Yesterday, YouTube has announced international versions of web video services. It has launched nine versions across Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK.

“Video is universal and allows people around the world to communicate and exchange ideas,” said Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder.

“Our mission is to entertain, inform and empower the world through video.” More than half of all viewers on YouTube were now from outside the US, Mr Hurley also added.

“We want to create a YouTube experience that is a local experience,” said Steve Chen, the service’s other co-founder.

“It’s not just about translating, it also about creating content unique to certain countries.”

I hope YouTube will launch in many more countries in the near future.

Flickr, the popular online photo-sharing site, said on 12th June it is moving further to internationalize the service by available versions in seven major languages besides English.

Flickr introduce sites in French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese, with other languages to follow. You can change your language by clicking on the available language links at the footer of every page. Flickr will remember your selection for your next visit. Due to change your language preference, you should take a new uploader as well. At the moment Windows versions are available.

YouTube has begun offering a Web-Based Remixer Tool that is powered by Adobe Premiere.

The “remixer” which is enables users to create more professional look of videos by fix together video clips, music, graphics and other effects, according to information found on the site. It lets you assemble your new video in an easy drag-and-drop timeline, and then publish it right back to YouTube.

Its been more than two weeks and haven’t posted anything new. Now I am back to blogging. I thank all my blog buddies for checking on me. 😉