A new feature on YouTube where users can now edit their videos onsite. It enables you to edit uploaded YouTube videos while also maintaining the same video IDs, making it possible to hold onto view counts and comments. Existing links to the video will also continue to work. All you have to do is click “Edit Video” on your video’s page or on the My Videos page. It is meant to help users fix their videos in a less time consuming manner. If you have access to the editing feature, you can stabilize hand-held footage, rotate videos and boost the
Read MoreNielsen has released its first mobile app rankings for Android since the organization started measuring smartphone usage directly using on-device meters. The results are not hugely shocking, but contain some interesting tidbits nonetheless. The list is broken down into three rankings: overall usage, male usage and female usage. The top half of each list is littered with the apps you'd guess were popular: Facebook, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Pandora, Words With Friends, Twitter and Amazon's Kindle app all make expected appearances in the top 20 as well.
Powerinbox a Boston, MA-based open app platform for email, is a startup whose idea is to innovate on top of email by augmenting the messages sent to you by various services, essentially turning your emails into apps. Powerinbox, the new email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon inside your inbox has today added support for Google+. (Despite not having access to an official Google+ API, the company was able to analyze the Google+ protocol by tracking the requests between the official Google+ client and server. Powerinbox then created its own internal API and built its
Read MoreCan’t Wait (free, iPhone, iPhone, iPod, iOS 4.0, android coming soon) with simple, slick and inviting user interface is a fun app which pushes new movie trailers to your phone, helps you share your favorites and reminds you when they hit theaters. Social movie discovery and automatic reminders for movies you want to see. Can’t Wait sources its movie trailers from YouTube, a strategy that helps the startup avoid licensing costs but also keeps it dependent on YouTube’s API. Connect to Facebook or Twitter to create an account, then you use the iPhone app to find and watch movie trailers
Read MoreYouTube introduced Box Office some time back, which lets you stream free Bollywood movies, though there aren’t many new ones that you can stream. The service attracted a huge audience from India, now Yahoo takes a leaf out of Google's page, getting its hand dirty in the game of hindi movies streaming with introduction of MoviePlex. Yahoo MoviePlex is similar to YouTube Box Office i.e. streaming free Bollywood movies. Watch latest Bollywood movies free of cost and that's with your family at home. Yahoo said that it will collaborate with movie production houses to bring thousands of local Bollywood movies online
Read MoreWanting to get more visibility for your music videos on YouTube? YouTube’s the video portal has launched a comprehensive guide outlining how content producers should be approaching the platform and which features they can take advantage of. The 70 page guide has a fitting title: The Creator Playbook. It’s really just a well thought-out set of best practices — if your content isn’t any good, optimizing the first five seconds of your video isn’t going to be much help. The document is a hefty 70 pages long. YouTube has broken each of its miniguides into three sections: - Programming & Producing, -
Read MoreYouTube, the world’s most popular video-viewing platform, sees 2 billion hits per day. Fortunately, the Google-owned company has figured out a few ways to monetize all of those video views. Take a look at the infographic below to see how the site and its advertising strategy has evolved since its founding in 2005. via
With our online lives increasingly moving to the cloud, keeping track of all the different communication channels, social outlets and document stores we use can become difficult. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, email, chat, calendars, contacts, browsers we've come to love them on their own but staying on top of them is very time consuming. Among social media aggregators like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Flock, and others comes Israeli startup Zbang's MultiMi. MultiMi combine all of your inboxes, social networking sites, chat applications, calendars, files and contacts in one place. Collects all your accounts and networks so you can connect with
Read MoreYouTube Cosmic Panda experiment does bring the darker UI elements and polished feel of Google+ to the video sharing service. Navigating the site is a much more interactive experience now and you can continue to watch videos as you search and browse provided you're using Chrome. Channel pages have also been completely overhauled with large images for each video, several layout templates, and easier to use customization options. Playlists have also been revamped and now bear more than a passing resemblance to Leanback. The one thing missing at the moment is integration with Google+ and the new navigation bar, but
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