"....easily transform your Youtube movie into an HTML background"

"The grants, which will vary between tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, are designed to boost the production values of the popular -- and often lo-fi -- videos on its site. (...) The money can be used to buy new equipment, fund a new project, hire actors.."

"...we announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4096p. To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet; IMAX movies are projected through two 2k resolution projectors."

"Vorbei die Zeiten, in denen YouTube bunte, unaufgeräumte Video-Seiten hatte oder der User auf Hauptnavigation und Kategorien hingewiesen wurde. Das neue Design stellt ganz klar die Suche in den Vordergrund. Zudem wird die Playlist zum Standard, das heißt es spielt in Zukunft fast immer das nächste Video, wenn das momentane zu Ende geht."

"This is an opt-in beta for "Feather" support on YouTube. The "Feather" project is intended to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible. It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer and making use of advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser. It is a work in progress and may not work for all videos."

"The YouTube Reporters' Center is a new resource to help you learn more about how to report the news. It features some of the nation's top journalists and news organizations sharing instructional videos with tips and advice for better reporting."

"ad agency uses interactive YouTube videos as their homepage"

"Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products onto your own website."

Modern History is a series of collages assembled exclusively from screen grabs of Youtube videos. This is a work in progress and the site will be updated as I finish new pieces.

"By default all videos on YouTube and embedded on other sites load at normal quality, but there's a way to set your default viewing quality to high, link to high quality video, embed HQ video, and even save HQ videos for later viewing."

"You can add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. To add several captions to a video, simply upload multiple files. If you want to include foreign subtitles in multiple languages, upload a separate file for each language. There are over 120 languages to choose from and you can add any title you want for each caption."

"...the company claimed that 90% of the owners of copyrighted content are now advertising against pirated video they own when they find it using YouTube's new content ID technology. The news upends many long held beliefs about the site"

"We've been curious to see what copyright holders would choose. Would the vast majority of partners block user-uploaded videos? Or would they embrace Video ID as an opportunity to generate revenue and exposure for their content online? As it turns out, our partners are choosing the latter, monetizing 90% of all claims created through Video ID. This has led directly to a similarly significant increase in monetizable partner inventory, as our Video ID partners are seeing claimed content more than double their number of views, against which we can run ads."

"Für die meisten TV-Sender ist der Ausflug ins Internet ein Kulturschock. Man sieht's. Können oder wollen die das nicht besser? Eine Tour d’Horizon durch das Netz der Möglichkeiten. "

a day in the life of a multimedia journalist... must see

"Live video is easier said than done, on both sides of the camera, but has huge potential. Think of the impact that live TV has had and add the interactivity and democratization of online video publishing."

"After several years of talking about it, YouTube (...) launched m.youtube.com - a site with nearly all content and functionality available on the website proper now available on mobile. Users are also able to upload mobile video through the new site."

"Under the new policy, Web sites that provide video programming or allow users to upload video must obtain government permits and applicants must be either state-owned or state-controlled companies."

"Acht Politiker stellten sich auf CNN den Fragen der YouTube-User im Kampf um die Präsidentschaftskandidatur. Funktioniert das, was in Amerika als innovativ umjubelt wird, auch in Deutschland?"

"Jeben Berg, product marketing manager at YouTube: YouTube sees “an average of 8 hours of content being uploaded every minute. Every minute! And what is more, that content comes from only 2% of the site’s user base.”

HD ante portas...

"NBC agreed at the formation of its joint venture with News Corp. that Hulu would be the exclusive online provider of both companies’ content. Hulu will then syndicate the material to other sites (...) but not (at least not yet) YouTube."