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Last January YouTube introduced video website especially for people who wanted to access YouTube videos through their Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii game consoles. Just as there's a YouTube browser for mobile devices, the new YouTube XL is optimized for watching YouTube videos on any large screen.

Few days ago online video site Hulu launched a desktop application that makes it easy to find and view web videos on a television set, Now same kind of approach YouTube takes, New site designed to look good and be easy to navigate on any TV hooked up to a computer with a web browser.

And since it should work on any device with a web browser, you should be able to use YouTube XL with video game consoles that have web browsers, like the Nintendo Wii.

In addition to an all new design offering large text and simplified navigation, YouTube XL offers a continuous play feature, which lets you search for a topic on YouTube and then press "play" once to watch all of the videos sequentially on that topic. Also, getting from one video to the next takes just a few clicks, and you can control the action with a blue tooth enabled remote control, or even some mobile phones.

With millions of HD playbacks daily, YouTube is now bringing popular YouTube favorites vedios to the big screen in HD. It works out routines with the screen out of high-kick range, university lectures where you can read the blackboard, and home videos the whole family can watch together.

Online video site Hulu has launched a desktop application for Windows and Mac that allows you to search and watch Hulu videos without going up on Hulu website.

Hulu Desktop is part of Hulu Labs, a new section of Hulu like Google Labs. There are other tools available in Labs like video panel widgets, Recommendations , Time-Based Browsing

Boxee also having a desktop App for watching and searching videos and Boxee also tried to add Hulu content in its desktop app & Hulu has been fighting with Boxee for months. Boxee try to add Hulu videos via Rss but Hulu also blocked that. Hulu is doing this because Hulu's content partners like Fox and NBC didn't like that & they're making lot more money via TV broadcasts instead of on the Internet, so Hulu has to disable Boxee support. But I'm really surprised by this step when Hulu launch its own desktop client today ! ! !

Hulu Desktop beta is designed to let you navigate Hulu from your Desktop comfort, and it works with a mouse and keyboard or a Windows Media Center or Apple remote control. You can use the desktop client to watch video, search for videos & you can browse through media by category. Videos can be watch in full screen mode, and when you use the navigation tools to find additional programming the video will continue playing in a small window. Hulu Desktop also pull information from your Hulu account like Hulu queue etc.

We'll cover full review of Hulu desktop with each features, stay tune.

oh yaa.. Keep in mind that hulu desktop wont work outside of u.s because of content licencing. Not sure but may be any proxy can help you out to watch hulu video via web.

YouTube rolled out Insight a year ago to help publisher better understand their viewers and how they engage with videos. Along the way, YouTube also introduced features like Demographics, Hot Spots and Community to give you sophisticated ways of analyzing viewer data.

Today YouTube announce a new feature in Google Analytics , tracking for YouTube brand channels. YouTube brand channels allow partners and advertisers to have a hub of content on YouTube, where they can collect videos, publish playlists, and get YouTube users deeply engaged with their brand. Now brand channel owners can get fully enabled Google Analytics reporting on their channel as if it were their own site.

all uploaders can still use YouTube Insight to learn detailed information about their video views and user engagement, now advertisers and partners with brand channels can get even more information about their audience. Brand channel owners can track metrics such as how long visitors stay, repeat visits, bounce rate, and page views per visitor. For those who want to tailor their videos to a specific audience, Google Analytics also provides data about where viewers are located geographically and what languages they speak.

In Short all Google Analytics features that mostly used for website tracking can be use for YouTube brand channels& now it's a vital part of YouTube platform, which attracting millions of video views every day. And, as brand channels have grown in popularity, It will help to understanding channel visitors and their behavior has become increasingly important to partners and advertisers fine-tuning their promotional strategies online.

New Options for Uploaders
Uploaders can now tweak the appearance of their video when played on YouTube or in an embedded player. Just insert any of the hint tags below into the tags field of your video and voila!

yt:crop=16:9 (zooms in on the 16:9 area, removes windowboxing)
yt:stretch=16:9 (fixes anamorphic content by scaling to 16:9)
yt:stretch=4:3 (fixes 720x480 content that is the wrong aspect ratio by scaling to 4:3)
yt:quality=high (default to a high quality stream, depending on availability)

HD Browsing Goes Global
Add Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and U.K. to the list of countries where you can browse the most popular HD videos in the region.

AudioSwap Adds Recommendations
If your video contained an audio track that was not authorized for use on YouTube, the Recommended Tracks feature in AudioSwap will help you quickly find fully licensed songs to replace your original audio track. Recommendations are based on a combination of popularity and, for audio-matched videos, similarity to the original track.





Subscription Tab in More Places
New "Subscriptions" tab to the top of the page, the Subscriptions tab is available on any of our English-language sites.

