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The Official Google Channel on YouTube has posted a tutorial on how to increase productivity by adopting Google Apps for your business or organization.

Video: 

Rajen Sheth(Product Manager,Google Apps) demonstrates a 17:44 minutes video on how to use Google Apps in a company or organization. The video focuses on the integration between Gmail and other Google products: email is seen as a starting point for collaboration. 

Rajen Sheth Demonstrates Google Apps [via Google Operating System] 

An Australian teenager had hundreds of clips removed from Internet video-sharing site YouTube by pretending to be an employee of the state broadcasting network, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The 15-year-old sent a signed letter to YouTube saying he represented ABC, the owner of the copyright to a popular local comedy series, and asked the site to remove clips from the series that users had posted on it, local media reported.

After being contacted by lawyers for the ABC, the boy apologised, Australian Associated Press reported on Saturday.

"Everyone does dumb stuff when they are 15," the head of ABC television comedy, Courtney Gibson, told ABC Radio. She said it wasn't immediately clear why the teenager took the action he did.

"We really appreciate that he's apologised and we'll be following up with him next week," Gibson said.

Note : YouTube does not prevent copyrighted content from being uploaded, but will take material down at the request of copyright owners.

via [ china daily ] 

You must be fed up sometimes of slow loading of Youtube videos, here is a tool which can accelerate the loading of videos to your pc . The streaming becomes much faster.This software will make your YouTube videos stream faster and play smoother by reducing buffering time and video interruptions.

SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube makes your videos stream faster and play smoother, reducing buffering problems and video "hiccups". The unique video search lets you find the latest and hottest videos around the web, and the "Recently Accelerated" list gives you instant access to the last videos played.SpeedBit Video Accelerator is a product from the creators of Download Accelerator Plus (DAP).

Want to know How SpeedBit Video Accelerator works?

Click here for more info.

System Requirements: 

OS: Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP
Browser: FireFox 1.5, FireFox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7

Note : This does not support vista, although it does work fine on XP.

You can check out how Speedbit works and you can download it here. This is a must if you are on a dial up and still want to enjoy watching some wonderful YouTube videos.

via [ speedbit ] 

Youtube must have neglected the fact that a site's contents can be retrieved very easily even after removing them from their visible list. This is precisely what Delutube has done. 

Delutube allows visitors to enter the video ID (pulled from YouTube) of a deleted clip, then attempts to retrieve the clip from YouTube's system. Clips are not completely deleted from YouTube's database at the moment they are taken down ( they remain in YouTube's cache before being cleared), allowing Delutube a chance of retrieving them. The site also allows for downloading of clips easily. They even have a random video for you on their site .

To view the deleted video, just enter the YouTube video id and Deltube may retrieve the deleted video for you from Youtube.

How to get ID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_HERE

[ Get Your Deleted Video @ Delutube ] 

We all know the power of Google. We all know how Google loves it users and how the Google Team strives to provide the best of the best features to its users. We know Google keeps track of our searches, but we aren't worried, Google puts related ads in our inboxes ,we are not worried, becoz we all Love Google !. It always gives everything more than expected , its always Feature+ that Google gives its users.

Video :

But All put together still there are some things due to which people are worried about , Privacy .

Do you think Google is worried about our privacy ? I think its a Yes & a No sometimes. Many say No. 

So here is an excellent movie about Google and its power. check out .. 

All said and done , We still Love Google ! Long Live Google ! 

YouTube has launched the first ever YouTube Awards. Nominees in 7 different categories will recieve awards for most creative, most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary, and most adorable. Voting by users has started on March 19 at about 2 PM Pacific Time. Mashable appears to have blogged about the story first.(link not live as of Sunday night), according to various reports.

 This week viewers can vote to pick their favorites of 2006. It's kind of like the Oscars. Clicking on playlist shows a full listing of clips to vote.

There's much discussion highlighting that this isn't a new idea. In fact, the Vloggies did it last year and it was an complete excellent event organized.

Marshall Kirkpatrick from SplashCast has painstakingly taken the time to add all the nominated videos to a single SplashCast player, which I have embedded on the right side.. [via NewTeeVee] Video attached on the right..

