tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85480322024-02-08T11:00:18.558+05:30Googlified WebToday's web in Google's Perspective.Juzer Burhanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05522086491772315477noreply@blogger.comBlogger346125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548032.post-1635600486812173412009-04-24T23:51:00.001+05:302009-04-24T23:56:00.546+05:30E-Jamaat website revamped<div style="text-align: left;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">Ejamaat website now sports a new look..... </div><div style="text-align: left;">more suble colors and web2.0 layout but still old fashioned header fonts....</div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">window and it shows the favicons of all the windows currently open. On hovering over it, it will display the links..</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">UPDATE : well today i find the window link missing.. it must be an experimental feature which google might have removed now.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/15496865.jpg"></a>This is <b>Saifee Villa</b>, a historical place in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/15496865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://static2.bareka.com/photos/medium/15496865.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a></div><div align="justify">Matheran, which has special significance for mumineen. Syedna Taher Saifuddin Saheb R.A was very fond of Matheran. He used to frequently visit Matheran for its tranquility, beauty, prayers and zikr of Allah, so much so that he started his last journey from Matheran.</div><div align="justify">Likewise, his successor Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin Saheb T.U.S. frequently visits Matheran. His Holiness Dr. Syedna Taher Saifuddin Memorial Hall is his noble gift to mumineen. We pray for a long and healthy life to Aqa Maula T.U.S.</div><div align="justify">Click <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/15496865.jpg">here for Orignal Image.</a></div><div align="justify">Click <a href="http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=11651">here for Gigapan Image.</a> </div><div align="justify">Here is another one showing a Beautiful Valley.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://static3.bareka.com/photos/medium/15516714.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://static3.bareka.com/photos/medium/15516714.jpg" /></a></div><div align="justify"></div></span><br />
Click <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/15516714.jpg">here for Original Image</a>.<br />
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We do have Quran Majeed as word documents or Pdfs, but its not always as pleasing as reading with Quran Majeed in the traditional book format. So here is a website where you can read the Quran Majeed in the book format. you can flip its pages one by one or go to certain page or juz or surat. Some key features include:<br />
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<li>Various types of Quran Majeed to choose from including tajweed and tafseer.</li>
<li>Page Bookmarking</li>
<li>Multiple resolutions for different internet connections.</li>
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Both cellular companies will start selling this much awaited phone in India from August 22. Am still thinking whether or not to replace my trusted BlackBerry Curve with an iPhone.<br />
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There’s no word on the pricing of the phone yet.<br />
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According to the <a href="http://colorfilter.wickline.org/" target="_blank">Colorblind Web Page Filter</a>, above is what Google.com looks like for users with protanopia (red/ green color blindness). Perhaps Google should run this as their logo one day to raise awareness of color blindness. Out of interest, does that logo look normal to anyone here/ is there anyone who’s colorblind here?<br />
The Colorblind Filter site is a bit slow at the moment but if you created a website and you’re not color blind, you can check how well your intended color scheme fares. The site also has more information on how to select safer colors.<br />
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trueSpace is a 3D modeling and animation software for Windows that lets you create realistic 3D scenes from scratch, walk-throughs, games, etc. You can also import characters created in other software like AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Adobe Illustrator, etc.<br />
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<a href="http://www.caligari.com/Products/trueSpace/tS75/Brochure/Intro.asp" target="_blank">trueSpace</a> used to sell for $600 but then Microsoft acquired the company and <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/07/23/announcing-truespace-for-virtual-earth-3d-development.aspx" target="_blank">released</a> trueSpace as a free download probably in response to SketchUp that’s owned by Google.<br />
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The idea is to let users create building and landscapes for Virtual Earth just like one can use SketchUp to create 3D models for Google Earth (<a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/03/autodesk-revit-autocad-in-googles.html" target="_blank">SketchUp review</a>).<br />
If you are from the education community, you’ll especially love trueSpace for simulations.<br />
Like with any other 3D authoring software, there’s a steep learning curve involved with trueSpace but if you are looking for a good alternative to 3DS Max or Blender, Microsoft trueSpace is available at a price that may be hard to beat.<br />
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</span><span class="entry-author-name"></span></div>Yes, three easy steps are all it takes to export your data from Zoho Invoice to Zoho Sheet. You can export and view all of your invoices, quotes, contacts, customers and items in Zoho Sheet. I am sure most of you would be using this feature already, exploring it for the benefit of others-<br />
Let’s say you want to export and view all your invoices in Zoho Sheet, all you have to do is-<br />
1. Select the “Invoices” tab.<br />
2. Click on the “Export Invoices” link at the top.<br />
