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A message from Apple to teens who have considered suicide

Gay, lesbian and transgender employees contribute a video to the "It Gets Better" project

Apple (AAPL) on Thursday offered the public a rare and surprisingly intimate look at some of the people who help make its products.

As their contribution to the "It Gets Better" website, more than a dozen gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Apple employees talked on camera about how they managed to survive high school.

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Thousands in London queue for iPad 2

"I only need to say this one sentence to get across the magnitude of this launch," wrote Julian Alexander (AKA Tommo_UK) on Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board Friday evening:

"The lines were bigger than for ANY launch, I have ever seen, for anything, anywhere. Including for any iPhone launched to-date or last year's iPad.

"Simply awe inspiring," he continued. "There must have been several thousand people lining up outside the MORE

Video: Walking the longest iPad 2 line

An hour after this was shot in NYC, the queue had swelled to nearly 1,200 people

The second edition of Apple (AAPL) tablet computer drew the largest crowd I've ever seen at New York's Fifth Avenue Apple Store. This was shot at 4 p.m. Friday. By the time the doors of the big glass cube opened, Gene Munster's team at Piper Jaffray had counted 1,190 heads.

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Apple posts iPad 2 keynote video

Apple (AAPL) has finally posted streaming video of Wednesday's iPad 2 event. You can get the full, 71-minute version here.

If your time is short, CNNMoney has boiled Steve Jobs' part of the proceedings down to 90 seconds here. If you have a few more minutes, ABCNews.com has 4:35 of Jobs' performance here. I've posted a vodpod of that one below the fold.

Cisco's online video gamble

As its traditional networking business slows, Cisco Systems believes it has found a new way to grow.

By Jon Fortt, contributor

While the rest of Silicon Valley buzzes about Facebook, Twitter, and tablet computers, networking-gear maker Cisco (CSCO) is betting big on Internet video. Cisco shook up the corporate teleconferencing market a few years ago with its TelePresence technology an Internet-based, high-def videoconferencing service and in October announced a "lite" version of the service MORE

Five ways the big networks are monetizing online video

From a lá carte to all-you-can-eat, Internet video programming has many pricing options -- none of which are 'free'

By John Patrick Pullen, contributor

I'm blacked out. Again. Earlier this spring, I subscribed to MLB.TV, Major League Baseball's online video service, and was told I'd have access to every regular season game live or on demand, where available, on the device of my choice. For $119 that seemed like a fair deal, MORE

Skype's $200 million ad opportunity

The video chat service is mostly free, for now. But if Skype just tiptoes into the advertising business, its returns could be massive.

Apart from Google (GOOG), Skype may be the largest consumer site on the web without a banner ad. So when the company filed its prospectus with the SEC Monday in preparation for an initial public offering, I noted with interest that advertising was called out as one of MORE

Verizon's Droid 2 leaked

An Android blog today practically did a review of the soon-to-be-released Motorola Droid 2.

AndroidandMe.com didn't leave much to the imagination in this "pre-review" of the new Motorola Droid 2, which is set to be announced on Wednesday and scheduled for release next month.

The original Droid and its successor are very  similar in appearance, with a new larger keyboard being the major difference from the outside.  The original Droid is black MORE

YouTube Cloud Editor: Is this Android's iMovie?

Today, YouTube revamped its video editing page to make it easier to edit YouTube videos.

As first spotted by the unofficial Google Operating System Blog, YouTube today sports a whole new Cloud video editing interface.

Check it out here.

YouTube had previously tried a Flash-based editing system a few years ago called 'Remixer' which wasn't very reliable and therefore unpopular.

'Editor' isn't based in Flash (though the output will be played in Flash if MORE

Videos: Steve Jobs talks about Flash, Google, Gizmodo, AT&T and more

All Things D is releasing video clips from Tuesday's interview one at a time. Here they are.

Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs spoke for nearly two hours Tuesday night in an extended interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher -- plus a Q&A with the audience. The videos are available at All Things D's site. We've collected all the clips they've made available so far, and will add more as they MORE