YouTube Uploader Supports Resumable Media Upload Now

On July 13, Google employee David announced in YouTube Help forum that YouTube begins to support resumable media upload. Now you can resume your video upload from an Internet connection problem or a browser crash and don't need to restart the upload.

The brand new feature only works in Chrome and Firefox 4 or higher.

David explained this in the post that:

This means if you have a supported browser (Chrome or FF4+), you can upload, pull the plug, resume, and expect it to pick up from where it left off. In our testing the resumability is consistently more reliable than the java uploader.As I have mentioned before, we plan to get rid of the Java uploader entirely once we are truly confident in the effectiveness of this. Anyway, I will provide some updates once this is actually live later today.

I'm having rejoice with this new feature in the YouTube uploader tool.


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YouTube Test Cosmic Panda - the Hulu-esque New Interface

Recently, YouTube is encouraging users to help test its new interface, titled "Cosmic Panda". People said that part of the new interface look like Hulu website. So far, this interface update will be the biggest update in YouTube's history. If you are interested in testing the new YouTube design, you can go to http://www.youtube.com/cosmicpanda and click "Try it out!" This news was first reported on YouTube official blog by YouTube Product Manager Noam Lovinsky.

Three parts in the new look will be significantly different: videos, playlists and channels. I will list the screenshot of these new layouts below.

1. Videos' new look features Hulu-esque black background and giant advertisement on the right side of the player:

2. Screengrab of Channel in the new look:

3. New playlist:

Cosmic Panda is part of YouTube's TestTube project, which serves as the site's test section where users can test the site's latest features or tools. The last major in YouTube interface design was launched in January 2010, when the video pages were streamlined and the starred rating system was nixed.

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YouTube Tests New Black Player Skin

YouTube video player's default color is always white. We've seen video players in other colors in many video websites, for example, video players of MTV.com and dailymotion.com are black. Some famous web video players, such as flowplayer and JW FLV player, offer their users the option to change the player skin's color. So, are you tired of the skin of YouTube's video player?

Recently, part of Internet users find that the YouTube player's control bar turns to black while they're watching YouTube videos, just as the above picture shown. This new YouTube player skin features dark colors, such as black and grey. So how do you like the new YouTube player?

Personally, I like it. It looks cool!

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The Crossed Out Words in YouTube Search Queries

Sometimes when you enter some words into the search box in YouTube to search videos, you will find that some of the keywords are crossed out, as the picture shown above.

YouTube doesn't elaborate why this happens. Below are some conclusions that I draw from analytics:

1. The crossed out words have no search result.
2. The crossed out words are not related to the search session.
3. The crossed out words are useless or needless which implies you that do not use those keywords in later search.

This feature is nice. But I don't think it's suitable for Google search, as it's almost impossible to find keywords that have no search result in Google search.

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June 15, 2011 Lunar Eclipse to Be Live Streamed by YouTube

Here comes the Astronomy fans' rejoice! The longest and darkest lunar eclipse of the century is going to take place at the night of June 15-16, 2011 (begins at 00:52:30 IST and ends at 02:32:42 IST). YouTube will live broadcast the entire event from 11:30 PM (IST) June 15 to 3:30 AM (IST) June 16 at Google YouTube Channel. You can also go to this video to watch the entire live event - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgUieQsR4YI. The best areas to witness this lunar eclipse are in Africa and Central Asia.

Watch the video below for the June 15, 2011 lunar eclipse –


For more information about the this eclipse spectacle, you can visit these two sources -
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/youtube-to-live-stream-the-total-lunar-eclipse/159657-11.html
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/06/watch-lunar-eclipse-from-anywhere.html

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YouTube Begins to Teach its Partners to Get Videos Viral

Previously in this March, Google's subsidiary YouTube acquired video production team Next New Networks to help their partners to create more attractive, high quality and viral videos. It seems that YouTube is very eager to its video quality. According to The New York Times, YouTube makes another move toward some excellent video creators – to teach them the video making skills.

YouTube called up some video partners to New York to teach them some tricks and skills about how to create viral videos. Some tricks are seemingly rather useful, such as don't upload your videos to YouTube on Friday afternoon and contact key bloggers via Email to ask them to post a link to your video. By doing this, video creators can bring out more viral videos and drive higher traffic to YouTube, so that YouTube can earn more money from video advertising, which is the reason why YouTube made this boot camp for their partners.

