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YouTube Rolls Out Seven New Features, Google Buzz Sharing Included

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YouTube wants us to have them in our minds as we spend our weekends at home as it rolls out new features, seven of them to be exact that aims to improve our YouTube experience.  These new features are – five new languages, email alerts, new look for search results page, new sharing options, new upload interface, new player changes and enhance YouTube-for-iPad.

Let’s take a quick look at each of these enhancements.

YouTube has added five new languages – Greek, Hungarian, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian. If you want o view YouTube in any of those languages simply scroll down to the bottom of any page on YouTube, select “language” and click on any language and you’re good to go.

The YouTube email alerts feature has been made more useful Now, you can choose to receive an email alert whenever a new video was uploaded to the channel you subscribed to. Say goodbye to checking your email from time to time just to check whether new video has been uploaded. [Read more…]

Originally posted on April 30, 2010 @ 8:22 pm

MovieClips.com Launches, Giving Us More Reason to Love Hollywood Movies

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Frankly while I was reading TechCrunch’s pitch for newly launched movie-related site MovieClips.com, I couldn’t help but be excited by the loads of goodies the site is offering. I mean how does 12,000 two-minute streaming clips from 20th Century Fox, MGM, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures sound to you?

If those were not enough to convince you that MovieClips.com might actually be the next big thing to online video-movie niche, well how about if you knew that MovieClips.com is social too? Meaning, you can favorite or “hype” movie clips, comment on them, or simply share the movie clips with your Facebook, Twitter, Digg and other social media contacts. [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 3, 2009 @ 4:27 pm

Dailymotion launches Dailymotion Canada

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Video sharing site Dailymotion announced the launch of its Canadian site to further extend its reach in a key North American market. The expansion also brings the number of international editorialized homepages to sixteen.

As with Dailymotion’s other localized sites, the Canadian homepage will be programmed by dedicated creative managers in order to specifically promote the content that is most relevant to local viewers. Additionally, the site will include a series of new features that will help users find what they are looking while also enabling them to connect and interact with Dailymotion’s international community.

Originally posted on September 24, 2008 @ 2:19 pm