Eminem Joins the Billion YouTube Views Club

Congratulations on Eminem's achieving the 1 billion YouTube views milestone earlier this morning. Eminem's YouTube VEVO Official Channel has gained 1,001,007,298 views so far.

The fame rapper is the third person ever to reach the 1 billion milestone, the other two 'billionaries' are Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. Eminem is also the first rapper to achieve the 1 billion YouTube views. Lady Gaga is the first person to hit the milestone, while Justin Bieber is the second one. Justin Bieber's music video 'Baby' is the most-viewed video ever on YouTube, with 0.46 billion views.

Eminem has been nominated for 10 awards in the 2011 Grammy Awards, but finally only won 2 awards of them. However, Eminem is still making major advances among music artists. Since the release of hist most recent album 'Recovery' in June 2010, Eminem's popularity via social media has climbed dramatically in the past 9 months. His most popular YouTube music video 'Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna' currently has 0.29 billion views.

The fourth billion YouTube views artist will be Rihanna, enjoying 979,000,000 views so far.

Directly download YouTube HTML5 videos - is that true?

If you like to watch the HTML5 videos on YouTube, you might have noticed the 'Save Video As' sub-menu in right-click menu over a HTML5 video. It seems that we can download the HTML videos from YouTube. Oh, my God! Is that true? We can directly save the chosen HTML5 video to computer without any third-party software, add-on or website? Is Google Crazy or just want to give up Flash to push HTML5?

But wait a minute, when click the 'Save Video As' sub-menu, YouTube will send you to Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' video page:


Yes, YOU ARE FOOLED by YouTube! Though it's not April Fool's Day today. Haha.. That menu can't help you to save any YouTube HTML5 video to your computer.

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Predict the 83rd Oscar Winners via Google Oscar Search Trends

Hey, buddy, you know that the 83rd Annualy Oscar Academy Awards will be held on February 27, 2011; believe or not, I know who will be the 83rd Oscar winners! You might think that I've got to be kidding you. I just 'know' it, as I have Google Oscar Search Trends, a tool newly released by the world best search engine Google to predict the Oscar winners.

Niv Efron, member of Google Insights' search team, said that

in the past three years the Best Picture winners (The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire and No Country for Old Men) have all shown an upward trend in searches for at least four weeks before the awards.

Currently searches of Black Swan is far beyond Inception and The Fighter. If the above prediction pattern applied to this year's Oscar-nominated films, Black Swan will be the Oscar Best Picture winner! Funny! Everyone know the winners of Oscar before the award! Just go to Google Oscar Search Trends and make your own prediction! The tool collects all nominees in all categories.

However, Efron said that 'We can't say for sure what will happen this year, since searches can only reflect what people are interested in, but it's fun to look for patterns that persist year after year'.

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2011 The 53rd Grammy Awards Winners Full List

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards was held last night (February 13, 2011) on at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. 109 Winners has all been awarded in the ceremony. The country music trio Lady Antebellum swept five awards including 'Record Of The Year', 'Song Of The Year', 'Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals', 'Best Country Album' and 'Best Country Song'. Unsurprisingly Lady Gaga won the 'Best Female Pop Vocal Performance', and Bruno Mars won the 'Best Male Pop Vocal Performance'.

Below is the full list of 109 winners in all 32 genres of the 2011 Grammy Awards.

General
1. Record Of The Year: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
2. Album Of The Year: The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
3. Song Of The Year: Need You Now - Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady
Antebellum)
4. Best New Artist: - Esperanza Spalding

Pop
5. Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
6. Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
7. Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Hey, Soul Sister (Live) - Train
8. Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Imagine - Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare
9. Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Nessun Dorma - Jeff Beck
10. Best Pop Instrumental Album: Take Your Pick - Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto
11. Best Pop Vocal Album: The Fame Monster - Lady Gaga

Dance
12. Best Dance Recording: Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna
13. Best Electronic/Dance Album: La Roux - La Roux

Trad Pop
14. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Crazy Love - Michael Bublé

Rock
15. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Helter Skelter - Paul McCartney
16. Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Tighten Up - The Black Keys
17. Best Hard Rock Performance: New Fang - Them Crooked Vultures
18. Best Metal Performance: El Dorado - Iron Maiden
19. Best Rock Instrumental Performance: Hammerhead - Jeff Beck
20. Best Rock Song: Angry World - Neil Young, songwriter (Neil Young)
21. Best Rock Album: The Resistance – Muse

