The second annual YouTube Video Award nominees were announced last week (view 1st annual here). After a week of voting, the winners have been chosen! YouTube does this to reflect on the year and recognize the best videos of 2007, although now that we're three months into 2008, we've just about forgotten the happenings of 2007.

About a week ago, Ryan wrote about a way that you could watch high-resolution YouTube videos by adding something on to the end of the YouTube URL.

One of our favorite options for listening to music for free online with no strings attached is Songza. We did a review of it back in January and one of the things we liked most about it was its simple interface and the option they offer to create playlists.

Many social sites have had to deal with gaming in one form or other. Digg for example, has had big issues with people trying to game the content. Some say that it's a legitimate form of marketing in a social media age like we have today while others say that manipulating content should not be tolerated.

Last Tuesday, the team over at YouTube posted a blog entry that explained their new experimental personalized homepages that they were getting ready to launch. On Saturday, the new personalized homepages were made available. Here's a quick run-through on what they've done:

The words YouTube and "high-resolution" have never really fit well in the same sentence. YouTube has always greatly limited the resolution of their videos to conserve on bandwidth, but going forward that may not always be the case. As it turns out there is a little something that you can add on to the end of a YouTube URL to have it play a high-resolution version of the same video.

For you enjoyment, the YouTube Video of the day:

Not long ago, Google.com stood at #2 on Alexa.com's list of most visited websites around the World. They've had their #2 spot taken away though and now the list looks like this:

It's Valentine's Day and sites around the web are celebrating. Below you'll find a collection of screenshots that we took from different sites around the web that are celebrating Valentine's Day in some way or another.

It's been a few days now since Yahoo launched their experimental live video service called Yahoo! Live. It launched with such quietness and without fanfare that many of you probably haven't even heard about it yet.

It's Super Tuesday in the United States today which means that a good chunk of states are holding their primaries or caucuses. A whopping 52 percent of Democratic delegates and 41 percent of Republican delegates are up for grabs with 24 states heading to the polls.

The upcoming presidential election this year in the United States is turning out to be very different than in years prior.  One reason for this is that the Internet has become a HUGE ground for candidates to gain support and get their message out.

Personalized homepages were spotlighted in March with Yahoo completing a huge redesign for My Yahoo! and Google launching a variety of dramatically changing themes for  their Personalized Homepages. Additionally, it was a rough month for YouTube after Viacom sued them for $1 Billion dollars.

Back in May of this year, YouTube started the process of sharing the wealth and paying some of their top users for their unique video content.  More specifically, 100 high profile partners were accepted into the YouTube Partner Program and were able to make some decent money (reportedly thousands per month).

YouTube has nearly mastered the whole concept of video sharing in its current form, so the next step is to improve what they have to offer something even better. There's always room for improvement no matter what you're doing! The obvious improvement for YouTube would be to offer high-quality videos which according co-founder Steve Chen, we should see within three months.

IBM recently reported the results of a survey they conducted called "End of Advertising" to see how people felt about current methods of marketing and advertising. One interesting finding from the survey was this - 11% of the 2400 consumers surveyed said they would be willing to pay a nominal fee to view online video content free of ads.

Given the fact that Google Video has had a software based uploader for quite some time, you would have thought that YouTube could offer the same thing. They haven't though, up until now. Just yesterday YouTube announced that there is now a multi-video uploader available for download.

Have you ever wondered what software powers sites like YouTube, Flickr, and MySpace? Wonder no more because Pingdom has the scoop! The results are located in the table above, and as you can see Linux, Apache, and MySQL are among the most popular tools. In the end this is how the stats play out:

When NBC Universal and News Corp announced that they were teaming up back in March, most people assumed that they were doing so to take on YouTube by launching a video sharing site. As it turns out, they had no intention of competing with YouTube and instead had their eyes set on creating a place where people would be able to view video content online.

YouTube designers and developers are in the process of making quite a few  changes to both the look of YouTube and some of its features. They say that some changes will be to existing features, but they'll also be rolling out some new ones.  In the mean time, they've put together a preview of what the new browsing page will look like. Ready to see it?