Internet Marketing and Social Media Consultants

YouTube is now allowing certain users to submit far longer videos than the old ten-minute maximum that has been the case for the site since its inception. Videos of up to 1GB are now going to be shown on YouTube, which would allow for clips that approach an hour and a half in duration.

Concurrently with this announcement, YouTube is courting directors at the Los Angeles Film Festival, attempting to get young and up-and-coming directors to put their content on the site.
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Dan Lyons, also known as “Fake Steve Jobs,” has signed up with Newsweek, where he will take his much heralded alter-ego to the mainstream press.

Lyons, who has been the tech editor for Forbes Magazine for the last ten years, will start with Newsweek on August 1. “We’re hoping he’ll develop some new blogs, maybe new sites. He’s clearly shown an amazing kind of creativity,” said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. “It’s part of a broader strategy of hiring a voice that [one] can’t get anywhere else.”
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It was bound to happen at some point, but MySpace has been caught by Facebook in the number of worldwide unique monthly visitors.

While Facebook’s push for a wider foreign audience is having some success (I even see them advertising at English Premier League matches), they are still lagging behind in the United States by a significant margin and aren’t doing much at this point to chip away at it. MySpace’s unique visitors double Facebook’s in the US, and that number hasn’t changed much over the last year.
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I woke up this morning, and instead of grabbing the morning paper, I signed into to Digg to see what wonderful thing Barack Obama was doing (for those not familiar with Digg, Obama is a demi-god on there).

One story that was Dugg up came from ITBusinessEdge, via Vnunet. A poll done by IT services provider Telindus showed that 39% of 18 to 24-year-olds would consider leaving their jobs if their employers decided to block access to Facebook. The number was far lower for older employees. Additionally, 21% more of the youngsters said they’d feel “annoyed” by the ban.

What does this point out? First of all, that young people have high expectations of the freedom they should have in the workplace. There are trade-offs to this. Obviously, if you have a friendly work environment like Google, you’ll have to make up for your perks by working longer hours.
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Hitwise released the top ten search terms in ten different categories for the month of May, and of the 100 most popular search terms, 14 of them actually had “.com” included within the search.

Search engine usage is so hardwired into Internet users’ brains that instead of just putting “myspace.com” in to the URL bar, they plug it into the search bar in their browsers, run it through the search engines, and then click through there.

It makes little sense since people have to be smart enough to know that if they just input the .com URL into their browser, it will take them directly to the site in one less step. It just proves how search has become the catch-all for the Internet.
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