3. Click on the “View” link in the Spreadsheet/CSV/TSV format.<br />
That’s it! All your invoices will be exported and will be shown in a new window in Zoho Sheet. Now you can play with it as any other sheet document.<br />
Hope you find this feature useful. We will be happy to hear your comments.<br />
Just like Zoho Sheet, we will also be supporting <a href="http://docs.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Sheet</a> shortly.<br />
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<strong>Multiple Admins</strong> : Till now, Zoho Projects followed the single admin concept. But from now on, there can be multiple admins. The one who created the Zoho Projects account is assigned the super-admin / portal owner role. And he/she can designate other members as Administrators. These administrators have all the previleges as the portal owner except upgrading/downgrading the Zoho Projects account & changing the credit card details.<br />
<strong>Task-Documents and Task-Forums Mapping</strong> : Along with adding Notes to a task (which is useful for knowing a task’s status etc), documents uploaded to Zoho Projects and discussion forums created for a project can now be associated with tasks. Multiple documents/forums can be associated with a task and a forum/document can be associated with any number of tasks.<br />
<strong>Managers can add Clients</strong> : Project members in Manager role can now add (external) client members to the projects they manage. This gives a Manager fuller control over the project(s) he/she manages.<br />
<strong>Separate iCal link for Google Calendar</strong> : Google Calendar follows the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar#Events_.28VEVENT.29" target="_blank">VEVENT</a> component as againt the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar#To-do_.28VTODO.29" target="_blank">VTODO</a> component that needs to be followed for tasks/tasklists/milestones. To support GCal, Zoho Projects now has a separate GCal link. Clicking on the links, you can download an .ics file which you can import into your iCalendar / Google Calendar.<br />
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Pixelisation in the <a href="http://blogoscoped.com/forum/" target="_blank">forum</a> and Ionut at the <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/google-docs-in-full-screen.html" target="_blank">Google Operating System</a> blog mentioned the Google Docs documents editor now has a full-screen mode (not to be confused with the older full-width page view). You’ll find it in the menu <em>View -> Full-screen mode</em>, and hitting escape switches back to the default view. Does anyone know how to bookmark a Google Docs document so that it always opens in full-screen mode though?<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs.zoho.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/infoworldreview.png" target="_blank"><img alt="InfoWorld Office Alternatives" height="708" src="http://blogs.zoho.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/infoworldreview.png" width="652" /></a></div>Glad to see Zoho lead the pack (along with IBM) with our current apps.<br />
<blockquote><span><strong>Bottom Line:</strong><br />
If you’re ready to embrace the SaaS future, then Zoho could be the productivity suite you’ve been waiting for. Zoho can provide both personal productivity and business back-end applications, and with Google Gears, you can keep working on documents even if you can’t find the Internet. Zoho is the only suite here that you could easily use to run a complete business. It’s also the only one that can run virtually all the Excel macros you might have developed </span></blockquote>The good news is, the applications are improving at a very rapid pace. If you have noticed, its been a while that we rolled out a new app. The focus lately has been more on integration between apps and enhancements to the existing ones. In the longer term, we think cloud based productivity suites can go far beyond desktop software. We’ll see this happen over the next year or two.<br />
While InfoWorld looked at Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation apps, the productivity suite goes beyond these three (Wiki, Email etc are others). Also, you’ll need more apps to run your business than a productivity suite. In the bigger picture, we are trying to build a suite of apps to run your business. As we often say, we want to be your IT Department.<br />
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Google released a <a href="http://docs.google.com/templates?sort=hottest&view=default" target="_blank">layout templates directory for Google Docs</a>*, the application suite consisting of Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations (Google’s kind of web-based light-weight Word, Excel and PowerPoint). You can sort templates by target application, like Spreadsheets, or by category, like “Resumes” or “Personal Finance”. Then you can look at a preview and if you like a style, hit the “Use this template” button to fill it with your own content.<br />
Google Presentations since some time had a limited amount of basic designs available, and Google Documents also offers stylesheet editing, but this new directory presents a broader scope of layouts. There’s currently 309 different ones to pick from, and looking at the creator information you can see not all have been done by Google, but also by partnering third parties like TemplateZone or Avery.com.<br />
[Thanks Pixelisation!]<br />
*You can also reach the directory via docs.google.com by clicking New -> “From template”.<br />
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<img alt="gold keyboard" border="0" height="201" src="http://labnol.org/assets/images/6d6fea9d0280_D2F3/goldkeyboard.jpg" width="465" /><br />
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<img alt="gold leaf" border="0" height="164" src="http://labnol.org/assets/images/6d6fea9d0280_D2F3/goldleaf.jpg" width="224" /> <img alt="solid gold keys" border="0" height="169" src="http://labnol.org/assets/images/6d6fea9d0280_D2F3/solidgoldkeys.jpg" width="225" /> <br />
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Zoho DB & Reports now offers a wide variety of formatting options for each data type. With these options you can choose how you would like to have your data displayed in the various reports created.<br />
