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Earlier today, YouTube announced “a new experimental experience for videos, playlists and channels.” It’s called Cosmic Panda and there’s no denying the fact that it fits perfectly into the whole Google+, Google redesigned branding experience.

Today Google is celebrating his 65th birthday, which would have been yesterday, and was celebrated internationally yesterday. Mercury died in 1991 of AIDS related bronchopneumonia. But like all famous musicians and artists, he lives on in his music. It looks like Google is a big fan of Mercury’s work and chose “Don’t stop me now” as the song to accompany its tribute to the man.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Canadians will not only have movies, but the new service includes features common to most modern DVDs such as behind the scenes videos, cast interviews and blooper reels (my favorite). YouTube will also offer parodies and remixes, a longtime popular offering at the video portal.

With the preseason halfway done, fantasy leagues drafting, and the Packers and Saints game nearing, NFL fans are relieved and ecstatic about the 2011 football season. Only one game was lost to the lockout, and while training camps were shortened, much of the sport has proceeded with business-as-usual. However the prevalence of social media has [...]

Equipped with a stunning 360-degree stage that allowed for surround-sound and panoramic viewing, the concert put every attendee directly into the action. This unique concert experience was part of LG’s “Bring Your World Alive” campaign empowering users to experience the benefits of mobile 3D entertainment by creating content that is unique and personal.

Every day millions of people visit the YouTube homepage and, because of this, the YouTube masthead is considered prime advertising real estate. Many brands dream of taking over the YouTube homepage for a day, or even for a few hours. But how effective are these homepage ads, really?

Ryan Nugent of YouTube’s Next Up Lab says, “50% of the work is making a great video and the other 50% is what you do when you upload it.” After the jump, we lay out some helpful rules and guidelines for optimizing your content.

Those opposing S.978 suggest that supporters of the bill are not aware of the negative ramifications because of causes which state high monetary rewards as a key factor of the infringers. Another issue that has come up recently is that those who are opposing the bill on YouTube, which are plenty, are not getting their facts straight and are wrong.

Earlier today, YouTube announced “a new experimental experience for videos, playlists and channels.” It’s called Cosmic Panda and there’s no denying the fact that it fits perfectly into the whole Google+, Google redesigned branding experience.

YouTube has been busy making changes to their embeddable video player. Last month they introduced a logoless player and now they’ve added a feature that allows YouTube users to add videos to one of their playlists to watch later, directly from the embedded player.

A new interactive YouTube game, called Nexus Contraptions, is a puzzle game that invites YouTubers to see how quickly they can build their own Nexus S by “bouncing, bubbling, and blasting Google apps into the phone.”