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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  One of the hurdles that beauty pageant contestants must hurdle effortlessly is proving they have the ability to answer polarizing questions in a way that offends no one. No one who lacks that ability deserves to win a pageant.Carrie Prejean proved at the Miss USA pageant last spring that she is always determined to ...
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• Are you thinking video?

  
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• Davey Wavey Shakes That Ass!

  
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• We Communicate in Ways Never Before Imagined

  
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• BALLOON BOY, The Heene Parents Plead Guilty and Avoid Jail Sentence!!!

  
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• Thursday Music Videos: 11/12/09

  
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• Windows Live adds 19 Web Activities, including YouTube

  
  mynetx - Windows Live Enhanced — Authority: 420
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• Windows Live Gets More Partners, Including YouTube

  
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• Nutjob.......

  
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• Roadbird (Metal Mix)

  
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• Gossip Girl Season 3 Episode 10

  
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• Never Too Late

  
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• Stars join BBCs anti-bullying campaign

  
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