Web Video

The weekend is just around the corner and to help get you through to the end of the workweek we’ve put together a collection of funny, crazy and just plain awesome videos. This week’s Friday Morning Laughs roundup includes a most awesome slinky, cats, dogs, a ketchup breakthrough and more!

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Yesterday morning we shared the story of the #SaveYouTube campaign and YouTuber Onision, who is saying that “YouTube is murdering off some of our favorite YouTubers.” Yesterday evening YouTube responded to the complaints saying simply, “This isn’t happening.”

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YouTube has undergone a lot of changes over the past few months, from a new design to the launch of new professionally-produced content channels and more, but at what cost? Many of the most popular YouTubers have reported that since YouTube has started rolling out these new “upgrades” their subscribers, view counts and overall satisfaction with YouTube has been declining…big time.

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Last month Vimeo released the shortlists and opened voting for the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards. Now the polls are closed and the shortlists have been narrowed down to the top four videos in each of the 13 categories. Vimeo viewers are invited to check them out on the Vimeo Awards website.

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Hulu, the web video site that delivers quality network and cable television shows to web viewers, has announced their slate of new programming called the “Summer Series”. This is the dawn of a new era similar to the dawn of cable networks. Instead of just replaying the network programs, web video providers will now be creating their own series, and if they get even just one hit, users will have a whole new source of programming, thereby cleaving the market.

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Last May YouTube celebrated its sixth birthday with an announcement that more than 48 hours of video were being uploaded every minute and that the site was racking up 3 billion daily views. In January of this year, they increased that number to 60 hours of video per minute and now, to celebrate birthday number 7 YouTube has announced that a whopping 72 hours of video is being uploaded to the site every minute!

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Happy Friday, ladies and gents! The workweek is coming to a close and we’ve put together a list of laugh-inducing videos to help you start the weekend with a smile on your face. This week’s Friday Morning Laughs includes a Lamborghini crash, a funny kid, a hilarious bachelor party prank, gingers and more. So sit back, relax and get ready to laugh.

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Have you ever heard of the “lean back” connected TV experience? It is the idea that most TV watchers don’t want to have to do anything while they’re watching TV, so digital and interactive elements should be minimalist enough so that a viewer can continue to lean back and relax while consuming this new flow of information. Well, a study by Viacom related to social TV called “Viewers C’s the Moment” has revealed that there may be a shift from a “lean-back to a lean-forward experience.” The study showed that viewers engage in an average of seven types of social TV activities.

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There are all sorts of slideshow creation tools out there, from Animoto to Picasa, but Easy Hi is launching a new slideshow creation tool in an attempt to make slideshow creation easier and faster than ever. It’s called Slide.ly and it lets users create video slideshows using pictures from across the web, set to popular music literally in seconds.

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‘Zuckerberg: The Musical’ tells the story of Facebook, set to the tune of songs from popular musicals like Westside Story, RENT, Phantom Of The Opera and more.

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