YouTube has definitively replaced design

The world's largest video hosting YouTube has definitively replaced design, having shown the improved pages with videoclips to all users.

I like this!

Access to the necessary functions has become simpler, and navigation became more clear. Besides, in YouTube have refused five-point system of estimations, having replaced with buttons: "I like this" and "I dislike this". The system of comments is altered — not the latest now are shown, but best of them.

Also the list of relevant videoclips has improved. Now they depend on search inquiry of the spectator. So, if it was search inquiry of «Trend Web», — in the relevant list other results by similar inquiry will be displayed. Also elements of management are changed by a videoplayer, allowing to increase the size and quality of video.

YouTube has begun testing of new page of a videoplayer two months ago.

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YouTube has renewed work after five-hour failure

The largest videohosting YouTube has renewed work after debugging. On a site the main page and the majority of sections, however videoclips were not displayed were accessible on direct links.

Without explanations of the reasons

YouTube yet has not explained the reason of malfunctions. The representative of a video hosting has informed, that YouTube has understood an essence of the arisen problem, and engineers were engaged in restoration of working capacity of a site.

The Chinese trace

In the beginning of week of a malfunction also have concerned site Google. Users from the different countries told, that the information on company management was displayed in the Chinese language. Many bloggers have connected it with refusal Google of censorship in China and have put forward assumptions, that the site has undergone to hacker attack, writes The Guardian.

Subsequently Google in the microblog on Twitter has informed, that the malfunction has been caused by an error, instead of hacker attack, and that the error is already corrected. We will notice, that Google owns videohosting YouTube.

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Facebook became the most popular web site in the USA

Facebook is the most popular Internet site in the USA. According to analytical company Hitwise, the traffic on Facebook is equivalent to 7,07% from the general number of open web pages. One year ago given indicator Facebook was equaled 2,5%.



On 2nd place Google — 7,03%. Google for the first time has conceded the first place in the list of popular web sites (since September, 15th, 2007). Then Google has bypassed other popular social web-hosting — MySpace.

The 3rd and 4th place in a rating is divided between post service Yahoo! Mail and general Yahoo! (3,8 and 3,67 percent accordingly). On the 5th place popular video hosting YouTube, with 2,14%.

Representatives Hitwise have noted:

"Facebook.com earlier already was the most visited web site of day. The best statistics has been registered on December, 24th and 25, 2009, on January, 1st, and also on March, 6th and 7, 2010. For 1 year, popularity Facebook.com has increased more than in 2,85 times! For comparison, the statistics for Google, for the identical period of time, — have made only 9%. Experts also notice, that the given traffic will sustain only a really professional web hosting."

Facebook is the truly largest social network in the world. The portal audience makes more than 400 million persons. Under the informal information, in the 2009 Facebook has earned about 700 million dollars.

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YouTube will hold competition of composers

Video hosting YouTube has informed on March, 15th on the beginning of the on-line competition of composers first in the history. Jury of the competition, called to reveal talented Russian composers, conductor Teodor Currentzis heads.

The symphony for YouTube

Demands for competition in which all interested persons can take part, are accepted from April, 1st till May, 31st, 2010. It is only necessary for participants to load on a site the score of one of own products and the video presentation in about three minutes. Users not writing music can vote for the liked product.

Duration of product should make not less than 7 and no more 15 minutes. To use nonconventional, and also electronic musical instruments it is impossible. Products for the soloist with an orchestra or with chorus participation Also are not accepted.

Symphonic competition by YouTube

Competition will last till August, 20th, 2010. Rewarding ceremony will take place on September, 9th. In the beginning of March, 2009 YouTube has finished a set of musicians for own symphonic orchestra. It consists of 90 persons from 30 countries of the world. On symphonic competition it has been sent over three thousand demands.

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Twitter takes root into another's web sites

Twitter on March, 15th announced a platform @anywhere, allowing to integrate resource functions on foreign sites. For support @anywhere it is enough to owners of sites to add some lines in a page code.

The partner agreement

In particular, the user can send messages in Twitter from partners @anywhere. Besides, @anywhere allows to become, for example, the constant reader of the author of the material placed on a site, and also to find new interesting microblogs. All it is made without calling on site Twitter.

Mutually advantageous cooperation

Support of a new platform has already declared a number of large resources. Their number includes Internet shop Amazon, portal Yahoo!, video hosting YouTube, Bing, social service Digg, newspaper The New York Times, edition The Huffington Post and others.

Exact date of start @anywhere is not called. It is expected, that it will take place in the near future.

YouTube has started function of automatic addition of subtitles

The videoclips placed on popular video hosting YouTube, will be automatically supplemented with subtitles, writes TechCrunch. The new system is created on the basis of technology Google Voice.

