YouTube is the king of online  videos with more than 48 hours of videos uploaded every hours,  recently it  has crossed 4 billions of views in a day. YouTube has great feature of embedding the videos on any Website or Blog, this help in promotion of videos as well as retention of users on the site.  Earlier users could only view the videos but were not able to get information about the videos (descriptions), nor were they able to share it from the site where videos are embedded.

To share users has to visit the YouTube video page. But now YouTube has rolled out two new drop-down button in the embedded videos which allow users to view the infromation of videos as well directly share it to Social media sites without leaving the site.

Share Video directly

There are two new drop-down button added in the embedded videos  at the top right after the title of video – Share and More info. With Share button, which open a sharing page on the video itself allows user to share video on Facebook, Orkut, Google+ and other major sites.

It also allows user to embed video as they do on YouTube, with all available options like embedding-size and the starting point.

Get information about the videos

The ’More info’ button displays the Channel on which the video can be seen, along with the no of subscribers of the Channel and an option to subscribe to the Channel. If you have already signed into your YouTube account, after pressing subscribe button, you will be automatically subscribed to the channel otherwise a popup will appear to authenticate. 

Details of the videos as well as no of views and likes and dislikes are also shown. This feature of videos can easily turned on/off.  It is good for the user to get the information about videos without going to YouTube. Users can also like or dislike the video while they start watching the video, those button appear on the same title bar.

This will be hugely important for people creating video content on YouTube to be able to use it on a website without losing out on the social juice.

 What you think about these changes YouTube done on embedded videos? Do drop in your comments!

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Qwiki aggregates information from various sources and presents it to the user in the form of a video. So, instead of a long, often boring article, you get a short, highly informative video.

The presentation is narrated by a computer generated female voice in American accent. It sounds pretty natural, though there are some problems in non-dictionary words or non-English words. Subtitles are provided to avoid confusion.

Qwiki Features

• Qwikis are computer generated with data mostly from Wikipedia and Wikimedia with some parts being from other sources.
• Qwiki covers a huge number of topics. The API page it says it covers more than 3 million. I tried searching for various topics and was surprised by the things already covered. From Hindi movies to Howrah Bridge to Chandni Chowk could be found.

• The Qwiki page has the Search box at the top, Qwiki at the centre and related Qwikis below that. There are no ads. Social sharing buttons are available at the top of the Qwiki.

• The seek bar has thumbnails that help find portions of the Qwiki so that you can quickly jump to any part of the Qwiki.

• There is a Related button below every Qwiki that displays a list of related Qwikis. Links to Wikipedia, YouTube, Fotopedia and Google search are also available at the end.

Qwikis load very quickly and I have not come across any buffering issues. There are some bugs or errors that come up, such as, in the Qwiki on Web server it says “below is the most recent statistics of the market share of the top web servers”. There is no such statistic.

That said Qwiki is a great tool for some quick learning. If you are looking to just get introduced to something new, then using Qwiki makes sense. Do try it out and drop in your comments.

Link: QWiki

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This is useful when you want some users and their opinion but do not want to grant them rights to make changes themselves.

• Just open the document you have on Google Docs which you want to share.
• Click on Share and add the people want to share the document with.
• Now select a new option ‘Can comment’ and click on ‘Done’.

Here is a video I made on how to only allowing comments while sharing a document.

Do drop in your comments and view.

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Tubget is an online web service which allows downloading of videos from YouTube and Vimeo.

• Just type in the URL of the video from YouTube or Vimeo and click on start.
• Once done, the video will be processed and will be ready to be downloaded. It also gives option for cropping the video before you download it.
• Users can also select sound quality, video resolution along with the type of file you want the video to be downloaded into.
• It supports AVI, MOV, MP4 and other popular video formats.

Try out TubGet and do drop in your comments.

Link: TubGet

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Not a lot has changed with YouTube’s designs and how it displays the videos and playlists. Related videos still pop-up in the right hand column and in general there seems to be just a lot happening while watching a video.

