YouTube Storyboards

The Geny version of YouTube  will be having  one very ausumm  feature by which you can hover your mouse to any point in the video, without actually moving the playhead, and the YouTube player would show  an image thumbnail of the video frames at that very  position. Thus with this you could easily grab a visual gist of the whole video during buffering.

YouTube Storyboards

YouTube, as  known, generates three thumbnail images to represent a video and these images are captured using the frames at around 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 points in the video. For eg, if a YouTube video clip is of 60 seconds , the image thumbnails would be generated around frames at the 15s, 30s and 45s mark successively.

For the new upgraded youtube player, YouTube generates jawdropping  Storyboard of upto100 thumbnails per video and the thumbnails images are arranged in the Storyboard of 10x10 mesh . On hovering your mouse to different points in the video player, it quickly grabs the corresponding thumbnail  of that position from the dashboard.

This saves a lot of time coz it makes  you to  switch over  the most happenning  portions of a video based on the scenes . This provides you to skip the video completely if the description doesn't tallys the inner thumbnails.

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Google AdSense Publisher Toolbar for Chrome

Google  released a new app for Google Chrome which quickly access  AdSense earning reports without leaving the current page 

Google AdSense Publisher Toolbar for Chrome

The App is  known as the AdSense Publisher Toolbar, it  shares  a total summary of your AdSense earnings for the current day, the previous day, the current month and the last month. In addition to daily earnings data, it also show revenue data for top channels that you have created in your AdSense account.

There’s a new feature which is of  “lifetime revenue” this  shows your total AdSense earnings from the day your account was approved for AdSense.

Once you install the extension, it connects to your Google AdSense account using OAuth and then uses AdSense APIs to fetch your earnings data. You need to authorize only once and thus, if you enjoy checking your AdSense report every hour, this extension could save you plenty of time.

On a different note, I have no idea why the Google team is calling this extensions the AdSense Publisher Toolbar when it only adds a button near your Chrome address bar and there are no toolbars anywhere. You click the AdSense button and your earnings report are almost instantly display in an overlay.

And if you activate the AdSense extension while you are on your website (that is running AdSense ads), you can turn on the "site overlay" mode and it will display a quick summary of each ad unit’s earnings that are available on that page. Channel names are confusing, especially when you have tons of them, so this visual mode will come very handy.

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