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Has YouTube Gone Too Far With Graphic Videos?
With thousands of videos being posted on YouTube daily, it's practically impossible for each video to be watched before it is made available online, making it easier for people to publish graphic, violent or obscene material. BBC News, has noted that police chiefs are now urging websites like YouTube to remove violent video footage of children fighting. They argue that YouTube and Google should be filtering material before it is posted.
Try Adding Some Annotations to Your YouTube Videos
If you ever watched MTV's Pop-Up Video, then you'll probably feel a little bit of excitement by knowing that YouTube has just added fun annotation functionality to its videos. When you are viewing a video you've uploaded, click on Menu, and you should see the annotation option (they are still rolling it out so not all users may have it yet). And if you find that the annotations start to get annoying, there's an easy way to get rid of them.
Gear Up For The YouTube Video Awards
Last year was a big, ginormous year for YouTube. Starting Monday, in honor of their success, YouTube will be presenting awards for the best user-generated videos of 2006. YouTube users can browse through seven genres including most creative or inspirational, best series, comedy, music, most adorable video ever or commentary and rank their fave short-form videos.
Hey, I Take Issue With This News Report!
The masters of satire over at The Onion have this faux news story about a YouTube challenge to its users: Make a video worth watching. The requirement? That it be somewhat watchable, provide a shred of enjoyment for someone other than the people who made the video, that the person who shoots the video have a reason for doing so other than, "I own a camera," and that the person shoots it while sober.
YouTube Pulls Music Videos in the UK: Do You Care?
Music made available on the Internet always seems to draw fire somehow, and unfortunately for the music obsessed across the pond, attempts to renew YouTube's license agreement with the UK's Performing Right Society have come to a fast halt. According to YouTube, the "PRS is now asking us to pay many, many times more for our license than before. The costs are simply prohibitive for us — under PRS's proposed terms we would lose significant amounts of money with every playback," and have since blocked all music videos in the UK until an agreement is reached.
Turn Your YouTube Vids into Your Own Pop-Up Videos
Oh how I miss my old Saturday afternoon VH-1 standby. . .Pop-Up Video.
Embed Your YouTube Videos With Cool Skin Flix Skins
You spend hours perfecting your Myspace or Facebook profile. You frequently feature hilarious videos on your blog. You want to be fresh and innovative.
YouTube Highlights a Year in Video
On Wednesday eve, when most of you were probably ringing in the New Year with champagne and noisemakers, YouTube was showcasing 24 of their highest-rated and most memorable videos of 2008. If you've got some time to spare, it's quite entertaining to see the videos that made the cut. In the meantime, here are four of my favorite to hold you over!
Website of the Day: TubeReplay
Do you ever stumble across a video on YouTube that you wish you could put on repeat? For me, it's usually when I find a hot new song or I have a favorite new music video that I can't get enough of. So you can imagine how excited I was when I came across a site called TubeReplay that will automatically replay any YouTube video.
Geek Tip: Use YouTube as Health Care!
Who needs doctors when you have YouTube?! There are hundreds of videos that will show you how to cure the common cold, deliver babies, heal a snake bite — and all you have to do is click play. This facetious idea comes to you courtesy of the video below and its Current TV host, whose conceit is that YouTube can help solve the healthcare issue in the US.
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