Olivia and I have just arrived here in Davos, where we’re working with several panels of experts to bring your voice to the discussions taking place here. We just finished a panel on Social Media, moderated by Loic LeMeur and featuring Evan Williams of Twitter, Owen Van Natta of Myspace, Gina Bianchini of Ning and several others.

We were able to pose two of the Moderator questions to the group assembled, here they are:

Question 1:

“The …

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Today, voters in Sri Lanka are heading to the polls to cast their ballot for president, culminating an election season that has been saturated with violence - in the past two weeks, at least four people have been killed in election-related attacks. This video contains more details, as well as information about the precautions being taken to ensure a fair election:

The race between current President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his challenger, the former army …

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Every year, the President of the United States addresses a joint session of Congress to deliver his State of the Union address. Required by the U.S. Constitution, the address is the president’s chance to take stock of the current condition of the United States and lay out his political agenda for the new year. Presidents have long used new technology to share their message directly with the American people. Calvin Coolidge was the first president to broadcast the State …

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For the past three years at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, YouTube has partnered with WEF to give YouTube users the chance to send videos to world leaders. Fom a special production booth up the Swiss Alps, presidents, CEOs, and global change-makers respond directly to those videos throughout the conference. This year, we’re opening up the conference even further by allowing you to share your ideas using our new Moderator tool which will be incorporated into three different panel …

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When President Obama decides to travel outside Washington, all most people see is the speech he gives. But imagine what it must be like to coordinate the travel of the world’s most powerful leader. Security, logistics, media… it’s an undertaking that requires hundreds of people and thousands of man hours. Here’s a great behind the scenes look that the White House just posted detailing one of the more interesting and stressful places to work in government: the Presidential Advance team.
<br …

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Over the past week, citizens and organizations from around the world have rallied around Haiti, offering tremendous aid for the relief effort currently underway. But even though tens of millions of dollars have been raised online via sites like YouTube, Haiti’s road to recovery will be long, and more financial support is desperately needed.

That’s why tonight, in partnership with a variety of media companies, we’re live-streaming “<a href=”http://www.youtube.com/hopeforhaitinow” title=”Hope …

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It’s been one year since the U.S. government came to YouTube with the launch of the official White House YouTube channel and President Obama’s inaugural address. Soon after, we launched our Senate and House …

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Last December, I joined John King from CNN at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., for a half-hour television show on the future of television news, hosted by Frank Sesno. The show was part of a 10-part series put on by the Newseum, in partnership with American Public Television (with a grant from Ford). We were the final show, and our conversation brought together emerging trends in new media and how they’re affecting TV. The …

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As Republicans across the country celebrate the victory of Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate special election yesterday and Democrats mourn the loss of Martha Coakley, they’re turning to YouTube to share their feelings. User Zack Silverman encourages Democrats to fight back, while this Massachussets voter, congratulates Brown on his win and is greeted by positive comments:

And …

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Exactly one year ago today, Barack Obama took office as President of the United States — and what a year it’s been. From the economic crisis and the battle over health care, to the global challenge of climate change and the threat of terrorism at home and abroad, 2009 was a challenging one for the country, and most Americans would agree the nation is facing some of our biggest and most complex challenges in decades.

Today on our homepage we’re featuring analysis of …

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Siblings of the three hikers who have been imprisoned in Iran after accidentally wandering over the border last year have started a compelling personal appeal on YouTube to raise awareness for their cause. Alex Fattal, brother of hiker Josh Fattal, produced this video asking for video responses to make an appeal to the Iranian government to free the three UC Berkeley graduates, who haven’t been heard from directly since their imprisonment almost six months ago.

If you haven’t …

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With millions of dollars already raised for his nonprofit organization, Yele Haiti, Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has emerged as the face of celebrity fundraising for earthquake relief efforts. In the past few days, however, there have been multiple accusations about Yele Haiti’s questionable financial record - including allegations that Wyclef is personally benefitting from the charity.

In response, Wyclef turned to YouTube to clarify matters for the public. See his video statement …

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Dr. King, one of the United States’ most beloved national heroes, led the nation through the struggles of the civil rights movement with great courage and impassioned oration. Today, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, the Washington Post is inviting people to share videos illustrating which of Dr. King’s words inspired them most. We’re showcasing videos on the homepage today that feature portions of his speeches — both …

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Pretty incredible footage here, captured by a bystander who happened to be filming a house fire near his home. There’s lots of video of fires uploaded to YouTube every week, but it’s not every day that you capture a moment like this one. This citizen reporter is recording what’s happening as fire fighters try to get inside of the door as flames leap out of the …

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What was only meant as a tourist video of the street scenes of Port-au-Prince is now a chilling reminder of what life was like before the earthquake hit Haiti this week. This clip, shot by a Japanese tourist, shows the bustling streets of the Haitian capitol in Mid-December 2009… the bustling streets seem eerily calm in comparison to what’s unfolded since. View counts on this one have been rising quickly over the past few days as people discover a simple look back into pre-earthquake Haiti through …

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In the three days since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, we’ve continued to see hundreds of thousands of people using YouTube to share information and donate money to help those suffering in one of the worst tragedies in recent memory. Since Tuesday, the American Red Cross has been featured on our homepage, collecting donations through videos like <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs3uhophuPA&feature=featured” …

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About 18 months ago, we published a graph showing that Unicode on the web had just exceeded all other encodings of text on the web. The growth since then has been even more dramatic.

Web pages can use a variety of different character encodings, like ASCII, Latin-1, or Windows 1252 or Unicode. Most encodings can only represent a few languages, …

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Thursday, January 28th marks International Data Privacy Day. We’re recognizing this day by publicly publishing our guiding Privacy Principles.

• Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services.
• Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards and practices.
• Make the collection of personal information transparent.
• Give …

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  (Cross-posted with the Google Students Blog)
  We know firsthand how vital a good science or math education is to building products that change the world and enrich peoples’ lives. We’re committed to supporting students in their pursuit of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields — particularly those from traditionally under-represented …

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  Late last year we released the Social Search experiment to make search more personal with relevant web content from your friends and online contacts. We were excited by the number of people who chose to try it out, and today Social Search is available to everyone in beta on google.com.

  We’ve been having a …

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  Today we’re excited to introduce a new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows, which includes two of the browser’s most frequently requested features: extensions and bookmark sync.

  Extensions let you add new features and functions to your browser. Some provide one-click access to some of your favorite web applications like eBay and <a …

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  This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.

  The Google that you used today is actually better than the Google that you used yesterday. On a daily basis, we make a number of algorithmic enhancements and release other search features that ultimately make finding what …

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  During the past couple months, the Knol team has been steadily adding improved tools to help you create better knols. Most notably, we’ve greatly expanded the number of embeddable objects to help you make your knols more graphical and interactive. We’ve been excited by the many uses we’re seeing, and today we have one more to add to the list: PicApp.

  We think it’s important for a publishing platform like knol …

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  It’s sometimes easy to take the little things in life for granted: a haircut, a shower, shoes or even a phone number. Sometimes life doesn’t turn out the way we planned, and those little luxuries become much harder to come by.

  Project CARE is a program to provide free Google Voice phone numbers and voicemail accounts to homeless individuals. The Google Voice team has been offering this program in the San Francisco Bay Area for …

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  Last year at our second Searchology event, we announced Google Squared and Rich Snippets, two approaches to improve search by better understanding the web. Today, we’re kicking off the new year with two improvements based on those technologies. First, we’re applying the research behind Google Squared to add a new “answer-highlighting” feature to search, and second we’re expanding Rich Snippets to include …

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