YouTube said viewers are now watching more than 100,000000 videos per day, marking the surge in demand for its “snack-sized” video fare.

Since last year, YouTube has hold the leading position in online video with 29% of the USA multimedia entertainment market.

YouTube videos make 60% of all videos that are watched online. Videos are free on YouTube. The company is still working on advertising and other means of generating money to support the business.

The site majors in short comic videos uploaded by users. YouTube serves as a quick entertainment break or viewers with broadband computer connections at work or home.

MySpace occupies almost 19% of the market according to Hitwise. Yahoo, Microsoft MSN, Google and AOL have 3-5% each. If summed, these four Web portals have smaller share than YouTube or MySpace.

In June 2006, 25,000000000 videos were watched on YouTube. Every day users upload more than 65,000 videos to YouTube.

YouTube has about 20,000000 users per month.

To see the full article go HERE

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The most senior aides of president George Bush have recently received extra $4,200 to their salaries and now the top pay rate for them is established at $165,200. The list of salaries was created for the year and displayed both alphabetically and by dollar ranking. At the bottom of the list are people answering phones and responding to the mail.

This year the list does not include aides who left the White House in recent weeks, even in case the president intends to fill the posts at the rate of pay this year.

Employees on loan to the White House from their home agencies on the list are italicized. There are other curiosities: a General Electric security specialist is included in the list as an employee & member of the president’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board with a salary of $548.

The list consists of 433 positions not including White House residence employees, Office of Management and Budget staff, and the personnel working in the Office of the Vice President who are on the payroll of the U.S. Senate. President Bush has a salary of $400,000. The vice president’s payment is $212,100.

Here are the first 20 members of the 2006 WHITE HOUSE SALARY LIST:

1. Bartlett, Daniel – Counselor to the President – $165,200
2. Bolten, Joshua B. – Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff – $165,200
3. Crouch II, Jack D – Assistant to the President & Deputy National Security Advisor – $165,200
4. Hadley, Stephen J. – Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs – $165,200
5. Hagin, Joseph W. – Assistant to the President & Deputy Chief of Staff – $165,200
6. Hubbard, Allan B. – Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director, NEC – $165,200
7. Kaplan, Joel D. – Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy – $165,200
8. McGurn, William J. – Assistant to the President for Speechwriting – $165,200
9. Miers, Harriet E. – Counsel to the President – $165,200
10. Renner, Liza W. – Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel – $165,200
11. Rove, Karl C. – Assistant to the President, Deputy Chief of Staff & Senior Advisor – $165,200
12. Snow, Robert A – Assistant to the President and Press Secretary – $165,200
13. Townsend, Frances Fragos – Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism – $165,200
14. Wallace, Nicolle – Assistant to the President for Communications – $165,200
15. Wolff, Candida Perotti – Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs – $165,200
16. Yanes, Raul Francisco – Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary – $165,200
17. Zinsmeister, Walter Karl – Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy – $165,200
18. Gambatesa, Linda M. – Deputy Assistant to the President for Management and Administration – $149,000
19. Kelley, William K. – Deputy Counsel to the President – $149,000
20. McBride, Anita B. – Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady – $149,000

To see the full article go HERE

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The generation of the descriptions [snippets] which appear under a page in the search results is totally automated. This generation uses the content on a page plus references to it that appear on other sites.

The source that is used to generate snippets is Open Directory Project (ODP). Many site owners have desire to be to able to request without using the ODP for generating snippets, so from this time on, all you have to do is add a meta tag to your pages.

Use the following tag: META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”

Not all search engines support this meta tag. At the moment Google is the only one that officially runs it.

Google on using this tag:

‘After you added this info to your page, it will take some time for changes to your snippets to take place. Once your pages are recrawled, you are going to see updated snippets’.

To read the official Google article go HERE

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