Here's you chance to be a co-director of a Hollywood movie.

The world has 6.7 billion people and each one has his or her own unique way of viewing the world. I remember Richard Bach in one of his books saying in live in 6.7 billion different universes. He didn't use 6.7 but I put in there for emphasis. Well if YouTube and Kevin Macdonald had their way you could capture events during the day of July 24 in your life and if you footage makes it to the final cut you will be named as co-producer as well as attend the Sundance film festival.


The movie will be directed by Kevin Macdonald (Oscar-winning director of films such as The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void and One Day in September) and produced by Ridley Scott.( the director behind films like Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Thelma & Louise, Blade Runner and Robin Hood).




Want to take part? Here’s what to do.

1. Visit the “Life in a Day” channel and learn more about the project. Be sure to read through the steps you need to take to participate and the guidelines for creating your video(s). Also check out some of the sample videos for inspirational ideas.

2. On July 24, capture your day on camera.

3. Upload your footage to the “Life in a Day” channel any time before July 31.

Regardless of whether your footage makes it into the final film, your video(s) will live on on the “Life in a Day” channel as a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on July 24, 2010.

Be a part of history.

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Ask Shakira anything you want on YouTube.

You know YouTube users love Shakira when her video Waka Waka get's over 38 million users with that number set to go up before the world cup is through. You can now ask Shakira your questions on YouTube. 


Beginning today, you can ask her any question you’d like -- about her music, her work supporting education for all children through the 1Goal campaign and her own Barefoot Foundation, her World Cup stint, or anything else. The top questions will be posed to the Colombian songstress in an interview next week. 


Questions should be submitted in either video (preferable) or text to www.youtube.com/join1goal before midnight PT on Saturday, June 26. The full interview will be posted to the same channel and featured on the YouTube homepage next week. 

Questions for Shakira?

Waka Waka

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How to adjust your YouTube Video Playback Quality

On YouTube you can tweak your video playback quality according to your internet connection. If you have a fast internet connection you can tune your settings on YouTube to automatically play HD videos when they are available. You can also tune your settings to never play high quality videos if you have a slow connection. 


When you switch to full screen on YouTube will automatically select high quality of HD for playback. The resolutions YouTube offers are 360p, 480p, 720p and even 1080p.


User with slow connections would like to stick with 360p and 480p. If you internet connection can handle higher speed without the video being choppy you can choose to view the highest quality video while using YouTube. 


You would need to have a YouTube Account to use these settings.


How to set your YouTube Video Playback Quality Settings


1. Login to YouTube
2. With your mouse hover over the 360p with the upward pointing arrow as seen in the screenshot above.
3. Click on Settings. 
The Screenshot you see below are the options that you see.

4. Select the options that suits your connection speed the best
5. You Done.

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How to watch YouTube on TV

With most TV manufactures now including browsers in their products and YouTube now available on PS3, Xbox and wii. YouTube has a version that is best suited for the big screen. Competitors like Hulu and Boxee have not only brought quality video online but to the TV as well. 


YouTube has just the right product for you to watch on the big screen. YouTube is undoubtedly the king of online video now you can enjoy that video on your TV screens as well. People who enjoy watching videos more on their TV screens rather that on their laptops and PCs have a reason to now watch more YouTube on their TVs

YouTube's TV version has is called YouTube XL. As you can see from the screen shot below YouTube extra large is made specifically for TV.

The left hand menu is larger and optimized for viewing on the big screen. It also supports HD videos and can be controlled with a Gmote Android App. There is also an iPhone App for XL.


There is no scrolling on YouTube XL and all the other features of YouTube have been stripped out. The menu is made for TV and all the features are made for easy and comfortable viewing. YouTube XL offers a complete video experience on your TV. The menu looks like a DVD menu.


YouTube XL is YouTube optimized for a complete hassle free TV experience. As far as providing extra features like Hulu Desktop and Boxee does. YouTube XL offers users and simple and easy to use interface because there is nothing to download and install and you do not need to plug your computer into your TV. 

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How to edit your online videos with YouTube Video Editor

You can now edit your YouTube videos online with the new YouTube video editor. You can now cut and crop your videos, add and mash a number of videos together or simply do an audio swap. You can now edit your videos in the cloud and create a whole new video. It's really very simple as simple as drag and drop cut and paste.


There are also a very help videos to give you a sense of the new editor and to help you get started. We have added those videos to this post as a quick guide to get you on your way.


When you swap the music on your Videos you do not need to worry about copyright as that is taken care of by YouTube and Ads are shown on your video to compensate the recording company. 


What does the video editor allow you to do


Without installing any software, it allows you to:

• Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video


• Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos 


• Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs


• Create new videos without worrying about file formats and publish them to YouTube with one click -- no upload necessary

So if you have a number of videos from your last vacation you can combine all of them to make one large video presentation of the whole thing. Same goes for wedding videos. Helps you make a nice presentation and bring out the moments you actually care about.

