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YouTube recently introduced functionality to create interactive videos with annotation, and results are starting to appear, with users using the functionality to create some brilliant interactive entertaining videos, click the image below to checkout this amazing interactive magic card trick.

Ever wondered who is behind removal of videos you just wanted to see, but was presented by message saying the video was removed due to some kind of TOS violation, YouTomb - a research project by MIT Free Culture can provide you with some valuable stats, YouTomb continually monitors more then 225051 videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.

YouTube has started testing higher quality videos, all videos are not yet available in higher resolutions but should in the upcoming days, to try things out you need to append a special parameter to the existing video URL, appending &fmt=6 to the URL delivers a 448x336 resolution version of the video and appending &fmt=18 delivers a even better 480x360 resolution version, do keep in mind that higher quality videos need a lot of bandwidth and are not yet available for all the videos.

Regular 320x240 Resolution Version:

Better Quality 448x336 Resolution Version:

You can also use this handy YouTube GreaseMonkey script to take care of appending URl's automatically.

YouTube deletes videos for different reasons and if a video gets deleted you will see the message "We’re sorry, this video is no longer available", however even after the video unavailable for public viewing, the video might still be on YouTube servers and can be watched using specialized websites as listed below.

Before using the websites listed below, please keep in mind that the videos are deleted from YouTube for violation of YouTube policies, therefore websites below might result in explicit content and are not safe for work and minors.

Watching Deleted YouTube Videos:

1. DelUTube
2. FTVTeen
3. UnDeleTube

Speedbit - the makers of popular software "Download Accelerator Plus (DAP)" have came up with an interesting free software to speedup video loading of 60+ popular video websites like YouTube & MetaCafe, The new offering named SpeedBit Video Accelerator makes your videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions or "hiccups".

The software assigns a proxy to your web browser and all connections to the video are routed through SpeedBit servers, utilizing multiple connections resulting in videos without breaks and pauses.