YouTube AND OTHER VIDEO-SHARING SITES (Thing 21)

I looked and listened to lots of videos on YouTube, Metacafe, Google Video, and LiveLeak. On YouTube and Metacafe you create and download your videos (if you sign up) to the site, however, anyone can watch most of the downloaded videos. Metacafe has the more unusual short-form videos and aims at uniqueness in entertainment. Google Video works like Google, except that it looks for videos. If you type in a term, the search engine will look for videos on that subject and will find videos on YouTube, Metacafe or somewhere else. LiveLeak is similar to YouTube, but it focuses on current news and events video clips. You can find videos on world news items, politics, war, entertainment, and the like. These videos are also used to generate discussion. The LiveLeak forum includes a blog and chat. You have to register to use these. Video sites are great time wasters, but not as much fun as game sites.