Youtube: What makes you stay longer

A glance at the watch and oh! you've just spend an extra hour on youtube, the world's third largest visited website. 

A cool video that you checked out let you to another video and that led to another and this continued till you realized that you had just spent some extra time, tubing on youtube.

I decided to look into what it was in the design that made us watch the extra videos and here is what I found.

#1 Related Videos concept

This is the section which is the on the right side of the video you are watching and contains the videos related to the current one. The advantage of this section is that it helps you find a video that might be more relevant or a in relation to what you are looking for.

#2 Videos recommended for you

This is something which went un-noticed since I used to directly search what I wanted. On the front page of Youtube this section comes below the featured video. The best part of this section is that it recommends you videos based on the those  you have watched previously.

#3 Your Candidate

This part I thought is one of the best things Youtube has given to this world. Your candidate's channel on Youtube. Before the elections we get to know about the candidate only through news channels and party rallies. A Youtube channel of the candidate, where your candidate expresses his ideology and his agenda is something very valuable in-order to give a mass appeal. And yes, you can also contribute through Google checkout. Although I can't say much about the Obama-Hillary campaign, but I can surely say that at this pace youtube might soon overtake other video sources(television).

#4 Featured Video

The featured video is another cool feature.It helps you look outside you tube scope

#5 Most Active videos

Lastly, you can also see what the world has been watching. This is not one of the best things, I'd say about Youtube since the most active videos have the most freaky titles, which could lead you to an embarrassing situation.

 

Anything else that you think has kept you glued to Youtube, let me know

Google says that it will dump one section of the end-user licensing agreement that gave the company "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through" the new browser.

Several Web users raised copyright and privacy concerns about portions of the licensing agreement shortly after Google launched Chrome. Some critics suggested the language would allow Google to use any Web content displayed in Chrome without getting copyright permission.

Google said it borrowed language from other products, "in order to keep things simple for our users," when it inserted the copyright provision in the Chrome licence. Read

Three browsers on the web, the archaic Internet Explorer, the featured Firefox and the Gusto Chrome, compete for what could change the dynamics of web for ever. The browser war was earlier between internet explorer and google backed mozilla, which was more of a turf war between two industry giants. Now google has introduced its lethal weapon, which if hits the right spot, could simply kick out microsoft out of the web world.

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You can join this browser war and make it colourful by making and emailing your imagination in the form of images of a browser war to sk.insync@yahoo.com

Keep the subject as "Browser War Logo" and email it and I'll feature it on Techreef.

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I downloaded Chrome yesterday and despite all attempts by my hectic schedule and MBA preperation, I have finally managed some time to write a small post on Chrome fairs on day one. Back home from work, tired and exhausted I checked out my percentile of the mock MBA entrance test I gave last sunday. Although I just managed a 81 percentile, quite less from what I expected, there was something more in what i was viewing. The small bar on top of the browser made it possible for me to see the whole page without scrolling down, something which was good. It was just like watching a movie on your big screen TV. It is far better than the small cramped screen. The same was felt here. Chrome won the battle on day one as my Mozilla almost chocked my 512Mb RAM notebook. It would be still too early to stay that the success of Chrome is inexorable, I'd still say, it is very much on the cards.

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Gone are the days of Microsoft’s archaic web browser, the Internet Explorer that tried to monopolize the market of web browsers by bundling it with their windows. Now comes the progenitor of the internet search industry, Google with its new web browser, Chrome. The operating system developers are now facing stiff competition from the gods of search. Chrome has a panache, which was lacking in Mozilla firefox and in the internet explorer. Although I found nothing new in it, 

which was missing in the firefox, its just the style, after all we need to try something new. As the leader of the web world, google does things with élan and now chrome has broken into the browser industry with éclat. This comes as blow to the beleaguered explorer that is now trying to explore its way back into the browser market.I wouldn’t go all ga ga about Chrome as it is new and various bugs may come into limelight in a few days. Overall it has outweighed Mozilla in terms of design and style and IE8 is way behind in utility.Download Chrome

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A popular application Scrabulous that was built around the concept of Scrabble has been banned by Facebook. The developers, brothers, Rajat and Jayant, have been served a legal notice by toymaker Mattel, that owns the rights to the original word-building game outside the United States.
Hasbro and Mattel launched their own official Scrabble app on Facebook but it has only 70,000 active users,as compared to the 500,00 daily users on Scrabulous (Only 10 percent of the number of Scrabulous users at its peak.)
Mattel approached the Indian courts earlier this year and the case is still pending. As a result India is the only country where Facebook users can still access the application. In light of their legal troubles, the Agarwalla brothers have launched another word-building game 'Wordscraper' which uses circles instead of squares, has a marginally different scoring system and lets users design their own boards.
The Agarwalla brothers renamed their app Wordscrapper and tweaked it so users could design their own boards, in a bid to avoid legal proceedings.
Jayant Agarwalla said: "It surprises us that Mattel chose to direct Facebook to take down Scrabulous without waiting for the decision [of the Indian courts]. Mattel's action speaks volumes about their business practices and respect for the judiciary."

Google has got a new face on the Web. A smaller one, just 16x16 pixels.The internet mammoth updated its favicon, the small logo that appears in URL location bar, tabs bookmarks and a few other places. The older icon, an uppercase multicolored G has been supplanted by blue colored lower case g. It's just a minor change, but coming from a company which gives detail to its design, I could not help, but draw my (and yours) attention to it. Given the fact that icon is beaming across our browsers like a bulb in a room, this aspect of their branding deserves some attention.But do note that this new icon doesn't appear on all Google sites.

