These days, Google has a direct or indirect involvement in many of our lives. We do use most of its products, be it their search, e-mail, or otherwise.
YouTube, part of Google, also tries to get involved in our lives and come up with many useful channels for education, business, film making, and just recently citizen journalism. Now it comes to household, too, in the form of a new channel, "YouTube for Mom".
YouTube and Kodak have teamed up to launch For Mom, a robust resource for anyone raising children today. The videos housed on this channel cover everything from cooking and parenting tips, to the best toys and games for kids, to easy ways to maintain your own health and beauty routine. There are even responses to some of life’s most difficult questions, like how much to pay the tooth fairy:
You can now have your YouTube account automatically update your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, and Google Reader shared items when you upload a video. YouTube add OAuth support for twitter accounts, Connect your Fecebook Account via Facebook Connect and also add to your Google Reader shared items.
Find all these link to your YouTube Upload page where you can connect your existing Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader account. YouTube called this feature AutoShare which share your upload instantly to these social services.
But remember to do that your Google Account needs to be linked to your YouTube account in order to use AutoShare. Sorry but i could not able to find a link that how can we merge the both accounts. If any one know that please let me know.
Last January YouTube introduced video website especially for people who wanted to access YouTube videos through their Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii game consoles. Just as there's a YouTube browser for mobile devices, the new YouTube XL is optimized for watching YouTube videos on any large screen.
Few days ago online video site Hulu launched a desktop application that makes it easy to find and view web videos on a television set, Now same kind of approach YouTube takes, New site designed to look good and be easy to navigate on any TV hooked up to a computer with a web browser.
And since it should work on any device with a web browser, you should be able to use YouTube XL with video game consoles that have web browsers, like the Nintendo Wii.
In addition to an all new design offering large text and simplified navigation, YouTube XL offers a continuous play feature, which lets you search for a topic on YouTube and then press "play" once to watch all of the videos sequentially on that topic. Also, getting from one video to the next takes just a few clicks, and you can control the action with a blue tooth enabled remote control, or even some mobile phones.
With millions of HD playbacks daily, YouTube is now bringing popular YouTube favorites vedios to the big screen in HD. It works out routines with the screen out of high-kick range, university lectures where you can read the blackboard, and home videos the whole family can watch together.
YouTube rolled out Insight a year ago to help publisher better understand their viewers and how they engage with videos. Along the way, YouTube also introduced features like Demographics, Hot Spots and Community to give you sophisticated ways of analyzing viewer data.
Today YouTube announce a new feature in Google Analytics , tracking for YouTube brand channels. YouTube brand channels allow partners and advertisers to have a hub of content on YouTube, where they can collect videos, publish playlists, and get YouTube users deeply engaged with their brand. Now brand channel owners can get fully enabled Google Analytics reporting on their channel as if it were their own site.
all uploaders can still use YouTube Insight to learn detailed information about their video views and user engagement, now advertisers and partners with brand channels can get even more information about their audience. Brand channel owners can track metrics such as how long visitors stay, repeat visits, bounce rate, and page views per visitor. For those who want to tailor their videos to a specific audience, Google Analytics also provides data about where viewers are located geographically and what languages they speak.
In Short all Google Analytics features that mostly used for website tracking can be use for YouTube brand channels& now it's a vital part of YouTube platform, which attracting millions of video views every day. And, as brand channels have grown in popularity, It will help to understanding channel visitors and their behavior has become increasingly important to partners and advertisers fine-tuning their promotional strategies online.
The Eye-Fi Card stores photos & videos like a traditional memory card, and fits in most cameras. When you turn your camera on within range of a configured Wi-Fi network, it wirelessly transfers your photos & videos. Better yet: you can automatically have them sent to your computer (PC or Mac), or to your favorite photo sharing website - or both!
The Eye-Fi Card only connects to Wi-Fi networks, computers and sharing sites. It support many photo sharing websites like Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, Kodak Gallery & many more. Now Eye-Fi also add support for Video sharing. Now you can share videos to Picasa, Photobucket, SmugMug, YouTube & Flickr. It will automatically upload videos to these sites. Now for you it's very easy to upload your favorite stuff directly from your cam.
For example, say you're heading out on a cross-country road trip, and want to keep a select group of friends and family up-to-date with photos and videos. Instead of having to wait until your trip is finished and your camera connected to your home computer, now you can share an unlisted album with friends as you set out, have your Eye-Fi Explore Video card upload to that specific album, and then hit the road. That way, whenever you're in range of a supported WiFi hotspot, your camera will upload your newest pictures and movies to your vacation album, allowing others to vicariously travel with you.
Starting today, signing up for YouTube means signing up for a Google Account that gives you access to YouTube, as well as other Google services such as iGoogle, Reader and Docs and many more. If you already have a Google Account, you can choose to link your new YouTube Account to it, which means one less password to remember.
Till now people can link their YouTube Account with Google but a person who open only a YouTube Account was not able to access other Google Services but from Now on it's possible.
You can still sign up for YouTube with any email address and you'll still need to confirm whatever email address you enter. You'll also still pick a unique YouTube username that identifies you to the YouTube community
Sign in with your Google Account email and password here.
You'll be directed to the YouTube signup page with your email address pre-populated.
Choose a YouTube username and complete the sign up.
If you have a Gmail Account, It means you already have a Google Account & Once you have a Google account, your YouTube password will match your Google Account password.
