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Youtube comes up with a new service which will display the captions for their videos. The timings will be automatically synchronized. Google says they are using the same voice recognition algorithms used in Google Voice.

This makes YouTube a lot more accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people. Google is offering users the choice to use its automatic translation system to read the captions in 51 languages.

Read more details here.

YouTube’s video platform has enabled a new generation of content creators to connect with billions of viewers every day.

iReports are the videos submitted by users around the world about news events. iReport.com is a website whioch offers this. Youtube is launching their own iReport-type site through a program they’re calling YouTube Direct, which they describe as “a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users.”

Youtube says,

YouTube Direct allows you to embed the upload functionality of YouTube directly into your own site, enabling your organization to request, review, and re-broadcast user-submitted videos with ease. News organizations can ask for citizen reporting; nonprofits can call-out for support videos around social campaigns; businesses can ask users to submit promotional videos about your brand. With YouTube Direct, the opportunities to connect directly with the YouTube community are endless.

Key features of YouTube Direct include:

• Built on the YouTube API, this 100% open-source solution provides you with an easily-integrated audience engagement platform for your website
• The customizable interface allows you to tailor the look and feel of the tool precisely to your audience
• Visitors can answer your call for content by uploading their videos to YouTube via your site without leaving the page
• A moderation panel enables your editors to review and approve/reject all submitted videos, deciding which ones meet your organization’s editorial criteria
• All videos approved by your editors include a link back to your site when viewed on YouTub.

See this video from youtube to know more,

Yes Youtube is now coming with a real time comment search function.

Facebook and Twitter announced recently that they would be partnering with Microsoft’s search engine Bing to offer real-time search function. Google also linked up with Twitter to offer the same kind of service, though not in real-time.

The Youtube comment searching function is almost similar to the current Twitter search, complete with ‘trending topics’ showing most talked about subjects.

One of the obvious benefits of real-time search is the immediacy of news that can be sourced.

bottom Line: This competing behavior of internet market is making our life easier.

Source:the Inquirer

According to founder Chad Hurley, YouTube now gets over 1 billion hits every day, three years after Google purchased the video sharing site for $1.65 billion USD.

Says his blog:

Three years ago today, Steve and I stood out in front of our offices and jokingly crowned ourselves the burger kings of media. We’d just made headlines by joining with Google in our shared goal of organizing the world’s information (in our case, video) and making it easily and quickly accessible to anyone, anywhere. Today, I’m proud to say that we have been serving well over a billion views a day on YouTube. This is great moment in our short history and we owe it all to you.

Looking back at those early days, we were committed to some basic principles that have since become fundamental tenets in the world of online video:

* Speed matters: Videos should load and play back quickly.
* Clip culture is here to stay: Short clips are voraciously consumed and perfect for watching a wide variety of content.
* Open platforms open up possibility: Content creation isn’t our business; it’s yours. We wanted to create a place where anyone with a video camera, a computer, and an Internet connection could share their life, art, and voice with the world, and in many cases make a living from doing so.

Three years after the acquisition, our platform and our business continue to grow and evolve. We are still committed to the same principles that informed the site early on, but we know things have changed. As bandwidth has increased, so has our video quality. As we’ve started to see demand for longer, full-length content, we’ve brought more shows and movies to the site. There are now more ways than ever to make and consume content, and more of you are looking to turn your hobby into a real business. We’re working hard to keep up with the fast pace of technology to bring you everything you would expect from the world’s largest video site: better quality; a full spectrum of choices and tools for users, partners and advertisers; and ways to make the YouTube experience your own anywhere, anytime.

Now a days people not only want to watch the videos in youtube but, they also want to save them to their computer. But the ,main problem is Youtube like website do not rpovide options to download or save the videos.

But dont worry yet, there a couple of websites which will enable users to save youtube videos. Actually they can offer links to download these videos even the HD version.

For some videos you can get links to videos with even 4 different resolutions.

So here are some websites that offere these kinds of Sevrices:

• http://keepvid.com/
• http://www.savevid.com/
• http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/
• http://downloadyoutubevideo.org/
• http://www.youtubecatcher.com/
• http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php
• http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/

In all of these website you have to enter the URL of the youtube video you want to download in the place which will be int here page.

For example in Keepvid.com

At the top part of their homepage there is a textbox where you will have to enter the Video URL.

And click on the Download button. This will take you to another page which will be having the download links.

Now download it with your favorite Download manager or even with your browser. Better go with a download manager since youtube nowadays support resuming downloads.

Download videos using Firefox Addons

Aslo there are severeal Addons for getting the direct download links of youtube like website videos for Firefox.

One example is the

Easy YouTube Video Downloader 1.6

Download Videos Using downloadManager

Also  some download manager allows to get the downloads from these wbesites.

One Example is the

Internet Download Manager

If you got enough money to buy this, you better go for it, coz this one is the best as far as in know. Not only you can download vidoes, it can even download almost everything thats getting streamed to your browsers. So this can download streaming audio, video, flash works, etc etc… Whatever format they may be. Also this Download Manager gets the maximum speed from your connection.