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YouTube has launched a video editing tool which remixes your video files.

You can drag and drop your clips to a timeline (much like iMovie) and add music, effects, graphics, captions and borders. It may not be as sophisticated as Ulead Video Studio, or Avid Liquid, but it’s handy and free. Watch for more features to be added in the future.

Presidential debates "enter the world of YouTube" at this cosponsored event for eight Democratic candidates taking place July 23rd.  Questions will be culled from video questions posted by YouTube users, and the debate will be hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

No telling whether truly irreverent videos will be allowed to air.  CNN and YouTube will announce details soon regarding how they will sift through the millions of expected submissions.  No doubt this debate will be unique.

Read the Chicago Tribune coverage here.

Endangered languages like Welsh, Navajo and Breton have regained speakers and popularity in their communities and are now even considered "cool". Welsh language expert David Crystal said the Internet could change the inevitable extinction of about half of the world’s 6,500 languages.

"The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before."
"It doesn’t matter how much activism you engage in on behalf of a language if you don’t attract the teenagers, the parents of the next generation of children," Crystal, who was raised speaking English and Welsh, told Reuters.

Languages at risk of extinction are appearing on blogs, instant messaging, chat rooms, video site www.youtube.com and social networking site www.myspace.com.

According to Crystal, there are 50-60 languages in the world which have one last speaker, and around 2,000 have never been written.

Money is needed for this project and this is a particular problem for African and indigenous South American languages, where resources are low and governments favor dominant languages Spanish, French and English. Native American languages, especially Navajo, are more fortunate as they have many virtual communities on the Internet and are funded by the casinos the Navajos run.
source: Reuters

YouTube will be testing tools that will be able to tell if a video has been uploaded to the site without the copyright owner’s permission.

These video fingerprinting tools, which identify unique attributes in the video clips, will be available for testing in about a month, a YouTube executive said.

If testing is successful, the uploading of copyrighted clips could be prevented. YouTube plans to make the tools widely available to any copyright owner later this year.

MTV Networks-owner Viacom Inc. sued Google and YouTube for more than $1 billion in damages in March, charging intentional copyright infringement and demanded the removal of clips of "Colbert Report" and "Daily Show."