The Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton

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The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine "Kate" Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey on Friday, 29 April 2011 at 11:00 am BST (UTC+1). Prince William, who is second in the British line of Succesion to Queen Elizabeth II, first met Middleton in 2001, while both were students at the University of St Andrews. Their engagement, which began on 20 October 2010, was announced on 16 November 2010.

Following the wedding, the couple intend to continue residing on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales, where Prince William is based as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot.

The first 50 years of human space flight

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.

YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011

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Carnival 2011

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Happy Valentine's Day from YouTube and Orkut

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Super Bowl 2011

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Happy Halloween YouTube logo

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1 billion subscriptions

It’s been a week of milestones for YouTube — first, Lady Gaga’s videos hit 1 billion views, then the Promoted Videos program hit half a billion views. Now, YouTube is reporting that it has seen 1 billion subscriptions. That’s a lot of billions in seven days.

According to the YouTube blog, the channel that raked in the billionth hit was MachinimaSports, and a ton of its channels have crossed the 1 million subscriber mark, including fred, failblog and universalmusicgroup.

In celebration of the site’s ever-burgeoning following, YouTube is also rolling out a widget that video-makers can embed in their sites, which will allow people to subscribe to channels even outside of the video-sharing site. The code for the widget can be found on YouTube’s blog.

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YouTube Doodle Guggenheim

As with any user-generated content site with a vast audience, YouTube has seen its fair share of critics questioning the value, or rather the quality, of most videos on the site. Granted, with millions of videos and more uploaded each day, most of the stuff is not exactly Oscar level. But YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum have teamed up to show that real art does have a home on YouTube and, what’s more, the site can be the driving force behind a new way of experimenting with video as an art form.

“In five years, YouTube has redefined media culture by changing the way the world creates, distributes and watches video. Online video is exploding not just as a medium, but as an art form, and we’re proud of the originality and innovation that YouTube has fostered among our users,” an announcement on the YouTube blog read.

“We want to celebrate phenomenal video-makers and recognize the creative potential of the medium. So today we’re collaborating with the Guggenheim Museum to discover the most creative video in the world, and showcase exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of digital media: YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the announcement added.

The first edition of YouTube Play is now underway. Creative people from around the world are encouraged to submit their creations by July 31st. With a month and a half at their disposal, video creators should be coming up with some interesting pieces.

There is no particular theme or style that is encouraged, anything goes. This is true for the subject matter and it is true for the technique used. From music videos to stop-motion animation, every video will have a chance to be picked.

After the submission period is over, a jury of experts in art, design, film and video will choose a number of videos, 20 to 25, which will then be presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, and at the same time at Guggenheim museums across the world at Bilbao, Venice and Berlin.

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John Lennon's 70th Birthday

It's an ode to John Lennon -- Google style. On his 70th birthday, Google doodle has a very special John Lennon video doodle with the famous Beatles song Imagine playing on Google's homepage logo. It is also, in our knowledge, the very first video Google doodle to replace Google's corporate logo on Google's homepage worldwide.

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Here is another one:

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YouTube logo:

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Just log on to Google.com and click on the play button to play a 32-second audio clip from John Lennon's Imagine song on today's Google doodle on Google's homepage.



John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager, his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group began to undergo the disintegration that led to their break-up at the end of that decade, Lennon launched a solo career that would span the next, punctuated by critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine".

Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his work as a peace activist. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him. His songs were adapted as anthems by the anti-war movement. He took a sabbatical from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family but reemerged in 1980 with a comeback album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered three weeks after its release.

Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as performer, writer, or co-writer he is responsible for 27 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart.a In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Lennon rehearsing "Give Peace a Chance" in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1969

Life in a Day

Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mold them into the cohesive story of a single day on earth.

Today, YouTube announced to launch of “Life in a Day,” a historic cinematic experiment that will attempt to do just that: document one day, as seen through the eyes of people around the world. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a snapshot of your life on camera. You can film the ordinary -- a sunrise, the commute to work, a neighborhood soccer match, or the extraordinary -- a baby’s first steps, your reaction to the passing of a loved one, or even a marriage.

Kevin Macdonald, the Oscar-winning director of films such as The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void and One Day in September, will then edit the most compelling footage into a feature documentary film, to be executive produced by Ridley Scott, the director behind films like Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Thelma & Louise, Blade Runner and Robin Hood. LG Electronics is supporting “Life in a Day” as a key part of its long-standing Life’s Good campaign and to support the creation of quality online content that can be shared and enjoyed by all.

The film will premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and if your footage makes it into the final cut, you’ll be credited as a co-director and may be one of 20 contributors selected to attend the premiere.



Want to take part? Here’s what to do.

1. Visit the “Life in a Day,” channel and learn more about the project. Be sure to read through the steps you need to take to participate and the guidelines for creating your video(s). Also check out some of the sample videos for inspirational ideas.

2. On July 24, capture your day on camera.

3. Upload your footage to the “Life in a Day,” channel any time before July 31.

Regardless of whether your footage makes it into the final film, your video(s) will live on on the “Life in a Day,” channel as a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on July 24, 2010.

Be a part of history.

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23days On YouTube

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YouTube's "23 Days" channel, an opportunity to share your football skills, passion and knowledge with the world over the course of the 2008 European Football Championships. They have come up with three categories of Fan-Video to get you in the mood for a summer of footballing excellence and excitement:

YouTube turns five

Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube’s founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with a simple mission: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world. Whether you were an aspiring filmmaker, a politician, a proud parent, or someone who just wanted to connect with something bigger, YouTube became the place where you could broadcast yourself.

Over time, these aspirations have created a vibrant and inspiring community that helped transform a murmur of interest into something far greater than any of us ever could have imagined. Today, to celebrate its birthday, YouTube has just announced a major new milestone: it’s streaming a whopping two billion views per day (the company notes that this is “nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined”) and launching the YouTube Five Year channel. There, you’ll find the “My YouTube Story” project which features people from all over describing how YouTube has changed or shaped their lives.

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So, in the spirit of the day, YouTube's excited to launch http://www.youtube.co.za, a South African version of YouTube and our first domain on the continent. The goal here is to give South Africans a way to easily discover local content and content producers. From now on when users in South Africa visit the site, they will see, for example, the most popular and most viewed videos in South Africa along with local content that closely matches their interests.

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Happy Valentine's Day

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Happy Halloween

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Happy Holiday

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YouTube Analog TV Doodle

On the homepage of YouTube an animated logo,

"Today marks the final broadcast of analog TV signals in the U.S. To honor this technology as it rides off into the static sunset, here are four classics that helped transform television into the ubiquitous medium it is today."

Analog (or analogue) television encodes television picture and sound information and transmits it as an analog signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal. All systems preceding digital television were analog television systems.

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Broadcasters using analog television systems encode their signal using NTSC, PAL or SECAM analog encoding and then modulate this signal onto a VHF or UHF carrier. An analog television picture is "drawn" on the screen an entire frame each time, in the manner of a motion picture (cinematograph) film.
Until the advent of digital television, all television was based on the transmission and reception of analog signals, displayed on a cathode-ray tube. Although a number of different broadcast television systems were in use worldwide, the same principles of operation apply.

The first commercial analog television systems were monochrome; they were enhanced to include color beginning in the 1950s. [Read more on Wikipedia]