TellyAdder is a YouTube adder... a friend bot for YouTube. TellyAdder will gather user IDs on any YouTube page. With these IDs you can send automated friend requests, comments, etc... Doing so will he
“Rat Monster Joke” returns a result from YouTube competitor Metacafe. What’s odd, however, is that the Flash player below the result isn’t from Metacafe - it’s a Google Video player, streaming the video form Google’s servers. All the links h
They seem to be pulling videos from different feeds like Blip and Google. They repost them to their site with a preroll video ad...and an image ad all around the video. They put a MyHeavy watermark on the video. They resize the video from the origin
Services like Revver or Metacafe, on the other hand, who pay users for their content, do have a problem. Users who cheat the system into believing more people watched their videos, could steal a lot of money from them. For these services, it’s not the n
There are lot of ways to catch cheaters: * Do the views come from the same subscriber? * Did views skyrocket in a certain period with a steady instead of random growth rate? * Did a user view more videos in a period than possible? * Is the ratio of views/
Of course, a few thousand rogue links on a site with over 100 million profiles is pretty insignificant, but these repeated attacks on MySpace users show that social networks are becoming a prime target for phishers and badware vendors. Although a few of t
If YouTube doesn’t police commercial video spam, users will be alienated. Google, for its part, will lose part of the revenue opportunity it bought YouTube to capture — brand marketing via online video.
I complained over the weekend that YouTube is increasingly being gamed by users. I decided to test out how hard this would be - as it turns out, it’s exceptionally easy to rank among the most viewed videos and channels by simply refreshing the page.
The normal ratio for reviews to viewership is about 1:100 but many videos that rank highly for the day, are 1:3 or 1:2. In our casual observation, this seems to happen most in the morning, when we speculate that people are battling each other, jockeying f
