Saturday, January 8, 2011
Saturday, July 24, 2010
This topic is much larger than can easily be covered in a brief list like this. But every business person should be aware of it. In my experience there are four main social networking platforms that every business owner and leader should understand. Facebook. This is so far the least business-oriented of the networking platforms. I recommend to most clients that they keep Facebook for their personal social network. I know Facebook is working hard to reposition itself, and there are a growing number of experts providing reasons and approaches to using Facebook in business, but so far I have not seen enough potential for return to invest the time. There is one exception: Facebook is a powerful and cost-effective way to advertise. Facebook allows you to advertise to people of pre-determined demographics, and allows you to set a fixed budget that relates to the number of times your ad will appear on the pages of people who fit the profile you are looking for. For the right product or service this can be powerful. YouTube. Like Facebook, YouTube started as a non-business platform. However, recently a growing number of businesses are using YouTube to post low-cost, guerrilla-style video promotions. If you have a business that has a significant visual component or can educate the public through video, Youtube can be a powerful tool. Don’t know how to shoot and post a little video about your business? Get one of your Generation Y employees to show you how it’s done! They can even show you tools that allow you to shoot, post, and promote videos on YouTube, all from their smart phones! LinkedIn. This is a business-only site that is like Facebook only on the surface. Under the hood they are very different. Privacy controls are tighter and even your profile is more like a resume. LinkedIn’s singular focus on business and professional networking has created an environment that is a fertile ground for networking, career and job seeking, and professional development. Formalized referral systems, common-interest groups, business and personal branding opportunities, etc. are all well thought out and work well. If you are a professional or business owner/leader and you don’t have a profile on LinkedIn, you may be missing an opportunity to grow your network in a powerful way. Twitter. This micro-blogging site (limits you to 142-character posts) is rapidly becoming another powerful networking and communication tool for professionals. Businesses are using it to keep customers informed about new promotions, and many professionals are using it to share ideas, links to useful articles, and announcements of events in their communities and markets. When a post catches on in Twitter it can go ‘viral’ in hours and find its way to thousands of people. Increasingly, stories about significant events (as defined by the people who care about them) are spreading rapidly on Twitter even before they hit traditional news channels.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Three former PayPal employees created YouTube which is now a powerful tool championing the rights of individuals and promoting free expression through videos which a user uploads and anyone can watch .
Its the largest video sharing website . Many peoples use youtube either uploading or listening/Watching videos but you cannot download a video from youtube .
Still there are various softwares available to grab any video ,
but here is the list of websites that provides an option to download your favorite videos from youtube.
Here's the top 10 websites:
1] YouTube Catcher : YouTube Catcher allows you to download YouTube videos easy and fast. It also offers an FLV player to watch the videos on the PC.
2] Videodownloadx.com : It doesn’t have a lot of options, but it’s simple, and it works. It also enables you to share the YouTube video with your friends via e-mail.
3] Kiss YouTube Kiss YouTube offers the easiest way for downloading video clips from YouTube. To download and save a YouTube video clip, just add the word “kiss” to the video URL in your browser address bar and hit enter. And then click on the download link provided to save the video to your computer.
4] YouTubeLoader Firefox Plugin Youtubeloader firefox plugin is a Greasemonkey script, which adds a Download link below the YouTube video. YouTubeLoader allows you to easily download videos from YouTube. You can download any video from any category (Music, Comedy, Entertainment etc.) in a matter of seconds.
Notice the URL is something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKMm4XBsqhk
5] KeepVid is another popular site .
6] Vixy This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.
When you submit a URL, it will download and convert to the video format, and then you can download the converted file.
7] YouTubia is a YouTube clone that lets you download and save YouTube videos (as FLV format) easily using your IE or Firefox browser. Downloaded FLV videos can be viewed offline for unlimited consumption
8] VidGrab : helps people find and watch their favorite videos online also make it easy to download videos that you really enjoy. At VidGrab you can downloadYouTube videos, Download Google Videos, Download Break videos, Download Myspace videos and download most flv videos.
9] Zamzar: Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software ? Its an online file format conversion site which can do a lot more than just converting YouTube videos to another format and downloading them , Formats supported are Document , Image , Music ,Video ,Compressed and CAD .
10] VideoDownloader : It supports even more video sharing sites, and it’s also available as a Firefox extension. Just like with KeepVid, all downloads are in .flv format.
Get its addon : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Three former PayPal employees created YouTube which is now a powerful tool championing the rights of individuals and promoting free expression through videos which a user uploads and anyone can watch .
Its the largest video sharing website . Many peoples use youtube either uploading or listening/Watching videos but you cannot download a video from youtube .
Still there are various softwares available to grab any video ,
but here is the list of websites that provides an option to download your favorite videos from youtube.
Here's the top 10 websites:
1] YouTube Catcher : YouTube Catcher allows you to download YouTube videos easy and fast. It also offers an FLV player to watch the videos on the PC.
2] Videodownloadx.com : It doesn’t have a lot of options, but it’s simple, and it works. It also enables you to share the YouTube video with your friends via e-mail.
3] Kiss YouTube Kiss YouTube offers the easiest way for downloading video clips from YouTube. To download and save a YouTube video clip, just add the word “kiss” to the video URL in your browser address bar and hit enter. And then click on the download link provided to save the video to your computer.
4] YouTubeLoader Firefox Plugin Youtubeloader firefox plugin is a Greasemonkey script, which adds a Download link below the YouTube video. YouTubeLoader allows you to easily download videos from YouTube. You can download any video from any category (Music, Comedy, Entertainment etc.) in a matter of seconds.
Notice the URL is something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKMm4XBsqhk
5] KeepVid is another popular site .
6] Vixy This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.
When you submit a URL, it will download and convert to the video format, and then you can download the converted file.
7] YouTubia is a YouTube clone that lets you download and save YouTube videos (as FLV format) easily using your IE or Firefox browser. Downloaded FLV videos can be viewed offline for unlimited consumption
8] VidGrab : helps people find and watch their favorite videos online also make it easy to download videos that you really enjoy. At VidGrab you can downloadYouTube videos, Download Google Videos, Download Break videos, Download Myspace videos and download most flv videos.
9] Zamzar: Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software ? Its an online file format conversion site which can do a lot more than just converting YouTube videos to another format and downloading them , Formats supported are Document , Image , Music ,Video ,Compressed and CAD .
10] VideoDownloader : It supports even more video sharing sites, and it’s also available as a Firefox extension. Just like with KeepVid, all downloads are in .flv format.
Get its addon : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
