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Horrible Histories and All That Chin Chin

Horrible Histories is a great example of using YouTube to repurpose content that originally aired on tv. This series of shorts from the BBC aims to educate not only the young, but I suspect the populace at large. I certainly learned something.  Children’s BBC comedy series based on the best selling books written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin
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Autoplay Video from YouTube on Facebook

The best way to promote video on your Facebook Fan Page is to create a page app and allow the embedding of video from an online service such as YouTube. You should however make sure that the video is set to autoplay. This is done by adding ;autoplay=1 at the end of the url within the YouTube iframe code. In this
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Becoming Whole and Real on YouTube

Logging into YouTube the other day, I was forced through a merger of sorts. This is one however that may cut down on those annoying and harrasing posts by folks who hide behind thier moniker. Linking your Google Plus profile to Youtube goes beyond the initial changeover from YouTube username to gmail account after the initial buy out by Google
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Halifax musician and songwriter Dave Carroll of United Breaks Guitars. The World Wrestling Entertainment had his famous video removed from YouTube, claiming copyright infringement. (Chronicle Herald)

Censorship Raises it’s Head as Copyright Infringement

Halifax musician and songwriter Dave Carroll, of United Breaks Guitars fame, is relieved he won’t have to climb into the wrestling ring. “I was threatening to start taking anabolic steroids ’cause I’m only 175 pounds. If I have to go up to those guys, I have to gain some weight,” he joked Monday. Carroll’s famous music video, in which he
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Pittsburg Dad Show How to Be a Big Fish.

  YouTube allows for the average person now to become somewhat of a celebrity, even if the reach is on a more local or regional scale. Pittsburg Dad is a web sitcom (categorized so because of the 80s style laugh track) which reaches to those of the Pittsburg community – be they still in the area, or have an affinity
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