTube.com for $1.65bn (£884m) in a stock deal. More

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