<strong>How to format a column? </strong><br />
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<li>Select the table or tabular view in which the columns are to be formatted</li>
<li>Right click on the column that is to be formatted</li>
<li>Set the necessary formatting option in the dialog that pops up</li>
<li>Click OK to apply the formatting changes</li>
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Immediately you will see the formatting options being applied over the column. Zoho DB & Reports also ensures to carry over this formatting set for a column across all the reports (chart, pivot, summary & tabular) created including this column.<br />
Formatting options supported include <em>Text Alignment, No. of Decimal places </em>(for all numeric data types), <em>Currency Symbol </em>(for currency type), <em>Negative Number Display </em>(for currency type),<em> Date display format </em>and <em>Include thousand separator </em>(for all numeric data types).<br />
<strong>Customize Chart Coloring:</strong><br />
In Zoho DB & Reports the colors used in charts have been system generated so far. With the latest update you can now change the colors used in a chart to suit your taste. Follow the below given simple steps to customize the color in a chart:<br />
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<li>Select the Chart whose colors are to be customized</li>
<li>Click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Edit Design</span> and go to edit mode</li>
<li>Click on any of the category colors listed in the legend (seen on the right side of the chart) to change the same.</li>
<li>A color chooser will pop up</li>
<li>Choose the color required</li>
<li>Click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Apply</span> to apply the color Or Click on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Use Default</span> if you would like to revert to system generated colors.</li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Auto-recognizing currency data during Import:</span><br />
Now Zoho DB & Reports has included the intelligence to auto-identify a data column as currency when you import it into Zoho DB & Reports. You do not have to manually set the data type of those columns as currency, which had been the case so far. The data could be in any of the accepted currency formats (with currency symbol or abbreviation eg., $, USD etc.,) of any country. Auto-recognition would be applied when you import data into Zoho DB & Reports from any of CSV or .XLS or HTML files<br />
Hope you find the above features useful. As always do give it a try and let us know your comments….<br />
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<div>We are delighted that <a href="http://www.swisscom.com/" target="_blank">Swisscom</a> (incumbent telco in Switzerland) has chosen Zoho for a six month pilot for its Zoho Business Suite which is now available on their Software-as-a-Service portal <a href="http://teamnet.ch/apps/LearnMore.aspx?AppID=3EBD6B67-20DB-4d02-9F88-C397A46A1E43" target="_blank">Teamnet</a>.<br />
Zoho and Swisscom have teamed up to create a custom version of Zoho Business, with Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show, Notebook and Meeting now available to its 300,000 business customers. Even though Swisscom is the incumbent telco operator in Switzerland, it is taking a bold approach by extending its offerings to the SaaS space. <span><br />
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<span>Increasingly, Service Providers are looking to add value on their existing networks and have started to include online applications like Zoho to their portfolio of services. In the past, one would not turn to the telephone company for productivity applications, but this is changing with the wider adoption of SaaS in the marketplace. We are glad that Swisscom is taking a lead in this regard and will keep you posted on other developments and partnerships as this trend picks up momentum in coming months.<br />
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<span><em>“The goal of the pilot is to provide our business customers with a value added web offering they can evaluate as part of a turnkey solution from their service provider. Zoho is an ideal partner that combines a wide and very innovative range of applications as well as a very solid engineering team to deliver the capability we wanted.” said </em><span><em>Michael Gmuer, Head Business Process Optimization</em></span> <em>of Swisscom</em><span><em>.</em></span><em>“.</em></span><br />
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Zoho and its <a href="http://zoho.com/partners.html" target="_blank" title="ZAPP">Alliance Partner Program</a> offer service providers multiple paths to increase ARPU (average revenue per user), <span>the holy grail that telcos seek to maximize by adding additional services to their existing infrastructure</span>. The program offers partners a flexible means to bundle various Zoho services for both consumers and business users. <span> </span><br />
While we are starting small with the Swisscom project, it is a significant step towards a broader Zoho distribution channel in Europe. This follows our recent <a href="http://blogs.zoho.com/writer/baihui-distributes-zoho-apps-in-china/" target="_blank">partnership</a> with <a href="http://www.baihui.com/" target="_blank">Baihui</a> in China.<br />
Thank you Swisscom for choosing Zoho and for your investment in the project. We look forward to feedback from your users and to a successful venture together.<br />
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1) Founded in 1608, this former British possession has a decidedly French flair.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">--Quebec</span><br />
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2) Once the seat of great political power, this red fortress is now a major tourist attraction.<br />
--<span style="font-style: italic;">Alhambra, Granada</span></div>
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3) Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this city was lost to the world for 1700 years.</div>
<div>--<span style="font-style: italic;">Pompeii</span><br />
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4) Passing by a famous golf course and luxurious mansions, this stretch of road is a tourist attraction in its own right.</div>