Alternative
22. Best Alternative Music Album: Brothers - The Black Keys

R&B
23. Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Bittersweet - Fantasia
24. Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: There Goes My Baby - Usher
25. Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Soldier Of Love - Sade
26. Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Hang On In There - John Legend & The Roots
27. Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Fuck You - Cee Lo Green
28. Best R&B Song: Shine - John Stephens, songwriter (John Legend & The Roots)
29. Best R&B Album: Wake Up! - John Legend & The Roots
30. Best Contemporary R&B Album: Raymond V Raymond – Usher

Rap
31. Best Rap Solo Performance: Not Afraid - Eminem
32. Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group: On To The Next One - Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz
33. Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
34. Best Rap Song: Empire State Of Mind - Shawn Carter, Angela Hunte, Alicia Keys, Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic & Alexander Shuckburgh
35. Best Rap Album: Recovery – Eminem

Country
36. Best Female Country Vocal Performance: The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert
37. Best Male Country Vocal Performance: 'Til Summer Comes Around - Keith Urban
38. Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
39. Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson
40. Best Country Instrumental Performance: Hummingbyrd - Marty Stuart
41. Best Country Song: Need You Now - Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
42. Best Country Album: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

New Age
43. Best New Age Album: Miho: Journey To The Mountain - Paul Winter Consort

Jazz
44. Best Contemporary Jazz Album: The Stanley Clarke Band - The Stanley Clarke Band
45. Best Jazz Vocal Album: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee - Dee Dee Bridgewater
46. Best Improvised Jazz Solo: A Change Is Gonna Come - Herbie Hancock, soloist
47. Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Moody 4B - James Moody
48. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Mingus Big Band Live At Jazz Standard - Mingus Big Band
49. Best Latin Jazz Album: Chucho's Steps - Chucho Valdés And The Afro-Cuban Messengers

Gospel
50. Best Gospel Performance: Grace - BeBe & CeCe Winans
51. Best Gospel Song: It's What I Do - Jerry Peters & Kirk Whalum, songwriters (Kirk Whalum & Lalah Hathaway)
52. Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album: Hello Hurricane - Switchfoot
53. Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: Love God. Love People. - Israel Houghton
54. Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album: The Reason - Diamond Rio
55. Best Traditional Gospel Album: Downtown Church - Patty Griffin
56. Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Still - BeBe & CeCe Winans

Latin
57. Best Latin Pop Album: Paraiso Express - Alejandro Sanz
58. Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album: El Existential - Grupo Fantasma
59. Best Tropical Latin Album: Viva La Tradición - Spanish Harlem Orchestra
60. Best Regional Mexican Album: NO NOMINEES
61. Best Tejano Album: Recuerdos - Little Joe & La Familia
62. Best Norteño Album: Classic - Intocable
63. Best Banda Album: Enamórate De Mí - El Güero Y Su Banda Centenario

American Roots
64. Best Americana Album: You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples
65. Best Bluegrass Album: Mountain Soul II - Patty Loveless
66. Best Traditional Blues Album: Joined At The Hip - Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith
67. Best Contemporary Blues Album: Living Proof - Buddy Guy
68. Best Traditional Folk Album: Genuine Negro Jig - Carolina Chocolate Drops
69. Best Contemporary Folk Album: God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise - Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs
70. Best Hawaiian Music Album: Huana Ke Aloha - Tia Carrere
71. Best Native American Music Album: 2010 Gathering Of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit's Dance - (Various Artists)
72. Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album: Zydeco Junkie - Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band

Reggae
73. Best Reggae Album: Before The Dawn - Buju Banton

World
74. Best Traditional World Music Album: Ali And Toumani - Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
75. Best Contemporary World Music Album: Throw Down Your Heart , Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Tracks - Béla Fleck

Childrens
76. Best Musical Album For Children: Tomorrow's Children - Pete Seeger With The Rivertown Kids And Friends
77. Best Spoken Word Album For Children: Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies - Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton

Spoken
78. Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling): The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) - Jon Stewart (With Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, John Oliver &
Sigourney Weaver)

Comedy
79. Best Comedy Album: Stark Raving Black - Lewis Black

Musical Show
80. Best Musical Show Album: American Idiot (Featuring Green Day) - Billie Joe Armstrong

Film/TV/Media
81. Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Crazy Heart - (Various Artists)
82. Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Toy Story 3 - Randy Newman, composer
83. Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: The Weary Kind (From Crazy Heart) - Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett, songwriters (Ryan Bingham)

Composing
84. Best Instrumental Composition: The Path Among The Trees - Billy Childs, composer (Billy Childs Ensemble)

Arranging
85. Best Instrumental Arrangement: Carlos - Vince Mendoza, arranger (John Scofield, Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest)
86. Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Baba Yetu - Christopher Tin, arranger (Christopher Tin, Soweto Gospel Choir & Royal

