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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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• YouTube To Start Charging For Streaming TV? | Competing With Apple iTunes, Hulu Plans

  
  Web TV Wire — Authority: 422
  It’s a simple question – would you pay to stream an episode of a TV show on YouTube? It would cost the same as on iTunes and Amazon but it would be a one-off rental deal, with no download or ownership option. Well, would you? YouTube Diversifying Yesterday I wrote about how YouTube was launching its first ever ...
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• Crocodile Paradox

  
  Rocketboom — Authority: 511
  It’s Paradox Week on Rocketboom. Watch today’s episode on our YouTube channel to help Molly navigate through the Crocodile Paradox .
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• Place In The Sun [Womens Work]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 811
  Check out the short documentary A Womans Place , about the early days of the UK womens movement: be inspired, then depressed by the fact that the "four basic demands" of the First International Womens Day march are still unanswered. [ TheFWord ]
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• Inside the Sprinklesmobile - an exclusive interview with Charles Nelson of Sprinkles Cupcakes

  
  Cupcakes Take The Cake — Authority: 584
  On Saturday, I had the chance to visit the flagship Sprinkles Cupcakes store in Beverly Hills and chat with co-owners Charles and Candace Nelson. The first interview is with Charles as he shows me their tricked-out Sprinklesmobile, which has custom hub caps and was done by the people who do Pimp My Ride . Ill ...
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• Report: YouTube in Talks to Offer $1.99 Streaming TV Shows

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 582
  New York - Googles (NASD: GOOG) YouTube is in early talks with TV networks and studios on offeringstreaming TV episodes for a fee, All Things D reported, citing multiple unnamedsources. The TV shows would cost $1.99 each, and become available forcommercial-free streaming on the morning after their first network ...
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• Vidque - Create a Library of Educational Videos

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  Vidque is a new service that aims to help users curate their own collections of the best videos available on the Internet. Vidque allows users to grab videos from YouTube , Blip.tv , TED , and Vimeo to put into their own collections that they can share with others. You could also think of it the way ...
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• The Web Turns Red for World AIDS Day

  
  Black Web 2.0 — Authority: 501
  Today is World AIDS Day -- an international campaign to increase awareness about AIDS and celebrate the lives of those past and present. The social web is showing its support by turning red. Both Twitter and Facebook are joining forces with the (RED) campaign in some unique ways to help raise money for research. ...
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• Who is behind Pharmageddon 2012?

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 153
  YouTube video, part of the Pharmageddon 2012 self-promotional campaign for communications agencies Friday Morning and S+R communications. click here to visit the site To see all of the ads from this... Read the rest on AdPharms blog!
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• It’s December

  
  Barb's Blog — Authority: 128
  I’ve turned the calendar over. Trying to get into the Christmas spirit with one of my favorite Christmas Songs by Bryan Duncan.I love the sax Duncan added to this arrangement.O Come O Come EmmanuelO come, O come, Emmanuel,and ransom captive Israel,that mourns in lonely exile hereuntil the Son of God ...
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• Coca-Cola launches ‘Open Happiness’ campaign

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 698
  Coca-Cola has this week launched a summer campaign in Australia as part of its global Open Happiness brand positioning. The Open Happiness campaign moves on from the Coke Side of Life messaging it first launched globally in 2006 . The latest TV ad, created by Ogilvy & Mather Sydney, premiered with a ...
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• “What would Google do?” Charge for content, of course

  
  Technovia — Authority: 467
  So much for not charging for content. According to Peter Kafka, Google wants to erect a paywall around part of YouTube , charging on a per-view basis to watch TV shows: “ Google’s video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a fee, multiple sources tell me. ...
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• Alicia Keys Contest Will Take Five Fans With Her To Africa; YouTube Concert Tonight

  
  Smooth News — Authority: 139
  Grammy Award-winning vocalist Alicia Keys is launching a contest through her charity, the Keep a Child Alive foundation, that will give five people an opportunity to visit the continent with her. She says her first trip to Africa was emotional and inspiring, and she wants to share the experience again, but this time ...
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• New Drag Anthem About Shoes!

  
  La Daily Musto — Authority: 612
  Shoes are so very essential to a drag star--and to anyone, in fact--for the way they can round out an outfit, kill a roach, and elevate one from the pavement, all while adding splash, colo...
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• YouTube Tuesday: You always take things too far...

  
  Three O'Clock in the Morning — Authority: 455
  There are so many lessons to learn in this video, but I think the most important one is that spiders are evil -- like, Twilight Zone evil. The setup on this one takes a while, but the ending is totally worth it. tagged: Spider , Youtube , Tuesday , movie , dark humor
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• Trinity Help

  
  The Pajama Pundit — Authority: 488
  My obsession with Lego stop-animation continues... Want more? RSS FEED | TWITTER FEED | FACEBOOK | STORE | HOME
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• Lego Matrix Trinity Help

  
  Artistic Things :: Life + Art + Music + Fashion + Film + Technology + Inspiration — Authority: 143
  Just in time for its 10th year anniversary, “ Trinity Help ” is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bullet-dodge scene from the 1999 movie The Matrix , all done in Lego . By “frame accurate” I mean that they took all of the video frames from that part of the movie (that’s nearly 900 frames ...
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• YouTube May Expand Into TV Show Biz

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 700
  Its no secret that YouTubes trying to catch up to Hulu in terms of offering premium content; the sites administrators often make a big deal out of movie and TV show additions.  What is under wraps - or at least hasnt been publicized in press releases and blog posts - is that YouTube might also be interested in ...
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• YouTube Joins the Anti-Google Conspiracy

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 704
  Well, sort of. Over the last two weeks, Google (GOOG) has been rocked by reports that media outlets are resolving to create a new subscription-based business model, charging people to read stories they have been used to viewing for free. Think Fox News, MediaNews, and the Dallas Morning News. This runs contrary to ...
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• Windows Weekly 132: Google Bing

  
  CastMedium — Authority: 141
  Office 2010 is the big topic for this week, with Leo Laporte and Paul Thurott coming through to give you some tips on getting started.  The Office Beta is currently public and Paul notes his preference of the Office Home and Business 2010 option, which offers Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, and OneNote.  The ...
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