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This article was written on April 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

YouTube has just launched a service called Active Sharing as a way to get even more video views. If you decide to opt-in for the service YouTube will track which videos you have watched in the last 30–minutes and share that with other users. Your username will then appear on each video that you watch, and on your profile page there will be a list of your most recently viewed videos:

To enable the Active Sharing feature on your account you’ll need to go here. At anytime you can visit that same site and opt-out the service so that your video browsing activity is no longer tracked.

I think that it is pretty smart of YouTube to start offering such a service because it might make people want to watch even more videos. I’m just glad that they made this optional so that users who wish to maintain their privacy can still do so.

They didn’t stop there either, they also launched a few other features yesterday that are worth noting:

• Rearrange the order of your videos and favorites…I think this is pretty cool!
• You can setup your own videos to automatically approve comments from your friends, but anyone else still needs approval.
• Browse videos on channel pages according to the Most Recent, Most Viewed, and Most Discussed.
• Now you can unblock users that you might have “accidentally” blocked.

Source: YouTube Blog

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YouTube recently teamed up with Google + to come up with a way for YouTube users to control the comments that are posted on their videos.  It was rolled out to a select few users today, and will be available for all users by the end of the year.  “We are moving from comments to conversations.” said YouTube product manager Nundu Janakiram,

What is going to change? Currently, you see the last person to comment on the video; with the change you will see the most relevant conversations or comments first. Those comments that are relevant are determined so by the owner of the video.  Owners of the video will have the option to “blacklist” certain words that they do not want to see and also will be able to flag people as spam or abusive.

The new system is powered by Google+ and will be linked to the social networking site.  Comments from people in your Google+ circles will automatically be considered more relevant and moved up higher in the comments list, as well as them being able to see what you are commenting on videos.  Of course, there will be several privacy settings available, you can make conversations public or keep it between just you and certain friends.

Basically here are the new rules:  Are you the creator/owner of the video? If so, you have control over what your viewers see in the comments list, which I would assume is a huge relief.  For those of you that want to comment on a video; ask yourself, is what I am about to say relevant to the video? If yes, then most likely your comment will be considered positively by the creator. If no, to put it nicely, find something better to do, your comment will never be seen.

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