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Youtube got snow fall button for this christmas

December 22nd, 2011 No comments

Just notice that youtube.com got snow fall button function for this christmas, for any video on youtube you see snow indicator button on bottom right side. When you press that it goes to red and start to snow, mean time the snow collected on the bottom to top and even its react to mouse cursor. Cool :)

Try any video. Below is the screen capture for the video.

youtube snow button for christmas

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HTTPS and VPN Explained in Simple English by Google

August 26th, 2011 No comments

Do you know that HTTPS (Secure HTTP) and VPN (Virtual Private Network) are the more secure way to browse the internet? And do you know what exactly happen behind the scenes when you browse the website with HTTPS and VPN?

Here are two resent video in youtube by privacy team of Google, where they are trying to explain the technical things in simple English, that what happen when you browse website or use internet using HTTPS or VPN.

HTTPS in Simple English


VPN in Simple English
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YouTube Releases New Statistics

July 21st, 2011 No comments

YouTube has updated their press page and it offers some new statistics around YouTube’s Partner program, mobile growth, monetization and more. Here’s a quick summary of the key new stats:

#1. YouTube users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week. In other words, 60% more content is getting uploaded to YouTube when compared to the previous year.

#2. Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day while YouTube mobile gets over 320M views a day. YouTube’s mobile traffic continues to grow at an impressive rate – up 60% since January this year. I wonder if YouTube has figured out a way to monetize their mobile content.

#3. 150 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook and every minute more than 400 tweets contain YouTube links. Google doesn’t exactly say how many YouTube videos are watched on Facebook. Read more…

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YouTube Search with Simple Commands

May 3rd, 2011 No comments

youtube logoDo you know youtube is now second most popular search engine in the internet after Google search, More then 35 hours of video stuff are uploaded every single minute. Here are some more stat about youtube…

  • More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded during 2010 and 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute.
  • The equivalent of 150,000+ full-length movies in theaters each week
  • More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years
  • 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
  • YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages
  • YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old
  • YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010

Searching video in youtube is very easy, as you type anything on youtube there is almost something. Here are some more tricks or syntax for searching you tube… Read more…

Apple’s Steve Jobs admits ‘we are not perfect’

July 17th, 2010 No comments

Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, admitted that the company was “not perfect” at a hastily convened press conference to address reported signal problems with its latest must-have gadget, the iPhone 4.

As with iPhone 4 has software update last night on 15th july 2010 iOS 4.0.1 for miss calculation of bar to display for the signal strength.

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Youtube reaches two billion hits a day

May 20th, 2010 No comments

The world’s largest video sharing website, Youtube.com, has just set another record. Google reported that the website is currently getting 2 billion hits a day. Also, on an average a user spends at least 15 minutes a day watching videos in Youtube. The website has come a long way, starting from the first video uploaded featuring co-founder Jawed Karim who posted a 19 second video on April 23, 2005, to getting 1 billion hits a day which the website achieved by October 2009. Read more…

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How Fast Does YouTube Say Your Internet Speed Is?

May 12th, 2010 No comments

I’m not entirely sure how I ended up finding this page on YouTube’s site, but I’m always interested in seeing real-world bandwidth tests, and YouTube probably burns up more bandwidth than any other domain on the planet, so they have some rich data from which to draw upon. Make sure you’re logged into YouTube, then check out their historical speed page. The above screenshot shows that I consume YouTube videos at 4.66Mbps average speed; I was surprised to see that the average GB rating, and the global rating, were  low.

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