Do You Hate YouTube Comment Box?

On Wednesday, Google announced that it is finally implementing the YouTube comment system change that users and video providers have been anticipating. They’ve moved to a Google+-powered commenting system, further tying YouTube to Google’s larger “social layer”.

With the new system, Google says the comments “you care about” move to the top. Google knows what you care about. Got it?

In reality, users will see posts at the top of the list from the video’s creator, popular personalities, “engaged discussions” about the video, and of course, people from your Google+ Circles. You do still have the option to see the most recent comments by switching from “top comments” to “newest first”.

The system also enables you to adjust the privacy level of your own comments. You can comment publicly, or only to people in your Circles. Or even just to one person. Replies are threaded like they are in Gmail.

Video owners are provided with tools to review comments before they’re posted, and can block certain words. They can also auto-approve comments from certain fans.

“If you’re like the majority of people commenting on YouTube, you’ve already connected your account to a Google+ profile or page and can start commenting now,” says Google in a blog post.

If your haven’t connected your account, you can do so here.

“Remember, you’re in control of how you’re seen publicly on YouTube, whether that’s keeping your current YouTube channel name, using your own name, or creating a new one,” Google says.

While some, particularly Google+ users, will embrace the change (YouTube comments don’t have the greatest reputation as it is), there are clearly plenty of people, including those providing the videos that aren’t pleased with Google’s move.

While if you look at the comments on Google’s own video about the changes (above), they don’t seem too bad under the default option, but if you switch over to “newest first,” you’re going to see a lot of anger and hate. I mean a lot. Warning: you might need to take a shower after reading them.

There are likely plenty of YouTube users that simply have no desire to use Google+, and simply don’t want to have another social network forced down their throat through a product that they’ve been using for years (including for years before Google+ even existed).

Even some frequent Google+ users have expressed disdain with Google’s forcing of Google+ into its other products, including YouTube, in the past. We had a conversation with Wil Wheaton last year about this, in fact. It wasn’t about comments, but Google had been testing a Google+ like button in place of the YouTube thumbs up button, which prompted him to post a rant to his Tumblr.

When we talked to him afterwards, he said, “The only reason that matters is because it’s part of how Google will decide who gets another season of the shows they’re sponsoring,” Wheaton tells WebProNews. “I want to be very clear about this: when I made my post on Tumblr, I wasn’t even thinking of that. I was thinking about how Google is forcing people who don’t want or need Google+ to sign up and use it.”

That’s the thing. The YouTube commenting system is certainly a new way to drive more engagement to Google+. It’s not as if Google has been shy about this strategy though. The company has long positioned Google+ as the “social layer” of the larger Google, as opposed to a separate product. The phrase “Google+ is Google,” has been used by the company more than a few times.

The fact is that YouTube is part of Google (and a pretty huge part at that), and users are simply going to have to accept Google+ as part of that. Either that or find a different video site to meet their needs.

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Who Will Be The New CEO Of Microsoft?

Since Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced his retirement back in August, Microsoft’s board has been quickly searching for someone to replace him by the end of the year.

Several candidates have popped up in the past few months, most notably Stephen Elop and Alan Mullaly (pictured). Elop is the former CEO of Nokia, which Microsoft bought shortly after Ballmer’s retirement announcement. Mullaly has been the CEO of Ford since 2006.

Today, Reuters is reporting that Microsoft has narrowed its CEO search down to just five people. The report cites unnamed “sources familiar with the matter” as stating that Microsoft originally fielded a list of 40 candidates for the position.

Elop and Mullaly are reportedly still top candidates for the position. In addition, Reuters’ sources list three Microsoft executives as possible CEO candidates – Tony Bates, Satya Nadella, and one other unnamed employee. Bates is the current EVP of Microsoft Business Development, and was formerly the CEO of Skype before its acquisition by Microsoft. Nadella is the EVP of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division.

Though Microsoft was reportedly hoping to have a new CEO by the end of the year, Reuters’ sources have stated that the CEO search could still “take a few more months.” That report also states that unnamed “sources familiar with the conversations” have revealed that the board’s CEO search committee has been “speaking with” dissenting shareholders during the search.

