Paramount launches movie clips app on Facebook

Even more top businesses are getting on board with the Facebook platform. Not just with advertising their product – developing their own applications.

This is an article I found on scenta.co.uk:

“Paramount Pictures has just become the first major studio to make clips from thousands of its movies available for use on the internet.The studio has teamed up with LA-based developer FanRocket to launch the "VooZoo" application on Facebook which lets users access footage from thousands of movies to send to others on the social networking site."The short clips for a movie that you've already seen before helps you relive the moment," Paramount senior VP entertainment Derek Broes said.”

Original Link: http://www.scenta.co.uk/gadgets/news/cit/1717484/paramount-launches-movie-clips-app-on-facebook.htm

YouTube most popular UK user-generated site

I have found a lot of talk about the social networking sites being up there with the most visited sites for user generated content, but I found one very popular site that gets over looked in these figures as it is more media based, YouTube.

Here is a great article about its popularity in contrast to the others mentioned:

"YouTube, the video-sharing website, is now the most popular user-generated site in the UK after attracting 10.4 million people in January.Wikipedia: A very modern encyclopediaThe Google-owned site has seen a 56 per cent increase in traffic from the same time last year, knocking the user-edited encyclopaedia Wikipedia off the top spot, according to new Nielsen Online figures.
Nearly two-thirds of UK web users, or 20.8 million people, have visited at least one of the top 10 sites which are created by users uploading their own information, according to the data.
Wikipedia had 9.6 million unique users during January, while Facebook recorded 8.5 million. Blogger, the do-it-yourself blogging service, had 5.1 million users, ahead of social networking sites MySpace, at 5.02 million and Bebo at 4.09 million users.Facebook saw a huge year-on-year growth of 712 per cent since January 2007 while Slide, the photo display application, saw its user base increase by 207 per cent to 3.3 million over the same period.”

Original Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/06/nyoutube106.xml