YouTube, at 6.5 years old, is indisputably a central part of today's society. Whether it's through hosting political debates and making our government more accessible, branding today's youth the 'YouTube Generation', or just allowing our culture to spread around the world as we laugh and cry at the same videos. YouTube is also bankrolling a number of stars. People that create … [Read more...]
Google Celebrates Jim Henson’s 75th Birthday With Digital Puppets Doodle
Jim Henson, the famous puppeteer and mind behind The Muppets, would have celebrated his 75th birthday on September 24th, 2011. Google is celebrating the man with an original Google Doodle on their search page that allows people to play with digital puppetry. Six digitized puppets based on Jim Henson's work are arranged in the G-o-o-g-l-e layout and with a click of the button … [Read more...]
Do Some Basic Edits To Your Uploaded Videos with YouTube
As announced on the YouTube blog yesterday, a new feature has been rolled out that allows you to do some editing of your videos on YouTube instead of being required to do that editing beforehand with a separate video editor. Starting today, you can edit your uploaded videos right on YouTube and maintain the same video IDs. This means you keep your view count and comments, and … [Read more...]
Google Adds A Weather Layer To Google Maps
In a combination that goes together like chocolate and peanut butter, Google announced today that an information-filled layer about the weather is available to be overlayed on Google Maps. … [Read more...]
Google Announces Several New Features For Google Search With Inside Search Event
Google held an event this morning called Inside Search to make a number of announcements regarding innovations being made to their core Search product. To cut to the chase, rolling out today include: query building in mobile searches, local icons on the refreshed mobile Google home page, a new user interface for local search, Russian translation in Google Goggles, voice search … [Read more...]