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A New Way To Make Money Online Offered By Google Helpouts

Google has officially announced the launch of Google Helpouts after several months of teasing us about what we’d be in for. Essentially, it’s a new offering that people and businesses can use to make money via live social video.

We first learned about Helpouts back in July, and then in August, Google started inviting people to create them.

Google VP, Engineering, Udi Manber writes in a blog post, “What if getting help for a computer glitch, a leaky pipe, or a homework problem was as easy as clicking a button? What if you could connect via real-time video to a music teacher or a yoga instructor from the comfort of your home? What if you could get someone knowledgeable to get you ‘unstuck’ when you really need it?”

That’s the idea of Helpouts from the user perspective. Google has long been a place where people can search for “how to” content. Demand Media has made a killing offering that kind of content, and dominating Google search results over the years. In fact, since Google’s Panda update, that company has put an even greater emphasis on “how to” video content from experts. This appears to be Google competing directly with this type of content. And I wonder if Google would ever surface Helpouts in web search results.

Of course, Helpouts are a bit different by their very nature. They’re live. Still, users can search for helpouts by topics.

Say you need help fixing a toilet. Just search “fixing a toilet,” and Google will give you results for available hangouts. It will show you the price per helpout (sometimes they’re free) and/or the price per minute. It will also show you the next available time for a particular Helpout. If there is no time found, you have the option to request a time.

As you can see from the above example, Helpout providers can include an intro video that users can watch even if they can’t get right to the live Helpout. The provider can provide other necessary business information, like specifics about what their service will cover. The provider’s Google+ profile and picture are directly integrated, which probably means potential boosts in Google+ followers, which one would think would send Google search additional signals. Something to think about.

According to Google, the main benefits of giving Helpouts are immediate global reach, convenience and flexibility and of course, getting paid. Could a boost in authority also be in the cards?

Providers can price the Helpouts as they see fit. You can charge a fixed price per Helpout or a per-minute rate. Google Wallet is integrated as the payment method.

You can schedule the Helpouts for a time that fits your schedule, and you can do it from the desktop or from mobile.

The offering is available to both individuals and brands. Google already has brands like Sephora, One Medical, Weight Watchers, Redbeacon (a Home Depot comany) and Rosetta Stone on board.

“Today is just the beginning,” says Manber. “We’re starting small and in a few categories. The number of people giving help on Helpouts and the type of help available will grow over time. Helpouts may not be suitable for every occasion, and it will take time to get used to interactions via real time video. We hope that the efficiency, convenience and global reach of Helpouts will make people’s lives easier in the long term.”

This could be the start of something pretty big. There are other services out there that enable this kind of face to face training. PopExpert, for example, has been around for over a year.

But being that Helpouts comes from Google, where businesses and individuals are already connected in a variety of ways (to Google and among each other), Helpouts is likely to have a substantial impact.

Google itself provides a money back guarantee on all Helpouts. First, they’ll recommend that users try to get refunds from the Helpout providers if the helpout is not satisfactory, but if they refuse the user’s request, Goole will step in and issue a refund. To be eligible for a refund, however, users must not opt out from having their Helpout session recorded, because Google uses that to review these cases. More on the refund process here.

Google says Helpouts may be recorded for quality assurance purposes, in response to abuse reporting, and for customer retention and provider retention.

“If the Customer and Provider explicitly agree to the retention recording by opting-in before the Helpout commences, the Helpout will be recorded,” Google says. “Neither party may alter the recording in any way, except to clarify (visibly or audibly) what transpired in the Helpout. The retention recording will be made available for private use by the Provider and Customer only.”

Google also notes that Helpouts marked “health service” will not be recorded for the purpose of retention.

Users and providers alike are are allowed to capture stills from the Helpout session.

There are age restrictions on Helpouts. Users have to be at least thirteen, and providers have to be at least eighteen.

ight now, Google offers the following Helpouts categories: Arts and Music, Computers and Electronics, Cooking, Education and Careers, Fashion and Beauty, Fitness and Nutrition, Health and Home and Garden. If what you do doesn’t fit into any of these, stay tuned.

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3 More Days For iGoogle

Google announced in July of last year that it would be shutting down iGoogle, its personalized homepage product. The announcement came in one of the company’s semi-regular “spring cleaning” announcements, despite being in the summer.

