YouTube EDU turned one year old today, and it's now one of the largest online video repositories of higher education content in the world, according to the company. "The team's work in the last 365 days shows," YouTube's Chris Dale tells WebProNews. Dale shared the following highlights of YouTube EDU's first year: - YouTube EDU has tripled its partner base to over 300 colleges and universities. - We have grown to include university content in 7 languages across 10 countries.

At SES NY this morning, Susan Weinschenk, Chief of User Experience Strategy of Human Factors International, participated in a panel about eye-tracking research and shared some of her thinking on this topic, including the 7 traps to avoid, which I share below. Dr. Weinschenk has a PhD in Psychology and has spent several years conducting cognitive research with a focus on unconscious mental processing.

by Mike Krumboltz A hot tub time machine will battle it out with computer-generated dragons at theaters this weekend. One film's a raunchy comedy (gee, can you guess which one?), while the other comes from the animation team at DreamWorks. Two very different movies aimed at two very different audiences. What say the critics? Hot Tub Time Machine Not since "Snakes on a Plane" has a movie's title so aptly described its plot. "Hot Tub Time Machine" stars John Cusack ,

If you're an active part of the Twitter community, you're probably well aware that the Twestival event is underway today. In some parts of the world it's already over, but in others it's just beginning. WebProNews talked to Judy Chang of PayPal's non-profit team about the event, and the company's role in it. If you're unfamiliar with Twestival, this is its second year,

A college education is something many people take for granted, but only about 1% of the world actually gets one. A year ago today, YouTube EDU ( youtube.com/edu ) launched with a very simple mission: deliver some of the world's greatest university courses to anyone with an internet connection and a screen. Whether it's Salman Rushdie reading poetry by the last mughal king to Emory University students, or a lecture in Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley,

People want stories, not marketing. In the Storyteller Marketing session at SES NY, Brian Lewis of Engine Ready, discussed the effectiveness of leveraging storytelling in marketing. We make sense of our world and our place in it through stories. We can relate to and be captivated by stories as they stimulate and inspire us. We want stories, not marketing.

by Claudine Zap " Jersey Shore " wannabes and people who like the color orange, take note: Your blissful, tax-free, tanning-bed days are numbered . That's right. The health care bill will be imposing a 10% tanning-bed tax . According to ABC News , the government hopes to raise a whopping $2.7 billion over 10 years to pay for the health care overhaul. That's a lot of fake bake. News of the government fee caused immediate searches on " new tanning tax " to heat up the Yahoo!

New Yahoo! app lets your fingers do the searching In case you missed the CTIA 2010 conference and our announcement of the new Yahoo! Search-a-Sketch app , here's an on-the-spot video of the demo, taken by conference-goer, zdnetsam . Showing how it works is our own Ariel Siedman, Director of Product, Mobile Search. Cool, huh?

The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative told WebProNews today it strongly supports Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) for the introduction of an updated version of the Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2010. The updated legislation would guarantee taxes and fees are collected from wagers placed online in order to raise much-needed revenue for federal and state budgets.

Digg has launched its long awaited iPhone app, which was created by TapTapTap . "This free app was designed to create a seamless browsing experience between Digg and the most popular content on the web, as chosen by the Digg community," says Digg's Chris Howard. "We wanted to make it easy to discover interesting content on your phone and to easily jump into the conversations around that content. You can browse lists of recent content, search for the topics you care about,