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The BBC’s ‘Visual Graphic’ of the Top 100 Sites

Friday, den 12. March 2010

As part of their ‘Superpower’ season, the BBC have created an ‘Interactive Graphic’ showing the internet’s top 100 websites in terms of monthly traffic, as measured by Nielson.
The data has been segemented by industry, and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia.
To view this extremely useful and interesting graphic [...]

AOL, Bing, Ebay, Facebook, Google, MSN, Microsoft, Social Media, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube | 0 Kommentar »

Youtube tries out flashless videos with HTML5

Thursday, den 21. January 2010

Thanks to the new HTML5 Standards you can play videos directly through html with no plugins required. Naturally Youtube has taken advantage of this and has been running a few beta tests on the idea with full html video pages.
You can now sign up to a beta testing area which will run all your videos [...]

Chrome, Google, Web 2.0, YouTube | 0 Kommentar »

Google Introduce Automatic Captions for YouTube

Thursday, den 19. November 2009

Today Google introduced a new feature on YouTube, Automatic Captions. This will enable users to get captions on any video uploaded onto YouTube. To enable captions; simply click on the bottom right of a video and click on the CC button. YouTube is using the technology from Google Voice to automatically create the captions. See [...]

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YouTube Adds In Depth Stats to Videos

Thursday, den 23. July 2009

YouTube have recently added a new statistics feature to it’s videos which allows users to:
– View how many views the video has had on a timeline
- View which websites have embedded their video and when (this is then relayed on the timeline)
- View Refferals from other YouTube videos
- View what the user searched on [...]

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YouTube Testing 3D Vidoes

Tuesday, den 21. July 2009

A video recently popped up on YouTube with options to view in 3D, this shows YouTube are currently testing videos in 3D. Check here for forum discussion.

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YouTube to take on Google Adwords Sponsored Search Model

Thursday, den 13. November 2008

In a bid to monetise YouTube, Google have announced they are to test its Adwords Sponsored Search sytsem on the site it bought for 1.65bn in October 2006.
Brand Republic said ths:
“The YouTube Sponsored Video will allow people posting videos on YouTube to promote them in a sponsored videos section. The poster can then bid on [...]

Adwords, Google, Social Media, YouTube | 0 Kommentar »

GAudi – Google Audio indexing service, beta

Wednesday, den 12. November 2008

Google have recently released the audio indexing service (beta version) for YouTube videos –known as GAudi, which will undoubtedly make an impact in SEO practices within the following years. Although still in a developing stage and with many bugs and issues to be dealt with; it is expected that the service translates into text [...]

Google, Tug, YouTube | 0 Kommentar »

VideoSurf Set To Revolutionise Video Search

Tuesday, den 16. September 2008

A new video search engine called ‘Video Surf’ is open for beta and Bigmouthmedia have put together an article about its new features and why it aims to revolutionise the Video Search industry. Here’s a small snippet from the article:
“ VideoSurf is a video search engine whose technology looks set to revolutionise video search. [...]

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Google Ordered To Hand Over YouTube Data

Thursday, den 3. July 2008

A federal judge yesterday ordered Google to hand over to Viacom information about YouTube users’ viewing habits. U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton’s order set off a firestorm among privacy advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group contends the disclosure of the information would violate a federal privacy law and could potentially expose private [...]

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