Go now to edit your videos on YouTube

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YouTube and Guggenheim In Search of the worlds most creative videos

YouTube and Guggenheim in corroboration with HP and Intel are in search of the worlds most creative videos. This is great news for people who love creating videos all you need to do now is to add some real creativity into it and have it showcased to a jury of world-class experts and get your video nominated the world's most creative video.


Those videos that make it will be shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.


Submissions close July 31 2010.


This corroboration is called YouTube/Play. Please click the link to find out more details and how you can enter the competition


This is a fantastic opportunity for all those people who love making creative videos.


To have your video considered you would first need to post it on YouTube and then submit it at www.YouTube.com/play

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How to find the all time highest viewed videos on YouTube

If your looking to find the most popular videos or most popular video on YouTube. Here is what you need to do.

1. Next to the search bar click on Browse

2. Beside All Categories click on "Most Viewed"

3. Beside "When" click on the drop down arrow. Found on the extreme right hand side

4. Click on "All Time"

Or you can simply click the link below to find the most popular videos on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=a

The 3 most popular videos are

1. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance with 221,490, 702 views

2. Charlie bit my finger - Again! with 198,357,458 views

3. Justin Bieber - Baby Ft Ludacris (New at the top) with 181,711,361 views

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Video: Indonesian baby on 40 cigarettes a day

 A toddler on Sumatra is hooked on nicotine after being introduced to cigarettes by his father. It costs the father 5 bucks a day to give him the 2 packs of cigarette's a day. The child starts creaming and banging his head to the ground if he is denied his fix and even gets sick


 

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Sign up for YouTube with your Facebook account!

YouTube now gets Facebook integration. You can now sign up for YouTube with your Facebook account. Will definitely make it easier for you to share videos from YouTube directly to Facebook. Once you click on Sign up for YouTube with your Facebook account this is what you get to see.


As you see from the image below by signing up for YouTube with your Facebook account you will be allowing the application to send you emails, access your Facebook public information, access posts in your news feeds. 

YouTube is requesting permission to do the following:

Access my public information Includes name, profile picture, list of friends, and all other public parts of my profile Send me email YouTube may email me directly at abc@gmail.com ·  Access posts in my News Feed Access my data any time YouTube may access my data when I'm not using the application

YouTube

Report Application

Once you click on allow application this is the screen you get if you have already logged into YouTUbe with your Google account

You're currently signed in to Google

In order to sign you up for YouTube, we need to log you out of your Google Account before starting the sign-up process.

Sign me up!

It seems that this is being rolled out in a phased manner and the way to reach this signup page is if you click on a video in Facebook and get directed to YouTube. If you have any additional information do let us know.

Note: YouTube has now removed this ability to sign-in using Facebook. You can now only sign-in to YouTube using a Google or a YouTube account.

YouTube introduces Moderator and how it helps channel owners

YouTube has launched Moderator. Opening new avenues for channel owners to interact with their audience in a more direct manner. Up until now the only way people could interact with a channel was through the comments section and channel owners could not easily interact with their audience en-mass. 


Now channel owners can ask questions to their audience and poll votes. Giving them the next idea and clue as to what video to create and upload next. The audience can also submit their reviews and ideas to channel owners thus increasing communication between channel owners and their audience.


Channel owners who spend time, money and  energy creating videos are sure going to love this new feature as it brings about a more personal feel to the whole thing. Channels will begin to make more sense with this new feature. Gives those users who really have something good to say a chance to be heard and seen.


Here's a video that shows you how this new feature works.

[Image courtesy TechCrunch ]

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Video: Telephone The Afghanistan Re-make

This is one video that has really gone viral, with almost 5 million hits. The video features soldiers in Afghanistan doing a re-make of the Lady Gaga song Telephone. The response from viewers have been nothing but positive and the video itself is very interesting as you see the guys dressing up and dancing to a Lady Gaga song. Most people who commented on their channel also make it a point to wish the troops a safe return home.

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YouTube Small Talk Contest

Kids videos have always been the rage on YouTube. Somehow kids and videos go hand in hand. The two are inseperable and YouTube would like to encourage even greater participations beween parents, children and YouTube.

Some of the funniest videos on YouTube have alwasy been about Kids. The say the funniest things and do the most hilirious things. The best part is that it is not staged and completely natural. YouTube might have full length movies and a lot of professionally made stuff but the most famous still reamins videos shot naturally by ordinary people.

YouTube's Small Talk contest is for just those moments. Got a funny video that you think people are going to love simple signup for the contest on YouTube. The contest is going to be hosted by Ryan Seacrest. The grand prize winner will win $ 10,000.

So if you have those funny family moments and would like to share it with the rest of the world this is a contest you want to enter.

The contest has 10 questions that you need to get your kid to answer.

