Arts & Entertainment YouTube To Launch Major Cable TV Alternative Called Unplugged In 2017 YouTube, and parent company Alphabet, has been undergoing a major overhaul of its underlying technical architecture in preparation for the launch of a subscription based, bundled TV service, as Bloomberg is reporting. It's
SF News Facebook May Let You Add A Tip Jar To Your Posts In a move that looks like it's both an effort to compete with user-revenue-generating platforms like YouTube and to boost sharing on the platform overall, Facebook appears to be considering options for allowing
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star Jesse Wellens Dresses Up As Aladdin, Takes 'Magic Carpet' Ride Through San Francisco "All I have to say is San Francisco is like a huge movie set. For Aladdin." That is Philadelphia-based YouTube celebrity Jesse Wellens's assessment as he was shooting the viral video above, here
Arts & Entertainment YouTube's 2015 Rewind Is Here To Remind You Of All The Viral Timewasters You'd Forgotten I was prepared to be cynical about YouTube's 2015 Rewind, which is intended to "celebrate the videos, people, music and moves that made 2015." But this year's video, from SF studio Portal A
SF News YouTube Brings The Heat To Netflix With Ad-Free Subscription Service Everyone's favorite place to watch ad-plastered videos of kittens knocking over water glasses just announced a major change in the way they do business. At a press conference held yesterday, YouTube shared its
Arts & Entertainment YouTube's Kids App Has Some Trouble Filtering Out Beer Ads, Adult Content Apparently YouTube has been catching a lot of flack from parents, family-centric non-profits, mommy bloggers and the like because their newly launched Kids app has done an incredibly poor job of filtering out
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Packs All That Stuff You Posted On Facebook This Year Into One Video Yearning to take a walk down the Memory Lane of videos you emailed pals/posted to Facebook/wrote creepy comments on? Then YouTube's Rewind video for 2014 might be what you're looking for,
SF News YouTube To Buy S.F.-Based Video Game Streaming Service For $1 Billion According to Hollywood trade magazine Variety, Google and YouTube plan to purchase San Francisco-based video game streaming service Twitch for over $1 billion in cash. Launched in summer of 2011, Twitch was spun
SF News Kim & Kanye Allowed To Sue YouTube Co-Founder Over Proposal Video A Superior Court Judge in L.A. has rejected a motion from YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley to dismiss Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's lawsuit over a video of their lavish engagement party at
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The Warriors Game... YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley — currently being sued by Kimye for having the gall to film the notoriously private couple's engagement party at AT&T Park — listens to a special lady friend during
SF News Kim And Kanye Suing YouTube Co-Founder Over Video Of Their Elaborate Engagement Despite saturating Instagram with photos of their proposal, there are still some parts of their elaborate AT&T Park engagement that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West would like to keep private, at
SF News KTVU Has Fake Asiana Pilot Names Clip Pulled (But Not Really) And just like that, it's gone. No wait, it's not. See, in an effort to squelch the fake Asian pilot name scandal, KTVU filed copyright infringement notices with YouTube regarding the now infamous
SF News YouTube Nixes Billions Of Fake Video Views Because The Internet Is Meaningless The ubiquitous video streaming site and trampoline accident repository says they have caught major music labels Universal, Sony/BMG, and RCA inflating view numbers on their YouTube channels in a vain attempt to
SF News YouTube Removes MidMarket 'Crackhead of the Day' Video Bluoz is known in part for his documented "Crackhead of the Day" footage he takes from his MidMarket apartment. YouTube recently removed one of his videos, a six-year-old flick that shows a gaggle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink YouTube To Launch Very Porky Food Channel Gone are the days when one could enliven their Sunday mornings by watching Julia Child and Jacques Pepin affectionately debate the proper way to scramble eggs or divulge their secrets to whole chicken
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Lang-Lang at Davies Symphony Hall. Lang-Lang is the antidote to recessions and deaths of classical music. There are only a few others than the Chinese piano superstar who can sell out Davies Symphony hall on a Tuesday evening
SF News Oakland Woman's Attack Circulates On Internet After Oakland female rapper Mina Mack was beaten in the doorway of an Oakland recording studio on Monday night, according to CBS 5, "a friend told her that video of the punching and
SF News Newsom Shakes Things Up With Poinsettia Last week, Mayor Gavin Newsom kicked off a new online communication series on YouTube, ingeniously christened "Mayor Newsom's YouTube Update." Yeah. But it's kinda cool, actually, where in each week Newsom sits down
SF News Girls Beat Up Classmate, Then Post Video Online Two vile girls, ages 12 and 14, in Benica were arrested on Saturday after beating up a classmate, filming the attack, and posted it on YouTube. While we cannot find the video to
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kaleidoscopic Kitty YouTube character Gay Carrington is, near as we can tell, a stoner transsexual puppet who occasional chimes in to talk to her fans in Old Hollywood-style English about her moods, pets, and experiences.
SF News New Gavin Newsom Ad: Totally Circular, Dude We don't really think the narration for this new Gav-for-Governor spot is the *strongest* bit of campaign ad copy we've ever heard. And is it wrong to say the whole circular thing ("...that
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: AutoTune the News ft. Geese, Dragons, Joe Biden and T-Pain We still love these guys, and they're milking their internet fame for all it's worth. Consider yourselves cleansed. PREVIOUSLY: AutoTuning The News, AutoTuning the News, Obama Edition
Arts & Entertainment YouTube to Broadcast Outside Lands Festival Live Good news, music-loving hermits. YouTube announced today that they will live stream this weekend's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. The live broadcast can be found over at youtube.com/outsidelands beginning Friday,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Do It In The Dirt" by Enrique Anyone who was around the local music scene in the 90s may remember these guys. Enrique was an SF-based, ironical-satirical pop-rock band in the vein of the B-52s and the Scissor Sisters whose
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" The silence, as it were, will be deafening tonight at Shoreline Amphitheatre after Depeche Mode's abrupt cancellation of their show due to Dave Gahan's exhausted vocal chords. As some small consolation to those
