This week on the podcast we're talking with Trevor O'Brien, product manager at YouTube, to answer your burning YouTube-related questions and learn some search secrets. We're also discussing Google's tools to help your plan your digital afterlife, blocking porn on your Android, and the difference between all those different ethernet cables.
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News and Top Stories
- Video Streaming Service Vudu Reports Stolen Customer Information; Change Your Passwords Now: Video streaming service Vudu (popular on many set top boxes) just reported that they had a break-in on March 24th, and a number of hard drives were stolen containing user information.
- Plan Your Digital Afterlife with Google: When you die, what happens to your online life? Google now has a set of tools to help you decide and make sure your data lives on for exactly the length of time you desire and provides access to anyone still living that may want it.
- How Facebook Uses Your Data to Target Ads, Even Offline: If you feel like Facebook has more ads than usual, you aren't imagining it: Facebook's been inundating us with more and more ads lately, and using your information-both online and offline-to do it. Here's how it works, and how you can opt out.
- What's the Difference Between These Ethernet Cables, and Will They Make My Network Faster? Learn the difference between CAT5, CAT5e, and CAT6 ethernet cables and if it matters what you use on your network. (The answer: it probably doesn't. You might need to upgrade your modem, router, and other networking equipment to achieve higher speeds in various circumstances, though.)
Questions and Answers
Each week we answer five questions from readers and listeners. Here's what we tackled this week.
- Why does YouTube prevent video downloading? If we want to watch offline, what are our options? YouTube pays its content publishers with ad revenue and those ads aren't available offline, therefore YouTube doesn't offer downloadable content to be played offline. At some point in the future they would like to be able to offer the same experience without internet connectivity, but right now you have to remain online to watch your YouTube videos.
- A lot of our readers run into copyright issues on YouTube for a couple of reasons. Sometimes they upload content that's incorrectly marked as copyrighted. Other times they have a clip from their favorite childhood television show, for example, that just isn't available anywhere else online. The latter is, in probably every case, a clear legal violation. The former is not. Nevertheless, YouTube is very aggressive when it comes to weeding out copyright violations, to the point that non-violators (and, possibly, people doing harmless things) get punished as a result. What is YouTube's official position on this problem, are there any plans to improve the way things work for the user, and what do you suggest users do if they're falsely accused of copyright infringement and their video is removed? If you posted a copyrighted video, sorry, that's against YouTube policy. Even if it's just a little clip, if it gets removed you're technology infringing and you don't have any right to get it back. If your video was removed by accident, you can submit a claim to your rights using YouTube's copyright tools. It's actually really straightforward.
- Is there any way to prevent myself from accessing porn on my Android phone without resorting to a specific browser that filters out pages? Yes, get a parental control app for your phone and block adult web sites. If you change your mind and want a dedicated browser, however, Safe Browser should do the trick.
Tips of the Week
This week's tips are all about YouTube. Our guest and YouTube product manager Trevor O'Brien shared some cool things you can do on YouTube with search:
- Filter YouTube searches by timeframe and channel: Let's say you want to find videos on Obama's new budget for 2014. You could search for "obama budget" but then you'd get videos from various timeframes. After performing that search, click the Filters button underneath the search box and you'll be able to specify how recent you want the videos to be. If you only want videos directly from the White House, you can search for "obama budget @whitehouse" instead. When you use the @ symbol and add the name of a channel, you'll only get videos from that channel.
- Search for synonyms of a word: Sometimes you're looking for how to videos on, say, guitar lessons but someone might have named their video "guitar tutorial" and you want to view that as well. Instead of searching for "guitar lesson," search for "guitar ~lesson" to get synonyms of the word lesson. When you add a ~, YouTube knows to look for synonyms on not just the word itself.
- Find creative commons videos that you can use in remixes and mashups: Perform a Google search for any video, then click filters and select Creative Commons under the Features header. This will only show you videos you can use in mashups, or however else you like.
- View closed captions in multiple languages: Many YouTube videos have closed captions built right in. You've probably seen this before, but what you may not have noticed is that you can get them in several languages. This is really great if you want to watch a video not in your language. If you need to find YouTube videos that support captions, just search for what you want and click the Filter button under the search box to select the close caption option. This will tell YouTube to only display results that include a caption track.
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