<div>--<span style="font-style: italic;">17 Mile Drive, Pebble Beach (California)</span><br />
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5) Legend has it that Hercules founded this major European city.<br />
--<span style="font-style: italic;">Barcelona</span></div>
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<div>6) This city within a city plays host to an Opera House, Planetarium, Science Museum, Oceanographic Park, and beautiful gardens.</div>
<div>--<span style="font-style: italic;">City of Arts & Sciences, Valencia (Spain)</span><br />
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<div>7) When we updated imagery of this city, we got complete coverage of another country with it.<br />
--<span style="font-style: italic;">Rome & Vatican City</span></div>
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8) This city hosted General MacArthur's South West Pacific Headquarters during WWII.<br />
--<span style="font-style: italic;">Brisbane</span></div>
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9) Some of my Googler co-workers can enjoy the views from this very tall building.</div>
<div>--<span style="font-style: italic;">Taipei 101, Taipei</span><br />
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The following is a more complete list of the areas we've updated in this data push:<br />
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<b><u>Updated Imagery: </u></b><br />
<b>Americas:</b><br />
<b>- USA:</b> San Diego, San Francisco metro area, Wenatchee (WA), New Mexico.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><b> - Canada:</b> Quebec, New Westminster (BC).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><b>Europe, Middle East & Africa:</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><b> - England:</b> Bristol<br />
<b> - Spain:</b> Barcelona, Costa del Sol, Granada, Murcia, Valencia, Cuenca, Toledo, Caceres, Zaragoza.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><b> - Portugal:</b> Braga, new base imagery for entire country</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><b> - Italy: </b>Rome, Naples</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><b> - Germany: </b>Freidburg, Munich</div>
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<b>Asia & Oceania: </b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><b> - Australia: </b>Brisbane, Great Barrier Reef</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><b> - Taiwan: </b>Taipei, Taichung</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><b>New 2.5m base imagery for</b>: The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Taiwan, Tasmania, and parts of Mexico, China, and Australia.</div>
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Google released a well-working iGoogle gadget in which they extract text information from video content. The <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=www.google.com/ig/modules/elections_video_search.xml" target="_blank">Elections Video Search gadget</a> – its <a href="http://speech.clients.google.com/elections2008videosearch/gadget" target="_blank">standalone page</a> can be accessed as well – lets you search for keywords across YouTube’s US politician channels, like Barack Obama’s. Clicking on a result item will load the video in question into the player embedded in the widget, with the specific occurrences of the word in the video color-marked on the timeline.<br />
For instance, I searched for the word <em>friendship</em> and got a result titled “Obama Anniversary of Israeli Independence”. Moving the time bar line towards one of the yellow markers, I’m hearing Obama say, “... let us renew the <em>friendship</em> between our nations ...”. Another search for <em>bubble sort</em> returns a quip from a Q&A Obama held at the Google headquarters, where Obama is answering a programming question.<br />
While the hits returned look precisely correct, hovering over the yellow marker pops up a snippet which shows Google doesn’t get it completely right... like when they transcribe a piece as “... to recognize Israel and are fighting for friendship wolf they ...”. Google admits as much in their <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-their-own-words-political-videos.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> on this service, saying snippets “may not be 100% accurate”. They add that speech recognition “is a difficult problem that hasn’t yet been completely solved”.<br />
This gadget shows that using speech-to-text technology, even when it’s very limited in scope right now, is a highly useful feature for video search. If and when Google ever rolls this out for all video content they indexed (or perhaps just for their YouTube content for starters), it could become an extremely interesting research tool. Besides just aiding search, extracting textual content from videos could also be used by Google to ...:<br />
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<li>display related videos based on text content, even if that content is not available in the video’s text, description or tags</li>
<li>show other videos which contain the same quote, like a movie referenced in another movie</li>
<li>display more context-aware advertisement on places like YouTube</li>
<li>offer full textual transcripts of videos for easy, accessible copying (the quality of transcriptions must be higher for this than for the typical needs of search)</li>
<li>add PageRank to URLs being talked about</li>
<li>offer automated captions in a video</li>
<li>offer automated translated captions in a video, as Google is also doing work in statistical machine translation (and if you go a step beyond, text-to-speech technology in the future could even read the auto-translated transcription back to the user, delivering dubbing of videos)</li>
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Any of these features could have two effects: first, it could make Google Video or YouTube a more attractive place to search for and watch videos, and second, if a feature is only rolled out for YouTube (and if a content creator would like to have this feature for their video) it could make YouTube a more attractive place to upload videos.<br />
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