YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website where users upload video clips and view clips created by other users. It offers unique user-generated content along with music, movie clips, and trailers, and helped give birth to the trend of videoblogging, where people talk about their everyday lives in videos that their friends or total strangers can view.

Everything from a guy getting hit in the nuts with a baseball to an unrecognized comedy troupe making their debut can be found here. More deliberate fictional worlds and serial “shows” have been created by users as well.

The site relies on the Adobe Flash video format, a compressed, low-bandwidth format that is seen as not losing too much quality while increasing download and viewing speed and consistency.

Anyone can visit the site and watch virtually anything, though some videos are off limits to users under 18 years of age. The site occasionally gets tangled up in copyright infringement due to users posting protected content, but self-policing has largely mitigated the problem.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “YouTube”

• in Blogging
  YouTube's New Channel Is For Mom (Literally)
  YouTube started a new channel targeting moms, kids and family which provides learning lessons and tips on various topics
  by aniruddh / on Nov 19, 2009
• in Blogging
  Google/YouTube Tests “Skippable” Video Ads
  Does the next generation of blogging stars need to look to video blogging and technology such as skippable ads in order to scratch out a living?
  by ebrage / on Nov 11, 2009
• in Politics
  Technology Makes More Sophisticated Propaganda
  Technology can be used for good and for evil, so let's use it for good.
  by shelhoro / on Nov 9, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “YouTube”

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  Black Hat Forum — Authority: 548
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  Joy, Nikki, Sue, Laura & Pam~Our Views — Authority: 141
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• How do you Increase your youtube views

  
  Black Hat Forum — Authority: 548
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• Enter the Foxulists - Newsweek

  
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• Colin Meloy (Decemberists) Video

  
  Cause For Concern — Authority: 125
  This just makes me very happy. Brilliant. Thanks to Jen ;)
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• Patrick Swayze and his wife dancing

  
  LDS Mormon Forums — Authority: 162
  I just ran across this video and oh my gosh...this dance is absolutely beautiful. YouTube - Patrick Swayze & Wife Dancing At World Music Awards 1994
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• Christmas YouTube videos

  
  LDS Mormon Forums — Authority: 162
  We did this last year but so many new people, Id like to do it again. What is your favorite Christmas song that can be found on YouTube? This thread is for the posting of those videos only. And must be a Christmas song. YouTube - Josh Groban - O Holy Night
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• Miley Cyrus’ Get UR Good On Project: Nicole’s Video

  
  catherine-morgan.com — Authority: 460
  My daughter Nicole, who is a big Miley Cyrus fan, heard about a project Miley was supporting called Get UR Good On.  As soon as she heard about it, she wanted to get involved.  The idea was to do something good in your community, video it, and then upload it onto the Get UR Good [...]
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• WHITE HOUSE CRASHERS, Tareq and Michaele Are Wine Making, Broke Polo Players, Whose House is in Foreclosure!!!

  
  Astrochicks — Authority: 136
  It looks like the infamous White House party crashing, wine making, polo player Salahi and his wife from DC are broke. Wow, they are PERFECT for the Real Housewives of DC.  According to Tareq’s mom, (thanks mom) her son’s 4000 square foot home is in foreclosure and is more than $1 million dollars in debt. [...]
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