This awards event should have taken place atleast in the first week of jan 2007 and not this late !! And I don't know why are they trying to make users vote again for the videos, already they have a rating system to vote for the best,by the users and even the editor's pick too.Dosen't it look unnecessary…. ..anyway ..who am i to comment on it !! go go.. Put your votes ..

Categories :

Most creative, Most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary, and Most adorable.

What do Winners get ?

Winners of this year's YouTube Awards will receive trophies and special promotion on YouTube's front page.

(Any Cash prizes waiting ?? it would be good if there were some ..! )

Deadline : Vote now and vote often. Every hour you can rank your favorites until Youtube freezes voting on March 23, 2007, at 3pm PT.

via [ YouTube Awards ]

Viacom has sued Google, alleging copyright infringement from video-sharing site YouTube and seeking $1 billion in damages.

About Viacom :

Viacom is a media conglomerate whose properties include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follows a Digital Millennium Copyright Act request Viacom sent to Google last month related to the unauthorized posting of Viacom videos to YouTube.

At the time, Viacom demanded that Google remove over 100,000 of its clips from YouTube, which Google acquired last year for $1.65 billion. Google said it would comply with the request.

Almost 160,000 Viacom video clips have been uploaded to YouTube without permission and have been viewed over 1.5 billion times.

And here is a video message to Viacom made by FantasticBabblings on Youtube

Have a look at the video here : Message to Viacom .The message included at youtube is…

Online criminals are thriving even in the face of new automated defenses. 

Do you think the new built-in phishing filters in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 will protect your private data? Think again. Anti-Phishing Working Group found 37,439 new sites- the number of sites devoted has nearly doubled since last year. (Click on the "Image" thumbnail to see the chart showing this trend.)

According to RSA, a security vendor, hackers in January started selling a phishing kit that lets criminals set up very convincing fake Web sites with little effort. The fake site pulls images and layouts from the real site, usually a bank or other financial institution, and passes the user's information back to the real site to mimic a regular log-in–while keeping a copy of the account data for the criminals.

Research firm Gartner estimates that 3.5 million Americans gave up sensitive information to phishers in 2006, an 84 percent jump from the previous year–for a total loss of $2.8 billion. One single phishing gang, called Rock Phish, is estimated to have taken in more than $100 million.

What should you do to protect yourself?

- Heuristic scanning may help combat the scourge

- Use McAfee's SiteAdvisor browser add-on for IE and Firefox (highly recommended)

- Look at the browser address bar which will turn green. This is due to the new type of site certification–called Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer, or EV SSL–may also help.The sites are verified by 3rd party such as Verisign.

- Never click a link in an e-mail or on a third-party site to go to any of your financial accounts.

- You always use your own bookmark or type in the address of the particular bank

- Be careful before clicking on the link in the email even when you're 100 percent certain that the e-mail is legitimate, you should be extra cautious.

-  Automated tools, such as the free Password Safe and PwdHash utilities can provide some help.

But to combat ever-adapting phishers, your best protection remains…YOU.

Related Artciles :

- India ranks third in phishing 

- Beware of Fake UTI Bank page online

- How Phishing Works 

- Fake Ebay Pages & Forums 

Videos :

- Phishing 101 : Learn how to avoid scam emails and phishing schemes targetting banks, PayPal, eBay, etc. Courtesy of My-PC-Help.com

- Phishing Demo : A demonstration of a live PayPal phishing site before we send requests to have it taken offline.

- Phishing Demo - Aloha : A live site phishing demo. The target is a small Federal Credit Union in Hawaii.

- Phishing :  Learn how to avoid phishing scams!

via [ pcworld ]

Here we see Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.

Here we see Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005.
Really worth to spend some time to hear this inspiring talk.

Happy inspiring…

[ thanks Prakash Kotre ] 

PimpFish is an download manager, site ripper, file sharing tool through which we can easily download videos from Youtube, Google Video, Myspace.

With PimpFish, we can save pictures and Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media and other embedded video in a single click to our computer, from any webpage. The extension is available for both IE and Firefox and it's free!.

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