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YouTube vs. Usability

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Is your YouTube content usable?  A new article from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox outlines some compelling reasons NOT to participate in social networking sites.   Research behind “Social Media Outsourcing Can Be Risky” makes the case that:
1. Usability can be harmed.  In the article’s YouTube examples, inappropriate image thumbnail choices, repetitive features, and poor organization are [...]

The Differences Between User Generated & Professional Web Video

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

All web video is not the same. On the one hand you have user generated content video, or UGC, and on the other hand, you have everything else, or what we’ll simply call professional web video.
The differences are stellar. UGC is mostly what it sounds like. You know, YouTube type of videos where “users” (I [...]

There Are Over 500 Places To Distribute Your Videos Online

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

There are over 500 places to upload your videos to online. You know, places like Youtube where you can share your videos with niche minded audiences and become “friends” in communities of the like at the same time.

Wow, over 500? Really? Really.
These user generated sites mostly offer free services whereby users can upload video clips [...]

Online Video: 11 Billion Views and No Signs of Slowing

Monday, June 30th, 2008

On June 17th, comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, released its data from the Video Metrix service, which measures monthly video views online. The numbers were massive. According to the service, U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos throughout April, with more than 4 billion of those [...]

Careless Whispers? The Power of George Michael in Google’s Algorithm

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I’m never gonna dance again, but George Michael’s video appears to keep dancing, long after the music stopped.
Wonder what an iconic 80’s song has to do with Google and SEO? Here’s the skinny: I googled 1-f looking for a result from the world of science, and the very first page of my [...]


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