The 81-year-old British monarch launched her own video site on YouTube, featuring old news reels and film snippets of daily royal life.The queen will use the site to send out her annual televised Christmas message, a tradition she began 50 years ago.
The palace began posting archive and recent footage of the queen and other royals on the official Royal-Channel on YouTube on Sunday, with plans to add new clips regularly.
YouTube, which enables anyone to upload and share video clips, was founded in 2005.
The United Nations' food aid agency has called on budding film-makers to help it raise awareness of hunger and bring the reality of abject poverty and suffering to the "YouTube" generation.
The World Food Program (WFP) launched a contest on Wednesday for "edgy 30 or 60 second video(s) that will make the online community buzz about global hunger," it said.
The five best films will be posted on the WFP's YouTube site, with the overall winner receiving a trip to one of the agency's relief operations.
YouTube, famous for its entertaining clips, now has a growing list of informative videos, too, posted by experts on many subjects - including dentistry.
Dr. Jerry Gordon (dentalcomfortzone.com) is the director and star of the video, "Root Canal Demonstration." Looking relaxed and friendly, Gordon explains the ins and outs of the procedure.
> Now on YouTube: Day at the dentist
Given the success that some YouTube "stars" have had -- with Dutch singer Esmee Denters signed to a boutique label run by Justin Timberlake, and Ysabella Brave also signed to a recording contract -- it's not surprising that some record labels would try to do an end-run around the process and create a YouTube "sensation" out of whole cloth.
> YouTube redefines the word "fake"
On October 9, 2006, with the Dow hovering near a record 12,000, the markets got a jolt. Google, the eight-year-old money machine, announced it would buy YouTube, the eighteen-month-old Web video-sharing phenomenon, for $1.65 billion in stock.
The United Nations' food aid agency has called on budding film-makers to help it raise awareness of hunger and bring the reality of abject poverty and suffering to the "YouTube" generation.
Given the success that some YouTube "stars" have had -- with Dutch singer Esmee Denters signed to a boutique label run by Justin Timberlake, and Ysabella Brave also signed to a recording contract -- it's not surprising that some record labels would try to do an end-run around the process and create a YouTube "sensation" out of whole cloth.
