This is interesting President Obama is taking up live questions from the YouTube community this Wednesday in a special online health care town hall event. Your chance to ask directly from the President.

How to ask questions from the President ?
Simple all you have to do is to log on to YouTube record a 20 – 30 second video with your question for the President, and send it as a reply to the President Video here. Or you can simple use this page to record your video and send it over. (more…)

Social Media & Social Networking is always taking a new direction and new innovation every day. The famous video sharing site YouTube is working round the clock to come up with innovations and have released YouTube Real time.

What is youTube RealTime ?
YouTube Real time is something closer to Facebook toolbar which was something inspired by Microsoft Windows so we all should give credit to Windows for it. Any how apart from that YouTube Real Time is a toolbar that shows a list of friends currently online, their recent activities and provides notifications when one of your friends posts / comments or rates a video. Quite a familiarity with Facebook but i am trying to avoid the comparison. So according to the blog post by Google the toolbar does lack some of the facebook features like chatting with friends and watching videos at the same time for which i am sure the engineers at Google are working round to add them up.

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Recording video tutorial never got much easier then this one. Screen Toaster is a free web based screen recorder utility designed to capture screen activity in real-time to create and share tutorials, demos, trainings, lectures and more. Fire up the web page your recording studio is ready to go you can also add audio, embed webcam while you record and once you are finished you can even add subtitles, choose thumbnails, add tags to your video share it with friends over social networks with privacy setting allowing you to control the access to the video you made. You can now also automatically upload HD screen casts directly to YouTube from Screen Toaster also you can download videos in .mov format for editing on your desktop. Their beta API allows you to integrate Screen Toaster into your website thus allowing your users to create / share and distribute video tutorials.

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YouTube announced officially of making videos available in High Definition. Well the demand of high defination has been around for ages, its quite annoying once you spend a ridiculous amount of bandwidth to stream a video and the quality turns out to be total turn off. So keeping that in view YouTube has taken an initiative to offer videos in HD now remember when you ask for more quality you have to pump in more bandwith and for me on a 1MB connection its was quite slow to stream in an HD video. A good example to test is to watch “Where the hell is Matt” or you can simple search on YouTube using HD as the keyword.

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Is Bill Gates Starting his Modeling Career.

Jerry Seinfeld, famous for developing a popular TV show “about nothing,” seems to be at it again. Except this time he’s part of a $300 million advertising campaign for Microsoft that also seems to be about nothing. And while nothing might be kind of funny in 22 minute segments that are always about something at their core, the first Microsoft commercial starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld really does seem to be about nothing. In that pointless, mind-boggling, “what the hell are they trying to say?” kind of way. [via downloadsquad ]

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If you are a video site fan and spend allot of time watching online videos or tv shows then we got an essential firefox pluign for you. YouPlayer a video player with playlist similar to winamp inside your browser.

What is youPlayer?

YouPlayer is a firefox Add one that adds a video player right inside your browser. The player has an interface similar to Winamp and support multiple file formats like, mpeg, rm, avi along with video from online video sharing sites like youtube, MetaCafe, MySpace etc. (more…)

Received this info via a comment, looks like another intersting service is on the block “YouTubeVideoConverter“.

As the name says it YouTube Video converter is a service that helps you download any youtube or any online video into one of the six formats they support. You can convert a youTube video into : (more…)

Flickr Add Video to its Popular Photo-Sharing Community, Flickr, a Yahoo Inc. company and one of the world’s fastest growing online photo-sharing communities, today launched video sharing.

Flickr stepping into video sharing is a definite positive step unlike many video sharing sites like YouTube, one thing flickr is tough about is moderated video content, that means the videos posted at flickr will be moderated, should be created by individuals only and should follow content policy by flickr. Apart from that flickr will only allow 90seconds of playback for the videos posted.

The video uploading is only available for Flickr pro members who can upload personal video clips and share them with friends, family
and the world.Flickr – which has grown from 27 million to 42 million monthly visitors worldwide in the past year(1) – serves as the ‘eyes of the world’ for its members globally, and with the addition of video, is giving people more ways to share what they see and experience in their everyday lives. The new enhancement is helping to advance Yahoo!’s goal to become the leading starting point on the Web by offering an even more engaging and relevant service for sharing, exploring and discovering digital imagery.

As pro members around the world upload personal video clips on Flickr, people can see, share, and experience the world in motion through the eyes of the Flickr community. Video on Flickr will be available in eight languages including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. This new feature provides:

Features of Flickr Video Sharing

• Video uploading for Flickr pro members
• The ability for free and pro members to view public video clips
• Video limits up to 90 seconds long and 150MB maximum in size
• Controls to make videos private, visible to friends and/or family, or public
• Seamless integration of videos into the photostream, along with photos
• The ability to share video clips individually, as part of a set, or embed on third-party Web sites
• Tagging and geotagging capabilities for videos
• The ability to search videos by tags and descriptions
• The ability to upload videos directly from camera phones
• The option to view videos on a full screen
• Licensing options to mark a video as ‘All Rights Reserved’ or designate a license through Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/)
• Application programming interface (API) for third party developers to create programs or services using authorized video submitted to Flickr

Ref : Yahoo Press Release, Flickr Blog,

Yahoo today launched it Yahoo Live a live video streaming service by Yahoo. Unlike Youtube, and other Video Sharing Yahoo have build the application in which any body with a yahoo id can login create a channel and start streaming video from his web cam to his channel without any initial setup. Yahoo has smartly made the use of flash video player and streams video directly via flash. No doubt the dying technology of flash got a new horizon and path in video broadcasting.

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