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Android First-Look: YouTube



YouTube was undoubtedly one of the Big G's best acquisitions. For good or for bad, it's addictive. While watching short, low resolution video clips is hardly an activity you want to do from your HDTV (or even really large computer monitor), it's actually a nice thing to do on a smartphone, especially if you are in a long line.

We can thank the iPhone for saying "no" to Flash and getting YouTube to provide .h264 videos for its YouTube app because Android doesn't have to mess with Flash either (though Silverlight is a possibility). The YouTube implementaton is very similar to the implementation on the iPhone.

The Android version, unsurprisingly, has a bit more pizzazz. When you load the app, in addition to a listing of videos like on the iPhone, there is a top carousel of different categories featuring videos and you can then click on each category to get more previews. It's a nice touch.

Playback is nearly identical to the experience on the iPhone. The screen automatically switches to landscape mode and playback starts. If the connection is weakened or cut, the video stops and ports you back to the main page. You can advance through the video by dragging your finger across the screen or using the little trackball to control the cursor.

As I covered yesterday, if you see a YouTube clip embedded in another site or in a Google News piece, you are given the option to load the video in the browesr or in the YouTube app. Because Flash is absent, you ned to select "open in YouTube."

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Text, Features, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Productivity, Web services, Google, Commercial, Freeware, Open Source, BlackBerry, Mobile Minute, iPhone, Search, web 2.0

5 things missing from your mobile life in 2008: Google Mobile and more

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Life's getting mobile, and it seems that's the way it's always going to be. Humans don't come off as the traveling type, yet we do. From horse carriages to cell phones, we're always looking for ways to do more on the move, so what's missing from your mobile life in 2008 and how can you fix it? The following list may help.

1. Full access to YouTube in Windows Mobile: Everyone's got a solution for playing YouTube Mobile videos on a Windows Mobile phone, but it seems no one's giving Windows Mobile users a way to access YouTube.com's full, flash video library. Oh wait, there is a solution. It only requires users to install a specific version of TCPMP and the Flash Video Bundle, an add-on to TCPMP to give it the ability to play flash video. Use Pocket IE to navigate to YouTube (a few other flash video sites are also supported). Clicking on a video will open TCPMP to play it. Easy, right?

You could also install Orb on your PC and use the Orb mobile client to find YouTube videos on the go, but that solution requires you to leave your home PC on all the time.

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Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services

YouTube Mobile goes live

YouTube MobileGot a few minutes to kill waiting for a bus? Pop out your phone and watch videos of Mentos and Coke inspired artwork. Actually, even though YouTube has officially launched its service for mobile phones, that video's not available.

YouTube Mobile is a streamlined version of YouTube made to run on mobile phones. Videos can be streamed by any phone capable of viewing RTSP/3GP files with H263/AMR.

When you first navigate to YouTube Mobile, you're greeted with a warning that you may want to upgrade to an unlimited data plan before using the data-intensive service. Currently only a limited number of videos are available, but you could always use a third party service like Orb to access the entire library of YouTube videos from your phone.

[via thinkabdul]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Video, Web services, Google

YouTube Mobile site coming soon? Some evidence

youtube mobiel togoWith the recent news of YouTube teaming up with Nokia and Vodafone to provide videos on mobile devices, I started to do some amateur digging. I started to URL surf on YouTube's site to see if I could come up with any clues on the new mobile service that was mentioned in Nokia's press release. That brought me to m.youtube.com, which directed me to a page that was "not available", but did display a YouTube Mobile logo. So, needless to say, YouTube Mobile is in the works, but what it's going to look like and act like is a different story. We know it's going to be aimed at mobile devices, so content will most likely be stripped down, and sizes adjusted to fit smaller screens. Could it be similar to Nokia and Vodafone's online services where a user can upload, share and view directly to a special account? Maybe it's just a stripped down basic YouTube.com site? From the current, non-existent site, It looks like certain outside IP's might be banned from viewing the content while the team at YouTube builds and works out the bugs. If you have any news on this, or want to drop a comment on what you think the YouTube Mobile ToGo service could look like, we'd like to start dreaming.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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