I know it’s not Friday when I usually publish this weekly feature but I can do more reading so why wait? Happy reading!
Five Things You Should Not Do On Your Home Page - Most people immediately press X button on their browsers after seeing cluttered home pages. If you want to avoid it, here are few things that you should not to do on your home page. Continue reading
Youtube is the second largest search engine there is and videos are an extremely effective way to build brand awareness, attract traffic to your blog and earn backlinks. To create your promotional videos all you need is a camera (a digital camera with a video option or a webcam0, tripod, microphone, and lighting. Continue reading
It’s no secret that Jennifer Aniston, who was previously married to Brad Pitt plans to marry again. This time to Justin Theroux. Likewise it’s no secret that “sex sells”. Aniston’s first Smartwater ad examines just what it takes for an internet video to go viral, but characterizing Aniston’s latest Smartwater video ad displaying on WordPress.com blogs as pornography is crazy. Continue reading
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On December 1, 2011 YouTube got a makeover inluding a new homepage, Channel design and a fresh coat of digital paint. Here are three ways these updates aim to improve your YouTube experience:
1. A new homepage – You can now create your own, personal, customizable YouTube Channel line-up, customize your homepage’s feed; even link your YouTube account to Google+ and Facebook.
2. Simpler, customizable Channels – There’s a new Channel design and now there are four new Channel templates too.
3. A new overall design - Feedback on the experimental design called Cosmic Panda insulted in a cleaner and simpler design, with a consistent gray background, bigger video thumbnails and a more streamlined watch page.
What do you think about these new features? Have they improved your YouTube experience?
Have you noticed the stars? The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go. Once you star something, it shows up above the search results. Stars make search more personal
If you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can and Matt tells you how. Link to a specific part of a YouTube video.
Video captions allow you to subtitle a video in the same language as the video, you can help people with low literacy improve their reading skills. Show and Translate YouTube Captions
Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and is asking for linkspam reports from you. Calling for link spam reports
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Last night my friends and I were discussing Google, Facebook and twitter. Some think Google Buzz is an answer to Facebook and others think that’s questionable.
In its report, the 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review, comScore noted that Twitter’s user base was just one-fifth the size of Facebook’s. In 2008, though, only 2 million people were on Twitter – meaning that its 2009 growth was a striking 900 percent. — Facebook leads in social networking traffic, but Twitter’s growth is unmatched
Sharing music, pictures and videos online has become popular among bloggers. Roads of The Price of Love features music regularly, and sometimes posts video, too. He has prepared a tutorial that will be useful to all bloggers who need to extract, convert and export video and audio files from digital cameras, mobile phones and YouTube and I’d like to draw reader attention to it. Continue reading
