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YouTube Reporter Center
The YouTube Reporter Center is a YouTube channel dedicated to giving advice to "citizen reporters" or non-traditional journalists and average citizens who upload videos about current events. The channel features advice from both mainstream and Internet media professionals.
Channel Type - YouTube
A YouTube channel type identifies the type of videos the account owner uploads.
Channel (YouTube)
A channel on YouTube is the home page for an account. It shows the account name, the public videos they've uploaded, and any user information they've entered.
YouTube EDU
YouTube EDU is a page within YouTube for videos and channels from two and four year colleges and universities. YouTube specifically selected the participating institutions.
youtube watch page
On YouTube, the watch page is the home page of a video. This is where all the public information about a video resides.
YouTube Symphony Orchestra
YouTube Symphony Orchestra is both a contest and an event. Participants can download sheet music and upload a video of themselves performing it. Their performance may be used in a massive video performance. World renowned classical music experts will select semi-finalists from the video submissions, and YouTube community members will vote for finalists from that selection.
YouTube Insight
YouTube Insight provides metrics information for YouTube videos. Anyone with a YouTube account can see information about the videos that they have uploaded. As of this writing, Google has promised more detailed metrics will be added to this feature in the future.
Google Zingku
Zingku is a social text messaging service acquired by Google in September of 2007. It is currently closed for new memberships.
Zenter
Zenter was a social presentation tool acquired by Google. The service allowed for the easy creation of PowerPoint-like presentations on the Web and the ability to share those presentations with others.
YouTube Director
YouTube set up the YouTube Director program to encourage original content and discourage copyright violation. The program is free, but users must agree that all their content is original in order to participate. YouTube Directors may create video content longer than the usual ten minute maximum, and they may specify prices for downloading video content.
YouTube
YouTube is a popular video hosting service, similar to Google Video. Google purchased YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars.
Zeitgeist
Google Zeitgeist is a listing of trends and patterns in Google search habits. Top search keywords are listed by week, month, and year.
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