YouTube Design Aims to Increase Usage Time

YouTube has just released their biggest design change in history – and it’s starting to feel a little more like a social network that married a TV Guide and had DirectTV has a child. Following activity on interesting channels and keeping track of what your friends like and comment on just got easier thanks to [...]

 
YouTube Subscription Limit Set at 2000

YouTube now limits users to 2,000 subscriptions. This may seem like a high limit, but if you’ve been active on YouTube for several years the limit is a real pain in the butt. If you’ve subscribed to 2,000 or more channels and do not have at least 2,000 subscribers yourself you will get the dreaded [...]

 
YouTube Layout Changes Disappoint Users

The new YouTube layout changes have been met with a lot of criticism from users for a good reason. I have to admit for a week I thought something I changed in my browser settings was causing YouTube’s layout to break .. but then I realized it was showing this way for everyone, on purpose. [...]

 
 The 80/20 Rule for Effective Social Networking

Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and other social networks that provide or feature status updates from users have taken the internet by storm over the past several years. MySpace helped lead the Web 2.0 revolution before it crashed and burned. Now Facebook seems like it could be headed down the same path. Originally, the first huge wave [...]

 
YouTube Trades Star Ratings for Likes and Dislikes

YouTube has traded in the 5 star rating system for a Like/Dislike system. Off the bat, it seems to devalue search results (no longer can see the rating of each video) by only indicating which videos are most liked and not displaying any ratings information for the other 90% of videos on the page. YouTube [...]

 

YouTube has permanently removed the stats display for the number of videos a user has watched from user profile pages. Anyone who spends much time on YouTube quickly so the number of videos they viewed reach into the thousands or tens of thousands. When I first noticed the display was gone, I assumed it was [...]

 
HULU Subscription Fees Set For 2010

Chase Carey, Deputy Chairman of News Corp, revealed HULU will begin charging for subscriptions as early as 2010. While Carey said that some content would remain free, he explained that a free model of distribution did not do their content justice. I think a subscription based model could work well for HULU. They are capturing [...]

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