There’s more to celebrate this christmas, now you can send YouTube videos as greeting cards to your friends.

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As 8 August 2008 Sun has risen in China, so is the YouTube Olympics Channel. Youtube Olympics channel is now live and accessible at http://youtube.com/beijing2008. The best part is that all the vidoes will be organized into various categories like Athletics, Boating, Team sports etc.

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Google has released a YouTube video search gadget for US Presidential Elections that lets you search within the speech of the videos using Speech-To -Text Recognition Technology. This is a huge step from Google depicting how the future search engines would look alike. They will be capable of searching non-text forms like Videos, TV clips, Audio files besides the traditional text search.

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What should i watch today? Does this question come to your mind when you visit YouTube? If yes, then YouTube has the answer - YouTube Personalized Homepage. YouTube today officially launched personalized Homepage for users.

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It seems like that websites with large userbase are in a silent battle with each other. Everyday these giants are coming up with a new feature so as to provide the user community with extended control. Google owned Youtube has come up with another feature that will bring a smile on their users’ faces especially Orkutters.

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YouTube has added a new feature which allows you to add annotations to your uploaded videos . Video Annotations would be a new way to interact through commentary on your videos.

Using Video Annotations you can add background information to videos, allow the user to select which scene he wants to view and even link to related YouTube videos.

Presently only video creators can add annotations. To add Annotations to your videos go to My videos

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What if,  if your friend sent you a file in some format, that you are unable to use on your computer?? Probably, You’ll try to find a conversion utility to open that file on your computer. Or at some other times, we need to convert videos or audios to different formats so as to use them on other devices.
Usually you’ll have to install different softwares each for video, audio or document conversion. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a service that is able to convert video, audio and documents all at one place without installing anything on your system? (more…)

FLVPlay is the Adobe AIR based nifty freeware application which lets you watch YouTube videos directly from your desktop. FLVPlay provides an intutive interface using which you can search YouTube videos using keywords and sort them by relevance, recency, popularity and ranking. You can also access someone’s videos on YouTube by entering his YouTube username.

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