If you haven't already seen it YouTube has recently added two targeting features which enable advertisers to have more control on what videos their ads are placed on. Age restriction and video or channel URL restriction . Age restriction is not a self service feature, and will require you to work with your official Youtube representative but URL restriction is a feature you can enable yourself. Click to read the rest of this post.

On a 540-square-foot jumbotron in Times Square an ad by Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, is playing 36 times a day. The subject of this giant advertisement? Google's invasion of the public's privacy. The video portrays Google's CEO Eric Schmidt as the creepy driver of an ice cream trunk, branded with the Google logo. Schmidt extracts personal information from children under the guise of giving them free ice cream.

Skype released an update to Skype for Windows, which allows you to make group video calls with up to ten people. This is in beta. There is also a new design. Skype's Peter Parkes writes, "You'll notice that the new-look Skype is sleeker, neater and crisper than before, and we're proud of the work our interface designers have done to refine and mature the interface for this version. We've also added Skype Home, where you can follow your contacts' mood messages,

Yahoo Search blog announced today that it is introducing a new Search Assist that is enhanced with the ability to provide users with geographically-closer suggestions as you are typing. This new feature is suppose to help searchers save a little time while typing their query because Search Assist will take into account the location you are searching from. The office where I work is located in the Citrus Park/Carrollwood area of Tampa,

You may have heard about Diaspora , a Kickstarter project that aims to be an open replacement for Facebook users that don't like Facebook's dealings with privacy . There is another interesting Kickstarter project called MusOpen , which aims to buy and release rights to a large amount of music, or in other words, open source it. A volunteer with the project named Ben Givens reached out to WebProNews with some information about it. He says they're close to completing it,

At least once a week, my husband laments the loss of a mom & pop record store we had near our home. They carried mostly used albums and rock and roll memorabilia and a visit there was like hunting for treasure on the beach. If we go to eBay, we can find all those same albums and more but it simply isn't the same as flipping through stacks of worn cardboard and finding a gem you didn't even know existed.

When it comes to Street View and the collection of sensitive WiFi data, Google is, at least to some degree, safe from serious penalties in New Zealand. A police investigation has determined that the company didn't violate any laws. Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff referred the matter to police in June, which seemed to put Google in a precarious position. Logic dictated that Shroff wouldn't call in law enforcement for no reason, after all.

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by Mike Krumboltz Online videos go viral all the time. But rare is the case that an unintentionally funny clip can lead to a paying gig. That's exactly what's happened to Paul "Bear" Vasquez, better known as "Double Rainbow Guy." Anyone who spends more than five minutes online per day probably remembers Mr. Vasquez's video , in which he captured footage of the elusive double rainbow outside his home near Yosemite. While the video of the double rainbow is impressive, it's Mr.

by Claudine Zap In the movie " Machete ," Danny Trejo stars as a tough-guy gun for hire. In real life, the character actor started out as an actual criminal who did hard time in San Quentin. The cartoonishly violent romp of a movie stars Trejo as a former cop from Mexico turned vengeful vigalante out for blood. He'll go after bad cops, bad politicans, and bad drug dealers. The movie features over-the-top mayhem that includes " beheadings,