5 posts and columns on uploads

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Instagram Captures a Milestone: 150M Photo Uploads

in Social on August 3, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

Instagram has reached a total of 150 million photos uploaded, with 1.3 million new ones uploaded per day, the company said today. The 150 millionth photo, of a carnival ride in the sunshine by user janefot, is here. That’s still quite a bit fewer than the 200 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day, but Instagram has only been around nine months and is available only as an app for the iPhone.

In 4G Race, Verizon Pulls Ahead With Pricey Speed

in Personal Technology on January 5, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT

Verizon Wireless’s new 4G network is “wicked fast” but potentially costly, writes Walt.

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YouTube Lets Some of You Go Longer, Removes 15-Minute Upload Cap for "Selected Users"

in Media on December 9, 2010 at 9:42 am PT

YouTube users send up a staggering 35 hours of video to the site every minute. And now that number is going to get even bigger: Google’s video site will start letting “selected users” go past the 15-minute time limit it had previously placed on most user uploads: “As long as it’s your original content, it’s fair game regardless of length.”

YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun

in Media on March 18, 2010 at 7:25 pm PT

The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them.

YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen Moves On, Stays with Google

in Media on June 30, 2009 at 10:50 am PT

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, who oversaw the company’s technical operations as it grew from an upstart to the world’s biggest video site, no longer works at the site day-to-day. This is old news, literally: Chen left his spot as chief technology officer last fall, though he remains employed at Google, which bought his company for $1.65 billion in 2006.
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