YouTube

When I hear the word YouTube two things come straight to mind: global connection and sneezing panda.

Branding

Let's say that you just opened up a new Hair Salon. You've put in hours of time developing your concept and your brand. You've spent a few thousand dollars placing ads in local newspapers and publications. You even got a local writer to feature you in her weekly newspaper column. You open up shop expecting droves of shaggy haired folk to come charging through your door.

Branding

One of the reasons Drupal is so powerful and will continue to grow is the vision. The vision manifests itself in two primary ways: the code and the community. While I have worked with many open source projects, I have never seen one where the community drives the code and the code drives the community as much as it does with Drupal.

Social Media is used to describe the content generated by people who are using today’s accessibly and publishing technology. It describes a technological transformation in how people are now choosing to learn and share information.

Social media includes blogging, online communities, reviews, multimedia sharing platforms. Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr are examples of popular applications.

In the recent few months, Google has expressed its intent to further assist webmasters using the Google Webmasters tools. This provides for greater exposure to video presentations as well as the usual "insider" information on your web site's performance in Google's eyes. Yesterday, it was revealed on the Google Webmaster Central Blog that Google has created a YouTube channel with the intent:

Snuggie Sightings - An Unlikely Marketing and Viral Success Story

By now you must have heard of them - the blankets with sleeves that keep you warm no matter what you're doing. Buy a Snuggie, and you can talk on the phone, eat a snack, read a book, or even cast spells, according to one YouTube parody video.

Can I just say that as the last person in a fully developed country that doesn't have cable OR high definition television, the internet is like a treasure trove for me? This morning I went on YouTube and caught the highlights of last nights South Carolina debates, checked out some blogs to get people's reactions and joined my candidate's support group on Facebook.

In November 2008, I will be casting my vote for President for the 5th time in my life. I have had some winners and some losers. I have even had one where my vote didn't even count. Some guy named Harry Browne or something like that. Now that I am older, I look back on those "hanging chads" and wonder if the vote I casted the right one. Of course, I can't answer that, because every time I poked a hole in the in the yellow piece paper, the "chad" I left hanging was an uninformed one. It was not because I didn't know anything about the candidates. It was because I only knew the propaganda.

Internet video is leading the way to a new era in communication. Video has changed the way we apply for jobs, how we watch the daily news, and now how we interview our Presidential candidates.