Subtitles by Google Voice

In November of last year YouTube has started to add automatically subtitles in a test mode for the limited number of videos of some educational institutions. After four months service on automatic recognition of speech became in English accessible to all videoclips. According to the founders, the given service will be actual for deaf-mutes, and also that who is intended to study English language.

Thanks to the tool of machine translation of speech, users YouTube can read subtitles not only in English, but also on a number of other languages, including on the Chinese.

Engineer Google Ken Harrenstein has promised, that in some months YouTube can define speech in several languages. Thus, Ken has complained that for qualitative drawing up of subtitles the video file sound track should not contain strangers of noise. Otherwise speech recognition will be completely impossible, or the total result will contain too a considerable quantity of discrepancies.

To add or not to add

YouTube yet has not sub-titled all videoclips placed on a hosting. Thus, owners of accounts of service can independently request addition of subtitles for earlier laid out video by means of a corresponding option in videoplayer YouTube. If users will not accept quality of subtitles, they can correct and send independently back in system, writes Gizmodo.

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In YouTube there was a safe mode

The largest video hosting YouTube has presented on February, 10th the new option, allowing to be protected from a doubtful content. New function "Safety Mode" will protect users from viewing of offensive video and comments, is informed in official blog YouTube.

Safety Mode for YouTube

To include adjustment Safety Mode, it is necessary for visitor to press a corresponding badge which settles down in the bottom of any page of a site. Adjustment Safety Mode can be kept, for what the registered user YouTube should enter into service under the login, make a choice and finish a session.

Tool Safety Mode on a plan of developers will filter vedeo by the search inquiries containing unseemly words, for example "naked" or "violence". Also all comments in Safety Mode will be hidden by default. The user can read them, having pressed a corresponding arrow, but "doubtful" words will be in that case replaced by "asterisks".

Community Guidelines for YouTube

Options Safety Mode will extend also on rollers in headings Related videos, Featured videos, Most viewed and Videos being watched now. Users also cannot look videos sent by friends if such video are filtered Safety Mode. If users YouTube want to look these video, they can switch off option Safety Mode.

The new filter of a content will add already existing community guidelines, forbidding placing of rollers with elements of the pornography, showing violence over people or animals, the use of drugs, and also piracy video.

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Presidential online conference on YouTube

The US president Barack Obama has spent online conference on YouTube in which course the American leader on the air has answered questions of Internet users. Conference of the president on the popular video hosting, become by the first similar action of the head of the state, has lasted about a half an hour.

About national safety

Internet users have shown the big interest to an innovation of the White House — to the American president has arrived more than 11,000 questions, and at a choice of best of them has been submitted in total 630,000 voices. As a result the questions, met with the greatest approval from voting and the past preliminary censorship, have been directed the president who has answered them on the air on YouTube.

Economy and business

Most of all users were excited with the state internal policy, in particular expected reform of system of public health services, change in tax laws, national safety, a situation in economy and business and others. Did not remain without attention and foreign policy of the USA: users were interested in plans of Washington in the field of struggle against the international terrorism, and also were perplexed, why closing of prison of Guantanamo on Cuba demands so a lot of time and efforts.

In end of the online conference president Barack Obama admitted, that has received great pleasure from dialogue through YouTube and has expressed hope, that similar actions will regularly renew.

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To the British schoolboys will show only useful video

In the Great Britain have developed the special filter for site YouTube which will allow to use a video portal for teaching at schools. As newspaper The Times, cost specially developed for this purpose Bloxx Media Filter writes makes from 2,5-10,000 pounds sterling a year depending on number of served computers.

Very high degree of a filtration

Earlier on all school British computers schools installed the filter which completely blocks access to YouTube. Was considered, that on a site it is too much the videoclips containing frank scenes and scenes of violence. However teachers complained, that cannot use many useful educational materials which are available on YouTube. It is a question, in particular, of videorecordings of research experiments which are too dangerous for carrying out in a class with children, about scenes from classical statements of Shakespearean plays and about other informative materials.

Bloxx Media Filter, besides a filtration of videoclips, cuts from them the user comments, and also automatically generated list of links on similar videos.

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Representatives of public organisations under the control over an expenditure of budgetary funds have already stated concern too high, in their opinion, by the filter.

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Day of a pornography on YouTube

Users of an anonymous forum 4chan have appointed to January, 6th the mass calculation on YouTube rollers with a pornography, writes TechCrunch.

Thousand pornoimpregnations

As well as all similar operations, this consists in preparation of outwardly decent videoclips containing pornographic inserts. Anonymous authors have agreed to create counterfeit accounting records on YouTube, to load pornorollers, but not to publish them to the appointed term. On idea of organizers, on January, 6th on a video hosting there will be at once thousand videoclips with impregnations of pornoscenes.

