Web News: "YouTube Sings, Google Disses, Tweets Are Indeed Sweet"

Popular video website YouTube is singing a happy tune, having reached 100 million viewers monthly in January 2009. Owned by search engine giant Google, YouTube is dominating the online video arena and is a hub for social and business users to post free videos online, on personal websites and on social networks like MySpace. Even President Obama has delivered weekly online presidential addresses to Americans via YouTube on the new White House website!

Speaking of Google, founder and CEO Eric Schmidt was at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday where, according to PC World, he called social microblogging website Twitter a "poor man's email." Twitter is fast becoming a popular and useful tool itself where users to leave short messages ("tweets"), letting their friends know about what they are doing. As I posted in a previous blog entry, more people are taking to Twitter, including business -- and even Congress.

Schmidt did go on to clarify that he is happy for the success of Twitter. And who wouldn't be, given its value is worth at least $100 million (as of July 2008) and millions of users continue to sign up. This perhaps explains speculation about Google possibly buying out Twitter as it becomes a faster way to search online for real-time content due to people tweeting.

And you know when you've got a good thing going when social networking giant Facebook is watching closely and matching such visible success by unveiling its own set of new features starting next week, including being able to follow public figures and leave more interesting, real-time status messages.

Lots of improvements and innovations continue to appear on the social media front despite the slow economy. My San Jose website design firm is always here to explain the difference in Web 2.0 technologies on websites and how to successfully use them to connect with web visitors. Whether you're looking to increase the visibility of your website through embedding video, using social bookmarks, learning how to blog or tweet, my San Jose website design firm can help connect people online.