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Playlists on Youtube
May 5th
Let us keep that joke aside for a while and accept the fact: “It is easy to find stuff when it is properly organised”. It’s cool only in comics, to have your bed heaped up with stuff scattered randomly.
I’m a huge fan of the word ‘efficiency’ and also ‘ninjas’ of course and ‘cats’. Again, quips aside, efficiency, it is a properly designed action that would give you a maximum output from a minimum input. It doesn’t spontaneously happen. It takes a conscious effort to design that action. Some people do it for you, they put in the effort needed and make your lives easier. These people are respected, they manage to gather a huge influx of goodwill from their audience (you). Such an effort directed to design that action gives them a sense of satisfaction and hence helps them to earn a living out of the work they enjoy doing.
‘Efficiency’ gives me a direction to discuss: Playlists on Youtube.
People who make Playlists on Youtube or upload videos/vlogs that are basically directed to make Youtube organized, are the people I’ve been talking about. I can recall tens of such people, who today, actively post videos/playlists on Youtube that are either compilation of a huge amounts of data from different places or an eclectic mix of information aimed at discussing a single topic/issue.
The first person I’d bring to light essentially has to be Michael Stevens. He posts these greatly informative videos overflowing with facts in his Youtube channel VSauce. His videos usually belong to LUT, DOT, Leanback, DONGS, IMG! etc, the categories he organizes them into. My favourite among these categories is the DONG category. It is an acronym and DONG stands for ‘cool free stuff you can Do Online Now, Guys‘. With each video in the DONG category directing you to a 15 or so other interesting places on the internet, for me is the most engrossing category. Similarly, videos from some categories in this channel are bound to keep you wondering for a while. Other videos will force you to replay them again and again an you’ll notice something new every single time. Some other interesting Youtube channels you’d want to go to are CGPGrey, SciShow, MinutePhysics, DanBrown (Pogobat), Veritasium, CrashCourse, Numberphile, SixtySymbols etc…
Tell me in the comments about the other channels you follow, how they help you to find/stumble-over things easily.
Kolaveri Di is just a leaked part of a bigger hit, yet to be heard
Nov 23rd
Dhanush is definitely a talented actor and we’ve seen now that when he starts singing you can’t stop people from going crazy about it. Recently, this actor turned singer got down to show us what it is to go viral on Youtube. Till date we hadn’t seen many Indian videos growing this popular in such a short span of time. And if you are still wondering what I’m talking about you must be living under a rock lying in a corner of a dark cave. On a serious note, u need to check this video out before you go outside telling you haven’t heard ‘Why This Kolaveri Di‘ (means ‘Why this killer rage?’ in English) yet.
It was confirmed by Dhanush that the clip is only a leaked version of the actual song yet to be released. It was released on youtube as a video shot in the studio where it was being recorded. Music composer Anirudh, Dhanush, Shruti Hassan, Aishwarya and Sound Engineer Sivakumar can be seen in the video. The actual song will embellish the upcoming Tamil film, (3). It recorded more than 1.6 million views on Youtube in under a week, which is huge.
Let us not ignore those seven hundred plus dislikes this video scored. This is the state of pretty much every video on Youtube. Even the best video ever HAS to get a handful percentage of dislikes. Maybe there is a secret society of haters sitting wired in, who hit dislike as soon as a video is released or there are dumb people who wish they could hear something everyone is dancing to or Grammarians. Or it might simply be that the music plays so much around a person that it has passed the limit to which he can tolerate even the sweetest thing on earth. We’ll never know.
Anyway, I love the song and I gave it a thumbs up on Youtube. I wish it goes crazy viral out of the country too and gets more hits than the damned Justin Bieber’s – Baby
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Tag someone with a different name on Facebook
Nov 18th
A little trick with the Open Graph ID on Facebook lets you tag anyone with a different name/word. To do this you’ll have to figure out the Open Graph ID of the person you want to be tagged. Most of the pages who do not have a custom username have their IDs in the URL of that page. See the address bar when you have the page opened.
1. Find the Number. If it isn’t there, skip to Step 2
2. If you don’t find the number there just add the “Graph.” before the URL and press enter. If done on a correct page you’ll get a page which will have the ID of that person.
3. Use this code to tag:
@@[0:[186995576381:0: Your Text Goes Here]]
Replace the number with the person/page you want to be tagged with the word. The text to be displayed can be changed to anything.
TIP: For a Blank Status use:
@[0: ]
Reblogged from [TUTKIUN]
Easy Way to Schedule Facebook and Twitter posts
May 31st
Let SocialOomph, Sendible and HootSuite not confuse you with a little too many features. They do provide you with an option to schedule your posts and also several other services. They sure are some nice places to check out. But if you are searching for a real easy way to schedule your posts on the social web….
LaterBro lets you schedule twitter and Facebook posts with a simple UI, no separate sign-up or other unrelated stuff. Try it here.
Come back tomorrow to find out how to use cool new characters and symbols on Facebook that make your posts express themselves better.
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Google +1 button
Apr 6th
Like the ubiquitous Facebook ‘like’ button, Google has launched an experimental feature ‘+1 Button’ 
. It is basically a recommendation service that for the first phase of release will only be limited to the Google search page. Later it will be another button all over the web (expected) that will enable you to share the stuff you see online. Google would definitely work hard to avoid privacy issues that it faced just after a few days of release of Buzz.
To enable it for your Google account you can visit the Google experimental page in Google Labs and click on join. Remember you cannot use two experimental services at a time.
Note: The +1 button will take some time/days to appear with your search results. Be patient.
Meanwhile have a look at the video.
via [Official Google Blog]
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