The official YouTube blog just reported that selected Youtube partners can now offer their videos for free or paid downloads.

A woman who missed her flight at Hong Kong's international airport went into hysterics and has thus become a YouTube video star. The "woman going insane after missing her flight video" has over 1.35 million hits at the time of this writing.

Autism Campaigners around the world are using Autism Sunday 2009 - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger's Syndrome on 8th February 2009 to lobby world leaders and international governments on the serious health and education issues concerned with autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Cathedrals, Churches and religious organisations around the world are marking Autism Sunday to remember over 60 million people with autism and Asperger's Syndrome in prayer.

On Friday the Pope joined other global dignitaries such as Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II with YouTube Channels, as Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated the Vatican's YouTube Channel.

Coldplay's record label, EMI / Parlophone, have forced YouTube to take down the original video that mashes-up Coldplay's Viva La Vida and Joe Satriani's If I Could Fly.

I've written before about the use of text messages and Twitter in emergencies. In fact, in the U.S., emergency crews recommend the use of text messages rather than calls as SMS "piggybaacks" on top of voice data, saving bandwidth for those who really need it: emergency responders.

Live webcasting from YouTube debuted tonight in an attempt to take the video sharing web site’s viewers to a new level. YouTube is hoping to showcase all that great talent behind some of its most viewed videos. Whether it will be a hit remains a mystery.

Barack Obama may have to relinquish his ever-present Blackberry for security reasons when he becomes U.S. President in January, but no way will he give up exploiting the digital technology he built his election campaign on.

While Hulu, the joint video venture formed by NBC Universal and News Corp., plays catchup to YouTube in terms of views, attracting only a fraction of the 81 million people who visit YouTube each month, it still managed to generate nearly the same revenue in its first year in business, according to reports. How?

Dr. Paul Haridakis, associate professor of Communication Studies at Kent State University and a long-time scholar in the area of the impact of media on the political landscape in the U.S., is investigating the impact of hugely popular social media's impact on the upcoming presidential contest.

Ever wish (I have) that YouTube would host TV shows and movies? I mean, sure, you can go to Hulu and other places, but not YouTube. Well, that seems to be changing, albeit slowly.

Wondershare Software, a leading developer of digital video editing and multimedia software provider, has just released a very practical application – AllMyTube Downloader for Mac.