YouTube is currently testing a new user interface codenamed “Cosmic Panda”. With Cosmic Panda, the white background has been replaced by a darker background.

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YouTube’s founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired Tap11. Both the founders recently had formed a new company Avos. Avos, located in California, recently acquired Delicious.com, the leading social bookmarking service from Yahoo Inc. Tap11.com will be integrated with Avos. Tap11 is a real-time business intelligence platformed company which makes software for other companies…

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Youtube has released some pretty interesting stats about the traffic the website received from mobile devices. The video social network clocked up to 200 million daily video views from mobile devices, taking the overall traffic to as high as three times just from mobile viewers. Also, users can now see official music videos of various artistes directly on Youtube.

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In order to give a fair idea of how fast your Youtube videos load in comparision to users around you, Youtube has launched a tool called My_Speed.

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Google has launched a new video advertisement technology called the TrueView video ads which lets users skip videos ads or view them if they wish to. Google says this model which will benefit both consumers and advertisers.

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In preparation for the launch of Google TV, the YouTube team has made some improvements to YouTube Leanback. YouTube Leanback is designed for large screens with the users sitting farther away – like while watching a TV.

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It seems like OpenOffice.org is really giving Microsoft nightmares, so much so that that they have put up a video in YouTube doing what they do best – spread FUD against OpenOffice.org (and open-source in general). Unlike Microsoft’s Office Suite, which can cost even above $400, OpenOffice.org is completely free to download and use.

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After almost a year of development, Blender Foundation has released their open movie Sintel at the Netherlands Film Festival on 27th September 2010. Three days after its premier, it has been released online. The 15 minute film is available in YouTube.

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YouTube has announced a two-day trial of its new live streaming platform starting from 13th September. They have already roped in Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood as partners to help out with the trial.

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