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.

If you want to download videos from YouTube, you can check out this YouTube downloader. Mac users can check YouTube Downloader for Mac.

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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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