Youtube - Part 3

Go Pro With Twitter ( hmm..not really! )

We can see some people tweeting valuable links, always. How is that possible? How can they find these valuable, interesting links always.

And to your wonder, you might have also noticed that, some people keep on tweeting valuable links without much delay. Are they really reading all those stuffs and selecting the best one and tweeting? They tweet links to YouTube Videos, blogs, Some photos, Digg story etc. How can they be all around the web at a time?

Now you can also be that pro….by using a tool or aggregator called StuffToTweet.com. It is an aggregator site, which has links to popular stories on Digg, Del.icio.us, CNN, New York Times, Amazon, YouTube, Some popular blogs, photo sharing sites etc.
You can also get the links to the tweets which are popular on Twitter.

Interesting enough, this site is built with the most wonderful tool WordPress. For many of the geeks or webmasters, building such website may not take more than 30 minutes. We can simply use the feed of some popular sites and aggregate it on to our website. And WordPress will make the process even simpler.

If you know of any similar service, then please share it with us in the comment section.

Now, only thing that we must make sure is: “Do not spam Twitter, with your valuable Tweets 🙂 “. Some people do not even bother to look at the story once, before tweeting it.

I prefer to use Twitter as a communication tool, rather than using it only to share links. But I was always wondering, how these people are tweeting valuable links from all over the web? Now we have the answer!

Image Ads Embedded Inside YouTube Videos

I had previously seen Text ads embedded inside some YouTube videos, but surprisingly today saw an image ad. So thought of sharing with you guys. So here is the video and some screen shots.

I don’t watch YouTube videos frequently, so it may even be late news for you guys. But still I think its nice to share with people who have not noticed it.
I am not talking about Adsense for Videos program, which is officially retired.

Text ads of various size:
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Have you spotted image ads inside YouTube videos ?

YouTube Logo Colour Scheme Changed? — Not Really

I got email from my friends who said me — “Hey YouTube logo has been changed, you write about it first on your blog, so that you rank well”. Thanks for their concern.

But actually the logo colour scheme has been changed only for one day. The green colour logo is to show its support to Saint Patrick’s Day. No official mention, but yet I am confirmed that YouTube have no intention to change its logo.

I am writing this post mainly to show my support for the Green and to share below screen shot with you people.

St. Paddy’s Day or simply Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick, one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Montserrat. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

As part of celebration people wear green dress, eat Irish food and/or green food, take Irish drink (such as Irish stout, Irish Whiskey or Irish Cream). Don’t you think now a days people have started celebrating by eating, dressing and drinking rather than really helping to build the real green, the Nature. Just my wage thoughts 🙂
Anyway, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.

Download YouTube Videos Officially

Everyone knows that video sites can be addictive. So YouTube had been the 4th most visited site for many years.
It comes to no surprise that people like to watch videos and want to download it to their computers or some other video players, to watch it offline and whenever they want to watch. There are many sites and software to fulfill these needs, those sites and software are also very popular.

Recently YouTube has officially announced that it is now giving video owners the chance to offer their property for download, either for free or for a small fee. Furthermore, the videos will be assigned to a specific Creative Commons license, which will govern how and where they can be reused and altered. Payment for the purchase of the videos will be made by GoogleCheckouts(Ofcourse) and a new My Purchases tab, which is already been incorporated into everyone’s account, will allow you to keep track of what you’ve bought.
You can also visit the Google help forum for any clarifications and recent modifications.
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Now does this move from Google(YouTube) make any difference to you? Hope not! As many people use to download the videos using some thirdparty software and websites. Now this move will surly hurt those thridparty software and website owners to certain extent 🙁

Since the purchase of YouTube, Google have been paying a lot for the maintenance, development and lawsuits coming on its way!
Hope its trying to get back some money. Recently Google started showing sponsor ads on its homepage, which pay them a lot. It launched adsense for video to adsense publishers. After that it started embedding ads into the video. Now its giving the authority to its users(uploaders — it means the owner of the video!) to charge some fee or to give it away for free.
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This move will certainly attract some business people in this niche to get started with YouTube, as they constantly search for some means to get the customers for their videos.

Update: “Download this video” link is not seen below every YouTube video because this feature was not available at the time of upload of those videos. New video uploads will have this, if the owner(one who uploads) of the video is willing to give it for free download.

Does this official announcement make any difference to you? And do you think there will be more active users who will be willing to give their videos for Free ? Please share all your opinions about YouTube(The largest Video portal in the internet).

Auto Translate Now Available For Videos With Captions + Search Bar – YouTube

Ever got frustrated by watching your favorite celebrate interview video where they are speaking in some language that you don’t know and which is having captions too in some other language ?

Now Google has taken another step, where your videos can reach wider audience. Google Translate adds real-time machine translation to any caption tracks you upload. Now you can enjoy this video spoken in Italian, even if you don’t understand Italian.

To get a translation for your preferred language, move the mouse over the bottom-right arrow, and then over the small triangle next to the CC (or subtitle) icon, to see the captions menu. Click on the “Translate…” button and then you will be given a choice of many different languages.

When you add captions to your video in one language, it will be readable to almost everybody through auto translate. While machine translation is not perfect, but still this will help creators to offer a better understanding of their videos.

Search bar at the top of video:
As Google has started – “To help its video content partners earn more money, YouTube will
begin running overlay ads in YouTube partner videos embedded on other websites”.

So now youtube generates revenue whenever someone uses its content partners video, anywhere in the internet. So now youtube has added this search bar within the video player, and now we can search for any video from within the player and watch it wherever we are!

Relevant, Premium Content

Targeted, Non-Intrusive Ads

Enhanced User Experience

Customizable Players