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Yesterday we reported that Justin Bieber's video Baby has become the first video ever to surpass 500 million views on YouTube. The flip side of that fame, though, was that Bieber's was by far the most disliked video on the site - having received ten times more dislike votes than what appeared to be the second-most disliked video (also by Bieber).

Then, everything changed. Rebecca Black's video Friday was burning up the charts - but especially the Dislike chart we created by extracting numbers from across the site. Today what seemed inevitable finally occurred - Rebecca Black's Friday surpassed Justin Bieber's Baby to become the most-disliked video of all time on YouTube. Friday currently has 1,187,200 dislikes - but that number has been climbing fast for days. It's hard to know what this all means - but surely it means something. Unless it means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Watch and listen to the new Anti-Queen of Broadcasting Yourself below and think about it. Don't be too mean though, this young woman is just 13 years old.

Teenage musician Justin Bieber will see his music video Baby surpass 500 million views on YouTube today or tomorrow, making it the first video ever to do so. Bieber's Baby is now far ahead of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, which is #2 at 360 million. Only 4 other videos on the site have been viewed even half as much as Baby.

Where Bieber dominates the most, however, is in how much his videos are disliked by YouTube viewers. YouTube doesn't provide the option of viewing by most disliked but we analyzed the 150 most viewed videos and here's the harsh truth: Bieber stars in 5 of the top 6 most disliked videos on the site. The #1 most disliked video on YouTube is Baby, with 1.1 million dislikes. That's an incredible amount of dislike! In fact, it's 1 million more dislikes that the #2 most disliked video on the site - Bieber's Never Say Never, which has just under 100 thousand dislikes. We've posted a chart below of the top 10 most disliked videos on YouTube, which you can ponder while listening to Justin Bieber's Baby. UPDATE! There has been a disruption in the force and Rebecca Black's Friday has soared past all other challengers and will likely top Bieber as the most disliked video on the site any day or hour now. Update Again: It's officially over - Rebecca Black has won, or lost, depending on how you look at it.

YouTube sees a whole lot of video uploaded to its servers every day - and a lot of that is bumpy, blurry, choppy footage. The Google-owned site said today that 35 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute - much of it is now shot on mobile phones.

In order to improve the quality of those videos, YouTube announced today that it has acquired an Irish company that makes video enhancement magic technology. Called Green Parrot Pictures, YouTube says the 6 year old company has built "cutting-edge video quality improvement technology that has been used in major studio productions from Lord of the Rings to X-Men to Spider-Man. Their technology helps make videos look better while at the same time using less bandwidth and improving playback speed."

Although enterprise video adoption is slow, several platforms are competing to bring the simple video sharing experience of services like YouTube to business users. Here's a look at five of them.

Each of these solutions give uses the ability to upload video, encode it, view and share it online and track analytics.

There are already plenty of places to get licensed content streamed online - from Netflix to Amazon Video On Demand - and equally as many to stream video live. So where can YouTube go next with user-created online video?

YouTube's next step is just that - YouTube Next. The Google-owned video network acquired NextNewNetworks, a video network with more than 2 billion views and 6 million subscribers.

YouTube is in talks with the National Basketball Association and other major sports leagues about winning the rights to broadcast games live on the internet, a Google executive in charge of partnerships in South Korea has told Business Week. Could Google outbid the major TV networks, who pay hundreds of millions of dollars in multi-year, multi-billion dollar licensing contracts to broadcast major US sports live? It certainly seems possible.

Disney and TNT are currently half-way through 8 year contracts with the NBA for an undisclosed sum that will conclude with the 2015-2016 season. Google began covering live cricket matches in India last year and another company staff member told Business Week's Jun Yang that "It's fair to say that there will be a lot more appealing sports content you'll see on YouTube." Live NBA games though? That would be insane. Such is the nature of the media disruption underway, though, is it not? Update: Staci Kramer at Paid Content got a denial from the NHL and asserts that NBA talks were only regarding broadcast in Asia. If that's the case, that's too bad.

The current unrest in the Middle East is a complex, unfolding story - but to technologists it's clear that tech and the Web are a key point of contention and enablement of contentious expression.

Technology companies are making efforts to help the Egyptian protesters express themselves and self-organize. How can technologists seeking to help do so most effectively? This is likely to be a type of story we hear about many other places in the future. Sometimes using technology to help people across borders and cultures can be challenging. We spoke with a number of technologists that serve international constituencies every day and asked them for their best advice.

Video sharing website YouTube has been highlighting video from the protests in Egypt for days, but tonight the official YouTube blog put up a post describing a number of steps it's taking to make sure the world knows what's going on in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and elsewhere around that country.

The Egyptian government is trying hard to black-out all media coverage of the huge protests challenging the three decade long rule of President Hosni Mubarak, but media is still getting out. YouTube appears to be doing what it can: every page on the site now has a banner pointing to the collection of Egypt protest videos, those videos are highlighted on the site's front page and YouTube is streaming Al Jazeera's coverage in English and Arabic. Imagine what would happen if Twitter and Facebook did something like this.

Yesterday, TechCrunch broke the news that Google had acquired Twitter sentiment analysis and recommendation engine fflick. Today, YouTube posted its blog that it, a subsidiary of Google, had actually done the acquiring.

According to the post, YouTube will be using the "technical talent, design instincts and entrepreneurial spirit of the Fflick team" in its effort to roll out more features "that help you enjoy and discover new videos to watch."

A YouTube video is viewed on a mobile device on average more than 200 million times a day, Google announced today. That's a 3X increase over the end of last year. The service's incredible momentum was announced alongside version 2.0 of YouTube Mobile for Android, which puts a heavy emphasis on music videos from Vevo, the YouTube joint project that includes content from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI.

App users will now be able to read artist bios, find related artists and ponder mobile advertisements galore in the new version of the app. People who use YouTube by mobile use it a lot. It will be interesting to see if making some of the most popular content, music videos, even easier to consume by mobile will lead to an even bigger jump in use than has been seen to date. One thing's for sure, it's now been 3 years since the words "broadcast yourself" were removed from the YouTube logo - and those days when the site emphasized user generated content sure are gone.