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http://www.vevo.com

What is Vevo?

Vevo is an online music video website owned by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, EMI and Abu Dhabi Music Company.  Basically its a website full of “official” high quality music videos.  All music videos are played on an oversized video screen in high, music video quality.  The site is powered by Youtube, yet is the first site to use Youtube technologies offsite.  Vevo has a large selection of music videos, playlists, channels and more, destined to be the most popular music video watching website on the internet.

What you may not know about Vevo

Vevo has many features, but a couple that really stick out is the ability to easily create playlists of music videos on the bottom panel.  Here you can add up to 75 music videos to a playlist and just let it play.  Second, with some videos, you can enable lyrics.  This means while the video plays, the lyrics will show in sync with the song. This is a unique, but great feature of Vevo.

Here’s a quick video on Vevo:

URL:

http://www.alternativeto.net

What is AlternativeTo?

AlternativeTo will help you find alternative software applications and websites to some of the most popular ones you may already know.  The best thing is, you can use AlternativeTo to find popular free replacements for programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office!  Next time you’re looking for software options, use AlternativeTo to see what other programs are similar and popular.

What you may not know about AlternativeTo

You can quickly login with your Facebook account and start sharing your favorite program.  Not only that, you can search for keywords related to the type of program you’re looking for and see which ones are most popular.

Here’s a short video on AlternativeTo.net:

URL:

1. Google Maps: http://maps.google.com
2. Google Books: http://books.google.com/
3. Google Squared: http://google.com/squared
4. Google Sets: http://labs.google.com/sets
5. Google News Timeline: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
6. Google Similar Images: http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/
7. Google Audio Indexing: http://labs.google.com/gaudi

What is Google?

I would hope by now anyone on the internet has at least heard of Google, if not, here’s some history…Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 (2009 -03-31)[update], the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running millions of servers worldwide, which process about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour. Google conducts hundreds of millions of search requests every day. (via Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Google

Google is more than just a company trying to organize the world’s information and making it easily searchable.  Google offers a variety of methods of obtaining content on the internet, such as the 7 methods mentioned above.  Furthermore Google also offers a variety of web tools and services such as email clients, advertisement options, web analytics, and ridiculously much more.  Its actually quite remarkable what can be done with Google.  I’m done talking, go play.

Here’s a video on 7 Google search techniques that are really cool: