Grading the YouTube Debate
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Mark Halperin scores it a win for Obama, a loss for Richardson and one giant step for user generated content
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Found in the search marketing forums: Measuring Cup; Is Google Weighting Clicks on SERP Entries More Highly in its Algorithms?; Link Building Campaign Imminent; and more.
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YouTube's ''Davos Question'' has the great and good lining up to offer answers.
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YouTube makes its debut, and the mass hysteria of video sharing is off and running.
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Monday night's Democratic debate will be the first in which all the questions have been submitted by YouTube users. Here's a selection of 10 you won't see
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Nigel McFarlane boils down all the competition between browsers into a single score for each browser. Take this article to your local second-hand browser dealer to test his honesty.
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The beta release of this YouTube competitor is easy to use, but lags in content.
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.
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Politicians have not cherished most of their YouTube moments, those snippets of candid camera video posted on the popular Internet site. Now comes a friendlier YouTube politics.
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The Internet doesn't have time zones, and while my colleagues in the blogosphere who happen to be located in the Eastern or Central time zones were watching the debate live on TV, we in the western states were left to either wait three hours, or DIY a Ustream webcast of the debate, which we did. About half way through we figured out how to make the local New Hampshire ABC affiliate webcast work on a Mac, and it was a little easier to understand what was going on. In 2008, sixteen years into the web, there's no excuse for not broadcasting a political event live to the world. If ABC News hasn't got the ability to do it, then ABC News shouldn't be running it. That Facebook lent its name and reputation to this fiasco is amazing. Why didn't they speak up?  BTW, otoh, Charles Gibson was a great moderator and the format was, in every way, fantastic. What a shame we all couldn't experience at the same time.
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YouTube Video &#038; Usage Facts There&#8217;s an interesting article in the WSJ (sub req&#8217;d) on YouTube, with some data and metrics, by Lee Gomes today: I did a scrape of YouTube a month ago and found there were 5.1 million videos. By Sunday, the end of another scrape, that number had grown by about 20% to 6.1 [...]
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Found in the search marketing forums: What Does it Take to Get to the Top?; How Does Punctuation Effect SEO?; PPC Issue with Google Analytics; and more.
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Questions will come via video submitted by ordinary people through the video-sharing Web site.
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BBC Click investigates claims of the internet collapsing under pressure from the YouTube generation.
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The hundreds of video queries submitted for the presidential candidates' debate include some hilarious--but possibly heartfelt--questions.
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Republican presidential candidate who once criticized YouTube debate format launches new contest through Yahoo's Jumpcut.com. The winner gets his or her ditty on air.
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Tim Wu and Rick Cotton respond to questions from readers in the latest installment of our week-long debate on copyright, piracy, and digital filtering.