According to Company"By jointly connecting accounts, user can take greater advantage of our services both on YouTube and on Google, especially as we start to roll out new features in the future that will be powered by Google technology".
For those who already have a YouTube Account, they'll still be able to enjoy YouTube with just a YouTube Account. But some of the new features Google roll out down the road may require a Google Account. It is advisable that you migrate your YouTube Account to a Google Account.
This is a good step by Google but still people, who are using Google Apps & Google Account, At this moment they have to manage two accounts. May be in future Google allow to merge Google Account with Google Apps.
New Options for Uploaders Uploaders can now tweak the appearance of their video when played on YouTube or in an embedded player. Just insert any of the hint tags below into the tags field of your video and voila!
yt:crop=16:9 (zooms in on the 16:9 area, removes windowboxing) yt:stretch=16:9 (fixes anamorphic content by scaling to 16:9) yt:stretch=4:3 (fixes 720x480 content that is the wrong aspect ratio by scaling to 4:3) yt:quality=high (default to a high quality stream, depending on availability)
HD Browsing Goes Global Add Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and U.K. to the list of countries where you can browse the most popular HD videos in the region.
AudioSwap Adds Recommendations If your video contained an audio track that was not authorized for use on YouTube, the Recommended Tracks feature in AudioSwap will help you quickly find fully licensed songs to replace your original audio track. Recommendations are based on a combination of popularity and, for audio-matched videos, similarity to the original track.
Subscription Tab in More Places New "Subscriptions" tab to the top of the page, the Subscriptions tab is available on any of our English-language sites.
Subscription Suggestions Users without any subscriptions who visit the subscription center will now see some channel suggestions - a random set of popular channels , same thing like in Google Reader already have. If you already have some subscriptions, you can see the suggestions, too -- just click on "About Subscription Center" in the upper-right corner of the subscriptions center.
Username Alternatives:Desire to have a goon name for your channel? but YouTube is a big place these days and many channel names are taken. But starting today, if your desired username is already in use when you sign up for an account, YouTube will offer some alternates, hopefully reducing the head-scratching that can come from trying to figure out a handle that you like and is available. Right now this is in test mode.
A Tooltip to Help With Precise Seeking If someone tells you to check out their video at two minutes, now it's easy to find that precise point. As you drag the thumb or a little circle on the player slider, a shiny new tooltip (Showing video timing) will tell you exactly where you are in the video.
Today Youtube release a new feature called "YouTube Realime". It's an invitation based feature like 5 year back Gmail was. Well We manege to get to test the feature so we can report it for our readers. According to us its a really nice & cool feature from YouTube where user can able to get RealTime notifications from friends more like Friendfeed RealTime feature .
It has a tool bar which we can see near the status bar where one green glowing icon appears which means your active sharing is on and whatever you see or do on YouTube you can able to share it. User can get RealTime notifications from their friends. It's a kind of activity feeds you are getting like what's your friend's doing on YouTube, which friend they just added, what comment hey just post, which video they are seeing and even you can see how many friends are online and you can invites your friends to watch the same soccer video you are watching right now. Its like you and your friend are watching a movie or a TV episode together.
YouTube come up with really cool and amazing feature, this is a big step from YouTube in video sharing space. First of its kind. Right now its invitation based feature only. Active sharing feature was there in YouTube where user can see another user if he or she is seeing the same video but I think this feature is no more with this new one. may be in future Google talk can come up in YouTube where user can talk with each other. It can be a privacy killer but hay you can Turn of the feature anytime. Its a greater way to watch realtime video experience with friends
If anyone need a invitation. Just leave your Twitter user name in comments and we will send you the invitation for "YouTube RealTime". I'm having 25 invitation and our team also having invitation so totally we having 100 invitation for give away. These invitations we are giving on first come first bases only
Update: Don't need to post your Twitter Username Just post comment. We'll contact you via email that you use for comments.
YouTube homepage got a small new makeover. Basically in tree module use able to see the changes: Spotlight Video, Video Being Watched Now & Most Popular
"Spotlight Videos" It won't appear every day, but when it does, videos will be organized around a theme, such as today's "Earth Day videos", or a community trend or partnered video. In your YouTube settings you can add or remove the "Spotlight Video" module
"Videos Being Watched Now" got a makeover & here you can see the videos that are rising up right now on YouTube & The new "Most Popular" section which features the hottest video in each category at the moment, in addition to the overall Most Viewed and Top Favorited video.
Redesiging this page to better reflect for user, what's currently popular on YouTube, as chosen by you & because YouTube want to help you discover videos on YouTube in lots of different ways, so it's important that you know where they came from so now you got more ways to find hot and popular things on YouTube.
Another talk of the town is a new feature from YouTube called "YouTube Realtime"that lets you and your friends share in the moment what you're doing with the site, a same kind of feature set that friendfeedTweetmeme providing right now, Similer to that but still we dint have a chance to look up the fact how it works so not able to giving you all updates at this moment.
Today Youtube launched new section of its site for education called YouTube EDU here you can find all video content for education. official announcement is yet to come.
"YouTube EDU is a volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities" according to a short release note on the YouTube blog
The site is aggregating videos from over 100 of their partners like MIT and Standford University who having very useful content for Educational use. I must say its a solid gold for students and knowlage seekers.
Another site, Hulu for academic lectures called Academic Earth formally launched on Tuesday, offering lectures from Harvard, Yale,MIT and other schools. so now its a great options for folks who looking for educational content to sharpen their knowledge.
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