YouTube is going to update its video player with brand new playlist and is asking users to test this new feature. We might be rather familiar with video playlist player, as we've seen video players with playlists on a lot of video sharing websites. And finally, YouTube is also ready to put on this favorable feature.
Jeff Posnick from YouTube API Team announced the above news on YouTube API Blog on July 14, 2011. Posnick said that they've completely rewritten the embedded player to enable users to embed the player on their web pages with the playlist, which consists of a series of related videos. The rendering is shown in the picture below:
To enable the playlist, you need to add "&version=3" to the end of the URL in the embed code. Here is an example:
http://www.youtube.com/p/E46798C874B35B7F?fs=1&version=3
You might have noticed the red switch button under the control bar. If you try to click on it, the thumbnail playlist will hide; click it again will trigger the player to show the thumbnail player again.
Note that it's under test. When the testing period ends on July 20, the playlist will be automatically added to the player. At that time, you don't need to add "&version=3" string to the embed code to activate the video playlist.
What's your opinion about the playlist player? You can write it down in the comment below.
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Since July 1st, the beginning of the second half of 2011, Billboard.com has been asking people to vote their favorite artists and works for its 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards. Now the poll is over. Finally, Britney Spears turns out to be getting the most votes in the poll. The "Femme Fatale" singer leads the poll on 5 categories, including the First-Half MVP, Favorite Hot 100 No. 1 Song, Favorite Billboard 200 No. 1 Album, Best Music Video and Best Tour. Lady Gaga is the runner-up of the above 5 awards. Besides, Gaga also won the Best Festival Performance and the Best Dressed.
The list below is the top threes in all categories of the Billboard.com 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards. It was declared by Billboard.com. Check out the list and you can talk about your opinion of the result in the comment.
FIRST-HALF MVP:
1. Britney Spears (42.8%)
2. Lady Gaga (40.0%)
3. Adele (10.7%)
BEST NEWCOMER:
1. Wiz Khalifa (56.2%)
2. Bon Iver (15.8%)
3. Odd Future (7.8%)
FAVORITE HOT 100 NO. 1 SONG:
1. Britney Spears, "Hold It Against Me" (35.6%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (34.2%)
3. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep" (18.0%)
FAVORITE BILLBOARD 200 NO. 1 ALBUM:
1. Britney Spears, "Femme Fatale" (36.8%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (35.9%)
3. Adele, "21" (18.6%)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO:
1. Britney Spears, "I Wanna Go" (43.5%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Judas" (24.7%)
3. Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" (15.2%)
BEST COMEBACK:
1. Jennifer Lopez (68.7%)
2. Lupe Fiasco (13.9%)
3. Britney Spears (6.5%)
MOST MEMORABLE MELTDOWN:
1. Chris Brown at "Good Morning America" (32.3%)
2. Amy Winehouse's Serbia concert (22.9%)
3. Odd Future at Billboard's SXSW Showcase (3.4%)
BEST FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE:
1. Lady Gaga at Radio 1's Big Weekend (35.6%)
2. Beyonce at Glastonbury (34.8%)
3. Kanye West at Coachella (13.8%)
BEST TOUR:
1. Britney Spears' Femme Fatale Tour (48.5%)
2. Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour (30.1%)
3. U2's 360 Tour (7.1%)
BEST AWARDS SHOW PERFORMANCE:
1. Beyonce, 2011 Billboard Music Awards (35.3%)
2. Cee Lo Green, 2011 Grammy Awards (9.2%)
3. Jason Aldean & Ludacris, 2011 CMT Awards (3.6%)
BEST MUSIC REALITY SHOW:
1 . "American Idol" (50.7%)
2. "The Voice" (33.6%)
3. "America's Got Talent" (11.2%)
BEST DRESSED:
1. Lady Gaga (51.2%)
2. Nicki Minaj (24.2%)
3. Britney Spears (7.7%)
MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE OF 2011'S SECOND HALF:
1. Lil Wayne, "Tha Carter IV" (32.7%)
2. Lady Antebellum, "Own the Night" (29.5%)
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "I'm With You" (18.4%)
Director Michael Bay's Transformers 3 (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) just premiered last week on June 29 in United States. The film has earned $97.5 million during its first weekend, topping the weekend box office and setting a new Fourth of July box-office record.
However, some footage of Transformers 3 are found in Michael Bay's 2005 action film "The Island". YouTube user Cinefilo found this and made a short video comparing the similar scenes of the two films. The video was uploaded to YouTube on June 30 and has quickly become viral on the Internet. This is the video (download it with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader):
It's too obvious that Michael Bay has reused footage from The Island to Transformers 3. From the video, we can see that mainly two scenes of Dark of the Moon sample from The Island.
Scene 1: the truck (on the left) and the smashed car (on the right)
Scene 2: the rolling car and the smoke
Personally, I don't mind if Michael Bay samples a few scenes from his own film. Anyway, it's a good way to save time and money on filming a new scene. After all, Transformer: Dark of the Moon is a good film that has received generally negative reviews, which praising the film's excellent 3D visual effects.
