A short entry on OxfordMail.net says the Oxford University Press is searching the blogosphere to find new words. Staff at Oxford University Press have started monitoring the use of English in web logs to find new words. Lexicographers responsible for updating the Oxford English Corpus, which provides the basis for its dictionaries, will trawl through some 70 million ‘blogs’ in their search. And with 120,000 new ones created every day, they may be in for quite a search. A Guardian books blog post also discusses the decision by the Oxford University Press (OUP) to monitor “the use of English in weblogs.” They also provide this recently published list from OUP of the 15 most frequently blogged words. 15 Most Frequently Blogged Words blogger blog stupid me myself my oh yeah ok post stuff lovely update nice shit These words don’t exactly make us bloggers sound like masters of prose. In addition to scouring the blogosphere for new words the Oxford University Press also has a blog of its very own. Posted in Blogging Industry News Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Facebook Makes Faces Viewable to Public
Facebook is making its millions of users’ faces available to the public. They have added a search on the Facebook.com homepage. A post on GigaOm explains Facebook’s Public Search Listings. If you thought the news feed was a threat to your privacy, be warned: Facebook is announcing Public Search Listings today, meaning profiles will be searchable through Facebook, and soon turn up on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. As of tomorrow, search will be available through Facebook; users will then have one month to change their privacy settings before profiles get indexed by the major search engines. These results will include, at most, your name and profile picture. Obviously that’s a move that could scare some users, and there are some restrictions: you must have your profile set to viewable by “everyone” in order to appear, and only your limited profile will be public. Mashable says Facebook users will have about a month to change their privacy settings before Facebook user faces and names start showing up in the major search engines. Some Facebook users that want their privacy may complain that Facebook should have made this opt-in instead of opt-out. Providing the majority of Facebook users don’t change their privacy setting it will allow Facebook to compete more with some of the popular people search tools. It will also allow Facebook profiles to become more indexed in the major search engines resulting in increased traffic for Facebook.com. Posted in Facebook Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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Ads Start Appearing on Some YouTube Videos
YouTube blogs that they have started running YouTube InVideo ads on some of the YouTube videos for “select partners.” Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed that we’ve been working with select partners to improve YouTube’s presentation of advertising on their videos in a manner that brings you creative, compelling content and should also increase revenue flow to artists and content owners. So what’s new? Today we’re offering select partners the ability to incorporate YouTube InVideo ads into their content. These are animated overlays that appear on the bottom 20 percent of a video. If you’re interested by what you see there, clicking on the overlay launches a deeper interactive video ad that we think is relevant and entertaining. (The video you were watching is temporarily paused.) If you choose not to click on the overlay, it will simply disappear, so that you’re in full control of your YouTube experience. Google spent a long time trying to come up with this ad concept and it seems like they went for a concept that is fairly unobtrusive. The ads can easily be turned off and appear at the bottom of videos. A last100 post which says the YouTube ads “are not that bad” has screenshots of a few of the ads including an ad for The Simpsons movie that shows Homer chasing after a donut. The Homer donut ad can be seen on Madina Lake’s “House of Cards” music video. The Crime Mob – Rock Yo Hips music video contains an ad from Warner Brothers. The YouTube ads start up 15 seconds into the video and take up the bottom 20% of the screen. The San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times have more details about the YouTube ad concept. The comments on YouTube’s post about the ads range from those grudgingly accepting the ads to outright annoyance. Some people will tolerate the ads: jernov: “i personally don’t like it that much, but it’s better than an advertisement movie playing in front of the video you want to see, making you wait for the whole thing to start. i don’t like it, but it could be worse.” 123woow: “i think its a good idea people will see the advertisements more often and they cant really complain about it annoying them or being intrusive to the video because you can manually click it away easily. Good job YouTube” randiicom: “I’m okay with this, but eventually it would get boring. I wouldn’t subscribe to anyone who does this, but it wouldn’t stop me from watching one of their videos. It’d be great though to get money for the videos you’ve made.” The negative comments indicate some YouTube users may even unsubscribe from videos that contain the ads. johnbrouwer1: “It wrecks your youtube video! Terrible TERRIBLE idea!” sjmaerz: “I knew the team at Google would find a way to screw this up. Goodbye, YouTube, it was fun while it lasted.” splitforces: “gawd advertising is in everything now. first it wuz comerrcials in the middle of my shows and now the middle of my fav online videos. i shall unsubscribe to any1 who would do that.” losereligionrem: “sounds dumb… if i wanted to see advertisement… i’d just watch tv…” Updates: CNET says Matt Harding from the popular “Where the Hell is Matt?” videos doesn’t like the new YouTube ads. And a post on Wired’s Epicenter blog says the Chief Marketing Officer from VideoEgg says Google’s new YouTube video ads are just like theirs. Posted in Videos Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com Advertisement: Keep up with the greeting card industry. Click here to add the greeting cards blog to your favorite news reader.

Blogger Adds Video Uploads Feature
InfoWorld has an article that discusses Google’s latest round of Blogger bugs. In addition to pointing out the need for “professional-grade uptime” from Blogger the article also talks about Blogger now allowing video uploads. This post on Blogger Buzz also discusses Blogger’s video upload feature. Today we are releasing video uploading to Blogger! This feature allows you to upload videos and create a video podcast with the same ease that we currently provide with photo uploading. When you go to the Blogger post editor, you’ll see a new button () next to the image uploading one. Just select a video from your computer, wait a few minutes for the upload and processing to occur, and voila! Now when you visit your blog, you will see something like this (of course without Tomo, the Blogger Akita): The Blogger Buzz example features an uploaded video of the Blogger dog Tomo. Videos uploaded with Blogger are hosted by Google Video. However, Google says videos uploaded to Blogger are kept private and are not part of the Google Video search. Blogger also provides a video upload resource and a video uploading faq. Posted in Blogging Tools Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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