Subscription Suggestions
Users without any subscriptions who visit the subscription center will now see some channel suggestions - a random set of popular channels , same thing like in Google Reader already have. If you already have some subscriptions, you can see the suggestions, too -- just click on "About Subscription Center" in the upper-right corner of the subscriptions center.

Username Alternatives:Desire to have a goon name for your channel? but YouTube is a big place these days and many channel names are taken. But starting today, if your desired username is already in use when you sign up for an account, YouTube will offer some alternates, hopefully reducing the head-scratching that can come from trying to figure out a handle that you like and is available. Right now this is in test mode.

A Tooltip to Help With Precise Seeking
If someone tells you to check out their video at two minutes, now it's easy to find that precise point. As you drag the thumb or a little circle on the player slider, a shiny new tooltip (Showing video timing) will tell you exactly where you are in the video.

Reddit has a new dedicated video site called Reddit.tv for clips that have become popular on its main page, as well as on its "sub-Reddit" categories. It consists of a simple video player that streams in clips, along with a playlist that lets you jump around. Nearly all of the ones from YouTube, 's also the option to send the video you're watching as a Twitter message, which links back to the Reddit.tv player. It agregreat diffren vediosites and bring the best and populer vedio to the main page. Digg already provide this kind of service.

Open source media player and online video aggregator Miro is taking a cue from the highway service and asking patrons to "adopt" a line of code to help pay the bills much the same way as you can "adopt" a stretch of highway.

According to Miro, Miro is facing a very serious budget challenge this year. the foundations that fund non-profit organizations like Miro's have seen their endowments drop dramatically as the stock market has declined.

Here's how it works The 'source code' is what makes Miro run, there are about 46,258 lines of it; if you can take on just one line of this code, It will help to continue growing Miro and building a better, more open media world.

To make this possible, Miro created the all-new and very cute Miro Adoption Center, where you can adopt a line of code for just $4 a month.

When you adopt, you'll get:
an official adoption page, a cute image of your line of code (watch it grow over the year), badges for your blog or website, and your name will be listed in the 'about' box in every copy of Miro (more than 5 million a year and growing)

For US residents, your donation is a 100% tax-deductible donation to Participatory Culture Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization.

At WeboLobby, we always support open source projects and development so we decided to Adopt four lines of codes.

Today Youtube release a new feature called "YouTube Realime". It's an invitation based feature like 5 year back Gmail was. Well We manege to get to test the feature so we can report it for our readers. According to us its a really nice & cool feature from YouTube where user can able to get RealTime notifications from friends more like Friendfeed RealTime feature .

It has a tool bar which we can see near the status bar where one green glowing icon appears which means your active sharing is on and whatever you see or do on YouTube you can able to share it. User can get RealTime notifications from their friends. It's a kind of activity feeds you are getting like what's your friend's doing on YouTube, which friend they just added, what comment hey just post, which video they are seeing and even you can see how many friends are online and you can invites your friends to watch the same soccer video you are watching right now. Its like you and your friend are watching a movie or a TV episode together.

YouTube come up with really cool and amazing feature, this is a big step from YouTube in video sharing space. First of its kind. Right now its invitation based feature only. Active sharing feature was there in YouTube where user can see another user if he or she is seeing the same video but I think this feature is no more with this new one. may be in future Google talk can come up in YouTube where user can talk with each other. It can be a privacy killer but hay you can Turn of the feature anytime. Its a greater way to watch realtime video experience with friends

If anyone need a invitation. Just leave your Twitter user name in comments and we will send you the invitation for "YouTube RealTime". I'm having 25 invitation and our team also having invitation so totally we having 100 invitation for give away. These invitations we are giving on first come first bases only

Update: Don't need to post your Twitter Username Just post comment. We'll contact you via email that you use for comments.

YouTube homepage got a small new makeover. Basically in tree module use able to see the changes: Spotlight Video, Video Being Watched Now & Most Popular

Redesiging this page to better reflect for user, what's currently popular on YouTube, as chosen by you & because YouTube want to help you discover videos on YouTube in lots of different ways, so it's important that you know where they came from so now you got more ways to find hot and popular things on YouTube.

Another talk of the town is a new feature from YouTube called "YouTube Realtime"that lets you and your friends share in the moment what you're doing with the site, a same kind of feature set that friendfeed Tweetmeme providing right now, Similer to that but still we dint have a chance to look up the fact how it works so not able to giving you all updates at this moment.

CBS has introduced TV.com application for the iPhone. TV.com will allow users to stream CBS content over 3G, Wi-Fi or EDGE networks. The user is allows to watch full episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, the L world, the Yong and Restless, the Tudor and etc. Beside that, the user also can enjoy watching popular TV shows such as CSI:Miami, original Star Trek or Late Show with David Letterman.