YouTube has announced a new version of embedding code for Youtube videos . The new code will use an iframe that lets you watch both embedded videos in Flash and in HTML5, according to the users’ browser settings.

The default is to show HTML5 , and it automatically switches to Flash if HTML5 is not available.

According to YouTube, “another benefit of the new code is that in the future Youtube will play videos on mobile devices, which typically use players’ built-in” instead of Flash or HTML5. Android and iPhone phones and others use a special application to display the videos on YouTube, while the mobile browser using a plugin that detects the YouTube code and replace it by its built-in app. The new code will use the tag in HTML5 browsers that support it.

While sandboxing and HTML5 adds functionality to transfer messages, Flash is only used practically to embed content from other websites.

Here is an example video, feel free to view source:

To embed the above video, I simple entered the following code in HTML.

<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID" frameborder="0">
</iframe>

Change the VIDEO_ID to your own youtube Video ID. The code is much simpler and short than the original Embed codes.

Couple of days ago, I wrote about some amazing super mario facts and now its time for ‘The Simpsons facts. 15 things you probably do not know about The Simpsons‘ and if you know all these facts, then you really are a True fan of the ‘little yellow men’.

You may learn that the series has appeared on TV from April 19, 1987, with more than 600 guest stars . The movie script has been rewritten 100 times and more that one billion e-stamp series have been printed.

For more Simpson Character secrets and information, look at the InfoGraph below:

(Click on the image for the full Facts!)

Via – Oddee

Skype calls\texts from within the Fring application is no longer possible. Both VoIP services are now publicly challenging the conflict.

Fring (one of my all time favourite application on the phone), a tool that has different chat services like ICQ, Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger and Skype bundled together. Skype was accused of “fear of open mobile communication” and after this Skype has taken legal action against Fring.

Skype blocks the application since last Friday, Since, Fring upgraded its VoIP application for iPhone 4 for making free Skype Video calls. The reason given was  server problems caused by Fring and hence only supported voice calls.

Avi Shechter, the Co-Founder and CEO of Fring, describes the action of Skype as an “ambush” in a blog post.

Skype responds to the issue via another blog post by saying that Fring abused its software as “growing its brand and its reputation with damaging consumers’ and also, mentioned that it would not support Fring using Skype as one of the add-on in its mobile applications anymore.

I’m a happy Fring user and today I received an official email from Fring about the “Fring VS Skype” issue. Here is a copy:

If you too used to use Skype via Fring, you can probably head over to http://m.skype.com/ on your mobile phone and download a simple independent skype application to text and make calls!

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In a discussion on the Google Webmaster forum Googler John Mueller warns for the use of the noscript element. This element can be used in combination with Javascript in order to display information when the browser does not support scripting or it is disabled by the user.

John indicates that the use of the noscript tag suspect happens with search engines because the element in the past has been often abused by spammers.

• Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
• Serving different content to search engines than to users.

In 2006 it was said by a representative of Google, a noscript element that links will be followed up with Google but no further value attributes will be added.

Via: seroundtable.com .

Ever wondered what if Facebook was a country? What if Facebook had an economy? Here is a site called Visual Economics, has created a Infograph on ‘what if Facebook was a country‘.

Facebook economy

There are over 550,000 applications that are used on Facebook. 70% of users use the Facebook site’s applications. There are millions of application developers on Facebook. Zynga, a leading developer generated $ 250 million in 2009 to a estimated profit between 80 to 150 million dollars.

The most popular Facebook applications are:

• Zynga
• Rock You!
• Arts Electric
• CrowdStar
• Playdom
• Causes
• Slide
• 6 Waves
• Topzy
• iLike
• MindJolt
• RIM

Facebook Pages

There are more than 1500000 pages of Facebook active. The average value of a fan is estimated at $ 136.38. Extrapolating this figure, many pages of celebrities would be worth huge sums:

• Michael Jackson, with 13.3 million fans, would have a page with a $ 1.8 billion.
• Family Guy with 9.5 million fans, have a page with a value of 1.3 billion.
• Lady Gaga and Barack Obama have 9.1 million fans for the pages of a $ 1.2 billion each.
• Vin Diesel with 9,000,000 fans, have a page with a value of 1.1 billion dollars.
• Starbucks with 8.2 million fans have a page with a value of 1.1 billion dollars.
• South Park with 6.2 million fans have a page with a value of 845 million dollars.

The most popular pages on Facebook include:

• Obama
• Lady Gaga
• Jackson
• Family Guy
• Vin Diesel
• Megan Fox
• House
• Twilight Saga
• Starbucks

Users

There are over 500 million users of Facebook. 200 million users will be on site daily, averaging 55 minutes per day. If these users were working for $ 5 an hour instead of going on Facebook, they collectively would gain $ 916000000 per day.

Advertise

In the first quarter of 2010, 176 billion ads were posted on Facebook, 16% of display advertising market. Facebook says that its advertisers have quadrupled since 2009.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous in the world after China and India.

Today, the value of Facebook is estimated between 7.9 – 11 billion dollars.

[Via Visualeconomics ]

One of the questions that I had been asking is ‘why Google does not have a cloud-based program to edit and modify videos on YouTube’. And now, YouTube Now (finally) has a new simple, video editor online.

With the editor you can easily create new videos with pieces from your videos you’ve uploaded on the youtube channels. You drag the desired video programs in the timeline and for each video separately, you can edit certain parts of the video and cut\copy and edit instantly!

As for the audio, you can choose from a number of standard songs of famous and lesser known artists.

Here is a video, on how to edit videos on the cloud:

The editor can be found at youtube.com/editor

As Google positions the tweets from Twitter, you must also make sure, the Facebook pages position. We must also bear in mind that Facebook is world’s biggest social media for promotion of brands.

What Google has in mind when positioning Facebook Fan Pages? What factors are most important?.

For now, there is not much knowledge about it, but here are couple of things:

• Number of fans – THe more followers, Page rank is more relevant. You need to check if all fans are “worth” the same as or more important the larger ones.
• The type of content – Freshness, relevance of content, images, videos, etc..
• Big brands – The reputation of a brand
• URLs – the same as traditional SEO URL
• Number of “shares” – Popularity of content – How many people have shared posts from the fan page?
• Age of the Fan page -  Comparison between Old and Newly created facebook page … etc.

As we can see, the post is the first approach on how google ranks Facebook links. Do you have a Facebook fan page for your blog or website? Do you think its worth? share you thoughts below!

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Mario was born in 1983 and his name was Jumpman, his hat has been made to ensure that developers do not waste time with the movement of hair and first job was with Mario not a plumber, but a carpenter. The name comes from Mario and Wario Warui which means “bad” in Japanese.

Super Mario Bros. was the best selling game in the last twenty years. To discover other things about Mario. I’ll let you see the document below, which consists of 13 things you dont know about Mario :