YouTube is occasionally showing users a new, re-designed related videos grid. You won’t see it at the end of every video (YT is probably just testing it), so here’s a peek. I’ve seen lots of eye-tracking studies on video sites and users BURN the frame where the video is, so end cards like this get [...]
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YouTube’s Secret New Related Videos Design
October 13, 2011
Could Justin Timberlake Bring Back MySpace?
July 7, 2011
This is neat — Harvey interviewed me about Justin Timberlake’s new investment in MySpace. The coolest part is that TMZ Live, our daily live web show, is now being syndicated on Sirius XM. So it’s exciting to think that people were listening to my “punditry” in their cars on the way home from work. Jump [...]
A Sports Site Setting the Standard for Scalable News
April 4, 2011
You may have heard that the EIC of Engadget left a little bit ago… And his new project is a collaboration with SB Nation, a sports news site. Tech to sports… Odd transition, right? It’s because he was so blown away by the technology behind how SB Nation publishes news. SB Nation is completely new [...]
Gossip Assistant
June 17, 2008
This article was orignially published in the official Revision3 intern blog. I’ll be interning with Revision3 through August 2008. I have a secret and for a while, I’ve been embarrassed to admit it. My Facebook profile is missing a piece, my Twitter account has yet to comment and at every mention of New York (a [...]
I am posting a YouTube video
May 26, 2008
All around, this is weird. I don’t like music videos (in fact, I think they might die some day). I don’t like people who post funny YouTube videos on their blogs. But here I am, spiting both beliefs. Besides its great entertainment value, this is one music video that’s worth a look because it’s a [...]
Eye Tracking Reveals New YouTube Thumbnail Tricks
November 30, 2011
Mashable and EyeTrackShop did a study of several social media sites and buried in the data are two eye tracking studies on the YouTube homepage. There’s little debate that thumbnails are critical to a video’s performance and this study punctuates that (especially in terms of subscribers, who get your videos through their homepage). But the [...]
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