Google Going To Buy Twitter ?

“Just a few weeks ago, Twitter finalized a funding round that values it at around $1 billion, despite criticism and concerns over its ability to generate revenue and continue its growth. One piece of the puzzle may be falling into place: Twitter’s reported to be in advanced talks for mutli-million search deals with Microsoft and Google.

Clearly, Google sees great value in Twitter and its real-time search. It also faces new, stiff competition from Bing and even Facebook. The news of the deal poses an important question, though: Does Google need Twitter? And if so, how much? The answer to that question could be the difference in the Google vs. Bing battle.

One Billion Users Per Day YouTube

When your website first reaches a million visitors, it’s a great milestone. However, one billion views per day can only be attained by the selected few, and YouTube is now one of them.

According to the official blog, YouTube is serving “well over a billion views a day”. That’s at least 11,574 views per second, 694,444 views per minute, and 41,666,667 views per hour. Imagine the web server farm that can withstand that much traffic, and then remember that YouTube is just one of Google’s many properties.

As we wrote earlier this week, YouTube still may not be making enough money to justify the 1.65 billion dollars Google has paid for it, but it definitely makes it up when it comes to visitors.

Spammers Attack On YouTube

“Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have recorded a mass mailing of spam emails containing a link to a video advertisement on YouTube. Although in the past, spammers have have attempted to lure people into clicking links by claiming the link would display a YouTube video, this is the first case in which the link actually did. In this particular incident, the video in question is a Russian ad promoting industrial real estate.

Two years ago, Kaspersky Lab was predicting that YouTube would eventually become a vector for disseminating spam due to its worldwide popularity. However, this is the first time the video-sharing site has been used in this way as far as the researchers can tell.

Redux Turns Your Twitter and Facebook Streams Into Pure Entertainment [Invites]

Bring Your Twitter and Facebook Streams to Life

In its last iteration, Redux was already an extremely solid social entertainment engine. Using the site or the handy bookmarklet(), users could share photos, videos or links with their friends or in a specific interest channel. Other users could then comment on those items, give props and share those links via Twitter, Facebook or MySpace().

Now, Redux has added the ability to import your Twitter() and Facebook streams directly into Redux. What this means is that when your friends tweet or share a link via Facebook or Twitter, instead of just seeing the short-url, you’ll actually see the item being linked. If it’s a video, you can play the video immediately within Redux. If it’s an image (like a TwitPic()), you can view it immediately within Redux.

Redux only grabs tweets or status updates that are linking to other content, so you don’t get bogged down with other status updates. Your friends don’t have to be Redux members for their public streams to show-up and you can still give props or comment on the content. If you comment on a tweet, for instance, that comment with a link to the source is sent out over Twitter if you choose. As they like to say, “it’s the most efficient way to waste time on the web.”

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Prepare to Lose All Productivity (in a good way)

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Redux is totally addictive — and it’s designed to be. I find myself having to tear myself away, otherwise I’ll never get any work done. That’s not that different from a lot of other social services, except, in my experience, Redux kept me entertained and discovering cool stuff.

When I talked to Frank Nawabi and Daivd McIntosh — the co-founders of Redux — earlier this week, they told me that one of the reasons they created the service was because it was so difficult to find good videos and good content on services like Vimeo() or YouTube().

It makes a lot more sense to see what your friends or people who share your same interests are sharing or watching, rather than trying to sift through a pile of videos — no matter how “popular” they might be.

Frank and David told me that the average user spends over an hour on Redux at a time. I can believe it! Especially with something like the TV Mode, which just continuously shows you videos from your friends, the overall network or from a specific channel, becoming sucked into the service isn’t hard.

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The Future

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The site has grown pretty organically and the Redux team reaches out to the community to get feedback on what’s working, future features, etc.

David and Frank told me that they are looking at brinigng the TV Mode of Redux to something like Boxee() or set-top boxes in general — and I think that this could be brilliant.

I have Boxee running in my living room and being able to tune into to the best web content from either my friends or a certain channel would certainly be a great way to relax and waste even more time!

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We’ve Got Invites

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Stop listening to me wax poetic about Redux and try it for yourself. Mashable() readers can go here to sign-up for the beta.

Give Redux a try and tell us what you think! Do you like the idea of a visual social web?

How to Upload a YouTube Video on Facebook

To upload a YouTube Video on Facebook, is not difficult to do, once you know the steps to do it.
There might be a time, when you’ll find a video over at YouTube that you might want to share with your friends on Facebook. However, when you click on the "video" icon under status, it only allows you to insert a video from your computer.
So, how is it that people are able to insert youtube videos directly on their facebook pages? Here’s how…

 

Step 1

Go to your Facebook account. At the bottom of the left hand corner, you’ll see the word "Applications". Click on that and then click on "browse more applications".

Step 2

Go to the upper left corner and there will be a box there. In that box, type in the word YOUTUBE and hit the ENTER key on your keyboard.

Step 3

Click on the "YouTube Video Box" application.

Step 4

Click on "Go to Application". When it opens the next page, do absolutely nothing. Do not click on any other item, because at this point, the application is already on your Facebook page.

Step 5

Go back to your home page, and click on APPLICATIONS again at the lower left hand corner. You will now see the new application listed under your most recently used applications at the upper portion of the menu. At this point, click on YouTube Video Box.

Step 6

On this next screen, if you happen to see an ad that mentions something about connecting with singles on facebook, please ignore that. It has nothing to do with your youtube application. On the upper right side, you’ll see a box where you can search for youtube videos. Type in a subject or title of a video that you’re interested in, and hit your ENTER key on your keyboard.

Step 7

You will now see a list of videos that will relate to the words that you typed in your search box. I typed in the word "cruise".

Step 8

Click on the video that you’re interested in. This will allow you to watch the video, and if you decide that this is a video that you would like to share with your friends on Facebook, then click where it indicates "add this video to your favorites / profile".

Step 9

On the next screen, you will have the option to save your video to your profile, and publish it to your profile as well, so your friends can see that you just inserted a video in your youtube video application.

Step 10

If you want to view your videos that you saved at a later time, you can go back to APPLICATIONS, and bring up the YouTube application, and view your videos. This software also allows you to save your friend’s videos that they have published as well.

5 Interesting Youtube Services to Play around with

 

Youtube Doubler

Youtube Doubler is a free web service that lets you play 2 Youtube Videos simultaneously. All you have to do is get the url of any two videos from Youtube and paste them in the URL box and play them together. If your looking to compare any 2 Youtube Videos Youtube Doubler is what you need to try.

Being a big fan of the world’s biggest video sharing network I have found a few interesting services that lets you play around with the videos to more fun. To start of I have

Youtube Doubler

Youtube Doubler is a free web service that lets you play 2 Youtube Videos simultaneously. All you have to do is get the url of any two videos from Youtube and paste them in the URL box and play them together. If your looking to compare any 2 Youtube Videos Youtube Doubler is what you need to try.

Check out Youtube Doubler

Silentube

Silentube is an easy to use browser add on that sits on your browser’s toolbar. Once you’re on a Youtube Video page simply click on the bookmarklet and enjoy videos online within your browser without all the advertisements and other distractions. This will also be helpful for people with slow internet connections as the bookmarklet won’t load the ads, related videos and comments section. This way your internet will only focus on loading the video.

Check out Silentube

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