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The idea behind YouTube Desktop is to bring a desktop applicationexperience to navigating and viewing YouTube videos through a webbrowser.
A few minutes ago an email dropped into my in-box from YouTubeDesktop.com— a product that I’d never heard of before — inviting me to try outtheir private beta. Claiming to be “something specialâ€, that manydevelopers had said was “programmatically impossibleâ€, I willingly putdown my coffee and fired up Firefox.The idea behind YouTube Desktop is to bring a desktop applicationexperience to navigating and viewing YouTube videos through a webbrowser.
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The end result, say the developers, is that YouTube Desktop providesa more convenient and easier way of browsing through the enormousamount of content available on YouTube.
Two areas where YouTube Desktop may run into legal trouble, however,is with their name — which could cause trademark issues — and the waythe site enables users to save YouTube videos to their PC. With regardsto the latter, as we’ve previously noted,many video sharing sites, including YouTube, have terms and conditionsthat may prohibit third parties from offering such a service.
You can download the videos in vi, mp4 (ipod), mov, 3gp (mobile), wmv, flv, exe (built in standalone player)
I wander if this advertising is accepted by YouTube.com (Google), though many "video aggregators" and search engines do similar things.
Video advertising
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Video advertising consists of putting your commercial video in front or at the end of the video clips in the website. That way users will see it while they watch some of the videos here. It is a very efficient way of advertising as you can specify how many times a day you want your video to appear and be sure that people will actually see it. Video advertising is proven to be extremely powerful way of increasing your benefit. It attracts customers' attention and leaves the most memorable impression compared to other ways of advertising. If you want to take advantage of this option, consider the budget you may allocate for your campaign based on the number of times you wish your video advertisement to show up. It's your decision how much you will spend and you can be sure that you will be satisfied with the result and the return of investment.
Website advertising
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The other option of advertising you may want to consider is advertising through your own website. If you choose this we will make you a website in new domain that will be subdomain of YouTube Desktop. That website may include only your own commercial videos and you can choose your own company theme. All the functionality and the modern design of YouTube Desktop will be available through your site and your visitors will be able to watch, download and arrange your videos in playlists. The flexibility and easy navigation will leave only good impressions in your users and will convince them to come again and recommend your website. That is a certain way to gain more customers and improve your business.
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What you’re about to see is said to be programmatically IMPOSSIBLE by developers, who were invited to test it.
They all say: “Are you sure its not Flash?! Can’t be! â€.
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YouTube Desktop is incredibly cool with a modern design and terrific dynamic web application for searching, watching and downloading videos from the richest online video archive YouTube.
Design
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Designing YouTubeDesktop we followed one primary idea – to bring normal desktop application experience to the browser – windows that can be dragged, resized, minimized in a tray, drag’n’drop of videos between players and results, standard menus – all with one goal – to make the richest web application for viewing and managing video content! You will be amazed by the flexibility and fabulous design of the website. It is user friendly and easy to navigate but also has great functionality.
Mission Statement(?)
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The main goal of YouTube Desktop is to provide users a convenient way of browsing through the enormous amount of online videos and to improve the experience - help them manage their favourite ones by saving them in playlists, downloading them onto the PC and many, many other options.
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We believe the best way to please our visitors is to give them the freedom to choose and manage as much as possible. Giving them a completely new point of view on a web application – something never seen on the internet!
Features
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+ The REAL Web 2.0 Experience
+ Interface, designed to be used just like every other desktop application
+ Fast flexible searching, displaying the results with option to resize them, so you can use the site even when sitting in your sofa and watching on a plasma TV – will look just as perfect!
+ Managing Playlist – create and save any video to watch later or share them with friends!
+ Watching multiple videos at the same time - you can have more than one player open – all made easy using standard functionality – dragging and resizing the windows, minimizing them within the tray – never been easier!
+ Download Videos as avi, mp4 (ipod), mov, 3gp (mobile), wmv, flv, exe (built in standalone player) - all converted on the fly. That gives you the chance to save all your favourite videos on your computer and watch them whenever you want.
+ Drag and Drop interaction – Allows you to drag videos around to create a new player or playlist.
+ Change themes – set the way the site looks according to your mood
+ Share videos with friends - send url's and recommend videos to friends through e-mail
+ View your recently played videos.
+ And there are many more features we are about to add soon!
You can access YouTubeDesktop by going to http://www.youtubedesktop.com
Username : ytd
Password : ytd
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