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  Quickly Share Private YouTube Videos

  Posted: October 15th, 2009, 3:58pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  I am a big YouTube user for both professional and personal use. When it comes to personal use, I want to make my videos private and share them with friends and family. The issue was that you had to get people to sign up to YouTube and then share their username with you. You then add them as friends on YouTube. It was a big hassle.

  Sometime in the past few months, YouTube added a new feature that let's you share your private videos via a special URL. Your friends simply click on that URL and they can see the video. They are required to have a YouTube or Google Account, but you don't need to know what their account name is - you just send them the URL.

  To access this, go to my videos on YouTube and click "edit" on the private video you want to share. Then scroll down and you will see the broadcasting options:

  As you can see, there is an option to give out a URL to up to 25 people, to view the video.

  Liz from YouTube support created a new thread at the YouTube Help forum explaining how this works. She said:

  *** You cannot share a private video with more than 25 other users. If you'd like to share the video with more people, you'll need to set the video to "public".

  *** Once a videos is shared via the private URL, it cannot be unshared. Therefore, use your 25 invites there wisely!

  *** The "Limited Access" box won't stay permanently selected until someone accesses your video for the first time- even if you've marked the video as private and sent the video to your friends already. Someone must first watch the video before the "Limited Access" box will appear selected.

  *** In order to watch a private video, your contacts must already have a YouTube account. If they don't already have an account, they'll first need to sign up for an account, and then once they've activated their account they'll then be able to sign in and watch the private video you sent them. If they do not sign into their account before watching the video, the video will not load.

  To learn more about sharing private videos with your contacts, I suggest visting this Help Center article:
  http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?&answer=157177

  I, for one, am glad they added this feature (again, I know it is a few months old).

  Forum discussion at YouTube Help.

  
  

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  Apple iPhone Day: I'm At Tice's Corner in NJ

  Posted: July 11th, 2008, 1:46pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  This morning, I got to the Apple Store at Tice's Corner in New Jersey at about 4:30am. I was about the 20th person in line and now, at about 6:45am (1 hour and 15 minutes until the iPhone goes on sale), there are probably about 60 people at this store.

  The iPhone has seriously taken mobile search and browsing to the next level. Many search companies, tools and social applications are already available for the iPhone 2.0 software. In any event, I am very excited to upgrade my iPhone 1.0 to the 2.0 model.

  Here are some pictures from the Apple Store at Tice's Corner:

  If you are in the area, stop by. :)

  More pictures at 2 hours, 30 minutes, 24 seconds to 8am:

  1 hour, 22 minutes, 20 seconds until iPhone, the line behind me:

  For more see my personal blog.

  Forum discussion at Plurk.

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  Preparing to Hoard New Top Level Domain Names?

  Posted: July 1st, 2008, 11:25pm CEST by chrisboggs

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  Last week there was a lot of buzz generated by the ICANN announcement that they would open up the web to allow for an "unlimited number" of new Top-Level-Domains (aka TLDs such as .com or .org or .info, for example) to be created. The initial information from Wall Street Journal was that these could cost anywhere from $100,000 to $500,000, although another report directly from ICANN states that they would be free, and require the submission of an application for evaluation.

  Barry actually wrote a post on his personal blog about the new domain extensions, and specifically called out to the SEM community that it might be worth pooling funds to buy the (.seo) and (.sem) TLDs before spammers or domain speculators got a hold of them. Although the cost isn't there yet, these domains will eventually fetch a decent amount of money on the open market, or will they? In either case, I sure would love to own chrisboggs.seo...

  Three different conversations are going on within search-related forums and discussion boards, and all are focused mostly on how both search engines and users would react to an influx of additional TLDs. The Sphinn thread leads to the question of whether a TLD implies more authority or trust related to a particular subject. As Kim Krause Berg points out:

  Perception is everything. Just because a site ends with .seo doesn't automatically equate to credibility or expertise.

  This is certainly an interesting slant to the topic. If someone saw a site that was .insurance, would they possibly trust it more than an insurancebrand.com site?

  WebmasterWorld Forums member Simsi asks:

  How do you think Google will approach this? Especially considering they seem to have move a lot more localized with SERPS.

  This is also an interesting perspective...will French words forming TLDs do better in France? Doubtful unless other factors are included, but certainly an interesting question.

  Lastly, the conversation at High Rankings Forums forecasts havoc brought on by this potential proliferation of TLDs. A UK member states that:

  Word on the street here is that certain domain names are going to go for €600,000 (yes, that is not a mistake). There is such terror over cyber squatters that some companies are prepared to pay this. Is it me, or is this just a bit of cyber insanity to entertain me because the summer months are so slow and boring?

  These are all great takes on this subject...go share your thoughts and please save the .seos for me!

Net Covered

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  PageRank Update!!!

  Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 10:36pm CEST by admin

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  Hi folks! I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve been very busy lately. But today I’m bringing some great news. Google has updated public toolbar PageRank. So everybody go check your websites’ PR and you might be surprised. This blog has jumped from PR0 to PR2 which is pretty good taking in consideration that the domain is only about 2 or 3 months old. Though I’m little bit disappointed about number of backlinks which has dropped to 2,127. The reason is that I have cancelled all payed banners and links at other blogs and I have decided to build the PageRank on my own.

