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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YouTube Acquires Green Parrot Pictures to Improve Video Quality

Today the world largest video sharing website YouTube announces that it has acquired the Irish video processing technique firm Green Parrot Pictures. It's possible that you have no idea about the Irish firm. However it is awesome that the video quality processing technique developed by the Irish company can significantly improve the quality of video stream while using less network bandwidth. Productions of some hot Hollywood movies, including Lord of Rings, Spider-Man and X-Men have used the firm's video quality improvement technique.

Now YouTube acquires Green Parrot Pictures hoping to improve its own video quality. Also, bandwidth is very important thing to large video streaming website like YouTube. If YouTube successfully use Green Parrot Pictures' technique on video quality improvement, YouTube users could watch videos in better quality and faster playback speed.

Recently YouTube has acquired several companies convincing us that YouTube is going to make big growth.

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5000 People Lost or Died in the Japan 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake and Tsunami

Japan's Kyodo news agency today said that by March 14, 5,000 people have lost or died in the Northeastern Japan 8.9 magnitude earthquake and 10 meters tsunami followed by the quake. Earthquake-stricken areas are seriously short of water, food, gasoline and other supplies. The amount of people who gather in the refuge has risen to 550,000. The current prime minister of Japan Naoto Kan said that the country is experiencing its largest difficulties since the end of World War II in 1945.

People who lost their home gathered at square after the earthquake in Japan

10 meters tsunami caused by the earthquake swept some coastline of Japan

Flood and fire caused by the aftermath 8.9 magnitude quake and tsunami

Below are some most-viewed videos about the quake and tsunami on YouTube. You could use this YouTube Downloader to download them to your computer.

Frightened residents, shaky ground in the earthquake in Sendai (posted on March 10, 2011, currently 10 million views)


Breathtaking swaying building in the massive quake (posted on March 10, 2011, currently 5.8 million views)


Raw Video: Tsunami Slams Northeast Japan (posted on March 10, 2011, currently 7.1 million views)


Japan 9.0 earthquake and tsunami (NHK footage) (posted on March 11, 2011, currently 2.4 million views)

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YouTube Urged to Delete Anti-Government Videos

Last November upon the request from the US Congress, video-sharing website YouTube began to delete videos of Anwar al-Awlaki, whose sermons on the video site have inspired people to carry out terrorist attacks. But now, you could still find out hundreds of videos about Awlaki making anti-government sermons if you search for 'Awlaki' on YouTube.

Anwar al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents and is 39-years-old. He has inspired his followers made the attack at Fort Hood and the unaccomplished Detroit aerial bombing attack. Awlaki now is an American citizen who wanted by CIA worldwide. He hides in Yemen to continue to spread his extremist ideology.

On Feburary 9th, 2011, U.S. National Counterterrorism Center announced that currently the biggest threat to American security is no longer Bin Laden but Awlaki. US government announces that Awlaki is the biggest threat to U.S. security after the 911 attacks.

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YouTube Ranks No.1 at User Satisfaction

Newest investigation shows that YouTube has the highest user satisfaction among the main social media websites including Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn and Twitter. The study was made by Netpop Research.


The study above reveals that Facebook is the world's largest social networking site with the highest usage. 73% of survey responders claim that they have visited Facebook in the last 7 to 10 days. While YouTube ranks the second place and the figure is 49%.


As the largest social media website, Facebook has a lead role in terms of user count, page views, user online length and quantity of content. So the above findings are just as people expected.


But in terms of user satisfaction, YouTube tops all the social media sites. What Netpop Research used to measure user satisfaction is called the Net Promoter Score (NPS), which takes the percentage of customers who are Promoters and subtracts the percentage who are Detractors. The survey shows that YouTube and Facebook have the highest NPS value with 50% and 36% respectively.

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Rihanna Becomes the Fourth Artist Gathering 1 Billion Views on YouTube

It's hard to image how popular of a person gathering 1 billion views on video sharing site YouTube. It's close to impossible for an ordinary person to reach such a great achievement. However, there have been three persons achieved this in YouTube's history. All of them are pop music artists, including Lady Gaga – the first person achieves this, Justin Bieber as the second one and Eminem the third. Now the fourth one begins to emerge - it's Pop diva Rihanna.

Eminem's 'Love the Way You Lie ft. Rihanna' serves as the most viewed video of the Barbadian R&B singer. The video has been viewed 300 million times so far. In Rihanna's YouTube Channel, we can learn that Rihanna's Total Upload Views is 1,014,701,636 at the present. Social media analyzer Famecount.com has also confirmed this statistics.

Besides the success on YouTube, Rihanna is also the fourth most popular artist on Facebook with almost 26 million fans behind Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga and Eminem. Recently, Rihanna was awarded with Best Dance Recording for 'Only Girl' and Best International Female Solo Artist at the 53rd Grammy Award Ceremony.


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Tools to Turn YouTube to a Good Music Player

YouTube now is the world second largest website (the largest site is Facebook) and the largest video sharing website. Its parent Google estimates that the video site currently has 500 million users, who spent about 14 minutes on the site in January. YouTube offers a lot of great music for the users. YouTube music has become a part of our daily life. The tips below show us how to use some tools to make a better music experience on YouTube.


YouTube Music Player (Firefox addon)

This tool is a Firefox plugin. With it, you don't need to open YouTube, just add and play music from YouTube. This extension can control the playback of YouTube music, show relevant information of music and place the playlist in side bar. You can drag and drop YouTube music link to the side bar to add music to the playlist. It can also save multiple playlists on your computer.


Chrome Media Player (Chrome extension)

It's a Google Chrome browser extension that is similar to the above one. You can activate the player main panel from top right corner addons list.


Lyrics displaying


YouTube Music Video Lyrics (Chrome extension)

Install it on your Google Chrome browser; It's a button on the top right corner of the browser. Click the button when a YouTube music video is being played in Chrome browser, and the accompanying lyrics will show.


YouTube Karaoke rebirth! (Chrome extenstion)

This Chrome addon displays the lyrics of a YouTube song in Karaoke style, so you can sing along with the lyrics while watching a YouTube music video.


Other tools


Audio Stream Recorder
Desktop-based application to record audio stream from website to your computer.


YouTube Video Downloader
Software to download videos from YouTube and some other video sharing sites.


YouTube Looper (Chrome extension)

This tool is rather simple - just adds a Loop button under the YouTube video player.


Youtube to mp3
It's a script to extract audio from YouTube music video to MP3 format.

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