Scientists across the world are devising new techniques and are exploring other protocols to serve one purpose, a high bandwidth. Internet service providers are competing with each other to provide higher bandwidths to customers at competitive prices. The world is on the internet highway, where the speed limit is continuously increasing. We live, talk and socialize on the internet. Some of us met their life partners on the internet. Wow! what a life changing experience. Amidst all this positivity and development, there have been many people who have been affected. Some positively and a few negatively. The most affected people have been the movie producers. Their movies have been stolen, ripped and are available for download on forums across the world. For the internet user with a high bandwidth and a less price, it would take a few minutes to download the DVD rip of a movie. A movie once downloaded, will surely be circulated across and once his friends see the movie, they wouldn't actually spend money to go to the theater to watch them. If you are more patient, a week or two (maximum) after the movies release, pirated copies are available for less than $1. With high bandwidth comes the risk of huge file transfers (illegal). Recently some chinese suckers (hackers), hacked Indian defense websites, stealing vital information. I feel hacking is an achievement (of evil) in itself and hackers being the lord voldermort (the evil guy) of harry potter. Some times this evil is used by us, when we use and watch pirated stuff. It will take some hard work and smart effort by the antivirus and web security companies to curb the ill effect of high bandwidth

There are millions of bloggers in the world today. Some blog about technology (like me), some about travel and most of them do nothing. The some I mentioned are the popular bloggers whom we like to read. I don't come under the umbrella of struggling bloggers who want more people to read their story and view point. But it is not easy. It is tough and yes to put more stress on this I'd say this is "damn-damn" tough. The struggling bloggers mostly struggle because of google. Yes! You might find that strange but google gives preference to a blog with a higher page rank and yours ( or mine) being a struggling blog, we never stand a chance. So what do we do next. Promote ourselves. Promote through digg,del.icio.us and other social bookmarking websites. Some go the extent of spamming. In this post I will not go into those things. I'll give more preference to the blog post content this time. Every time search engine optimization is talked about, experts say , "focus on content". But how can a person write a wikipedia content single handedly. It is not practical. It is possible of course! Just spend one day per article or probably more and you'll reach you target of the wikipedia standard and still it wouldn't meet the standards required for an article that is featured on wiki. So what's next. I'd say write short articles, but write more. Atleast 5 articles a day if you plan to be a professional blogger. I met a few at a blogcamp recently. There is an easy way where you connect your blogging platform with a microblogging platform. But whats microblogging. In case this term is new, it is blogging within 140 characters according to www.twitter.com , a microblogging service. To get more information on microblogging, after reading my blog make an account on twitter (but after reading, cos there is more to tell). Now once you've finished up with your account on twitter, log on to twitter feed [ http://twitterfeed.com/ ]. The twitterfeed service is in sync with twitter. It uses the RSS of your blog and updates itself after regular intervals (say 1 hour) and puts your post link on your twitter account. Wow! isn't it. So connect with like minded people on twitter and don't worry about bookmarking your page and trying to become a power digger(digg.com). Next time I'll compare dogg with the tiny twitter, but be careful, twitter.com has got a annoyingly high downtime.
So blogger, get your twitter account and start tweeting. Don't forget to follow me on twitter.
Check out my twitter profile below
http://twitter.com/sushantkumar

But for the struggling blogger this isn't it. It still won't give you a wikipedia post. I'd suggest stop wasting your time building up articulate posts. Just be objective and tweet, digg and sleep. Sleep is meant for sleeping, its not a website.

Orkut is the most famous social networking websites in India. As the developers of orkut are facing problem in converting the popularity of the website into big bucks, the website is riding high on its powerful networking feature and easy interface. Recently (Nov last year ) Google introduced the opensocial application programming interface (API) following the trend started by Facebook.

I recently met two developers at the Delhi Bar camp 4 where they demonstrated how they had developed an application on Facebook last year and how it brought their server down within few months because of the enormous amount of traffic (million page views daily). Finally they decided to sell their application in January this year. Not a bad start for two students.

According to the CHIP magazine, 8 out of 19 applications on Orkut have been developed in India. A game Teen Patti is attracting a lot of people and is all set to become a rage in future. Teen patti which is a cards game played by people on festive occasions can be players between people and the players can chat with each other. It also has a ranking system that tells you who is the best player.

The successful social networking website Orkut is still proving to be a fat elephant to push in terms of revenue it is generating. Manu Rekhi, the product general manager of Google says that it is just a matter of time. It took three years to get the search revenue model right.

Good designers often find trouble in finding a good colour scheme for their websites or blogs.

The solution is simple and easy now, with a web site "wellstyled" offering good colour schyemes for your pages.

With the help of a click you can select a colour scheme

See the video below

The panel (Click to enlarge)

Click here to visit the page

Here is a rating bar that you can add on your website or blog, using ajax.

Let me tell you first that this is not for beginner. You need to have a goo knowledge of php, css, before going out for this.

Click here to visit the page

This is how it looks, when it is implemented

It was tough for me to implement it on blogger and hence I decided to leave it there only.
If you want to implement it, you can visit this link

If you are a beginner and would like to use more of HTML to customize your pages, you can visit HTML playground, a website which offers a very good and an enhanced way of learning and experimenting more about the HTML tags.
It has 5 simple steps you have to follow

Step1: select a tag with mouse

Step2: Check the description of selected tag

step3: select a tag from the sample code

step4: Modify the attributes

step5: Check the result

Finally you can use that code in your website

Look at the images below to see how it works