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Google opens YouTube TestTube
Its time to start mixing things up and experimenting in YouTube land. Google has officially opened the TestTube where engineers and developers can test recipes and concoctions for new YouTube initiatives. The TestTube incubator welcomes all user feedback on new services that get cooked up in the lab, with the first two being AudioSwap and Streams.
AudioSwap hooks up music for users videos through special arrangements made with not so popular artists and major record labels, ensuring that songs can be added to YouTube videos legally. Bands include Evanescence, Finger Eleven, Aretha Franklin and the cranberries in all typical genres of Funk, Goth, HipHop, Jazz, Metal, Country, Rock, Reggae, and Rock.
The Streams feature in the lab allows users to share videos real time with other YouTube users. This is done by creating a YouTube room where users can join, watch videos and interact with each other.
Google has some pretty neat stuff going on here already, and we'll be looking out for further developments in the TestTube for sure!
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Kramer said 8:30PM on 3-30-2007
sounds cool but the streaming one isn't all that great.
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delicious said 8:42PM on 3-30-2007
looking forward to it
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Windows Vista said 11:52PM on 3-30-2007
Also
http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/Youtube_Currently_Not_accepting_Comments_uploads_and_new_Registration.htm
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