Despite a rather difficult few months in which they lost 800,000 U.S. subscribers, Netflix is still one of the top dogs in the world of American film and television show streaming. They played a big part in the downfall of Blockbuster and have stepped on the toes of other major players like HBO as well. Now it looks like they’re headed across the Atlantic, to try their luck against UK players like Amazon-owned on-demand service Lovefilm.
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Film lovers in the UK can now get their fill of their favorite flicks on YouTube. That’s right—today YouTube announced that they’ve taken their movie rental service to the UK.
Two men in the United Kingdom have been given four year sentences for using social media to incite the recent London riots; some wonder if the punishment fits the crime.
I share photos of my daughter with her grandmother, who loves seeing the latest news of my daughter’s activities. My daughter is not old enough to be on Facebook. But if she was, she most certainly would be sharing all her activities with her grandmother. Twitter is a less personal than Facebook, so my daughter doesn’t use it even though there is no age limit.
O2 UK, one of the top mobile carrier in UK, will be launching mobile wallet service by July 2011. The wallet will have a host of contactless mobile payment options and will use NFC (near field communication) technology.
Dirty divorces and devious debt collectors have relied on Facebook photos and tweets to prove their cases against defendants, but criminal cases using social media as evidence have been far less numerous – albeit receiving much more press. This may all change as the UK introduces some new social media training for its police force.
Today comScore released data indicating that online video views in the UK are up a whopping 37 percent from last year. comScore’s Video Matrix service shows that a total of 5.5 billion videos were viewed in the UK in February 2010, up from 4 billion in February 2009.
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As the election for next Prime Minister in the UK approaches, Facebook and YouTube have announced that they will be sponsoring the first ever British Digital Debate. British Facebook and YouTube users are invited to ask text of video questions of the candidates from each of Britain’s three major political parties via YouTube and Facebook. Users can vote on the questions they like best, and candidates Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will record video responses to the top questions. Videos will appear on both YouTube and Facebook about ten days before the election on May 6.
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