Google gets confused

Google is willing to sell me 529$ of Phone.

But it says it wont sell me 30 $ of advertising because it does not deal with INR

Maybe I should talk to the Indian professors of Googlers, grr.

YouTube-Promoted Videos

While I covered Google Patents in October 2009, here are some video shots. A 22 sec video which can help you decide whether to go for getting a patent or not. By elimintaion prior art search costs, this can greatly reduce the cost and complexity for small entrepreneurs.

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So go ahead, patent your R functions and algorithms ( The video shows one important tool) while using the tool at http://google.com/patents to search for prior patents.

Incidentally YouTube has a great feature for promoted videos only open for USD ( incidentally my 2007 email feature is listed as INR so I am still waiting for the free customer support at G Inc to reply that “hey,  I can now pay in USD so let me in”.)

Neat Concept, anyways!

I tried this

but got this instead

YouTube Features: Audio Swap, Mobile posts and Themes

Here are great features from the now formidable and always delightful Youtube, especially the Audio Swap feature.

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YOU TUBE*

(*BECAUSE GOOGLE IS NOT A  MONOPOLY )

Basically it allows you to use a background song over your home videos.

If you have ever shot a baby video, or a pet video, or just a random nature is beautiful video- here is an example

The Heavy Rock ( California) vs The Country Song ( Tennessee) versions.

versus

They were both sent from my Iphone, and the audio added later. The Audio swap function is at-

My Videos >

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos#

Click on the Audio Swap Button below each video.

You can see the screenshot below for the functionality offered by Audio Swap.

The YouTube feature also has considerable refinements ( after 5 yrs of hard thinking by the most famous Standford alumni to drop out). An example is customizable skins and themes- see here a screenshot ( note the background color, font etc)-

You can also see it here at http://youtube.com/Decisionstats or just click the screenshot below.

Speaking of Stanford- I called up home in India to tell them how I am doing in San Fran. There was considerable confusion after I told them that I got admitted to Stanford. My father said- ” Just how did you get admitted to Stanford? ” Me- I just took the Caltrain to the station- I meant admitted to the campus not the college 😉

SAP gets social media with micro-apps webinars

A commendable re design by SAP in it’s social media especially social media through Videos and Webinars

I especially like the cute graphics which sum up the Social Media presence for SAP- like their own personalized Twitter Buttons. see screenshots below

TeleMarketing 101

If you think marketing is all about thinking one more promotion,

one special offer, lets get their data, mine it /spam it,

offer initial lower entering barriers like a cheap price for software,

steep exit barriers like oh all your code is now in our proprietary system and your analysts are addicted to our conferences, documentation and papers-

Think Again

OR

remember this video—

Citation- YouTube, AND Green is Boring (http://greensboring.com/)

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Monday Video: Party in the USA

Apart from the fact that Miley Cyrus really seems grown up (she is still a KID),

this is also a great example of video advertising as done by Yahoo on

their new site http://new.music.yahoo.com/

making it like You Tube but maybe with more embeddable videos for open sharing

PS the Video is here

http://new.music.yahoo.com/Miley-Cyrus/videos/view/Party-In-The-U-S-A—218591175