Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google’s Ron Gorodetzky: Making YouTube more social — Ron Gorodetzky didn’t aspire to work at Google, or any other tech giant for that matter. — Gorodetzky was a start-up man — having worked at the news-sharing site Digg in its early days before going on to be a co-founder …
Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
YouTube Extends Plans for Ads Before Videos — In the early days of online video, commercials that appeared before viewers could watch clips, known as preroll, got “thumbs down” from most computer users. That attitude seems to have softened more recently, a change of heart that Web giants have noticed.
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
YouTube uses Amazon’s recommendation algorithm — In a paper at the recent RecSys 2010 conference, “The YouTube Video Recommendation System” (ACM), eleven Googlers describe the system behind YouTube’s recommendations and personalization in detail. — The most interesting disclosure …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Launches Web-Based Video Editor (With Details From The Folks Who Made It) — This morning, news broke of a spiffy, and very powerful new feature on YouTube: a built-in video editor. It’s a feature that I’ve personally been longing for for years, and it’s going to be a huge deal …