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
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  by joshner / on May 23, 2012
• in Lifestyle
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  by makingsense / on May 14, 2012
• in Entertainment
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• Ukrainian pianist plays her way to YouTube stardom

  
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  LONDON (Reuters) – A little-known Ukrainian pianist who has had 43 million views on YouTube of her performing everything from Liszt to Schubert said on … Continue reading → Read the full story: Ukrainian pianist plays her way to YouTube stardom from: Technology News | ElectroGeek
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• Obama’s America: EPA Officials Visit Man For Sending Email

  
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• Sleepy Dog And More – This Week’s Top 10 Funny Viral Videos – Huffington Post UK

  
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• YouTube Comes Up With Human Rights Channel

  
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  Irish Independent Groom promises to love bride even when she needs bladder control pants in ... Irish Independent And the song he composed and sang to Hannah Brown has become a viral YouTube hit in the process. Entitled Caravan in Hull it explores the future he hopes to have with the new Mrs Lacey, promising to love ...
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• CHRIS BROWN: SWEET LOVE VIDEO PREMIERE

  
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  Chris Brown debuts his new video for single Sweet Love. Sweet Love is taken from his forthcoming CD Fortune.  The video reminds me of George Michaels Fast Love.   The girls levitating look very cheap like just hanging from a wire. Anyway here is the video.  Oh and if Chris is going to act like some sort of sexy ...
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• Video Of Young Girl Crying Over Jessica’s ‘AI’ Defeat Goes Viral – Manila Bulletin

  
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• YouTube Launches Human Rights Channel

  
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  YouTube has launched a Human Rights channel , with non-profit partner Witness and video playlist creator Storyful, the company announced Thursday. The channel will curate footage of human rights-related stories, uploaded by citizen users, shedding light on under-reported stories and, potentially, fueling activism. ...
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• Your Mental Sorbet: Bette Midler on the Final Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

  
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• Adam Lambert - Outlaws Of Love

  
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  This is still from Adam Lambert s " Trespassing " CD which by the way, topped the Billboard 200 charts. One of my fave songs on the CD and a great way to end the album, being the last track. YouTube URL (via gnosbt )
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• Video: What If Snow White Starred In All Of 2012′s Blockbusters?

  
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  Move aside, Marilyn Monroe— the lady who’s getting all the TV and movie roles in 2012 is Snow White . Why, she’s got two movies about her, plus  she’s a series regular on Once Upon a Time . So since her career is heating up, her agent has booked her into all of 2012′s hot movies, from Battleship  to ...
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• Original RickRollD video knocked offline

  
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• Traffic Violation Leads To DUI Charge

  
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  An Emporium man was arrested for DUI after his vehicle was stopped for a traffic violation on Route 6, just west of the eastern entrance to Roulette on Monday.Terry Leightly, 58, of 449 Hunts Run Road, Emporium, PA, was stopped for a traffic violation by Trooper Derek Weaver. Upon interviewing Leightley and further ...
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• This YouTube Star Really Wants To Produce The Next Large News Network

  
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  Philip DeFranco really wants to produce the next news network, and hes doing the work with SourceFed – a 4-month-old YouTube funnel thats near striking the 100 million view mark.DeFranco and the SourceFed team shoot, produce, and upload five videos each day to the funnel. Each upload is really a quick-hit, 2-3 ...
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• Mikell S. Wright, infant son of Michael L. Wright and Samantha J. Simon,

  
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• Youtube Talent: Maria Zouroudis - I Won't Give Up

  
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