  Of course, this is just a small achievment but it’s a great starting point. My next targer is PR4 so I’m looking forward to writing a similar post in three months.
  
  To celebrate this little “victory” I’ve made a new theme. Hope you like it. This is the first time I’ve tried a combination of dark red and dark grey colors.

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  Clear Input Field Value When Selected?

  Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 12:40am CEST by admin

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  There’s a little useful JavaScript function that clears input field once you select it. Imagine you want to have a search input field at your website that says something like “To search type and hit enter” or similar but you want it to clear up once you click at it. It’s pretty simple…
  
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  Clear Input Field Value When Selected?

  Posted: April 21st, 2008, 11:53pm CEST by admin

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  Today’s post will be partially just for my own reference but I’m sure many of you will find it useful and potentionally use it at your websites. There’s a little useful JavaScript function that clears input field once you select it. Imagine you want to have a search input field at your website that says something like “To search type and hit enter” or similar but you want it to clear up once you click at it. It’s pretty simple. Add this to the header:

  <script type=”text/javascript”>
  function clickclear(thisfield, defaulttext) {
  if (thisfield.value == defaulttext) {
  thisfield.value = “”;
  }
  }
  function clickrecall(thisfield, defaulttext) {
  if (thisfield.value == “”) {
  thisfield.value = defaulttext;
  }
  }
  </script>

  Ok now move to the form where the input field is located. For example, my search form here at Net Covered looks like this:

  <form method=”get” action=”<?php bloginfo(’home’); ?>/”>
  <input type=”text” name=”s” id=”searchform” value=”To search - type and hit enter…” onclick=”clickclear(this, ‘To search - type and hit enter…‘)” onblur=”clickrecall(this,’To search - type and hit enter…‘)” />
  </form>

  The trick is that all three values (I have bolded them) must be the same or else it won’t work. See? That’s it. Now you can try it at your website.

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  101 Ideas to Get More Freelance Work

  Posted: April 14th, 2008, 11:00pm CEST by admin

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  Just a shorter post for today… I’ve just came across this really interesting and comprehensive article. It consists of long list of tips and tricks on how to effectively spread the word about your freelance services and generate new client leads. It explains very well how to get more potential work. If you happen to be a freelancer or if you are considering starting a freelance carrier, check it out!

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  30 Day Blogging Challenge

  Posted: April 10th, 2008, 10:58pm CEST by admin

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  Are you up to a great challenge? I mean a blogging challenge. When you succeed, your blog will rank better in search engines, you will gain hundreds of backlinks and a dramatic increase in quality traffic. Are you interested?
  
  What am I talking about? I’m talking about 30 days full of hard work. However it will pay off greatly after your initial one month time investment and the results will last much longer after that. Where did I get this idea? I’ve came across a very interesting article and it really captured my attention.
  
  The core of this challenge is to make at least one post each day for a month. But that’s not all. You must also leave at least one quality comment at other blogs with similar niche every day (no spam comments of course). It’s a brilliant way how to get your blog more popular. There are few reasons why it will work. Firstly, it will get you noticed by search engines and readers as an active blogger. Secondly, you will gather up bunch of a great content and many quality backlinks from well respected blogs within your niche. Finally, you will train your writing skills and become used to periodical posting.
  
  If you don’t give up, you’ll see wonders. There’s a nice graph at Affiliate Confession - that blog used this method and the number of daily visits came from 5 to 180 in just 24 days!
  
  So, are you up to this? It won’t be easy but it will pay off. I’ve already decided to take this challenge in a near future. Not from this day but soon. I will make a post with official announcement once I start it off. Meanwhile, I hope you will consider giving it a try and joining me in my ambitious effort.

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  New Look

  Posted: April 8th, 2008, 8:32pm CEST by admin

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  Hello everybody. If you have already visited this blog before you must have noticed some big changes going on around. I have created absolutely new design. I have kept the previous color scheme though I’ve smoothed the colors to be easier on eyes. In addition, I have tried to make the content more organized - reduced number of categories and more comprendious sidebar. Hope you like it. You can download my previous theme for free here. Enjoy!
  
  Secondly, I have started to use the Entrecard in order to exchnage relevant traffic with other bloggers. You can see it in the “Featured ad” box. I’m also planning to make better comments template. Something similar like at this blog. There are more upcoming changes and few really great ideas in my head so be prepared.

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  Visual Searching?

  Posted: March 19th, 2008, 4:40pm CET by admin

  Tags:  Miscellaneous  

  SearchMe is a new interesting search engine and it seems like it could become a serious player. But how is it different from other search engines like Google or Yahoo? It offers visual searching.
  
  Right. Once you type in what you are looking for, instead of ordinary list of related websites you’ll see the actual screenshots. That will help you decide whether the site is relevant to what you’re looking for or not without clicking on any link. Additionally, as you start typing - categories appear that relate to your query. That can save some time, too. Of course besides visual searching you will get also standard text search results.
  
  
  
  They have already around a billion indexed sites. That’s good start - it’s negligible compared to giants like Google but remember it’s still in beta. We’ll see if it will pull off. I’ve already signed up for a private testing and I’m awaiting invitation within next few days. I will be then able to give you more information.