YouTube has unveiled Cosmic Panda which is a way for users to test out its new layout and display options.

Below is the current layout while users play a video.

Notice how the suggestions are on the right hand column and the resize options are hidden.

Now after signing up for the Cosmic Panda test on YouTube, the same video showed with some more interesting changes.

I noticed that the comments and suggested videos are shown in tabs below the video while video size can be changed more easily than before.

If you have your own channel on YouTube, you can even check out the new themes and layouts made available for the YouTube Channel. Head over to Youtube.com/cosmicpanda and try out the new features and design layouts for YouTube.

Also let me know if you like the current layout or the new one planned through your comments.

Link: Cosmic Panda

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Google has announced a lab feature called SmartLabel which quickly creates a notification label and applies it to emails automatically.

SmartLabels in Gmail Labs

• Just look up under settings and click on Labs.
• In GMail Labs, search for ‘SmartLabels’ and you will be shown the smart labels feature. Enable it and save the changes.
• Once SmartLabels is enabled, similar emails are automatically sorted out and you can find them under a new label called notification.

Here is a short video on how to go about it:

This is a nice improvement for users who are not using Filters. I have an alternate Gmail account which does get a few updates from subscriptions and also get some personal mail. Because I do not use this account everyday, I was lazy enough to not take time and create filters on this account. I found SmartLabels a better alternative.

Do drop in your comments and views.

Source: Gmail Blog

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But if you are using the VLC media player, then you can simply synchronize audio/video using keyboard shortcuts “f” and “g” as highlighted in the screenshot below. After some trial and error you will get the characters’ lip-synced.

On Windows OS, if “f” and “g” do not work, try “CTRL+F” and “CTRL+G” respectively. You can also edit keyboard shortcuts by clicking on “Change” button in same window (see following screenshot again)

Link: VideoLAN – VLC Media Player

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Recently YouTube released certain trends to help people look for latest trends. I decided to look for the top 5 videos which were tech related. I must say all the videos are not really tutorials or highly technical, but it probably comes under tech culture.

#5. Google Chrome Speed Tests

This video demonstrates the lightening speed of Google Chrome with strange and weird experiments. This was viewed over 4.13 million times.

#4. “Take me Out” by Atomic Tom LIVE on NYC subway

This was a song sung by Atomic Tom on a NYC subway train. The video is tech related because the entire song was recorded and played with instruments using only iPhones and its applications. This video was viewed over 4.17 million times.

#3. Iggy investigates an iPad

Iggy is the name of the cat who in this video investigates an iPad. The natural curiosity of the animal along with iPad touch sensitive apps make it an amusing video. This video was viewed over 7.2 millions times.

#2. iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo

This video has two characters discussing the iPhone and is a sarcastic take on how people are looking to buy an iPhone only because of the brand and not so much know much about its features. This video was viewed over 11 millions times.

#1. Annoying Orange: Pacmania

We all realized this year that Pacman still evokes massive mania as Google found out when they put up a pacman interactive game as a doodle on their homepage. On YouTube is a video which has a fruit changing places with Pacman in the video game. This was viewed over 12.3 million times on YouTube.

Most of these videos show how Tech brands have become iconic in our everyday life and that is the main reasons of these videos becoming so popular. Do drop in your comments and let me know which one is your favorite among these videos.

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After that was done, a student by the name Feross Aboukhadijeh from Standford, CA took a bet with his friend and decided to create an Instant search engine for YouTube videos in less than an hour! He lost the bet as it took him 3 hours but we do have a nifty search tool for YouTube.

About YouTube Instant

• The website shows off videos in the format of instant results as you start typing in a query.
• This can be very useful if you are just randomly searching for something and trying to land on a useful video.
• The site is probably experimental and only a few days old. So it does not have any advanced features. But after the buzz it has created I am sure this site might go a long way.

This website also made the CEO of YouTube offer job on Twitter to the website’s creator. I guess Google Instant has got its first instant web celebrity.

Do try out YouTube Instant and let me know your views and opinion on it through your comments.

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