Organize the world’s information. That was the initial mission of Google, so I have found it ineresting that the company has taken significant steps (like buying YouTube and launchin Knol) to host and distribute it. You see, there’s a big difference between organizing information for easy search… and actually hosting it with ads. In a non-trivial…
Alright, Google. I realize that Chrome development was non trivial. I read your entire cartoon about what Chrome does, and I’m sure making it work on Mac is no easy feat (not to mention that Mac users are a small segment relative to PC). But now a YouTube widget that works on Linux and PCs,…
hot off the press… A YouTube for All of Us As a community, we have come to count on each other to be entertained, challenged, and moved by what we watch and share on YouTube. We’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to make the collective YouTube experience even better, particularly on our most…
Ever surf The Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org) to see what your favorite websites looked like back in their early days? Here’s an early version of YouTube… Even better… an early shot of Google. Ah, memories.
This Hollywood Reporter article reveals that PopTub (a new show on YouTube) is backed by bigger players that I thought. (Google) quietly launched a video series September 8 on its YouTube property called “Poptub” with Embassy Row, the production company run by “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” creator Michael Davies, and Pepsi. So we’re feeling…
There I was. Frustrated this morning after forgetting how I converted some of my old Windows Movie files (from the 1990s) into to something I could edit in Mac iMovie and post to YouTube. I’m running through various options, experimenting with various free software, and running into brick walls. Hours pass. Then I had this…
Google knows what you’re going to search for even before you turn on your computer. Google Suggests (see definition) — which is a real-time ‘auto-fill’ of your search words based on typical searches — is now part of a typical Google homepage search. The tool “graduated” from Google Labs according to a recent post on the official Google blog….
I’ve had a few people tell me they click on my YouTube ads to help make me some money. However the ads are mostly “CPM,” or “cost per thousand.” So the advertiser pays a fixed amount (say $20) for 1,000 InVideo ads regardless of whether people engage or not. The clicks do nothing for me….
Thanks to MCase (loyal WillVideoforfood reader) for pointing out Knol. This is Google’s answer to Ask.com or Wikipedia, where you can write about a subject and share in advertising revenue if anybody cares to read it (and is so bored by it that they click the text ads and stop). Here’s my knol biography, and…
It’s July 3, which is annual “bitch about your stupid cell phone day.” Don’t verify that on Wikipedia yet. So let’s step back, but not rate or compare the Microsoft oPhone, iPhone, Android and Blackberry for a moment. But let’s not debate Mac versus Microsoft versus Google versus Blackberry. It just divides humanity, and that’s what…