Archive for June, 2006
Google determined to take over the video space
Thursday, June 29th, 2006Following the last week move, Google seems to be determined establish its supremacy in the video sharing space (or at least gaining a significant share). Since of today the following features are available:
- Movie rating (star based)
- Direct posting to: My Space, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad
- User comments
Considering the fact that Google Video is among the only service allowing quick jump in movies, no size limitations and no stoargae limitations, the only thing they are missing is a large pool of users and the associated created content.
Anyway, this looks like a battle that Google will win while YouTube future is very gloomy
links for 2006-06-24
Saturday, June 24th, 2006-
Flocktails supports the same microformats (hCard, hCalendar, hReview, xFolk) as the original Tails Extension, but displays them one at a time and from Flock’s topbar (click on the image below to see the the full image):
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Yahoo! Local announces complete aoption of Microformats. This comes after Technorati launched their own microformats search engine
Google promoting Videos…
Friday, June 23rd, 2006….givin free day passes.
On the front page you will see a red sticker saying “Free Today” and the following text:
You can now watch selected videos for free - thanks to our sponsors. These videos usually sell from $0.99 to $14.99.
Apparently this seems to be part of a deal between Google and Netflix becuase when you go to a movie page you will see above the movie an advertising that says:
Free video made possible by www.netflix.com
Netflix DVD Rental Only $5.99/mo - Free Trial! Watch their ad
All in one is a good ideea and a win/win situation. If they can make it permanent this will give them a decent share on the online videos market. I recommend you “Classic Movies” (previously 0.99)
EDIT
More details about how this works from John Battelle:
How it works (from Google):
1. Advertisers select and bid to sponsor individual videos.
2. The winning bidders for each video are promoted in three ways:
- The ability to run a 15-30 second post-roll video ad
- Persistent branding while the video is playing through a text and icon above the video player
- A listing on the sponsored videos page
3. If a user navigates to one of the sponsored videos, we only show the in-stream video ad once the video has finished playing. If the user clicks the text, logo or visible URL above the video window, they will be taken to the advertiser’s site.
4. At the conclusion of the campaign, the advertiser will receive stats on the performance of his/her campaign.
links for 2006-06-22
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006-
Google sitemaps just got updated. Most of the features provide now more details than the standard 10 results. Pretty good job and a must tool for any SEO expert wanabe and proffessional outhere
links for 2006-06-20
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006-
Naymz has built a proprietary technology which “speaks” to the advertising platforms of the search engines. Naymz relies on paid search advertising to post your personal listing.
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Michael Arrington’s visit to Romania in 2002
links for 2006-06-15
Thursday, June 15th, 2006-
In depth review of Google’s sharing service. It has a good point that Ive missed there is no both ways sync between desktop and web. Bad Google. Bad!
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Video showing a tablet, voice and gesture activated, used for playing Warcraft and using Google Earth
links for 2006-06-13
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006-
Freeware podcast aggregator
links for 2006-06-12
Monday, June 12th, 2006-
Standup comedy for podcasts dependents
links for 2006-06-09
Friday, June 9th, 2006-
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers.
