YouTube Tells You Which Videos You Have Watched

Which Videos You Have Watched

I know some people who happen to love YouTube and swear by watching its curated videos by users rather than television any day and although I cannot say that I am that dedicated, I do enjoy watching videos on YouTube from time to time, especially if it is a series of families or entertaining regular non-celebrity people, but sometimes I lose my spot to where I left off, YouTube has a solution for that problem.

If you like watching videos but often forget which video you watched last and have to sometimes spend time rewatching videos until your memory kicks in it can become a time suck and does not make watching YouTube videos all that fun for those who are not as dedicated of course. It can also be unfriendly to those who like to use the custom YouTube feature and perhaps use the same themed logo or static image, this in itself can cause confusion to your viewers although your efforts are to try and be unique.

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Use Images to Gain More Readers on Your Blog

Use Images to Gain More Readers on Your Blog

If you’re wondering if there is a secret sauce to gaining more readers to your blog, there is. It is called Pinterest. This social image sharing site that many use as a website where you express your interests through pins into boards that store various images of the same topic and repin images of shared interest of others, to bloggers, Pinterest is the goddess of bringing more views to your blog, hence more readers.

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Gangnam Style will be Over 1 Billion Views with the Next Update to the Count

Gangnam Style

There’s a pretty good chance that the video is already over 1 billion views. In fact, it’s almost certain, since the update to the count is behind schedule.

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What do you think of Instagram now?

What do you think of Instagram now

Yesterday Instagram wrote an article to their users on their blog regarding the frenzy that happened earlier this week due to their announcement of changes that are to occur to Intagram’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy come early January.

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Why you may need to delete your Instagram account come January

Why you may need to delete your Instagram account come January

In just one day, the Internet has exploded in fury over the recent changes Instagram has announced for their upcoming Privacy Policy and Terms of Service changes that will be occurring on January 16th 2013. Why would anyone be upset as these types of changes occur frequently? Perhaps it is due to the fact that Instagram will have the right to sell your photos without notice or compensation.

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A Picture is not Worth a Thousand Tweets: The Instagram – Twitter War

Instagram vs Twitter

In reported social media news, the battlefront looks grim for Twitter users who relied on the savvy photogenic talents of the Instagram app. Pulling Instagram is no doubt, a move by Facebook to integrate users onto their platform. With the rising numbers of Facebook users, is this move a little skeezy?

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Hilarious College Humor Video about Instagram Touches an Uncanny Level of Reality

Instagram Nickleback

Parody videos often struggle to combine the funny aspects of their targets while maintaining a grasp on reality. When it comes to Instagram, College Humor was able to stay true to both components. It’s quite hilarious and stays true to the various annoying truths about Instagram. All of this is then wrapped up into a video against the perfect parody source music, “Photograph” by Nickleback.

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YouTube allows users to customize their dashboard

YouTube allows users to customize their dashboard

YouTube has recently added more changes to help you better understand where you stand amongst your efforts on YouTube. They have redesigned their Dashboard for its users to not only easily gain information regarding their activities but the ability to customize their personal dashboard to look the way users want it.

Enabling personalization is important for any social network to understand that users want the ability to see specific analytics the way they prioritize them as opposed to the way the social network (like YouTube) would, they are not always going to be the same.

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The Best Times to Post, Part III: The Two Types of Posting Personality Types

Split Personalities

There are two truly valid ways to post on social media. It depends on the personality, goals, and bandwidth available within your business. Both have pros and cons. Both have chances of success and failure.

This is Part III of the series on timing. Please read Part I and Part II first.

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Why Quality Trumps Quantity at Nearly Every Level on Social Media

The Claw

It was the 2011 Driving Sales Executive Summit when I was asked by Joe Webb to participate in a debate about Twitter followers. I had around 100,000 followers at the time and he wanted me to argue for the side of quantity being more important than quality. This made perfect sense except for one fact: I don’t believe in quantity being a more important factor than quality. I did back in 2008 when Twitter was bright and shiny and “churning” for Twitter followers was a common technique, but those days are way behind us.

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