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YouTube Changes the Default Embed Size for Videos

by Jeff Weisbein March 4, 2010

YouTube announced in a blog post today that they are changing the default embed size for videos on YouTube. Before today, the default embed size used to be smaller than the size displayed on YouTube.com. That is all about to change. YouTube has now changed the default to a larger size, the same size as [...]

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How To: Download YouTube Videos

by Jeff Weisbein February 1, 2010

YouTube is the largest video sharing site on the web. There is so much video on it, you can essentially find anything from amateur to professional content. Music videos, informative videos, stupid videos, television shows, movies, and more – it is all on YouTube. Well, sometimes you may want to save a particular video for [...]

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YouTube Redesign Focuses On Search

by Jeff Weisbein August 13, 2009

Maybe you noticed (and you probably did) – YouTube redesigned the header of their website. It now focuses on search. Granted, YouTube is owned by Google this seems like a logical move. The YouTube search also now has advertisements and what YouTube is calling Featured Videos on the side of the results. Very similar to [...]

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Download Your Own YouTube Videos

by Jeff Weisbein June 9, 2009

I just logged into my YouTube account only to find the option to “Download MP4″ (see screenshot below). I attempted to provide the link to someone else to see if they too were able to download the video, however, they were not. At this current time I have been unable to find an option to [...]

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YouTube Introduces Realtime Functionality

by Jeff Weisbein April 25, 2009

After logging into my YouTube account I noticed a small bar on the bottom of my browser window reading “Realtime Sharing”. YouTube has been playing around with realtime statistics for a while (provided you enabled them), however, now they seem to be completely implementing the realtime system into place. It is still opt-in, so you [...]

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YouTube vs Warner Music: Does Fair Use Exist On YouTube?

by Jeff Weisbein March 24, 2009

YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. It was acquired by Google in 2006. Today, YouTube is the leader in online broadcasting and sharing of original videos. The YouTube platform allows users of the site to quickly and easily upload videos from their own computers to share with any [...]

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YouTube To Offer Video Download Option

by Jeff Weisbein January 16, 2009

The current YouTube community is accustomed to having to use 3rd party tools to download YouTube’s video content, however, that may soon change (see image below) this would be the first time an official download option has appeared on YouTube. The new option gives users a full-quality H.264 file which is the very same copy [...]

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YouTube Introduces New Video Uploader

by Jeff Weisbein September 29, 2008

Today YouTube has unvield a new video uploader (currently in beta) – what does it have to offer? Well, for one, it allows you to upload video files up to 1GB in size as opposed to the previous 100MB limit. It is obvious YouTube is trying to remain competitive against newer sites such as Viddler [...]

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YouTube vs Revver

by Jeff Weisbein December 12, 2007

Who hasn’t heard of YouTube the Web 2.0 site that allows you to broadcast yourself and now with the implementation of Adsense allows you to make money from your videos. However, they are not the only service that is providing this ability. Revver.com has been doing this for a while now. The community is not [...]

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