Google is able to shut down some products with little outcry. Other times, Google upsets users by taking away services that they love. The biggest case of this was probably Google Reader, which was officially killed earlier this year. iGoogle, however, appears to have its share of fans as well.

Unfortunately for them, iGoogle will officially go away in three days. If you go there now, you’ll see a message like this:

We wrote about the pending demise of iGoogle about a month ago, and the comments have trickled in ever since, with users expressing their disdain.

“Extremely disappointed that my iGoogle is being taken away. What is the point of taking away something that people use and like? Yahoo, here I come,” said one reader.

Yahoo, perhaps trying to capitalize on Google’s move (and knowing the value of a good homepage), recently released an updated version of its My Yahoo product, complete with an iGoogle import tool. This is, however, only one of many alternatives on the market.

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The New Snowden Leak Reveals How The NSA Hacks Yahoo And Google?

One of the very first Snowden leaks alerted the world to the existence of PRISM – a program where the NSA is given access to the servers of major tech companies like Google, Yahoo and more. That particular program is supposedly operated with the consent of these companies, but a new leak suggests that the agency is also going behind these companies’ backs.

The latest Snowden leak, as reported by The Washington Post, shines light on a program called MUSCULAR. In short, it’s a joint effort between the NSA and Britain’s GCHQ to break into and take information from Google’s and Yahoo’s servers.
What kind of information can the NSA access through this? According to the report, the agency gathered email metadata alongside other content, like audio and video. Infact, the leaked report said that the NSA gathered over 181 million records from Google’s and Yahoo’s servers in only 30 days.

So, how is any of this legal? Collecting Americans’ information from the servers of tech companies is illegal, even for the NSA. According to the report, the NSA gets away this by collecting information from Google’s and Yahoo’s overseas servers. This loophole allows the agency to remain on the right side of the law as this collection is carried out through Executive Order 12333 – an executive order signed by former President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

Google and Yahoo are both understandably angry about this latest revelation, and Google says that it will continue to implement tighter encryption between the data links that connect its servers. By doing so, Google will be able to slow down, or even stop, the NSA from accessing its servers. As for Yahoo, there’s been no indication yet regarding whether or not the company is moving to encrypt the data links between its servers.

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Cross Media Ad Deal With Publicis By Google

Google has signed a multi-million cross-media advertising deal with Publicis Groupe, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, through its subsidiary MediaVest, a company that specializes in media planning and buying for clients like Coca-Cola, according to The Financial Times.

The deal is reportedly sealed a commitment to spend millions of dollars over the next year on YouTube, web and mobile network advertising. Many reports speculate that television will be the most impacted over time as big advertisers begin to look at online video as a viable channel to reach consumers.

“For years, the digital world has been asking for the dollars and laying out a case for why,” said Brian Terkelsen, chief executive (CEO) of MediaVest. “This is a moment in time where we are beginning to see a new level of transparency, a new level of partnership and a new appreciation of the size of the prize that is available.”

Publicis, founded in 1926 and headquartered in France, is a multi-billion company dubbed one of the “Big Four” agency companies in the world. This year, it announced plans to merge with Omnicom, also a Big Four agency and multi-billion dollar company. The deal would secure the group’s position as one of the largest of its kind in the world.

Currently, Publicis owns subsidiary companies in digital and media such as Rosetta, Rokkan and Razorfish, to name a few.

But this isn’t the first time Google has struck a deal with one of the Big Four. Advertising giant WPP based in the UK said back in April that Google was the beneficiary of $2 billion in spending for the quarter, and WPP CEO Martin Sorrell said Google would soon overtake WPP’s largest beneficiary, News Corp, which owns companies in television broadcast.

The agreement comes hot on the heels of reports that YouTube may be launching a music video service with premium and free options. The free streaming option would no doubt be a prime medium for some of those big advertisers to reach consumers.

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Google Ideas Has Discussed Smartphones & Law Enforcement

Google has been posting a bunch of “Google Ideas” discussions to YouTube this week. One that went live today discusses smartphones and their role in making law enforcement “smarter.”

It’s only seventeen minutes long, so it won’t take too much of your time.

