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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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Original Technorati articles tagged “youtube”

• in Film
  $300 YouTube Video Leads to $30M Hollywood Deal
  $300 Youtube video leads to $30M Hollywood deal
  by FahadAlhamed / on Dec 18, 2009
• in Lifestyle
  Bullying Is Self-Policing, Grainy
  Or: punch 'em all and let YouTube sort it out.
  by sussman / on Dec 10, 2009
• in Videos
  Interview with Vodpod Founder Mark Hall
  An interview with Vodpod founder and CEO Mark Hall on the opportunity for viral video sites beyond YouTube.
  by gearheadgal / on Dec 10, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “youtube”

• Surprise! iPhone is the Top Mobile Phone in the U.S.

  
  901am — Authority: 478
  Despite AT&T’s network problem and what other people say about the iPhone, Americans don’t seem to mind them at all and continues to buy and use the iPhone. Proof?  The latest Nielsen report say so. Apple’s lone mobile phone product snags 4% of the mobile phone market in 2009. Followed by its closest ...
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• Warner Music Videos Land at Hulu, Not Vevo

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 739
  Muse on Hulu Not too long ago, Hulu dipped its toes into the music video biz with a limited deal to bring EMI’s Norah Jones on board to promote her new album. Well, now it seems the company will be pushing further into those murky waters by striking a new relationship with Warner Music Group to bring a whole ...
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• Video: James O’Connor’s 2009 – hit or horror?

  
  Green and Gold Rugby THE Aussie Rugby Blog for fans of Australia and the Wallabies — Authority: 431
  There’s been an interesting discussion going on in the forum about James O’Connor’s 2009 as a Wallaby. Was it a gamble on youthful talent that paid off, or did it expose inexperience at crucial times? Longer term, where do his skills fit into the Wallabies, and is he the right package of a player for the ...
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• Quick Query: Quickoffice’s David Brennan on Mobile Office Applications

  
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  The days of being tied to a desktop computer are long gone. Ecommerce merchants can work wirelessly with laptop computers, personal digital assistants, and increasingly, smart mobile phones. Quickoffice is a Texas-based software company that focuses on providing mobile office software. David Brennan is ...
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• Terrorist groups are recruiting online – What about your school, club or organization?

  
  Moving at the Speed of Creativity — Authority: 534
  Nic Robertson’s video report on CNN today, “ How Terrorists Recruit Online ,” raises important issues relevant to social media and our need for constructive uses of video websites like YouTube in our schools and communities. This fall I visited with a friend who has been studying the importance of ...
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• Paul Steigerwald Upsets Veterans

  
  AwfulAnnouncing — Authority: 599
  You know I always say that if youre going to say something that a person or group would find offensive, its best to not say it at all, but the uproar of the latest case of verbal diahhrea even has me rolling my eyes. Paul Steigerwald is an announcer for the Pittsburgh Penguins, and today hes under fire for making a ...
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• Warner’s music comes to Hulu, still not on Vevo

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 577
  Warner Music has just announced that it has signed up to offer music videos, live shows and interviews of its artists on the popular online video site Hulu. This is interesting as Warner Music is the only one of the so-called big four major music companies that hasn’t signed up to put its music on Vevo, the ...
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• Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus . . . and NORAD Is Tracking Him!

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 762
  As politicians argue over government spending, there is one line item that is likely to stay in the budget for the foreseeable future: the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORADs) yearly Santa Watch. For the last 54 years, the military command -- tasked with protecting the US and Canada against missile ...
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• Youtubian Bookmarklet Simplifies YouTube, Adds Download Links [Bookmarklets]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 801
  The Youtubian bookmarklet makes YouTube lighter and simpler by turning the site into a one-page ordeal. It places search results and full videos on one page to avoid reloading, while advanced features like video download links are added to the sidebar. To activate the Youtubian version of YouTube, just navigate to a ...
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• G&GR Wallaby Tries of the Decade #5

  
  Green and Gold Rugby THE Aussie Rugby Blog for fans of Australia and the Wallabies — Authority: 431
  Try Time!!!! Coming up with a list of the top tries of the decade was a tough one. What makes one try stand out from another? Is it individual brilliance we are gauging it on, or is it whole of team involvement? Rehearsed tries from a set piece or instinctive brilliance? Does a try against the All Blacks or in a ...
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• Barry From D.C.

  
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• Hulu Tries a Little More Music, This Time From Warner Music

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 755
  Once upon a time, Hulu flirted with the notion of becoming a hub for music videos. That never happened, and now the big music labels are trying to create their own Hulu , via their Vevo site. But Hulu is still playing around with music videos, at least at the margins. Last month, it began hosting some clips from ...
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• Maggie Valley, Waynesville and Lake Junaluska… Monday After the Big Snow Storm.

  
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  I slid out my driveway yesterday afternoon (Monday, 12/21/09) to drive to KMart in Waynesville for a camping stove for the next power-outage in a snow storm, but I was too late. Not a camper stove on the shelves, so off I went to Ingles Grocery Store . Alas, Ingles was so crowded that I didn’t even go inside; ...
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• Can we earn money through our online guitar lessons?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 627
  Is there a way to earn revenues through our guitar lesson videos online? Myself and a couple of friends create guitar lessons which are currently posted to Youtube. We enjoy helping people to learn the guitar as well as the positive feedback we get. We would enjoy it even more if we could earn some revenue from our ...
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• Wave Goodbye 2009

  
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• WILLIE B & CHEVY JONES - WOMP WOMP (MUSIC VIDEO)

  
  Eazee Street — Authority: 493
  AplusFilmz is back at it with another video for some up and coming L.A. acts: Willie B & Chevy Jones. Check it out and enjoy.  Its got that West Coast lingo we can all appreciate.
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• FLY GUYS - MAKE A STATEMENT (MUSIC VIDEO)

  
  Eazee Street — Authority: 493
  Speaking of Shawn Chrys, he put connected me with Tone of the Fly Guys.  As you know, they just dropped After The Zazz and are now dropping a video for a track off the project.  Check it out.
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• Disney’s Aladdin Taking Shots at Tiger Woods

  
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  While sponsors such as Accenture and Tag Heuer drop Tiger Woods like a one-inch putt the family-oriented Disney is using the philandering golfer for a few laughs. Disney’s California Adventure Park performs “ Aladdin – A Musical Spectacular “; a 40-minute program that apparently injects current events ...
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• Gay Clip of the week: Jonny McGoverns "Bossy Bottom"!

  
  La Daily Musto — Authority: 548
  Singing comic (or comic singer) Jonny McGovern just alerted me to his "sassy n trashy new music video/ode to bottoms, BOSSY BOTTOM, featuring Team Pimp ( Ericktoure, Adam Joseph, Linda J...
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