Let’s annoy you by understating it and call these “uncertain” economic times. While it’s unclear what a tumultuous economy means for online business—after all, there was no Internet in the Great Depression—old standby General Motors saw its stock drop the lowest it’s been in half a century.
YouTube Fights Comment Idiocy With Audio Preview
Two things a person doesn’t always know: Who’s listening and how words are going to sound before they come out. The latter, if we want to get technical about it, is regulated by the orbitofrontal cortex of the amigdala, which unfortunately is switched off while a person uses the Internet—nonverbal communication is required for this to function properly—hence all the stupid comments loading down the Internet like a soiled diaper.
YouTube Launches Ecommerce Platform
YouTube has reached agreements with iTunes and Amazon.com to offer users "click-to-buy" links to download music, games and other products.
YouTube Putting Commercials in Videos
The other day, YouTube released its "HotSpots" feature as part of YouTube Insight. It is an analytics feature that allows users to pinpoint the moments in their videos that are the most popular.
YouTube HotSpots Show You Which Spots Are Hot
Earlier this year, YouTube rolled out YouTube Insight, an analytics program for videos that let users get a look into where and by whom videos were posted. They have launched a new feature of that service today, which allows you to actually pinpoint the specific parts of videos that get viewed the most. A post on the Official Google Blog explains:
YouTube Given Important Role In New Zealand Politics
One nice result of the U.S. economy’s implosion has been the news coverage of something other than American politics. But then the blame game begins, so to remove ourselves even further from McCain-Obama bickering, we can look to YouTube’s latest project: the ONE News YouTube Election Debate.
YouTube Video Causes Stir By Showing How Democrats Caused Crisis
In another example of the power of the Internet to move public perception, a video that shows how the Democrats caused the current financial crises has nearly 850,000 views just hours after being linked to by The Drudge Report.Updated (092908) to 850,000 views.
YouTube Co-Founder Talks About The Future Of Online Video
Online video has proliferated in the last ten years and YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley talks about the future of online video on the Official Google Blog.Hurley talks about how ten years ago online video was in its infancy and how it was used in closed settings with limited bandwidth and expensive and bulky video gear. He says it was the Internet that helped online video to grow.
YouTube Calls on Users to Build Help Center
A weekend post on the YouTube Blog is calling for users to make "informative, creative" videos to embed in the YouTube Help Center. Categories that users can make videos for include:
YouTube To Host Democracy Video Contest
The U.S. Department of State has launched a global video contest on YouTube that coincides with the United Nations’ first International Day of Democracy.