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Resources for Gettting More Out of YouTube

YouTube has made helping users a priority lately. This tradition continues with a couple of announcements. Users Helping Users

Inaugural Google Maps Mashups Everywhere

Yesterday, we looked at different places around the Internet to get your inauguration coverage. Today Google is sharing a few Google Maps mashups that are out there.

Google, BBC Make Mash-Ups

The word “mash-up” has certain connotations; the product may not be too polished, or it could be downright amateurish.  The British Broadcasting Corporation is not an amateur, however; the BBC is, in fact, the world’s biggest broadcasting corporation.  And the BBC’s into mash-ups.

Speedgeeking Spins Off Google Maps Mashups

“Speedgeeking” is an odd term - it apparently relates to speed dating - and yet, when a bunch of Googlers engaged in this activity, the end result was a number of interesting Google Maps mashups.

Google Maps to Mash-up Companies

Man, talk about a kick in the groin. Over the past few months, Google has been happily providing a Google Maps API to any developer that asked, and encouraging them to create mash-ups (ie. add their own useful content) of the mapping search technology.

Photobucket Offers Online Video Mashups

Photobucket has launched a new service that will allow its 35 million users to do video editing online with technology powered by Adobe. The Adobe Web based video remix and editing technology is currently in Beta. Users can now combine photos, videos, text, and music to create videos or mashups of content from their Photobucket albums.

Social Media Mashups

A few interesting tools I've been made aware of recently that online marketers could use for making their social media more interesting or different include the following tools to add text to images or video:

Teqlo - Do-It-Yourself Mashups

If you're one of those people who've been waiting for somebody to create a tool that would let ordinary mortals without programming expertise mix and match applications and create their own mashups, today's your big day.

Oodle Opens Its Classified API

Classifieds search engine Oodle.com made its application programming interface generally available today, and introduced a new affiliate program for API users.

Forbes on Mashups

What do Rachel Rosmarin and myself have in common? Well, she writes for industry-leading Forbes Magazine and I write/manage GISuser... big deal eh? [just kiddin around!]