Beyonce debuted her highly-anticipated fourth solo album "4" last week on June 28, 2011. According to Nielsen SoundScan, after a week of sales, Queen B's new album easily tops Billboard 200 and UK Album Chart with 310,000 copies sold.
Prior to the album's debut, female empowering single "Run The World (Girls)", which serves as the lead single of the album was officially released on April 21, 2011. After this, the album's second single "Best Thing I Never Had" was released on June 1, 2011. The video below is the music video of Beyonce's Run The World (Girls). (Download it with this Free YouTube Downloader. If you are on Mac, go to get this YouTube Downloader for Mac)
However, according to Billboard magazine:
"4's" sales launch is lowest of her four releases: 2008's "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" entered with 482,000; 2006's "B'Day" bowed with 541,000 and 2003's "Dangerously In Love" started with 317,000.
What's more, both of "Run The World (Girls)" and "Best Thing I Never Had" failed to reach the top 10 of Billboard Hot 100, which was the first time for Beyonce's lead single from her album missed the top 10.
Previously, Beyonce received the Billboard Millennium Award on the Billboard Music Award. She performed "Run The Word (Girl)" during the presentation.
Nowadays some companies make use of YouTube API to let users to create animations by themselves on web pages, and upload the animaions to YouTube. This is a good idea. YouTube decided to launch a channel, where users can create videos with some third-party applications. The channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/create
For example, Xtranormal Movie Maker lets you to turn anything you type into a fully-animated CG movie. Stupeflix Video Maker enables you to tell a story with your digital content. GoAnimate is a fun app that lets you make animated videos, for free, in just 10 minutes, without having to draw. One True Media is a powerful video creator.
Here is a developer who made and uploaded its own application to the channel and successfully improved traffic:
Developers can upload your own application to the channel in case that the application meet the YouTube requirements which are listed here.
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On YouTube, few movie trailer can reach a million views in its first two days. Straw Dogs trailer is one of them. The official trailer of Straw Dogs premiered on YouTube on June 26, 2011. So far it has drawn 1.7 million views on the video site. The film is a remake of the 1971 classic thriller film of the same name. It is set to hit theaters this autumn on September 16, 2011.
Directed, written and produced by Rod Lurie, the 2011 film Straw Dogs' screenplay is based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams. James Marsden plays the film's hero and Kate Bosworth will be the heroine. Here is the film's official trailer. You can download Straw Dogs (2011 film) official trailer from YouTube with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader. For Mac users, go to get this YouTube Downloader for Mac.
The trailer almost tells the the whole storyline of the upcoming film. A bit difference with the 1971 film, the 2011 film Straw Dogs transfers the location of the events from England to deep South of America. Here is the storyline of the film:
David and Amy Sumner (James Marsden and Kate Bosworth), a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), leading to a violent confrontation.
Cast
- James Marsden as David Sumner
- James Woods as Tom Heddon
- Dominic Purcell as Jeremy Niles
- Kate Bosworth as Amy Sumner
- Alexander Skarsgård as Charlie Vetton
- Laz Alonso as Deputy John Burke
- Willa Holland as Janice
- Anson Mount as Coach Stan Milkens
- Walton Goggins as Daniel
- Rhys Coiro as Norman
More information about Straw Dogs (2011 film)
- Directed by Rod Lurie
- Produced by Rod Lurie, Marc Frydman
- Screenplay by Rod Lurie
- Story by David Zelag Goodman, Sam Peckinpah
- Music by Larry Groupé
- Cinematography Alik Sakharov
- Editing by Sarah Boyd
- Studio Battleplan Productions, Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Distributed by Screen Gems
- Language English
- Budget $12.5 million
Recently, a video dubbed "facebook song.wmv" has gone viral on YouTube. The video is created by a 16-year-old girl from Australia whose name is Madelaine Zammit. In the video, Madelaine performs guitar solo for her song "Facebook Song" which was written totally by herself. Previously, We've heard several 'Facebook song'. However, this one is one of the best, or ever the best one. You can download Madelaine Zammit's Facebook Song from YouTube with Leawo YouTube Downloader (Free). This is the tutorial about how to get the song from the video. This is the video.
The lyrics of the song describes the things that most people do on Facebook. Besides that, Madelaine adds her own feeling about her experience on Facebook into the song.
The video was uploaded onto YouTube on June 1, 2011. After famous blogs such as Mashable, The Daily What, made a cover of the it last weekend, traffic to the video began to rise sharply. Just as shown in the below picture of the statistics of the video:
Madelaine's manager and close friend Sam Helyard, who is also 16 years old, told us that Madelaine was "hysterical with excitement" about her song getting viral on the Internet.
According to Sam, below are some more information about Madelaine Zammit:
- Madelaine "always had a passion for singing".
- When she's bored she just writes music. She has five other songs.
- She hadn't done any "proper (music) gigs yet" but hoped to do one soon.