Given the protest is the answer to blocking of the accounting record of the eight-year fan of games Nintendo, Lukeywes1234 as which on 4chan already recognised as the king and the god.

Not deserved blocking of the boy

The boy who together with the grandmother removed a miniserial about heroes of games, has informed on January, 2nd, that would like to have by February 50 subscribers. Anonymous authors with 4chan have decided to help Lukeywes1234 to have not 50, and over 9000 subscribers. On achievement of an object in view at anonymous authors, according to Encyclopedia Dramatica, has left about one days. By January, 4th at the boy was already 14 thousand subscribers, and in 12 hours YouTube has frozen Lukeywes1234. In administration have explained the decision to that the child is too small for service use.

The protests which main condition is anonymity, 4chan and users of other similar resources, carry out regularly. For example, in July, 2009 they have made a word gorillapenis the most popular theme in Twitter, and in April have lifted the founder 4chan, the user moot, on top of a rating of magazine Time.

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EFF has legal proceedings with the authorities

American noncommercial human rights organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation has risen on protection of confidentiality of the given users of social networks. Members of the organisation have brought an action against some American ministries in connection with use of social networks by the last in the work, informs ReadWriteWeb.

Infringement of human rights

Under distribution six departments of the USA with all agencies entering into their structure and services have got: the Ministry of Defence, the central intelligence service, department of safety of the native land, the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice and others.

In claim EFF affairs and investigations which it was carried out by means of social resources like Facebook, My Space or YouTube are mentioned. In particular, legal experts recollect history of fugitive from justice Maksi Sopo which have tracked down in the Mexican Cancun thanks to the status in Facebook and to that the criminal had nonsense to add in friends to the former employee of Ministry of Justice of the USA.

It is mentioned and Twitter — this social network of civil service used during the summit of "the big twenty» more densely to communicate to instigators of protest actions. We will remind, to the inhabitant of New York Elliot Madison in October of current year have brought accusations in criminal use of communication media. And all because he participated in protest action in the first day of summit G-20i with the help «Twitter» communicated with other "Protestants".

Infringement of the law on information freedom

According to Electronic Frontier Foundation, servants of the American people have a little overdone, illegally using personal data of simple people. The organisation has every chance to achieve a recognition of actions of the ministries the illegal.

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Youtube will allow to create 3D-advertising

YouTube has started 3D-video testing.

Nowadays the popular format of the three-dimensional image will be shortly accessible and in a network. Predictably, each such trailer will give all the best in several variants that he could be looked in different glasses and in general without them.

To the wide public new possibilities of video service were presented by developer Google Peter Bradshaw in first three-dimensional video which it is possible to look without special glasses, but only under condition of presence of the updated version of a flash-player in a browser.

In it video, and also in a blog Peter has a little told about how to mount a 3D-trailer without the three-dimensional chamber: «It is necessary to fix two videocameras, approximately how the eye at the person is located. Shooting to begin simultaneously. Then in the video-editor to combine the received material — the right eye at the left, and left — on the right». And already there were very many trailers in which users and employees YouTube test new possibilities.

Date of an exit from a "beta testing" mode is not known yet. It's natural to assume, that a new format of video for YouTube, will open new possibilities for Internet advertising, and ahead of us the interesting waits a lot of.

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YouTube has included an automatic caption

Employees YouTube have decided to facilitate a life to the users, wishing to supply the videoclips with a caption. Two new functions Here announced: an autocaption and autotiming.

Automatic Captions by Google Voice

Autocaption is an automatic creation of a caption by speech recognition. The same technology, as in Google Voice is thus used. Developers recognise, that results at times can be rather far from perfect, however nothing prevents to finish then them to mind manually, and "the technology will be improved in due course".

Autotiming will allow to adhere automatically a caption from a text file to certain time intervals of a videoclip. Usually the binding should be carried out manually, feeding service a file where to each text line there correspond data about time of the beginning and the end of demonstration of this line. With autotiming data about time it is possible not to give, the algorithm will independently compare a caption with a sound number (that too can demand some operational development manually).

Both functions at present exclusively English-speaking, and about when they are internationalised, yet do not speak to us. Nevertheless even for those who does not know English, can appear useful and an English caption: always it is possible to take advantage built in in YouTube of function of machine translation of a caption.

Autocaption in the limited mode

Autocaption while is started in the limited mode — only on certain partner channels, — as developers realise imperfection of this function. Autotiming, on the contrary, at once it will be accessible to any English-speaking videoclips.

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