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You Tube is dropping IE6 Support Next Month

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IE6_Funeral

For those of you still using IE, let alone IE6, the time has finally come to get a real browser. March 13, 2010, the day YouTube will no longer officially support IE6. Burried deep in a Youtube help item in regards to browser support, under the header “When does older browser support end for YouTube and what does this mean?”. The answer says “Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.” The answer also details that Google’s YouTube will notify site visitors of this by displaying a message, until the user upgrades in place of the video the user is trying to watch. “On March 13, we are dropping support for your browser. You’ll still be able to watch videos after that date, but new features may not work properly” it will prompt for a time up until that fateful day.

This should not come as a surprise, we already are aware that March 1, Google will phase out support for IE6 in Google Docs and Google’s Site. They are not alone in this, various other sites, and governments have taken a stand against the browser due to recent events and overall security risks. I personally am very glad they are doing this, it is time for people to move to Firefox, Chrome, Safari, hell even Opera, ANYTHING BUT IE.

-Zach Morton “The Uber Geek”

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What is Google Buzz?

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Google Buzz
Google announced today a new service to add to their service offering. It’s called Google Buzz. Google Buzz is a part of gmail. Basically, friends who you have emailed from your gmail account are automatically added. You can share status updates, just like you do with twitter. This tool will also message out when you upload new content to Picasa, or YouTube. This is basically another micro-blogging site just like twitter, only by default your tweets are private, not openly shared with the rest of the world. I do not believe this to be a Twitter killer. I think twitter has a tight grip on that part of social media, and they aren’t going anywhere. It’s difficult, even for Google, to knock something like Twitter off the map. When a site becomes a part of everyday speech, and people love it, its not going anywhere, unless you have a MAJOR improvement on it.

This is being touted to be Google’s first shot into the Social Media arena. Google is hands down the leader of the pack when it comes to search engines. Man: Honey, how far is San Diego from Tampa? Woman: I don’t know, Google it. Be honest, you know you’ve said it. Google is the best search engines (Aka Marketing Company) on the planet. However, I’m not sure that many die hard twitter users are going to move, but we shall see. Personally, I like to use as many outlets as I can, so I will enjoy using it. Im sure that they will get lots of people using it, but its not going to kill twitter.

I do think that Google Wave is probably 200% more powerful than just Gmail with a twitter like status update. I don’t understand why Google doesn’t just open that bad boy up some more and get more people using it as opposed to Google Buzz. In my opinion they should dedicate more resources to google wave.

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What is HTML5?

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So, you have heard of it, but what is it.

HTML5 is the next version of HTML, the language of the Internet. About 10 years ago, the internet browsers we were using had to do little more than show text. Unless you live under a rock you know that that is no longer the case. Browsers now have to contend with more graphics, video, audio and many other types of content. Sure we have plugins for Flash and other things to handle those great You Tube videos, but why not make the browser handle it natively, without plugins. When HTML5 finally becomes the De Facto standard of the web, like its predecessors, the browser will understand how to handle that information natively.

The Rub however is that none of the browsers currently out there support HTML5 yet, because it hasn’t been ratified yet. Unfortunatly, IE is still the largest player in the browser world. Despite the vast power of Firefox, and the speed of Google Chrome, IE still has the biggest percentage of market share. So it appears that we are again, waiting on Microsoft.

One of the biggest cheerleaders for HTML5 is Google. See HTML5 will help them with Gmail, Google Docs, Wave and even help their core search business. Google, is not able to see inside certain parts of flash, which is not good for sites that use Flash. While it’s pretty, it’s not the most SEO friendly. Google’s secret weapon in the fight to get HTML5 out there is You Tube. You Tube is so vastly used for video that its amazing. It seems everyone is using it. You Tube has now launched an HTML5 Version of the site. No browser plugins (Flash) are required to see the videos on the site. This is good news because flash is also known to be unsecure in some respects. This is also good news for Mac users, as Flash is one of the main causes of failure for the Mac.

This is great move on You Tube’s part, but I don’t think that Google should just switch to it right away, you must have some form of choice on the part of the user. I do however think this is a step in the right direction.

What do you think? Let me know in the Comments section!

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