Yahoo! Video has experienced comparatively slow growth next to YouTube and Google Videos. But that does not do justice to the millions of people who visit Yahoo Videos everyday to check out the daily funny cat video or hamster playing the guitar. Yahoo! has compiled a list of the most watched and downloaded videos and made the following clip. A reminder of the best of web videos of 2007 bringing a smile to the entire internet audience.
Yahoo has recently released a Wordpress plugin called Yahoo! Shortcuts which will help bloggers create great content supplemented by contextually relevant links but with very little effort. It requires no technical genius to use this superb utility but it when appropriately used it will help tell your story far more effectively. Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! Developer Network writes …
Instead of putting the burden on me, it operates as an assistant in the background, looking for relevant links, images, and other shortcuts. Then, when you’re done writing, you can simply look through what it found and select what you’d like to keep.
What Does Yahoo! Shortcuts Do?
Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin automatically finds links and shows you the total count even before you finish writing your post. After you are done writing the content review which links to keep and which badges to display on your post. You have complete control and nothing appears on your blog page until you specifically put it there. Yahoo! Shortcut makes it quick and easy to integrate yahoo search results, maps, stock prices, locations, products, Flickr pictures which have Creative Commons license and much more. The complete tutorial gives a detailed demo of the plugin. If you are lucky you might even win a free tshirt from Yahoo.
Video Walkthrough
The following video shows Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin in action.
Do you have what it takes to be a ProBlogger? If making a great living off the internet purely by blogging (and marketing and search-optimizing and creating unique content) is your cup of tea then enter the Problogger Contest. I came across this contest while stumbling on MyBlogLog blog post (trackback) in the middle off the night.
Why bother?
From the contest webpage … One grand prize winner will receive:
One Year Pro MyBlogLog Subscription
$500 Yahoo! Search Marketing Credit
A 1-year membership to SEOmoz Premium Membership
1 Complete Blog Redesign
One Year Subscription To Yaro Stark’s Blog Mastermind
A Featured Community for the month of December at MyBlogLog
An invitation to the invite-only blog gathering, SOBCon 2008, in Chicago
Whats the catch?
There is no catch. Simply grow your MyBlogLog Community to win the prize. You can check out the current standings to see who is winning. But in order to see the winner you will have to wait till next month. From MyBlogLog … “The winner will be announced from the floor of PUBCon 2007 in Las Vegas on December 5, and will also be announced on our blog” So, why wait another minute? Head over to the registration page and sign up for the contest. If you like this post feel free to join my MyBlogLog Community Best of luck!