Packaging
87. Best Recording Package: Brothers - Michael Carney, art director (The Black Keys)
88. Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package: Under Great White Northern Lights (Limited Edition Box Set) - Rob Jones & Jack White III, art directors (The White Stripes)

Notes
89. Best Album Notes: Keep An Eye On The Sky - Robert Gordon, album notes writer (Big Star)

Historical
90. Best Historical Album: The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) - Jeff Jones & Allan Rouse, compilation producers; Paul Hicks, Sean Magee, Guy Massey, Sam Okell
& Steve Rooke, mastering engineers (The Beatles)

Engineer
91. Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Battle Studies - Michael H. Brauer, Joe Ferla, Chad Franscoviak & Manny Marroquin, engineers
(John Mayer)
95. Best Engineered Album, Classical: Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina - Mark Donahue, John Hill & Dirk Sobotka, engineers (Giancarlo Guerrero &
Nashville Symphony Orchestra)

Producer
92. Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Danger Mouse - for Broken Bells
96. Producer Of The Year, Classical: David Frost – for Britten's Orchestra (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Remixer
93. Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Revolver (David Guetta's One Love Club Remix) - David Guetta & Afrojack, remixers (Madonna)

Surround Sound
94. Best Surround Sound Album: Britten's Orchestra - Keith O. Johnson, surround mix engineer; Keith O. Johnson, surround mastering
engineer; David Frost, surround producer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Classical
97. Best Classical Album: Verdi: Requiem - Riccardo Muti, conductor
98. Best Orchestral Performance: Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina - Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Terrence Wilson; Nashville Symphony)
99. Best Opera Recording: Saariaho: L'Amour De Loin - Kent Nagano, conductor
100. Best Choral Performance: Verdi: Requiem - Riccardo Muti, conductor
101. Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 24 - Mitsuko Uchida (The Cleveland Orchestra)
102. Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra): Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement - Paul Jacobs
103. Best Chamber Music Performance: Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 - Parker Quartet
104. Best Small Ensemble Performance: Dinastia Borja - Jordi Savall, conductor
105. Best Classical Vocal Performance: Sacrificium - Cecilia Bartoli (Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico)
106. Best Classical Contemporary Composition: Daugherty, Michael: Deus Ex Machina - Michael Daugherty (Giancarlo Guerrero)
107. Best Classical Crossover Album: Tin, Christopher: Calling All Dawns - Lucas Richman, conductor

Music Video
108. Best Short Form Music Video: Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
109. Best Long Form Music Video: When You're Strange - (The Doors)

Source is Grammy.com

YouTube to Stream NBA Live Games

Google owned company YouTube signaled ongoing talks with NBA (National Basketball Association) and NHL (National Hockey League) to stream the live games. If the negotiation is successful, it will bring YouTube more advertising revenue.

Gautam Anand, Google's director of content partnerships for Asia Pacific, said that YouTube is shedulded to broadcast more live games in the second half of the year. But he declined to disclose more content about the negotiation.

Anand also said that Last year, YouTube broadcasted live cricket games of Indian Premier League, racking up 55 million unique visitors from more than 250 countries, and shared advertising revenue from matches videos and league's website. During the broadcast, online users spent average 40 minutes on watching each match. Hunter Walk, director of product management of YouTube, said that YouTube needs to do more to keep its users stay on the site for longer than the average daily 15-minutes session, compared with the multiple hours consumers spend in front of televisions.

"It's fair to say that there will be a lot more appealing sports content you'll see on YouTube," Anand said. "We have ongoing conversations with pretty much everyone."

Besides Sports game, YouTube is also prepared to provide more live music video clips, such as concerts, Anand said. Shishir Mehrotra, director of product management at YouTube, said that video advertisements on YouTube videos are hit 3 billion times a week, a 50 percent increase from May.

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YouTube: Boosting Upload Speed by Google's Cloud Computing

It is reported that with the help of Google's massive cloud computing infrastructure of data centers and web servers, YouTube is reducing the time it takes to upload and process the videos uploaded by users.

Benefited from these enhanced measures, especially the Google's internal Hydra project, YouTube claims that the upload time of 60% videos will be completed within less than a minute - 7 times faster than it did in 2008 and four times faster 6 months ago.

Chris Dale, the YouTube spokeman said that the company's goal is to reduce the upload delay time to in seconds, not in minutes. This move is as well to reduce user frustration, as to overall operating costs.

Chrome Drops Support for H.264 to Push Open Source WebM Codec

As the report from Google Chrome Official Blog, future versions of the Chrome browser will not support playback of H.264 format video anymore. Instead, Chrome will support Google's self-developed open format WebM. This means that, users can not directly see H.264 format videos on Chrome in the future, and have to search for third-party extensions. Currently H.264 is the most widely used web video encoding formats. Google's move will push WebM open format, and replace H.264 gradually.

