Tag Archives: Google

Facebook 5th Largest Video Site

Techcrunch reports today that Facebook has quietly become the 5th largest online video destination on the Web, tripling its video views over the past year.  Facebook has always been an important video destination in my opinion, because video is a … Continue reading

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YouTube enables real-time feedback

YouTube continues to evolve, today announcing the ability to add Google Moderator to your YouTube Channel.  This new feature will let you collect feedback from your YouTube audience while giving them tools to submit ideas and vote the best ones … Continue reading

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Making your video news more discoverable – tips from Google

The Google News Blog has some tips up for news publishers on how to make videos more visible in search results.  And I thought I’d share them here because they’re pretty much good across the board. They are: 1. Timely uploads … Continue reading

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Google loves video – set to launch WebM Project

Image via CrunchBase Dan Rayburn reports that Google is making a major announcement tomorrow around the open-sourcing of its VP8 video codec.  This is a big deal because if Google throws its considerable weight behind an opensource VP8 codec and … Continue reading

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Viral Video – Motorola Android Phone Solves Rubik’s Cube

This video of a Motorola phone solving a Rubik’s cube has everything you could want in a viral video: surprise, cool tech, something remarkable and Lego robots.  They say there isn’t a recipe for viral video, and I agree, but … Continue reading

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Belief and walking away from $500 million

The big news on the Web is Google’s reported $500 million offer that Yelp! turned down.  The deal itself is of less interest to me-what is really compelling is the idea that Yelp! executives walked away.  It’s really, really hard … Continue reading

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The difference between ad:tech and Blogworld

I’m at ad:tech this week.  I just spent the last 10+ hours in a booth talking to people about online advertising.  All the big online agencies are here, WPP, Digitas, TribalDDB, etc. etc.  The big online players are here too, … Continue reading

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If you’re not using Facebook search you don’t know what you’re missing

Tonight while I was going through some of the different social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook I decided to do a search on the name of the company I work for “TurnHere.” Now I do this regularly and automatically … Continue reading

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Which Way is Up?

Lately I’ve been asked to speak more and more on social media and online marketing. I love it because as a geek I’m thrilled that people are starting to pay attention to the powerful opportunities that are available to people … Continue reading

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If you’re a small business about to make the social media leap…

Here are a handful of things that I’d do right away. Get my business profile updated on Yelp! Claim my business in Google Local and setup my Google Local Business Center Add pictures and video content to my Google Places … Continue reading

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