Valentine's Day may be a month away, but we're already talking amore in the YouTube Screening Room . For the next two weeks, we're featuring a collection of films that tackles the most ubiquitous of human emotions'love. But don't be fooled: these aren't your grandma's love stories. These films deal with love in all its glory and all its disappointment. First up, we're proud to present Dan Klores' award-winning feature documentary, Crazy Love ,

Since the launch of Project: Report back in September, aspiring journalists have been working hard to report on important stories in their communities. Our five finalists have prevailed through three rounds of competition and are within touching distance from the grand prize: a $10,000 fellowship with the Pulitzer Center to report on a story abroad.

From scores of submissions, the programming team at the Sundance Film Festival whittled down YouTube's Project: Direct competition to 10 finalists, to be voted on by you, the YouTube community. At stake: a trip to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to meet with the Festival's director of programming, a special industry screening, and invaluable exposure that will help one worthy filmmaker turn their hobby into a career. Now, after a week of voting, the ballots have been counted,

While we're all wishing for health, happiness and love in 2009, the 10 finalists in YouTube's Project Direct short film competition are likely hoping the New Year will bring something entirely different: a chance to attend the 2009 Sundance Film Festival as the winner of Project Direct! Their fate will be sealed in approximately 24 hours after all of you cast your final ballots at youtube.com/projectdirect. To make your last chance to vote easy,

So here it is: 2009. And after our 24-video marathon run through 2008's memorable moments, hopefully you're feeling suitably entertained and fired with enthusiasm for the year ahead. But before we move on into the unknown, let's take closer look at some of the videos we have featured through the day â€" be it for the sake of Auld Lang Syne, or just for kicks. Because here at YouTube there is nothing we like more than a bit of backstory to place a video in context.

It has been a busy and exciting year here at YouTube. With 13 hours of video uploaded every minute, hundreds of millions of views a day and 23 country-specific versions of the site, apart from anything else we were faced by a mountain content to sift through and myriad factors to bear in mind when compiling our end-of-year list of memorable moments.

As 2008 comes to a close, we pause to pay our respects to those notables we lost this year. Today's homepage salute honors a wide range of the dearly departed - amongst them, a 20th Century movie legend admired for his work in philanthropy, the South African singer and human rights activist known as "Mama Africa" , a comedian who shared the humor behind "Seven Dirty Words," to a computer science professor who taught his life's wisdom via "The Last Lecture".

Drum roll please'the prestigious programming team at the Sundance Film Festival has reviewed the many outstanding films submitted to this year's Project Direct short film competition and the results are in! We were thrilled to see so many of you who competed in last year's contest return for more, and we were equally thrilled to see so much new talent alongside them. In fact, some of last year's finalists made it into the top 10 once again,

A week ago, the vlogbrothers took a break from their usual routine of filming puppies doing cute things and punishing each other , to launch the "Project for Awesome ," a call to all YouTube users to "take over YouTube" by creating videos that promote their favorite charity, nonprofit or cause. Today,

Every day we work with the music community to license your favorite music for you to use on YouTube. But music licensing is very complicated. The right to use a single song often requires permission from multiple owners, particularly when it comes to original fan-made videos that incorporate commercial music. We work with the music industry worldwide - with major and independent labels and publishers, rights collecting societies,

The final videos are in for the third and last round of Project: Report , the journalism contest YouTube is holding in partnership with the Pulitzer Center . Now is your chance to view the five finalists' submissions and vote to determine which of these aspiring journalists you think should win the grand prize - a $10,000 fellowship with the Pulitzer Center to report on a story abroad. At the outset of Round 3, the five finalists were each given two Sony video cameras.

We have two developments that we would like to share with you: the expansion of our HD player and a test of three new landing pages designed to help you find the news, music and movies YouTube videos that matter most to you. HD on YouTube Starting today, if you click the "watch in HD" option below any HD-enabled video, the video will automatically play in widescreen â€" so you can find out where the hell Matt is in glorious HD, if you so wish. As part of this launch,

We wanted to give everyone a heads up that we'll shortly be expanding all standard channels over to the new 960 pixel width. This is the same change we made with the video watch page a few weeks ago, and will make channels wider, beautiful-er, and consistent with the rest of the site. Have channel backgrounds you want to get ready for the change? You can get a sneak peak of what your channel will look like by visiting the following URL today: http://www.youtube.

As you're making that list of presents and checking it twice, there are several YouTube channels that are hoping you'll add a charitable donation to your gift-giving plans. Nonprofit organization Changing the Present is asking users to donate livestock - the real gift that keeps on giving - to impoverished farmers, while Marine Toys for Tots invites you to supply a toy for a child in need. Socially responsible organizations are also getting in on the act. This holiday season,

It's been a year of crisis in the global economy. The collapse of credit has left countless people in crushing debt, prompted governments to bail out their nation's strongest companies and brought instability to markets that had seen decades of fast growth in a newly globalized economy. That's the bad news. The good news is that it often takes a crisis to bring about change. This year at the World Economic Forum )WEF( in Davos, Switzerland,

Last year we introduced our "holiday video card," and over a million of you sent fun and festive video cards to your friends and loved ones. This year we're bringing it back with even more themes and featured videos for you to choose from, like this one: To create your card, visit the YouTube Greeting Cards site where you can choose from dozens of holiday videos uploaded by the YouTube community. Or if you prefer,

We've always been committed to providing you with the tools to have the best possible YouTube experience. Educating parents, teens, and families on how to stay safe on our site is a critical part of that commitment, so we can't think of a more appropriate place to introduce our new Abuse and Safety Center than at the Family Online Safety Institute ) FOSI ( conference in Washington, D.C., today.

Today marks the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights )UDHR(. In commemoration, human rights organizations are using YouTube to inform citizens about the significance of the UDHR and the human rights violations that still plague our society. Today's homepage features a sample of these videos, such as the animated piece below which includes information about the UDHR )as well as a catchy soundtrack(: Meanwhile, WITNESS ,

YouTube gives you the chance to stay on top of news and current events , practice some sweet dance moves , explore new hobbies and interests , and a whole lot more. So, today the Google Desktop team is pleased to release a YouTube gadget for Google Desktop . Once installed, you'll be able to bring up the gadget in an instant and search for videos )hint: pressing the shift key twice brings up all your hidden Desktop gadgets(. The videos will play directly inside the gadget,

Índice das mudanças O player: - O player do YouTube agora é maior: com 640x360 )proporção 16:9(. - Vídeos no formato padrão, na proporção de 4:3, ficarão entre faixas, o que significa que eles estarão centralizados no player com duas faixas pretas em cada lado. Layout de página: - O YouTube agora tem 960px de largura )contra os 875px anteriores( no Watch, Home, Search e Browse. - A página Watch LD )lado direito( tem agora 300px contra 360px - os anúncios estão bem melhores!