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This Is The First YouTube Video Ever [VIDEO]

Me at the zoo is the first video ever uploaded on YouTube. It was uploaded at 8:27PM on Saturday, April 23, 2005. Yakov Lapitsky filmed this at the San Diego Zoo. He talks about how cool elephant trunks are. This video is a piece of Internet history.

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Bush Wipes Hands On Clinton’s Shirt! [VIDEO] #FAIL


Above is a video of former President George W. Bush wiping his hands on the shirt of former President Bill Clinton’s shirt after shaking the hands of a Haitian person. The name of the YouTube video is “George W. Bush Thinks Haitians Have Cooties.” And the video amassed over 200,000 videos on YouTube in less than 24 hours. #FAIL for Bush, #WIN for YouTube.

On a more serious note, the two former Presidents of the United States are visiting Haiti to express their support during the extremely unfortunate earthquakes that the country faced within the last couple of months.

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Viacom Claims YouTube “Was Intentionally Built on Infringement”


Viacom, the parent company of brands such as MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Spike TV, etc. filed a lawsuit against Google shortly after they acquired YouTube.  Within the last 24 hours, legal documents in the copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube by Viacom were made public.  Below is a statement that Viacom released [Viacom.com]:
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YouTube Sends Out Invitation To Musicians For Partner Programs


YouTube has sent out an invitation to musicians for a partnership program called Musicians Wanted.  If you’re a YouTube musician, check out the partnership page.  Some of the perks include revenue sharing, branded channels, HD videos with 16:9 aspect ratio, and secured streaming. [Mashable]

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Nigahiga Hits 2 Million YouTube Followers

YouTube user Nigahiga (Ryan Higa) of Hawaii has hit 2 million YouTube followers.  This is about 10 months after he hit his first 1 million.  Higa’s videos include song parodies, TV show parodies, and a segment called movies in minutes.  In August 2009, Nigahiga replaced Fred as the most subscribed user on YouTube. Below is a video called Word of the Day: Pwned made by Nigahiga.  Its one of the funnier videos that Higa has made.

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Mean Girls Disney Mash-Up Goes Viral [VIDEO]

Pinkwhig YouTube user uploaded a video of a mash-up between Disney movies and the movie Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan. The video was uploaded about 2 days ago and has amassed over 110,00 views. Below is the video of the Mean Disney Girls:

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Analyst: YouTube To Hit $1.1 Billion In Revenue For 2011


YouTube may be close to approaching $1.1 billion according to Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney. Mahaney made the assumption by taking MySpace’s revenue-to-page view ratio and applied it to YouTube. Below is a chart explaining his tactics to the assumption. [AllThingsD]

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YouTube Launching Auto-Captions For Videos


YouTube is adding a feature to their website that would allow people to read captions for any video uploaded in English. While the caption system is not perfect, it would still allow deaf people and people around the world that can translate English to their own language to understand what is happening in YouTube videos. The technology is not available to all English videos as of yet, but uploaders will soon have the option to manually request their older videos to get transcribed. [TechCrunch]

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How To Donate To Chile Online. Videos and TwitPics Of The Damage Being Shared On The Web.

This past week there was a major earthquake in Chile and a major warning about a tsunami in Hawaii. The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile yesterday caused buildings to collapse and has taken the lives of hundreds of people. There was a loss of electricity in Santiago and the airport was shut down. Below are some resources from the web that are related to the event. This includes donations resources, pictures, and videos.

Donations

There are numerous ways to donate money to the people of Chile that were victims of the earthquake [Mashable].
The Mobile Giving Foundation set up a micro donation fund. The text message campaign can be donated by:
1. Text the word “CHILE” to 25383 to donate $10 on behalf of the Habitat for Humanity
2. Text the word “CHILE” to 20222 to donate $10 on behalf of World Vision
3. Text the word “CHILE” to 52000 to donate $10 on behalf of the Salvation Army
4. Text the word “CHILE” to 90999 to donate $10 on behalf of the American Red Cross

You can also donate through the web:
American Red Cross
Americares
ChileDisasterRelief.com
Doctors Without Borders
GlobalGiving.org/chile-earthquake
Google Crisis Response
Samiratan’s Purse
World Vision Disaster Response Fund

TwitPics of Hawaii

Abandoned Ala Moana Beach in front of #hawaii #tsunami by What_Boundaries

Idiot in water in Hilo Hawaii #NoPity you’ve been warned by CoachDeb

Hawaii bracing for Tsunami,Beaches are empty by HawaiiParcel

#tsunami warning in #Hawaii: how the evacuation will take place by mirkocorli

Mass exodus of boats frm Ala Wai Harbor in front of #Hawaii #tsunami by What_Boundaries

This is pic in the Hawaii Tribune herald The Island is called Moku Ola by Hilomikey

TwitPics of Chile

#terremotochile Catedral, Santiago #chile by ConyCampos

Madrugada Caleta el piojo Niebla valdivia horas despues del terremoto en conce by EomerElessar

#terremotochile muro cae sobre bencinera en Maipú/Mapocho (Stgo Centro) by MrMobictec

Valparaiso, Independencia c/n Las Heras.#terremoto #terremotochile by EGMiranda

This is the pic of the moment here in Chile. That’s out flag. We can get through this by Aloemilk

Área inundada en Pelluhue, Chile -APTN by edowoo

Video Streams

UStream announced today that they hit about 4.35 million streams related to the events [Mashable]. Many people are uploading videos on YouTube that are related to the event.

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Rick Astley Is Never Gonna Give You Up From YouTube Again


Rick Astley’s music video “Never Gonna Give You Up” was temporarily removed YouTube.  Removing the video was a mistake as confirmed by YouTube by Neowin.net.  “We review all flagged content quickly, and if we find that a video does violate the guidelines, we remove it, on average in under an hour. We also have a team that is dedicated to identifying and removing spam from YouTube.  Occasionally, an account flagged by users or identified by our spam team is mistakenly taken down,” stated YouTube in a message. The music video had about 30 million views on YouTube when it was temporarily removed. [Neowin]

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