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In Depth: Create compelling online video with our pro tips
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Online video has come a long way. Distant memories of postage stamp-sized, juddering videos seem comical in an age of broadband and YouTube, where video has become just another component of myriad websites. Plummeting software and hardware costs have also largely democratised the process of creating video – today's online star can be an individual with a camera, an experienced television veteran developing new ideas or striking out on their own in a relatively lowrisk manner, or a global corporation whose middle-management has been informed that video is the 'next big thing'. As a web designer, it's easy to be seduced by video. Everything about YouTube excites: masses of content, ...
In Depth: 25 bookmarklets to boost your browsing
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Most modern browsers have been around for years, so you might think the developers would have perfected them by now. Yet every time you go online you'll probably run into a host of browsing problems, from navigation issues, to pages you can't read clearly, and disorganised sites where it's difficult to find the information you need. But you don't have to live with these hassles - most can be fixed with the right browsing bookmarklet. Here's an example. You're browsing a web page, and need to find a contact email address. Normally you'll scroll up and down, looking for links, and eventually you might spot one. Tedious, isn't it? To try something simpler, first create a favourite to ...
Twitter followers for sale by the boatload
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It might sound like a pretty self-defeating vanity exercise, but a new service from Australia promises to deliver Twitter users thousands of new followers if they're willing to pay for them. Starting at around £50, uSocial is offering to find followers in blocks of 1,000. The company says it manually searches for people who might be interested in what the client has to say and offers them the option to follow or not. Getting the word out Chief executive Leon Hill told the BBC about the kinds of people using the service: "A woman who runs yoga classes is one of our clients. So are some religious organisations, including one man that just wants to get the ...
In Depth: When virals go right - and when they just don't
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Back in February, a video clip of a brand new Sony product became an internet must-see. Within hours of its original upload, it became the toast of Twitter, was embedded in endless blogs and was earnestly discussed by some of the technology industry's biggest hitters. Witty, well produced and entirely unofficial, for a brief period of time it made Sony the most talked-about brand on the entire internet – something that the company's previous attempts at viral marketing had tried hard to do but conspicuously failed to achieve. There was just one problem with all of this. The clip was called 'Sony releases new stupid piece of s*** that doesn't f***ing work', and it was a parody made ...
