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 Social Media
  YouTube as War Correspondent - When is Reality Counterproductive
  Does YouTube function as a war correspondent or just a source of overexposure that diminishes our ability to care?
  by sweaterart / on May 20, 2013
• in TV
  Cord Cutting or A La' Carte, in the End it's All the Same
  Unbundling the bundles of pay TV and why it doesn't matter.
  by jwalk6 / on May 13, 2013
• in Videos
  Is Andy Milonakis Sniffing Nail Polish?
  Former TV Star turned Youtube rapper Andy Milonakis is pimping nail polish.
  by pacelattin / on May 11, 2013

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “youtube”

 

• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by The Jesuits of Rome

  
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  MrPioneerlight2011 Published on Mar 31, 2013 DAVID MOULD OF LAYMAN FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ON RELIGIOUS HARD-TALK JAMAICA PROGRAM....DEBATES A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST ON THE SUBJECT OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN HIS ASSASSINATION.....PLEASE GO TO WWW.LRLTV.ORG TO ...
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• Is YouTube’s freemium paywall a step too far for the social web?

  
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  With YouTube introducing subscriptions and Facebook ads entering your news feed , how can social networks make money without alienating users and brands? This week, YouTube announced that it will begin to create pay-per-view channels, whereby many popular subscription-based channels can now charge users to view ...
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• Binary Domain computer games

  
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  Binary Domain Tokyo, 2080. On the streets of the metropolis in fierce fighting people and robots. International peacekeeping force, sent to stabilize the situation, fights in abandoned areas. But in a war with such an unusual and seemingly alien to human nature of the enemy soldiers are beginning to wonder whether ...
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• The killing of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

  
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  For a brief introduction to a report on the killing of the 16-year old son of Anwar al-Awlaki , check out this brief Youtube video. Here are the details on the video: Watch the full 50-minute interview with Jeremy Scahill at http://owl.li/klnWN . Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was a 16-year-old boy, born in Colorado, ...
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• AGIT KABAYEL

  
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• What You Say May Not Matter Anyway!

  
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  “What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson In today’s environment, Emerson’s words might be interpreted this way: The behavioral algorithms are so good it may not matter what your profile or social resume says about you––your behavior trumps everything! ...
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• The Evolution of Music From the 11th Century to Today

  
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  Have you ever wondered how music has evolved over the years? One YouTube video tries to answer that question by distilling 10 centuries of song into four-and-a-half minutes. A quintet of singers, collectively called Pentatonix, start off with a haunting chant from the 11th century. They then move on to ...
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• HOW TO ADD CLICKABLE GOOGLE + PROFILE ID LINK IN YOUTUBE VIDEOS

  
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  You might have watched many videos in youtube. And youtube made us to know many things. I would greatly thank youtube that. As youtube ranks in third postion in alexa. So it is one of the best and ever green site to share and gain knowledge on everything. So the logic is simple. The most it is famous the more tricks ...
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• The AppAdvice Week In Review: The Many Faces Of Apple’s iOS 7 Edition

  
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  The winter of gloom is definitely over. In many parts of the world, snow and ice have been replaced by tulips. More importantly, in the world of Apple, things are definitely looking up. In the coming weeks, we’re going to have a better idea what Cupertino has planned for this summer, and the upcoming holiday ...
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• BILL WITHERS GRANDMA’S HAND

  
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• Reached 5k subs on one of my channels :)

  
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  Well, I just reached 5000 subscribers on one of my secondary channels. According to SocialBlade Im the 61,000 most subscribed channel. Just felt like sharing my happiness with you guys. Have more? Post below. I will be glad to hear of it. Have some doubts? Ask me.
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• Treadmill Dancing

  
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  I am glad to discover it’s not just me who finds running on a treadmill boring – but I’ve never had the imagination of this guy! Hit play or go to  Link  [YouTube]
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• Linkpost | 5.12.2013

  
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  • Everything We Expect Google To Announce At Its Biggest Event Of The Year Next Week – A roundup of rumors for the upcoming Google I/O, which starts Wednesday. • “Google Play Games” Leaks Out In All Its Glory Ahead Of Google I/O – Hello, Cloud Game Saves [APK Teardown] – It’s a control center  Read ...
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• The Knight in Shining Armour Proposal

  
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  Mark Crayford of Swindon, Wiltshire, England, went for an elaborate proposal plan to ask Tracey Badenski to marry him. He bought a ring, ordered a suit of armour from Germany, and practiced riding a horse over the course of six months. Then the big day came, and it didn’t go quite as planned. Oh no, she didn’t ...
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• How to Use YouTube to Promote Your Business

  
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  Social media has become a major player in the promotion of small to medium sized businesses. As people have connected with friends and relatives all over the world with the minimal cost of social media, businessmen have learned that this can be a ready venue for communicating with ever-expanding consumer bases. Here ...
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• The Great Gatsby as The Great Gatsby

  
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2N1f0z5zwA The Great Gatsby as The Great Gatsby Check out more film recreations and much, much more at http://www.thatawesomemovieguy.com With the imminent release of Baz Luhrmann’s 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. In Theaters (US) May 10th 2013. In ...
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• The Spinners – Sadie – Live 1976 – Mothers

  
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• (Happy Mother’s Day)The Intruders – I’ll Always Love My Momma

  
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• Saturday Night Cinema: Tekken Blood Vengeance Full Movie

  
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  Tweet This is definitely a feature you don’t want to miss! Better than that Tekken Live ish your probably watched a few years back. Enjoy! Tekken Blood Vengeance is just an incredible feature that will keep you on the edge of your seats with insane battles and incredible animation. Bookmark It Hide Sites ...
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• YouTube Comedy Week (Trailer)

  
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  YouTube will be holding its first Comedy Week on 05/19/13 to 05/25/13. Expect all kinds of shenanigans from the Lonely Island, Rainn Wilson, Collegehumor, the JASH team, the Gregory Brothers, Ryan Higa and more. Hat Tip Link More Awesome Stuff for You to Click On: Jash Louis C.K.: Oh My God (Trailer) ...
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