YouTube is known to be one of the most visited websites on the web. Many people have a YouTube account as well as posting videos. For many years, YouTube had a limit of only 10 minutes per video. Without question, the number one requested feature by the members is to be able to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. Well, YouTube finally listened to our requests and increased the upload time by five minutes. Now, thanks to Google, you can upload videos up to 15 minutes long. I know this will be a huge help for me when it comes to making some videos.

This isn’t the only cool thing that YouTube is doing. YouTube is doing a little contest thing called the “15 Minutes of Fame.” Imagine that this video is all the world will ever know about you: What would you want to communicate? What will be the enduring stamp you’ve left on us all? Create this video and tag it “yt15minutes,” and upload it by Wednesday, August 4, 2010 and you might get selected to be featured on the homepage of YouTube.

One final note: if you’re uploading a video that was previously rejected for being too long, you’ll have to go into “My Videos” and delete it before attempting to upload it again. Thanks and happy uploading!