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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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• Really funny plasma membrane rap

  
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  This is really well done, from a group of Stanford students : There are more cell biology clips on their YouTube channel .
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• dock ellis & the LSD No-No.

  
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• Pretty Wings

  
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• Llega la calidad HD 1080p a YouTube

  
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• Jason Calcanis on how to kill Google

  
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• Top 10 social media sites

  
  Communicate Jesus — Authority: 120
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• Upload Wordpress Template to Host & add some customization by Taboga

  
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• YouTube Offers Full HD At Last | Watch 1080p High-Def Videos On The Online Video Giant

  
  Web TV Wire — Authority: 422
  YouTube is now offering viewers the chance to watch videos in Full HD or 1080p high-definition. This is an important move not just to support the increasing number of home video cameras with HD options but also to give professional content creators confidence that the platform is right for their work. YouTube Video ...
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  Communicate Jesus — Authority: 120
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• Tecmo Super Bowl Game of the Week: Patriots at Colts

  
  Pro-football-reference.com blog — Authority: 563
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• Watch HTC HD2 Interesting Videos

  
  RizwanAshraf.com — Authority: 139
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• The LCROSS probe launched in June, with the goal of discovery water - DailyTech

  
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  Playstation ThEvolution — Authority: 138
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• Next week: 1080p video on YouTube

  
  Bitstream — Authority: 132
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• YouTube in Full High Definition

  
  The UberReview — Authority: 535
  Unless you are living under a rock, you have probably already heard that YouTube has announced that they will be supporting 1080p in the not too distant future. Furthermore, they’ve also announced that they are working on re-encoding recently uploaded 1080p videos, so there will be even more high-definition ...
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