YouTube Launches Auto-Captions

Last week we discussed the many changes on the horizon for YouTube. It seems that they are making these changes rapidly, as they announced yesterday that they would be rolling out auto-captions to all of their videos. YouTube writes, “auto-captioning combines some of the speech-to-text algorithms found in Google’s Voice Search to automatically [...]

PostRank Closes in on Engagement Tracking

PostRank’s dedication to social engagement tracking is paying off as it is developing ways to track how users interact with social content such as blogs. ReadWriteWeb states that PostRank Analytics combines engagement metrics it already collects from social networks with traditional analytics data from Google Analytics.
The service is free for 30 days and only [...]

YouTube Plans on Using Viral Aspect to Gain Revenue

YouTube’s need to turn profit on its high traffic site is appearing more evident as it has introduced advertising. Now, YouTube is planning to add another layer that will help build more revenue. Although YouTube uses ads now are used primarily within videos, other lesser known and available ads, which appear on user channels, [...]

How-to: Create an Optimized Page

Many rightfully argue that SEO is a science. SEO takes time, patience and endless testing to achieve the optimal results. It seems that once that goal is achieved, the rules of SEO change and it’s back to the drawing board. So what does it take to create an optimized page? SEOMoz recently posted a blog [...]

Twitter Positions itself as a Place for Business

Twitter has quickly taken the world by storm. Whether it’s friends, colleagues, celebrities or institutions everyone knows the importance of the microblogging tool. And while other social media sites such as Facebook have created a space first for college students, then all users and finally businesses, Twitter is taking the business world head on.
Today, [...]

Facebook Changes URL Policy

When Facebook announced that it would allow users to choose a custom username, they were warned that they could never change it, so they had to be sure on what name to pick. This has since changed and Facebook is allowing its users to change their usernames. However, users can only make the change once [...]

Bing Travel Announced after Decision Engine Launches

Last week, Microsoft announced the unveiling of its new decision engine, Bing. Since then, the release of Bing has brought on much attention, and many users are flocking over to see what the new engine can do for them. One of Bing’s newest focus for its engine is the addition of Bing Travel [...]

Digg Announces New Advertising Platform

Socialbookmarking giant, Digg, is making news once again. This time, however, the news is surrounding their decision to change the way in which companies can advertise on their sites. Users will be able to vote ads up or down—the new advertising model is called Digg Ads.
How will Digg Ads work? According to Digg’s [...]

Google Labs Launches New Functions

One of the elements that microblogging sites like Twitter have had over search engines like Google is the ability to perform real time searches. Perhaps Google had this in mind when it launched its new Google News Timeline for Google Labs. How does the Google News Timeline work? Google News Timeline lays out the [...]

Getfugu Brings Different Search Functions to Mobile

Getfugu is a new service which will use various elements to optimize mobile search. Getfugu incorporates voice search, local content, a touch-screen advertising service and others. Although Getfugu has not launched yet, the goal of the site will be to keep users from typing in a search, relying on other cellular phone capabilities. [...]

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