Having growing kid is one of the best things every parents ever had. Their curiosity toward something new is sometime beyond the control and covers everything they ever see. That’s include their interest toward technology and particularly internet. The internet which suppose to be a sea of information does have many things that suppose not to be seen by them at that age.
Youtube as one of the biggest entertainment and learning source in internet, has taken a step forward in protecting this young generation. The ‘Safety Mode’ unveiled by them is very useful to limit the videos that this kids can watch.
Turning on this function will block certain videos from being watched as well as exclude it from Youtube search function. ‘Safety Mode’ works with or without signing into your Youtube account. But signing into Youtube account give you further advantage as the Safety Mode will be locked from being turned off.
Youtube action is very much applauded, but this is just temporary solution. As the kids grows and become even clever, they will figure out how to overcome this ‘Safety Mode’.
Activating this function is very simple as demonstrated in video below.
Youtube is very synonym with entertainment, humor although there are quite educational channels such as from National Geographic and as well as universities chanel. Now for more serious education videos series, Youtube has introducedYoutTubeEDU, containing videos from various educational field from over 100 universities and colleges all over the world.
Closer look indicate that YouTubeEDU itself is just collection of educational related Youtube channels. This channel produce videos not only for the lecturing sessions, but as well as their own activities, speaches, events and etc. So not all videos under that channel is useful for the non-member of that institutional.
As of now, there are over 20,000 videos on YouTube EDU and the number is growing. Still, there are lots of useful lecture sessions here from well known scholars, but there are also other interesting videos sush as iPhone Orchestra.
Any parties interested to be the YoutubeEDU partners should fill up this form to join in.
Gmail today introduce an enhancement how its handle videos and photos from Picasa, Flickr and Youtube. The new lab feature, will enable photos sent from Picasa and Flickr as well as video from Youtube to be shown within the email itself, without leaving Gmail in order to view it.
In order to enjoy this feature, yYou have to enable it from setting -> lab and enable the setup one by one.
This is how Flickr photos sent to my Gmail looks like.
Same goes to Youtube, but it works even better. You can play the video directly from within that email. So do you think this cool?
First desktop, now Youtube goes offline. Youtube with number of Youtube channels unveiled program that allow users to download Youtube videos ‘legally’. It doesn’t come free though, where small fee required via Google Checkout.
A quick look on the mention partners no longer showing the purchase link (does it shows only to US visitors?) although you can see the screen shot here. Youtube, currently ranks 3rd on Alexa rank, is Google’s most prized asset and only ranks behind itself and Yahoo. Monetizing this traffic wasn’t easy , and this download program comes after Adsense for videos introduced last year.
Quick question popped out in my head.. Will this ‘pay-for-download’ works when Youtube videos can be downloaded using 3rd party tools (such as Real Player add-on plugin for Firefox) all this while? Perhaps not for fun, jokes or nonsense videos.
However, the are possibly market for peoples/organizations that looking to have the copyrighted videos legally. Apart from that, some of the initial channels joined this program comes from higher learning institution that provide lecturer and research videos.
The blog post announcing this plan received mixed response (more negative than the positive comments), although it is not fair to judge if this is not going to work based on that. But would you download something that you can get for free?
This is pretty neat idea. Whatever Youtube or Google Video link sent to your chat windows, the preview of the videos appears right in that windows as well.
Clicking on the play button, another windows popped out and plays video preview.