So far few people can make six figures income a year purely from video making. It's very difficult to directly make big money from video. A good viral video needs several things: good idea, video editing skills and some relevant equipment. So YouTube needs to solve these problems for its video contributors, so that they have the motivation and money to generate more high quality videos.

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YouTube Celebrates Its Sixth Birthday and Declares Some Statistics

Did you remember when did YouTube launch? Six years has gone since YouTube began its video broadcasting service. The Google subsidiary celebrates its sixth birthday this month on its official blog. It's no doubt that YouTube has dominated the online video content service for a long time. The YouTube Team is very proud of this. They release some statistics to honor the sixth birthday and some achievements have made on the blog.


Below are the whopping statistics they release.


1. Currently, YouTube globally receives 3 billion views every single day, which has grown by 50 percent during the past 365 days. "That's the equivalent of nearly half the world's population watching a YouTube video each day", as YouTube official blog described.


2. Last month, United States Internet users yielded 5.1 billion video playback times on YouTube. "[..]every U.S. resident watching at least nine videos a day", the announcement blog post said.


3. Each minute, over 48 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube, or a 100 percent increase during the past 12 months.

The YouTube Team generalizes 3 reasons attributed to the above great achievements:


1. Faster processing of uploads.
2. Longer upload lengths.
3. Live streaming events, such as the Royal Wedding.


Happy Birthday to YouTube and wish it offers more high quality content to our audience!


Here is the first ever video posted on YouTube. It was dubbed 'Me at the zoo' showing YouTube's co-founder Jawed Karim speaking in front of elephants at a zoo. You can download it with this YouTube Download software.

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YouTube 100 Tells You the Hottest YouTube Music

Something amazing happened on YouTube two days ago. It's YouTube 100 - a weekly updated chart used for showing the top 100 popular music content streamed on the Google-owned video site. The chart launched on YouTube Music just a couple of hours ago. YouTube Music Product Manager Chris LaRosa announced the news on YouTube Official Blog.

"The YouTube 100 measures song traffic across official music videos, user-uploaded videos and viral debuts..", LaRosa said. So the chart counts not only fame pop singers' songs, but also music works from amateurs, which is the major difference among some existing music charts, such as Billboard Hot 100 and VEVO's charts. Everyone has the chance to shine their new idea in their music videos whether it's viral debut, a parody, remix of an existing song or your own version of a song or a music video. For example, I find a fan-made video showing lyrics of Adele's Someone Like You at No.42 on the chart.

This week, Pop Queen Lady Gaga's music video 'Judas' is at the second place on the YouTube 100 chart and Bruno Mars's 'The Lazy Song' music video is at No.5. Jennifer Lopez's 'On The Floor' tops the chart and Rebecca Black's 'Friday' is in the top 10. Check this YouTube Downloader if you want to download them to your computer.

The YouTube 100 music chart offers a better way for uses to track song popularity. What's more, it offers more chances to not only professional singes but also music fans to show their music works. I appreciate the chart and expect more great features from YouTube in the future.

YouTube had been working on helping users to discover popular and trending videos on the site. For example, in January this year, YouTube Acquired Fflick to help users discover and share hot videos from social media sites.

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YouTube's Royal Wedding Live Streams Broadcasting Drove 72 Millions Views in One Day

I don't think YouTube is the biggest media in the world, but its information dissemination ability is getting much strong in the Age of Internet and thus cannot be ignored.

Only in one day on April 29, YouTube has driven 72 million views in the live broadcasting streaming of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding, as YouTube official blog reported yesterday. The live show was broadcasted totally in 188 countries. If you have missed the live broadcast, you still have the chance to experience the fairytale wedding on YouTube The Royal Channel. You are able to download the complete coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton video from YouTube with this YouTube video download software. The video is as shown below:


"Together with those catching up with re-broadcasts later in the day, the total number of streams is claimed to have reached over 100 million on the day", as the Google's video-sharing service site said.

In terms of popularity, the Royal wedding is even more popular than the previous world cup and the 8.9 magnitude Japan Earthquake. It's the biggest event in the history of online video, which is very short comparing with traditional media, such as television, which is claimed to have globally drawn two billion people to watch the live streaming of the Wedding of the Century!

