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Ten of the best sites about video sharing site YouTube. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page. (Related searches: Video Search, Metacafe, Funny Videos)

1. YouTube - Web site allows visitors to upload videos to share with the Web world as well as watch videos others have contributed. Videos can be tagged for categorizing, and the site offers personalization features to help you bookmark videos you like, videos you’ve uploaded, etc. (www.youtube.com)

2. YouTube You Choose ‘08 - Section of YouTube dedicated to videos from the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain, as well as selected news footage and videos created by the candidates’ supporters & detractors. (www.youtube.com)

3. Dancing by Matt Harding - One of YouTube’s greatest hits — a man dances all across the world. Oddly absorbing. (www.youtube.com)

4. Woman Gets Singing Contract From YouTube Videos - September, 2008 story about Dondria Fields, who posted YouTube videos of herself singing and eventually won a recording contract from it. (cbs11tv.com)

5. YouTube at Wikipedia - Online encyclopedia gives a history of YouTube from its founding in 2005 to the present. (en.wikipedia.org)

6. Google to Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock - October 9, 2006 press release from Google on its acquisition of video sharing service YouTube. (www.google.com)

7. No Free Cupcakes for YouTube; NBC Yanks ‘Lazy Sunday’ - February, 2006 article on “Saturday Night Live” skit hitting YouTube and NBC’s unamused reaction. The article questions NBC’s wisdom. (searchviews.com)

8. How a Bathrobed Reviewer Drew a Full House - October, 2006 profile of “Lazydork”, a.k.a. Richard Stern, who used YouTube and a bathrobe to become a big enough online star to, well, quit his job as a lawyer and try to become a professional poker player. We’re not sure what one has to do with the other, but the point is that YouTube made him a minor star. (www.washingtonpost.com)

9. Completely Unsubstantiated Google/YouTube Rumor - October 6, 2006 blog post was perhaps the first credible online source to report that Google was in talks to buy YouTube for over a billion dollars. (www.techcrunch.com)

10. YouTube Acquisition Rumors - January, 2006 blog post dissects the rumor of YouTube’s acquisition by one media giant or another, a battle eventually won by Google. (www.techcrunch.com)

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