To enter and get started Please click here

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Connecting YouTube to Google Buzz

There are many reasons why you would want to connect your YouTube channel to Google Buzz. Get more people to view your videos and share your content. Buzz is one more additional way to share all your great videos with the world or share it simply with your friends and family on Buzz. Once you add YouTube as a connected site of Google Buzz. All your videos get shared automatically depending on your privacy settings. If you choose to share with the public it get broad casted across the site. If you choose to share in private then you chosen contacts are able to view your videos. You need to set the privacy options first.


Sharing on Buzz is one more additional way of generating traffic to your videos posted on YouTube and even gain more followers


How to add or connect YouTube to Buzz


1. Login to Gmail
2. Click on the Buzz tab
3. Click on connected sites
4. Click on the Add button beside YouTube


Once your YouTube channel has been added. You can then set your privacy options.
Beside YouTube click on edit
You can set your privacy to either public or private
Public to share with the world and private to share with friends and family or those you have added as a friend.

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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE adds social interactivity and official website

Official website for the third installment of the THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. As fans wait eagerly for the third installment, the creators of the movie have been busy adding interactivity to the whole thing. The new movie set to release on June 30, 2010 has a lot of social interaction added to it. You can now follow Eclipse on Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, YouTube and Yes it also has an iPhone App.


There is also an official movie trailer out for The Twilight Sage: Eclipse


Follow The Twilight Sage: Eclipse on:


Twitter 


Send us your best #EclipseTrailerreaction video and we'll post all next week! Please include #EclipseTrailerso we can see them!


Facebook


MySpace


YouTube


iTunes.  Some of the best Apps for Twilight fans are Vampire guide for forks, Twilight tracker, Twilight Scene it, Forks Tour and Twilight the movie game.


Enough to keep their fans busy till the movie release. 

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After State of the Union Obama to answer questions on YouTube

"After the President's speech begins this Wednesday (1/27) at 9pm EST, anyone will be able to submit a follow-up question and vote on others at YouTube.com/CitizenTube. Then next week, the President will answer questions in a special online event, live from the White House," Phillips wrote.
Earlier this week, the White House introduced the White House iPhone App, which delivers much of the content available on whitehouse.gov in a mobile interface. With the app, iPhone users will be able stream the State of the Union address live.

Evidently, President Obama will not be answering those questions live: the days following the speech, users will be able to submit additional questions and vote on their favorites.
Next week, although Google still has to communicate the exact timing, the top-voted questions will be asked to the president in a YouTube interview from the White House, which will also be broadcast live on Citizentube

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Play the piano on YouTube

Yeah that's right a cleaver interactive video on YouTube let's you play the Piano. We have embedded the video below and this is how it works. You need to wait for the full video to download. Once it is downloaded use the pointer of your mouse to mouse over the key you want to strike and click the left button. Once you get the hang of it. You can play small pieces of music. Remember you need to use your mouse inside the video and click on the key.

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Same-Sex marriage trial to be aired on YouTube

The public will have access to a court room trial challenging the constitutionality of proposition 8. The ban an same sex marriage in California. 


Chief Judge Vaughn Walker and the U.S court of appeals for the 9th circuit ruled on Wednesday against airing the proceedings on live television but allowed it to be uploaded to YouTube a few hours later. 


Two gay couples filed a lawsuit last May challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Their lawyers, former Bush administration Solicitor General Theodore Olson and David Boies, who represented former Vice President Al Gore in the U.S. Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential race, argue that the ban violates the 14th Amendment.


The non jury trial is to being on the 11th in San Francisco. The rare decision to allow recording of the proceeding was allowed after intense media pressure. 


Opponents of the ban say it improperly altered the state's Constitution to restrict a fundamental right guaranteed in the state charter.
Ban supporters say Californians long have had the right to change their state Constitution through ballot initiatives.

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Iraqi Goverment Launches YouTube Channel

The Iraqi government has launched it's own YouTube channel to counter "Lies" from the media and to show their own successes. To view the announcement from Mr. Nouri Al-Malik prime Minister of Iraq click here.

To view the official channel of the Iraqi Government please click here. It is really unclear what effect this is going to have on the people of Iraq with the country not having brad band more suitable to video streaming. But people outside of Iraq can view compare and analyze.

In another video Eric Schmidt spoke about how good this is and people will have a lot to see and discover with this new channel. Run by the current government there is a lot to expect.

They are going to post videos that show the country in a different spot light.

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YouTube Adding Automatic Captions to Aid The Deaf

Google announced that it would be using speech recognition technology to create captions to help the deaf and hearing impaired. The company would be using the same technology that is used in google voice that converts voice to text for the voice service.

For its initial launch it will be available to only a handful of YouTube content partners like Berkeley and Yale.

Once your transcription is on it can be captured and converted into 51 languages. 

To read more about it on YouTube follow this link

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