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Innovation in accessibility

2009年11月19日木曜日

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Auto-Timing: Auto-Captions: translated into 51 languagesUC BerkeleyStanfordMITYaleUCLADukeUCTVColumbiaPBSNational GeographicDemand MediaUNSWGoogleYouTube
Auto-caps is a continued step towards YouTube's goal of making video accessible everywhere (web, mobile, TV) and to everyone (other countries, languages, alternative access modes). It's also an example of using technology to enhance the video experience. For more details, please check this post on the Google Blog.

To learn more about how to use auto-caps and auto-timing, check out our help center article and this short video:

Hiroto Tokusei, Senior Product Manager, recently watched "(HD) 夜のゆりかもめ（新橋→豊洲） 01."

Update (11/29): On November 24, we posted a full-length video of this feature's announcement event in Washington, D.C. We have included English captions using the new auto-timing capabilities:

Hub for parents launches

2009年11月18日水曜日

For Mom

For MomBetterParents TVLifetimepopular mommy bloggersSadia Harper, Howto & Style Manager, recently watched "Things My Kids Will Never Know."

Curator of the Month: Michael Wesch

2009年11月18日水曜日

Anthropology professor Michael Wesch has the awesome job of studying YouTube and thinking about what it all means. We asked him to curate a playlist of his favorite videos, and he came back with an impressive list of clips that exemplify how the "wonderfully playful participatory culture" you've created manifests itself on YouTube. Four of those videos are on our homepage today, but he also wrote this thoughtful blog post to accompany his picks. Reading it, you'll get a sense of how a single video or person can create a ripple that swells into something so much bigger than ourselves.Numa Numa dance,"Brolsma led the Michigan State Bandblinktwice4y's YouTube hit "Mario Kart Love Song"matrock records jamming it out Brady Bunch stylethese kids playing it liveyoung kids acting out the videothis wedding serenadeJK Wedding Entrance Dance"Divorce Dance,"one from Spainbabies are getting in on itamazing treadmill dancelive at your high schoolhundredscrappy webcamhe had just signed herMegan TonjesmandyvbatsKutimanrealFree Hugs movement"Deluxe Hugs"Autotune the News seriesCarl SaganBrett Gaylor's RIP: A Remix ManifestoUs by BlimvisibleMadV's "The Message."HD version"An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University

Connecting citizens and journalists with YouTube Direct

2009年11月17日火曜日

Every day, people with video cameras are changing the ways we get our news. We see it during elections. We see it during earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters. We see it on our freeways, in our schools and in our public spaces. Almost any event that takes place today has a chance of being captured on camera. As YouTube has become a global platform for sharing the news, media organizations have been looking for a good way to connect directly with citizen reporters on our site so they can broadcast this footage and bring it to a larger audience.
That's why we created YouTube Direct, a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users. Built from our APIs, this open source application lets media organizations enable customized versions of YouTube's upload platform on their own websites. Users can upload videos directly into this application, which also enables the hosting organization to easily review video submissions and select the best ones to broadcast on-air and on their websites. As always, these videos also live on YouTube, so users can reach their own audience while also getting broader exposure and editorial validation for the videos they create.

Though we built YouTube Direct to help news organizations expand their coverage and connect directly with their audiences, the application is designed to meet any organization's goal of leveraging video content submitted by the community. Businesses can use YouTube Direct to solicit promotional videos, nonprofits can use the application to call-out for support videos around social campaigns and politicians can use the platform to ask for user-generated political commercials. The opportunities to use the tool are as broad as the media spectrum itself.
Already, we've seen ABC News, the Huffington Post, NPR, Politico, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, and WHDH-TV/WLVI-TV in Boston using YouTube Direct. We look forward to seeing many more organizations to do the same.
To get started, visit youtube.com/direct.
Steve Grove, YouTube News and Politics, recently watched "The WonderScope Challenge"

"Holiday Solutions" channel debuts

2009年11月16日月曜日

Holiday Solutions

Food NetworkSubmit your query in the comments portion of the Holiday Solutions channelSadia Harper, Howto & Style Manager, recently watched "Cooking the Perfect Turkey"

1080p HD Is Coming to YouTube

2009年11月12日木曜日

this video

Standard - 360p

HQ - 480p

HD - 720p

HD - 1080p
Billy Biggs, Software Engineer, recently watched "Toy Story 3 - Official Teaser Trailer [HD]."

How We Think About Social

2009年11月11日水曜日

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friend suggestions based on your Gmail address bookconnecting your YouTube account to social networksAutoShare feature

Over one million people are AutoSharing videos to Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader

Each AutoShared Tweet you send out from YouTube turns into an average of seven new sessions on YouTube.com

Over a million people have found and subscribed to at least one friend on YouTube based on our Friend Suggest feature

Most Tweeted video yesterday? Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"

More than one million new subscriptions are created every day

herehereBrian Glick, Product Manager, recently watched "Michael Jackson - Beat It,"and James Phillips, Software Engineer, recently watched "New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less."

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