David Nelson a 15-year-old has created a free-music service by harnessing YouTube's vast library of music videos. The service enables people to stream Youtube music straight to their PC without visiting Youtube. Users can build pluralists and organize this similar to iTunes. The 15 year old said "It's really the first 100% free, legal method for listening to digital music," since the music is played from YouTube servers, artists will receive payment, thus avoiding legal issues.
Greg Sandoval from CNet contacted YouTube to get their views about this service. Youtube have said that they have just noticed this service and on
All the questions below i found on Google Moderator.
1. Does Googlebot have a preference in URL structure?
Matt Cutts replied to this as
"I would recommend
long-haired-dogs.html
long_haired_dogs.html
longhaireddogs.html
in that order. If your site is already live on the web, it's probably not worth going back to change from one method to another, but if you're just starting a new site, I'd probably choose the urls in that order of preference. I can only speak for Google; you'll need to run your own tests to see what works best with Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask."
2. How does one define what google believes is duplicate content
Susan Moskwa,
So you are a web startup and you need to get to be known when people are looking for your service. Well welcome to the world of search engine optimization. Its true no matter how good your product or service is if you don't have a huge marketing budget to throw away you need to resort to smart search engine tactics. I am no guru in this field and if any SEO consultant assures you that they can get you on the first page of google please pack your bags and run.
A few steps you need to keep in mind
Twitter certainly, holds the market share when it comes to micro-blogging services. Google has now announced that it is releasing its Jaiku code under the open source Apache license 2.0. Google will no longer be developing the Jaiku codebase, but since it will be open source the community can now start contributing back to this project. The big question now is will Twitter have some competition with the Jaiku Engine or will this service witter away in thin air. What are your thoughts?
Source: Read Write
Its really sad but true Google Inc's online video site, YouTube, will be blocking all music videos to British user as YouTube is unable to reach a rights deal with a British collection society that collects royalties on behalf of nearly 50,000 composers. This move will take effect by Monday evening British time.
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Twenty-seven large publishers are introducing three new types of online display ads. The new formats are meant to reduce clutter and provide more visibility.
One of this is the “pushdown,” 970 pixels wide by 418 tall on the page. What this ad space would do is when the page opens, the pushdown ad will expand downward, and then roll up to the top of the page.
The second new format is the “fixed panel,” 336 wide and 860 tall pixels which will scroll with the user based on which part of the content the user is viewing.
The third format is the “XXL
Charlie Rose, who focuses on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer. In the interview the following have been discussed:
Diplomatic answers about Yahoo
Problems faced within the Search topic
How Orkut Googles social network have not picked up
About the people that work at Google
Check the interview to gain an insight about how Google works. I hope you find this useful
Source: Charlie
Well this topic is not web related but i found it interesting hence i thought i should share it with my readers. Canada's filmmaker Rob Spence plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye. He has started a project known as Project Eyeborg. Watch this project video to gain an insight
EYEBORG-- The Two Week Trial from eyeborg on Vimeo.
Source - Project Eyeborg
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