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YouTube Will Live Broadcast Prince William's Royal Wedding

The most luxury wedding - Britain's Prince William and his Cinderella (Miss Catherine Middleton)'s wedding is scheduled to take place at the end of this month! This event has arisen global attention. Google search shows that except for UK and USA, the top 10 countries that have searched this event most include Singapore and Philippines.


To make a better view for the royal wedding, Google Earth has updated the images of the scenery around the wedding ceremony with 3D trees.



This afternoon, Royal Household announced that the wedding will be streamed live on their official channel on YouTube. The live stream will begin at 10:00 AM BST (9:00 AM GMT, 2:00 AM PT, 5:00 AM ET) on Friday, April 29.


You don't need to wait until the day of the wedding comes to attend this big event, you could now go to their official channel on YouTube to deliver the best wishes to the newlyweds.


Approximately 50 years ago, the wedding between The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones was broadcasted on television for the first time. More than 20 million people had watched that wedding. The Prince William's wedding will be the first in thousands of years of royal history to be broadcasted via the Internet.

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YouTube Calls for Videos by Hollywood Stars to Increase Users' Loyalty

According to media reports, Google is inviting top Hollywood stars to generate original videos for YouTube, to improve relationship with Hollywood and, YouTube's financial performance and users' attention.


As return, Google would offer the stars cash and a share of the resulting advertising revenues. The stars could create their channels with their own names and moderate the content in their own channels.


At present it's not clear that how many Hollywood stars have signed the contract with Google, who hopes to generate more professional and original videos. Google declined to elaborate. But YouTube will still be a users generated videos platform and won't abandon the basic services, said the person familiar with the matter.

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YouTube Video Voice Control Using Chrome HTML5 App

By taking advantage of Google Chrome's Voice Input API, Chrome HTML5 extension developer roschler has developed a YouTube Voice Control App, which can control the video playback via voice. The app uses Google's speech servers to do the speech recognition and let the client side web page to do the rest jobs.

Note: Voice Input API requires Chrome 11 beta or newer!


Here's how to use the YouTube Voice Control App:

• Video Search - Click the microphone icon and say some keywords. You will see the search results appear below. For example, try saying "Google Python"
• Play a Video - Click the microphone icon and say "PLAY" followed by one or more words from the title of the video you want to play.
• Stop/Resume a Video - Click the microphone icon and say "STOP" to stop the currently playing video, and "PLAY" (by itself) to resume it.

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YouTube Takes Us to Travel Back to 1911 for April Fools' Day

The world largest video sharing website YouTube today (April 1st, 2011) takes us back to 1911 to watch the 'Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911', including Flugelhorn Feline, a previously unknown precursor to Keyboard Cat. No kidding! The video is here. You can use this YouTube downloader to download it to your computer.


The video site said that YouTube was established in 1911, "when videos were sent to us for uploading via horse-drawn carriage." As shown in the below picture:

Besides, at the right bottom of a video player, you will find a '1911' button, click which will convert the video to an old style: overlaid with a sepia tone and piano soundtracks accompanied the clips.

Don't take them seriously. They're all jokes. Don't forget today is April Fools' Day:)

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YouTube Once Again Rules Online Video Market, Microsoft rockets to No.2

According to comScore's video metrix, Google's video sharing services (mostly by YouTube) have easily overtaken other competitors again with 141.1 million unique viewers in February.


According to the report, in February nearly 170 million American Internet users watched web videos with totally 5 billion video views. 82.5% of American Internet users viewed online video for at least once.


In February, there have been 141 million Internet audience viewed the videos on Google's websites; and the view times is 1.8 billion. Microsoft is on the second place with nearly 49 million unique viewers and 297.7 million video view times. Yahoo! Video is No.3 on the chart with 46.7 million unique views and 200 million views. Below is chart of the top ten video sites:

Facebook is the fourth one and the No.5 is VEVO.com, which was the No.2 in January. Comparing to January with 510 million unique viewers, there were only 459 million users watched videos on VEVO in February.

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Rebecca Black's Friday Music Video Becomes the Most Disliked YouTube Video

I don't mean to bully Rebecca Black, but her viral music video 'Friday' has become the most disliked video on YouTube from now on. I won't laugh at her or her video. After all, she is only 13-year-old, and just like a lot of other girls, she wants to be a singing star.

