More than 13-million hours of video -- approximately 1 500 years -- were uploaded to YouTube in 2010 and more than 700-billion videos were viewed on the site. The top clips of this year worldwide include a quirky television interview "Bed Intruder Song!" by Antoine Dodson, a parody of popstar Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok”, and a school pupil's rendition of Lady Gaga's “Paparazzi”.The full list of the top 10, worldwide, below:1. Bed Intruder Song! – The Gregory Brothers took the quirky ...

For the year of 2010 South Africans watched clips dominated by music and politics on YouTube, with Afrikaans trailer-trash rap group Die Antwoord stealing the show as one of the most watched for the year.Die Antwoord's singles 'Enter the Ninja' racked up a massive 8,6-million views, while 'Zef Side' received 5,2-million views.Other local videos that drew significant interest included ‘6 Second Poison’ by Locnville (667,170) , 'Show Dem - Make the Circle Bigger (223,944) and Jack Parow’s ‘Dans, Dans, Dans’ ...

The audience at Le Web in Paris was stunned last week when Jason Goldman, the beloved VP of Product at Twitter for the last four years, announced he is leaving the company.He tweeted afterward: “Thanks so much everyone at Twitter for the best job I could ever imagine. It's been amazing and I think the future will be even brighter.”Goldman’s departure, hot on the heels of former CEO Evan Williams’ resignation, has revealed a growing schism between the product side ...

Facebook, Twitter and a host of invite-only travel websites are fast becoming a key pipeline for well-heeled travellers as well as the budget-conscious to find hot deals and destinations.Bigwigs from the world's elite travel industry, gathered in the chic Riviera resort of Cannes for the annual ILTM trade fair that wrapped up Thursday, had their eyes on social networks as a crucial tool for the future."Social networks, such as Facebook with its 600 million users, will have a dramatic impact ...

I spent a large portion of last weekend flapping and waving my arms about, throwing phantom roundhouse kicks and trying to maintain a zen-like appearance while side-stepping rapids and plugging up leaks. No, I wasn't attempting kung-fu aboard a sinking rubber dinghy but rather, was engaging Microsoft's foray into motion control for the XBox360: The Kinect.The Kinect turns the XBox360 from being predominantly a single-player console into a multiplayer, family-oriented machine with endless possibilities. It's also buckets of fun, much ...

Lonesome South Koreans who have trouble finding true love can now get video calls from a virtual girlfriend, available as an iPhone app.South Korean-developed app, "Honey, it's me!", achieved 80,000 downloads a day during an initial free launch period.It's not the only one: There are a number of apps on the market that can make single men feel a little less lonesome, including a night time app that plays the sound of a female sleeping peacefully on the next pillow.But ...

When it came to gadget fetishes of 2010, it was all about tablet computing. Yearning for a device that was bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop made the tablet a defining trend for the year.Of all the tablets, iPad lead the charge, although Apple's rivals were quick to respond with their own high-profile launches.Research company, Gartner, forecasts worldwide media tablet sales to end users will reach 19.5 million units in 2010, driven by sales of the iPad. ...

Despite the overtones, the attacks on credit card and other websites by supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are more political protest than real cyber war, experts say.Over the past week, the Internet has rung with a call to virtual arms by "Anonymous," a band of computer hackers that has targeted websites of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others for cutting off WikiLeaks access to funds."The war is on," the group has proclaimed, vowing to attack any entity with an "anti-WikiLeaks ...

Former WikiLeaks supporters at odds with founder Julian Assange will shortly launch OpenLeaks, a rival project aiming to get secret documents directly to media, one of them said Friday."I can confirm that we will be operating under the name 'OpenLeaks'," said former Icelandic WikiLeaks member Herbert Snorrason.Unlike WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks will not publish leaked documents directly online but instead make leaks available to partner media."This is not a single website that would gather material and publish it but rather a system ...

Shortly after Nando's launched its spoof "CEO" campaign, poking fun at Cell C's Trevor Noah campaign, it received two brand new USB speedsticks with 60GB of data and a personal note from the CEO of the mobile operator, Lars Reichelt, suggesting that Nando's adds "Speedchicken" to its menu.Reichelt wrote: "Nando’s campaign gave us a real chuckle, we love the ads and it’s great to know that our initial campaign is inspiring creativity in other companies. I trust that the ...