YouTube has added a feature it calls “Active Sharing“. If you haven’t enabled it yet you will see a red dot next to your history link at the top like this - 
and upon going to your Viewing History page you can enable to Actively Share what you are currently watching.
- Your username appears next to the video you’re watching
- Videos you watch appear on your Channel
Another step forward for making the community grow more in sync with each other.
I think this is a great way for them to increase the viewing of other videos on their site, which would help with their video monetization efforts that they plan to implement soon. The more people view videos the more money the video publisher can make which in turn gives more money to YouGoogle {read YouTube/Google} which in turn makes their stock price go up even more, which means…you get the picture right.
It’s all Web 2.0 economics. Read more here.
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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.
Vanessa Blais on April 28th, 2007
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While the world squawks and bickers over copyright infringement and video sites like youtube and google videos get hammered for making advertising revenue from free content provided by users, a small group of pioneers are quietly creating a new industry, the Internet Video Television and Entertainment Industry, that is.
A new site, http://www.tvnetresource.com is committed to creating an Internet Televsion and Entertainment Industry by bringing video producers to a common site and giving them a forum in which to network and find others to build a team and create original programming. And profit from it as well.
The video delivery platform is hosted by http://www.filmsmash.com and users of either site can use the sites to network, broadcast, and deliver their content.
Filmsmash and tvnetresource offer a variety of information tools and products to help users create and produce their video entertainment content, and even host an auction site for the users to sell their advertising and product placement opportunities.
Filmsmash is a video share site committed to sharing revenue with it’s content producers, not just taking it and making money off of it the way other video sites have been.