Their amateur videos and photographs began appearing on video-sharing sites, such as YouTube and CNN's iReport.
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The NGOs also produced a video and posted on ku6.com, a popular Chinese video-sharing website.
Authorities were also investigating notes and videos Auvinen had posted on YouTube, the online video-sharing site.
During Schmidt's tenure, Google also bought video-sharing site YouTube and branched out into other areas, with mixed results.
Short-form video-sharing apps have been around for a few years now without catching on in any substantial way.
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Footage of a toddler from Plymouth playing table tennis has proved to be a smash on video-sharing website YouTube.
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Google's video-sharing website is heavy with media as well, and Godskind says it provides a better comparison to MySpace.
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YouTube, the original video-sharing website, became famous for water-skiing squirrels and bedroom musings.
The 14-minute-long video, which was made in the US, was first uploaded to the video-sharing site in July last year.
Pakistan's interior minister says he will restore access to video-sharing website Youtube in the coming hours, months after it was blocked.
It runs the consumer e-mail service for dozens of carriers worldwide and recently bought a Web photo- and video-sharing site called Twango.
Sure, there are a number of mobile video-sharing apps out there, but none have yet reached anything resembling Instagram-like levels of ubiquity.
In Pakistan earlier this year the authorities (inadvertently, they claim) briefly made YouTube, a popular video-sharing site, inaccessible even for users abroad.
Today, Animoto, a New York-based startup that makes photo and video-sharing software, launched its own web store with a decidedly quirky collection of items.
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While Sotzing and O'Leary admit YouTube and other video-sharing sites seem a logical fit for Carson's content, they have been hesitant because of legal concerns.
Additionally, the site has an integrated video-sharing utility which enables members and visitors to upload and share African movies, TV shows, videos, music and photos.
The eight Democratic presidential candidates fielded questions in Charleston, South Carolina, from a giant video screen that projected questions from videos uploaded to video-sharing site YouTube.
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His comments were aired on television, and the footage received thousands of hits on YouTube and other video-sharing websites, prompting a public outcry and calls for his resignation.
Part of the video-sharing site's defense is that any copyright violations posted to the site are the fault of the users who put them there, not YouTube itself.
That was the case for video-sharing companies like Viddy Inc.
In the early days of YouTube, Mortiz gave the founders of video-sharing site rooms at Sequoia's offices as they tackled the challenge of how they could send videos easily.
In November, she was presented with the first ever YouTube Visionary Award for her bold use of the video-sharing network to discuss stereotypes about Islam and the Arab world.
But short, user-generated video-sharing has staying power, he says.
Google, which owns YouTube, rejected a request from the White House to remove the film from the video-sharing site, but blocked access to it in Libya, Egypt, Indonesia, India and Saudi Arabia.
People were turning to the video-sharing website to get the latest from people on the ground who had "uploaded their experiences live and in the midst of the action", the spokesperson added.
Always fond of an ambitious algorithm, Google, which owns the Web's top video-sharing site, has set out to try to determine scientifically which videos are the funniest, and what makes them so.
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