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Release Notes: Community-designed Doodle, global Halloween films, easier bug reporting, virtual keyboard...
Saturday, October 30, 2010
With it being Halloween season and all, we've got an especially spoooooky edition of Release Notes for you.
First-ever user-designed Doodle:
You may have noticed that once in a while, we change our homepage logo to match a special occasion -- for example, we've done it for Earth Day, the finale of YouTube Play, and yesterday's one billionth subscription milestone. But this Halloween we're especially jazzed because the Doodle you'll see on the homepage was designed by
xperpetualmotion
, a YouTube community member and Rhode Island School of Design student. Here's how she came up with the icon you see below: "I tried out a lot of different Halloween imagery before deciding on the classic 'holes cut out of a white sheet' ghost. It makes me smile every time, because what else could this kid possibly have under there that makes him that shape? I wanted the logo to be something fun and clever, and I hope everyone loves it as much as I do!" We certainly do! Thank you, Karen.
YouTube's first user-designed Doodle, by xperpetualmotion
Global Halloween films:
If you're in the U.S., U.K., Canada or Australia, we've got some exciting news to add to your seasonal mirth: our friends at
Crackle
made sure their Halloween offerings could be viewed by horror fans around the world, marking the first time a studio's made several full-length movies simultaneously available in multiple territories on YouTube. Click
here
for regional viewing dates for
Underworld: Evolution
,
Idle Hands
,
Mary Reilly
,
The Blob
and
The Bride
.
Report a bug:
No, we don't mean the creepy crawly kind, but the kind that may indicate something's broken. If you come across a problem on the site, scroll down to the new "report a bug" link at the bottom of any YouTube page. Clicking it will allow you to take an easy screenshot of the page and add further details in the pop-up box:
New "Send feedback" form
African language launches:
YouTube's now available in Amharic and Swahili. Click on the language link at the bottom of the page to change your language settings.
Type non-English text with the virtual keyboard:
We've made it easy for people to find videos in non-Latin script-based languages; the on-screen keyboard is available in 26 languages (Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Vietnamese, Slovenian, Romanian, Ukrainian). To use the virtual keyboard, switch the language of the site to one of the supported languages and click on the keyboard icon in the search box.
Here's where you can turn on the virtual keyboard
More efficient 3D player:
Our new player for 3D videos is much faster than the previous player, especially for HD resolution. Try enjoying
your favorite 3D clips
in high resolution and full screen with no lag.
The BooooooTube Team
UPDATE (8pm PT):
We just received this video from Karen, to go along with her Doodle:
Happy Solstice!
Monday, December 21, 2009
In honor of the shortest day of the year (at least here in the northern hemisphere), we've changed our
homepage logo
today to have a wintry feel. Happy holidays!
The YouTube Team
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