What if you could get more people to view and share your videos and stay on them longer by basically split testing which image in the video works the best?

Anyone out there have a favorite "Youtuber" personality? No? That's ok - it's mostly for the younger kids these days.

It should be no surprise to anyone that more people are watching videos on their mobile devices.

When 2014 kicked off, YouTube was on top of the game for online video.

There is a new Carousel at google.com search for Miley Cyrus followed by the word "songs ie "miley cyrus songs" and you will see it.

There's finally a simple way to link your YouTube channel to your G+ pages, as well as the ability to assign upload and edit rights to multiple managers for your channel.

A very under rated but powerful feature of Google search is understanding spelling mistakes and user intent.

Pre-Google-ownership searching for stuff on YouTube was always a drama if you didn’t know the exact right spelling. The result was always ‘no matches found.’

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Quote: Code Monkey get up get coffee Code Monkey go to job Code Monkey have boring meeting With boring manager Rob Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent But his output stink His code not "functional" or "elegant" What do Code Monkey think? Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself ... ...

First chink I've seen in the google scraper/entitlement biz model.

Quote: Viacom said its pirated programs on YouTube generate about 1.2 billion video streams, based on a study from an outside consultant.

The search function on Google video is now listing results from YouTube alongside the usual Google Video results.

For example a search for "cars" returns results with YouTube results underneath and when clicked on you are redirected through to the YouTube site.

The now Google owned YouTube took a small but meaningful step away from user generated content and towards corporate friendliness today by "hiding comments" - via NY Times

In an effort to make it easier for people to publish their own videos (and not copyrighted material) YouTube will now be letting people record directly from a webcam and microphone straight into YouTube via Arstechnica.com

TOKYO - The popular video-sharing site YouTube deleted nearly 30,000 files after a Japanese entertainment group complained of copyright infringement.

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Pretty Cool, Matt Cutts posts Videos on basics of SEO and Webmastering...

This is an issue that has been going on in the background for a little while but now is getting some main stream press in Wired Magazine

Interest in gadgets seems to have waned recently, but I am still a gadgets man. How about this one. Anyone who has used it have any views on the iRiver U10 . Good, bad, indifferent??

Google announced they are rolling out video AdSense ads this week.

The NSA has been amassing a record of ordinary domestic phone calls. Qwest did not participate in the program, but it sounds as though AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth did.

9/11 Theories will never get air time on western controlled telly. And this is threadwatch so shouldn't we point to some non-SEO threads?

This one is brilliant. Whether you believe it or not, it's great TV.

Tivo, makers of the popular digital video recorder by the same name, recently won their lawsuit against EchoStar.

TiVo claimed EchoStar violated its patent for a "multimedia time warping system" to pause, rewind or fast-forward live TV programs by recording them on a hard drive.