According to Wikipedia -

WebM is a multimedia container format designed to provide a royalty-free, high-quality open video compression format for use with HTML5 video. The project's development is sponsored by Google.
A WebM file consists of VP8 video and Vorbis audio streams, in a container based on a profile of Matroska. The project releases WebM related software under a BSD license and all users are granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license.

Google said that WebM is rather efficient, as WebM video can play smoothly on netbook, tablet and handsets. YouTube, the subsidiary of Google will surely support WebM. Additionally, Adobe announced that its Flash Player will be updated to support VP8, but has not announced support for Vorbis or the Matroska-based WebM container. Other companies that support WebM includes AMD, ARM, Broadcom, Freescale, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, TI, etc. Intel is also considering hardware-based acceleration for WebM in its Atom-based TV chips if the format gains popularity. Internet Explorer 9 will also be able to support WebM files if the VP8 codec is installed locally. WebM is also supported by popular web browsers such as FireFox, Chrome and Opera.

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YouTube 2.0 App for Android Now Supports VEVO's Music Video Playback with Pre-Roll Ads

YouTube has announced its new application for Android – YouTube 2.0 on its official blog yesterday. Android 2.2 or above uses now can watch VEVO's music videos with the newly released YouTube 2.0 for Android. Additionally, pre-roll ads is supported to display on videos from YouTube partners.

• Don't have YouTube 2.0 for Android yet? Just install it.
If you're Android 2.2 or above users but don't have the new YouTube 2.0 app, you can manually search for 'YouTube' in Android Market, download and install the latest version on your Android devices.
• Enjoy Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Ke$ha, Eminem… etc. songs and music videos on your Android devices.
The music videos supported playback in YouTube 2.0 for Android are VEVO's extensive library of official music videos from artists like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Kanye West, Ke$ha, Eminem and U2. So just pick up music videos from your favorite artists for watching at anytime or anywhere.

New features to make it more easier to discover and enjoy music videos on mobile devices.

1. Music videos are now clearly marked with a 'music note' badge
2. While enjoying the video you can read 'artist bio'
3. It's easy to discover more tracks from the same artist using 'artist tracks' tab
4. You'll find similar cool bands on the 'related artists' tab

Pre-roll ads for YouTube mobile content partners

In addition to the above features, revenue of YouTube partners who distribute their content to mobile can be greatly expanded, as pre-roll ads are now supported to display on their videos.

The world biggest video site also announced a new milestone they have just reached - YouTube now exceeds 200 million views a day on mobile, a 3x increase in 2010.

Download X-Men: First Class - Official Trailer from YouTube

With lots of real excitement among X-Men fans and commercial hype across the Internet, X-Men movie team has finally released the official trailer for its latest installment of the series – X-Men: First Class, which is scheduled to hit theatres on June 3, 2011.

X-Men: First Class movie trailer is crazily hot on YouTube at the moment. The trailer is posted to YouTube X-Men Movie Channel on February 10, 2011, and has already racked up nearly 6 MILLION views so far. You can easily download X-Men: First Class - Official Trailer from YouTube with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader. The backgroud music in the X-Men: First Class trailer is really cool, if you like it too, you can download the backgroud music and tutorial is here - http://www.leawo.com/flash/download-flv-youtube-mp3.html


Storyline of X-Men: First Class

X-MEN FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.

X-Men: First Class Cast

• Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
• January Jones as Emma Frost
• James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier
• Rose Byrne as Dr. Moira MacTaggert
• Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy / Beast
• Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
• Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw
• Zoë Kravitz as Angel Salvadore
• Jason Flemyng as Azazel
• Lucas Till as Alex Summers / Havok
• Oliver Platt as Man in Black
• Morgan Lily as Young Raven Darkholme / Young Mystique
• Edi Gathegi as Armando Muñoz / Darwin
• Ray Wise as Secretary of State of the United States
• Bill Milner as Young Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

Main information about X-Men: First Class (Source is Wikipedia)

• Directed by Matthew Vaughn
• Produced by Gregory Goodman, Simon Kinberg, Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer
• Screenplay by Jane Goldman, Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz, Jamie Moss
• Story by Bryan Singer
• Based on Uncanny X-Men by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
• Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, January Jones
• Music by Henry Pryce Jackman
• Cinematography John Mathieson
• Editing by Eddie Hamilton, Lee Smith
• Studio 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, Marv Films, The Donners' Company, Bad Hat Harry Productions
• Distributed by 20th Century Fox
• Release date(s) June 3, 2011
• Running time TBD
• Language English
• Budget $120 million
• Preceded by X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Key Scenes from X-Men: Frist Class





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