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Googleholic for July 15, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
In this edition:
- New YouTube "My Videos" interface
- YouTube Living Legends: Chuck D. and Snoop
- Radiohead gets Googlefied
- Webmaster Tools Access Provider program
New YouTube "My Videos" interface
YouTube has rolled out its centralized "My Videos" interface to all users. Now you can manage your uploads, playlists, favorites and subscriptions from one location. You can also search across all your videos, filtering by date added, views and ratings. It's also easier to add videos to a playlist, mark it as a favorite or add it to a quicklist.
Finally, YouTube is starting to really look more "Google-esque" in terms of being clean and easy to navigate.
[via YouTube Blog]
YouTube Living Legends: Chuck D. and Snoop
The YouTube Living Legends channel features two of hip-hop's most influential rappers, Chuck D. from Public Enemy and Snoop Dogg. You can submit your questions for Chuck and Snoop to answer, share your personal reflections on the history of hip-hop, and watch testimonials from other artists and hip-hop notables about the role these two men played and continue to play in the genre and the music industry.
[via YouTube Blog]
Radiohead gets Googlefied
For their latest music video, the band Radiohead decided to forego using cameras to capture information, opting instead for lasers and raw data. Google was happy to help. The video for "House of Cards," from the band's latest album "In Rainbows," used two scanning technologies to capture 3D images. 64 rotating lasers produced all of the exterior backgrounds for the video and captured the 3D objects.
The results are amazing. Check out the official page at Google Code to watch the video, see how it was made, and remix the data yourself.
[via Official Google Blog]
Webmaster Tools Access Provider program
Google has just introduced a new program that allows qualifying webhosts from around the world to quickly and easily offer Google Webmaster Tools to their customers. Even better, its free.
The Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider program lets users directly plug into Google Webmaster Tools, without having to leave the host. This makes it much easier for customers to take advantage of Google's services, without having to track down the needed information, so that tasks like creating sitemaps can be more automatic and less confusing.
If your host isn't already on Google's radar, send them a not and tell them to get with Google! [via Google Webmaster Central]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Rhys said 4:16PM on 7-18-2008
One thing you and virtually every commentator seems to have missed about youtube is that lately you can also subscribe to all sorts of video feeds via RSS using the standard button in the address bar. Before you had to trawl through the FAQ's to find the syntax to type in the url of a feed, so youtube is also a lot more feed reader friendly now.
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Todd said 9:42AM on 7-16-2008
OMGWTFBBQ? There's an Android developer revolt that made mainstream, non-geek front page news and its not included in this Googleholic?
http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/957fa043e2a199b6
Come on, that's not even funneh! Download Squad Android news blackout for the loss.
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Christina Warren said 10:00AM on 7-16-2008
OK, OK -- fair enough.
Just for you (and all the other Android fans) -- a big chunk of Friday's column will be dedicated to everybody's favorite mobile platform not called iPhone.
Todd said 9:42AM on 7-16-2008
OMGWTFBBQ? There's an Android developer revolt that made mainstream, non-geek front page news and its not included in this Googleholic?
http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/957fa043e2a199b6
Come on, that's not even funneh! Download Squad Android news blackout for the loss.
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