17
Jul
SnagFilms has taken the YouTube model to legitimate heights.
SnagFilms has created a repository of 250 documentaries, many of them feature length, for free viewing, What’s more, it enables you to create widgets for your favorite documentaries and place them on your MySpace, Facebook and other social networking pages. However, if you host your own WordPress blog as I do, you can’t use the widget, but you can embed the videos in a post.
Over at my latest effort, a site called News Verite, I embedded a video on today’s post. You can check it out there.
Once you go to SnagFilms and find the video you like, you can hit the Snag button to create and send a widget to your social networking platform. You also have the option to e-mail the link or capture the embedding code, which is what I did and used at News Verite (a take-off on cinema verite).
When you share the documentaries, SnagFilms proclaims you a "Filmanthropist."
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11
Jul
As a proud subscriber to NicheBot, a service that enables anyone to search keywords on both WordTracker and Keyword Discovery along with other keyword tools, I was just alerted to an improvement to Google’s Keyword Tool.
The Kekword Tool, which is part of Google’s AdWords system but can be accessed by clicking the link above, used to show just bar graphs representing the volume of searches for a keyword or keywords. Now, however, the system shows actual search counts for the month. Not only that, but it provides a list with search results for similar and complementary keywords or terms.
Give it a try. It’s great.
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09
Jul
After lots of scouring and compiling, I’ve developed the world’s most complete ping list for your WordPress blog. By default, WordPress pings only Pingomatic each time you post something new, but my list saturates the continental United States and also includes some friendly overseas services.
To add my list for WordPress 2.5x, go to Settings, then Writing, and scroll down to where it says "Update Services." Highlight what’s there and then copy my list from the next page and paste it in. Hit "Save Changes," and your posts will soon be populating the universe.
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05
Jul
Google and Yahoo have both caved io China and turned over user information, leading to individuals’ being fingered and incarcerated, so if you think your Internet privacy is in good hands, think again.
Case in point: This week, a judge in New York ruled that Viacom can have access to YouTube user data, including IP addresses. IP addresses are like the name of your computer, and it’s a relatively simple matter to convert the IP to computer ownership (though the judge ordered Viacom not to do this). YouTube, of course, is owned by Google.
Google may appeal but said it will not if Viacom and YouTube can work out a system whereby each user is given a code that is recorded in lieu of the IP address.
Viacom wants the data to prove that YouTube has greatly profited from pirated Viacom videos and video segments uploaded to YouTube and thus is owed beaucoup bucks in compensation.
Meanwhile, the whole issue shows how vulnerable you and I are with our Web activities. (If you use search engines, use IxQuck, which does not record user data.)
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