Technology – Page 111

YouTube Discovery

In addition to the new tab design over at YouTube, they’ve added a new feature to their analytics tool Insight called Discovery. Discovery gives stats on how viewers found your video. By revealing how viewers found your video, producers will for the first time be able to effectively optimize their videos.

Stats like what keywords users typed in YouTube and Google search to find your video will allow producers to modify their keywords and make sure that they have the right phrases. Other interesting stats include seeing what related video brought in the most viewers to your video. All of these stats are combined through a pie graph, which allow users to directly compare percentage wise the different ways people are finding the video.

I believe that Discovery is exactly what videographers need in order to get their videos seen by as many people as possible. I’ve already modified my videos based on keyword results. In fact, Discovery showed me that half my videos are rarely being found by users through YouTube’s search engine. That could be one major reason as to why some of them they have low views.

YouTube gets new layout, “statistics”, “commentary” tabs

Youtube new tab design

Our ingenious eyes have spotted that YouTube has updated its video page layout. While the look itself isn’t dramatically different, we notice that is cleaner, neater and tidier. You also now have the ability to share on Facebook, Digg or MySpace directly! The rest of the page also functions smoothly and helps improve usability.

Of note are two new tabs; “Commentary” and “Statistics & Info”. Commentary is basically a union of the video responses and YouTube’s infamous comments that have gone down as being better reading than Victorian literature.

Statistics & Info appears to house details like how many sites have linked the video (including links to all of them) as well as stuff like how many honors it has (and which ones, specifically!).

Observing the white space to the right of the views counter, we also see a button for choosing between normal and HD resolutions – a much-requested feature! This one is currently only available on some videos (because not all videos are HD, you dummy), so don’t expect to see it everywhere.

All in all, while we’ve seen much better looking video websites, this layout is a welcome change as it makes the average day of browsing baby videos and people getting hit a more neater and tidier experience!

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AMD cuts 10% of workforce

AMD the only processor maker who has a chance to rival Intel has announced they will be cutting 10% of the global workforce. This is down to a 15% drop in profits expected for Q1 so it’s purely a cost cutting measure. The 10% of the workforce means an expected 1,650 jobs gone.
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Blu-ray price will stay high long into the future

In short according to the makers of OEM Blu-ray drives for PC’s and other computers while the price of some components are falling other are increasing. This goes against the usual expectation that with the technology getting older and becoming surpassed that the price would fall to a more home user friendly level.

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Windows 7 still going for 2010, Gates’ statement wrong

Regardless of how much you hate Microsoft Windows, we just know you had that delightful sparkle in your eye when we told you earlier this week that Bill Gates has said that Windows 7 will ship next year. Turns out that is too good be true, and Microsoft is still holding on to the whole “3 years after Vista” charade, meaning that no Windows 7 for you till 2010.

But there’s more to this software mutiny, after the break!

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Uwe Boll will resign if petition gets 1 million signatures

[UPDATE: 4/9/08] Pro-Uwe Boll petition?! Who would be Pro-Uwe, especially when he insults Hollywood?

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Uwe Boll. The name brings back mortifying memories of Alone in the Dark, Dungeon Siege and Far Cry. What would it take to stop such a monstrous juggernaut from obliterating our movie-appreciation senses? Straight from the man himself, it’s going to take ONE MILLION signatures on this petition.Hit the jump to find out what’s up! Continue reading “Uwe Boll will resign if petition gets 1 million signatures”