“Commanders are isolated from their officers in the field, and civilian oversight is further removed still,” Google says in the description. “How can the recent spread of Smartphones be used to bridge gaps in accountability and ultimately trust?”

Robert Muggah, Research Director at Igarape Institute and Vanessa Coimbra, Pacification Police Units, Military Police of Rio de Janeiro attempt to answer.

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Make Your Cookies In Different Shapes: Halloween Cookie Cutters

Cookie cutter is most useful and popular tool which is used in kitchens. The term Cookie cutter is defined as a tool used in making of cookies and also in decorating various food items.  Cookie cutters are multifunctional it simply means that besides cooking or baking it can be used for different tasks such as in arts and crafts ,  for giving different shapes to different items.  It has become a vital tool .

Cookie cutters are available in a wide range in the market made up of different types of materials such as metals , plastic, copper, stainless steel etc.  You can get Cookie cutters of different shapes and size like  Halloween Cookie Cutters, Number cookie cutters, Candy Shapes Cookie, Birds Cookie Cutters, Stencils Cupcake & Cookie and so many types are available in the market. 

You can make food for birds by taking Bird cookie cutter in the use , children love to do this activity. Also Number cookie cutter is used to make numbers and also you can use beads to make attractive decorative item.  And then that item can be used in decorating rooms of small children. For decorating the gift items. Other than this of course you can make cookies in different shapes like heart, circle , mustache so small kids will love to eat it happily and with fun.

 

So basically the conclusion is that Cookie cutters is a  multifunctional tool and so its good to have it in your kitchen.

Is It Time To Say Goodbye To Google PageRank?

Earlier this month, I had speculated that Google was getting ready to retire PageRank. It hadn’t been updated for several months and Matt Cutts hinted that PageRank “started to go away a little bit” in a recent webmaster help video. In his keynote at PubCon in Las Vegas, Cutts revealed the reason why PageRank hasn’t been updated and why it likely won’t be updated for a while – if ever.

Internally, PageRank updates on a daily basis and every so often, Google would push out the PageRank data to the Google toolbar through a pipeline (they haven’t done so since early 2013). The reason we haven’t seen a fresh PageRank update recently is because the PageRank pipeline broke, so while the PageRank data internally continues to update as it should, webmasters hoping to get a fresh look at PageRank data are out of luck.

Cutts also revealed they do not have anyone currently working on updating the pipeline and confirms we won’t see a PageRank update anytime this year. They are evaluating it to see if they need to make a fix to update the PageRank publicly next year.

Many webmasters still obsess over PageRank data, but the fact it hasn’t been updated since early this year means that webmasters have been less reliant on using it as an SEO tool of value. While Google continues to update the algorithm and penalize sites, webmasters can’t use it to spot check if a site has been penalized, as they could in years past. Few users are using the Google toolbar in Internet Explorer (it is also a feature that has to be manually turned on) so fewer people are seeing the data at all. There are still a lot of SEO tools that utilize and display PageRank information for sites and use it as a metric, particularly in tools that are gauging potential link values.

While it isn’t confirmed we will never see a PageRank update ever again, the fact we will only have a single PageRank update in 2013 and Google isn’t working on a pipeline fix makes it less likely PageRank will be updated or a valuable tool for webmasters going forward.

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The New Trends Of Online Marketing In Upcoming Year

After the major algorithm update and the introduction of new knowledge graph (Google’s Hummingbird and Penguin algorithm update) it is predicted that local SEO will lead marketing in the coming future. Techvision Solution will help you to get into the new business opportunities and the trends. The Forbes has reported an important marketing trend through featured article on online marketing trends and the new trend toward local SEO in the coming year.

There are few Internet marketing trends which we should keep in mind for the upcoming year:

• Content marketing will play an important role more than ever. Content will create and establish the authority. It will engage the client base and generate leads in coming year.
• New innovation, creativity and diversity will be needed in Social Media Marketing.
• Content with the featuring images will stand out effectively.
• Keep your content mobile friendly as much as possible.
• Offering Simple, Succinct and straightforward message will be needed for the client.
• Ensure your ads speak to your target audience.
• Effective SEO and use of Social Signal will make marketing stand out.

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