'Friday' music video has 1,158,992 dislikes and 63,615,127 total views as of this writing. The second most disliked video is Justin Bieber's music video 'Baby', which is also the most watched video on YouTube, yielding 500 million total views and 1,156,952 dislikes at the moment.

Here are the two videos. You could use this YouTube video downloader or YouTube Downloader for Mac to download them to your computer.

Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris music video


Rebecca Black - Friday music video


Below is the list of top 10 most disliked videos on YouTube. The image source is ReadWriteWeb.com.

From the list above, we can find that Justin Bieber has taken 5 of the 10 most dislikes videos. Lady Gaga's Bad Romance is also in the list with 82200 dislikes. Bad Romance is still the second most watched YouTube Video with 360 million views, which is much less than Justin Bieber's 'Baby'.

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YouTube Doodle Reminds You to Turn Off the Light for the Earth Hour

Yesterday is the day for 'Earth Hour'. Accordingly, YouTube changed its doodle to meet the activity. And what made it interesting is that a 'light switch' button was added to YouTube video playback page. Once you click the button, the page would turn dark so that you could focus on the video playback, which had the same effect as other extensions.

What is Earth Hour?

According to Wikipedia, Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth Hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Earth Hour 2011 took place on March 26, 2011 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at participants' local time.

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YouTube Offers Video Editing Service That Enables Users to Make Video by Themselves

A few days ago YouTube has offered users the video making service, which enables users to make video by themselves without recording equipment such as video camera.

YouTube users could go to YouTube Create Videos Portal and choose video editing tools from Stupeflix, Xtranormal or GoAnimate to monetize your own videos. So far the third-party tools mentioned above have been integrated into YouTube, so users could just go to the video editing page to start the video production process for free. Besides, Freemium options (more audio effects, animated videos features) are also available as long as you pay for them.

YouTube said that they are just to provide the opportunity to users to make their own videos and has no financial relationship with the third-party application partners.

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YouTube Video Editor Adds Image Stabilization Functionality

Beginning from today, YouTube would enable the videos you shoot with handheld devices look more stable and smoother. Just as YouTube has imported an image stabilization tool, which could reduce the shakiness in video, no matter from walking or riding.


The tool has been integrated in YouTube Video Editor, which was introduced to YouTube in last summer. Previously, YouTube Video Editor could just trim video, adjust brightness and contrast, add subtitles, merge multiple videos into one and add transition Flash. Now with the newly added image stabilization feature, you don’t have to use any third-party video editing software to do the same thing anymore.


Here is the sample video processed by the Image Stabilization tool. You could use this YouTube video downloader software to download the it to your computer.

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 Grand Finale Holds in Sydney Opera House

YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 members showed their own countries' flags in Sydney last week

101 musicians from 33 countries have gathered together to perform in YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 Grand Finale in Sydney Opera House. With music dedicated to victims of the natural disasters in Japan, Australia and New Zealand, the concert streamed live yesterday via YouTube Symphony Channel.

Artists in the orchestra were chosen last year by leading orchestras around the world and the YouTube community. Michael Tilson Thomas - Grammy-award winning YouTube Symphony Orchestra Artistic Advisor is the conductor of the orchestra. Here is the video for the entire concert, and you could use this YouTube video downloader to download it from YouTube to your computer.


Repertoire for the symphony concert finale includes Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Stravinsky's Firebird and Mothership, and a specially commissioned piece by American composer Mason Bates.

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YouTube Person Finder Channel Launched Broadcasting Japan Quake Information

The March 11 8.9 magnitude Japan earthquake has struck a quake on the Internet. All main web portals and social media websites have done tracking reports to the disaster. The world largest search engine Google has created a Person Finder page and updated with latest information about the quake, tsunami. Google Earth has timely updated quake aftermath satellite photos. On March 18, Google owned video site YouTube has launched a new channel named 'YouTube Person Finder' - a channel that aggregates video messages from the sufferers of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Northeastern Japan one week ago.

Sufferers of the disasters could upload video clips about their current state so that their friends and families know they're OK.

How to Use YouTube Person Finder
You can search videos by names of a missing person in Kanji, Katakana, or Hiragana letters (Sorry Japanese letters only), the name of the place they lived, or the name of the shelter locations.

You can also browse videos within the module and also on the playlist embedded within the video navigator module in middle of the channel.

All the video clips in the new channel are provided by TBS.

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