SEO platform company BrightEdge conducted a study of the top 10,000 websites in the world and found that just 51 percent included a link to Twitter or Facebook on their home page.
 

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BrightEdge looked at survey data in two ways, first to identify which basic links to social sites the top websites, and then determining what specific social tools were used.  Facebook continues to dominate, and even gain more ground based on this analysis, with …

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YouTube yesterday rolled out an experimental redesign called Cosmic Panda, allowing users to experience a dark-themed but smoother and simpler interface over the long-standing, muddled and all-white video portal.
YouTube specifically designed Cosmic Panda to soothe the viewer’s eyes and overall experience through improved thumbnails and videos, more intuitive control features, and better channel customization.
The popular video portal intentionally created a dark …

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Google intends to give Blogger and Picasa, two of the search giant’s most popular services, new names, a report from social media blogsite Mashable says.
According to unnamed sources, Google will rebrand the photo management services Picasa to Google Photos and blogging site Blogger to Google Blogs.
Google bought Pyra Labs, the owner of Blogger, in 2003 and paid an undisclosed amount in 2004 for the acquisition Picasa, a service that allows users to upload, edit, or …

Twenty-eight year old Emily Good was arrested by Rochester police because she was videotaping them during a traffic stop from a curb at her house. The video, which was uploaded to YouTube, shows the woman and the police officer bickering over whether she should be filming them from her yard with her cell phone.

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The police officer asked the woman to go into her house if she wanted to film “because we don’t feel safe”, the woman refused, and the …

Rebecca Black’s teen video “Friday” a simple song about the young folks getting ready to enjoy the weekend (weekend), has been pulled from YouTube after enjoying tremendous popularity during March of this year.  The song’s simple theme of weekend fun inspired every online amateur comedian and parodist to poke fun at it even as it went viral in March, hit number 58 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, was covered by Justin Beiber, and performed on “Glee”.

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Dex Moelker, a tattoo artist in Rotterdam, confessed that the tattoos of 152 “Friends” seen on the arm of a woman in a viral YouTube video are not permanent.  Moelker said: “It is a try out tattoo, a transfer that washed off in a couple days” and that the tattoos took only few hours to apply, not 30 hours as was stated in SusyJ87’s video.
 
Mainstream media discovered SusyJ87’s tattoo YouTube video about a week after it was posted and it has gone viral, receiving more than …

YouTube has reigned supreme as the King of Online video for some time, but now it is facing new challenges from video startups like Channel Awesome that are seeking to get a piece of the market.

Mr. Michaud, co-owner of, Channel Awesome, said, people have dismissed online video in the past, “but this is a real business now.”  Channel Awesome provides online shows about comic books, video games and other slices of popular culture, and Mr. Michaud is now enjoying the benefits of an …

YouTube announced on its blog on Thursday that it is raising the bar on creativity by making its Creative Commons Library available through its YouTube Video Editor.  YouTube users can license and use their video creations easily by using Creative Commons, “a non-profit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximized digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.”

YouTube users can look for video available in Creative Commons by going to …

Video sharing website YouTube, which celebrates its sixth birthday this month, reported this week that its views per day have increased to 3 billion, a whopping 50 percent increase compared to last year.
 
The rate at which videos are uploaded to the website recorded an even more impressive 100 percent increase  over last year: 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.  This is a 37% increase in the last six months.

YouTube thanked the YouTube community for their …

A forty second video clip showing a puppy named Dunder growing up to be an adult dog has been endearing YouTube viewers and dog lovers around the world this week.

Created by Byron Louie at Remediestudio.com

 
The video consists of series of still shots starting with young Dunder sitting on a grey cement floor next to a metal coffee table, first looking away from the camera with long floppy ears and a distracted look. Then as the still shots rapidly fly by, Dunder is usually looking …