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Some people will mingle that podcasting and video blogging (vlogging) is the same. What is  erroneous. Though, they somehow have similar properties, they are not the same.
Video blog: Instead of, like most commonly blogs, wich are textual, writing, you rather make a video, then write a short description of its content and put it next to the video. Still your visitors will beable to leave comments as usual. Video blogs also called Vlogs are built by many people from videos they shoot , typically whit a digital video camera, for best quality and traditionnal blogs. Video blogs are used by both professionals and amateurs.
The process is you shoot the video,upload it into your computer,then to your webserver or the host of your video blog. Write the short description,use a code(there are many diferente) to display the video on your blog.
The file formats to use, depend largely on how big the video file is, the player that you are using the call the videoon the server, and of course on your personal preference.
There are two ways to display these videos,either the basic way or usingstreaming.

• MPEG-4 and its derivatives(H.264, XviD and DviX)
• 3 gr for mobile phones
• Macromedia Flash (.flv for streaming )

Podcasting find its origin in the advent of Web.2 and particularly in the development of technology like RSS. But,differently to the Vlogging,it is only an audio file that is available via RSS.In the other hand, vodcasts have also emarged. By defintion, vodcast is a video podcast. By the way, there a great debate as wether or not vodcast is the same to vlog. But as I said, it is not.

There are two maitn actors:

• The ones who search for these audio and video files
• and the ones who publish those.

Podcasting uses RSS to add in addition to the audio or video contents descriptive data and metadata related to the files(Labels ID3 for the MP3s), some datas like the date, the title, a summary,links, pictures. Advanced foncionalities are available on the files whit formats MPEG-4. And there exist various extensions of file, introduced by apple.

Distinguish these different formats:

• .mp4: the official extension of the format MPEG-4
• .m4a announces an audio file MPEG-4 (a as audio)
• .m4b announces a MPEG-4 file chapter (b as bookmark)
• .m4p announces a MPEG-4 protected file(p as protected)
• .m4v annouces a MPEG-4 vidéo file (v as video)

Stay tune for the coming part…

There exist several services making it possible to shorten the URL to share links in sites like twitter. TinyUrl Started In 2002. Since then, many have done so. These shorten links are very popular in sites like twitter (where the number of characters per message is limited). Yet, Google and Facebook do not wish to stay out of this game anymmore. They are now going to offer that same service.
Goo.gl is the Google Url shortener and is integrated in feedburner and at the google toolbar . But, for now only it  is currently available for Google products and not for broader consumer use.

Here what Google said about Goo.gl on their Blog last weekend:

“Google URL shortener is not a stand-alone service; you can’t use it to shorten links directly. Currently, Google URL Shortener is only available from the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner. If the service proves useful, we may eventually make it available fora wider audience in the future.”

To use goo.gl it is required the ultimate versions of the feedburner and googletoolbar software. Lets also highlight that
goo.gl is compatible whit internet explorer and firefox. Nevertheless, on their blog, google does not exclude to spread the
access to a larger audience if success comes along.

• This is what this new feature offers:
• Stability – ensuring that the service has very good uptime
• Security – protecting users from malware and phishing pages
• Speed – fast resolution of short URLs

To note that for reasons of security, google will inspect every shorten URL to verify if the link doesn’t redirect towards a malevolent  site. Net serfers have been alerted by many security experts against that risk. Bit.Ly is even associated to Websense,but also Sophos and Virgins to detect the Urls whit risk.

FaceBook also has launched fb.me, but for the time being, it only is available to the market of mobile. We don’t know yet, if they intend to enlarge to other platforms,but probability is high that they will in a long term, if we think of their strategy called “FaceBook Connect” becoming a search engine of social connections. Across all links which they will list on fb.me, they are so going to be able to refine the priorities of the users on their reading and so prioritize links according to their popularity or so.
On their web pages though exemples have been found such as: http://fb.me/dasilva.christophe wich could explain an officialization of the service. I bet we will soon find out more.

Blogging is indeed one of the most popular things people do when they go online. In fact, majority of internet users now writes blogs and has their own blogging website. Blogging can get you quite famous.

In fact, some blog writers even became overnight sensation where their blogs spread like wildfire on the internet. In just a matter of days, millions of people have already read the blog and they still keep on recommending it to their friends to read. Blogging brings fame indeed, but you have to remember that you have to know what kinds of blogs have a high chance of success of becoming famous.

First of all, you need to remember that there are different kind of blogs. Not only that these blogs differ in content, but they also differ in the way the content is delivered. Here are two types of blogs that has the potential in gaining popularity in the internet.

The first kind of blog is the most popular one, which is the personal blogs. In blogs like this, the content will be somewhat like a journal or a diary by a particular person, most probably the writer. This is the most common blog and you will see a lot or in fact majority of blogs as personal blogs.

Although personal blogs don’t really get readers, the writers usually takes pride on their personal blog posts. You have to remember that blogs is not just a way of communicating with other people, but it also reflects on life, particularly the bloggers and all those around him or her. However, there are few personal blogs that does get famous.

You will also see blogs with media content. By far, this type of blog is used to promote art, photography and even videos. This blog can gain so much popularity as it will contain media that people will really want to see. Some people even make photo blogs or video blogs that contain their personal photos or videos with them doing wacky antics. In some cases, if the video or photos posted in blog is funny enough, it can gain a lot of popularity.

These are some of the types of blogs that can have potential in gaining popularity or fame. If you are good at writing about your personal life, then you might want to go for personal blogs. Although not many people will be that interested in knowing about your personal life, you have to consider that if your life is interesting enough, your personal blog can gain popularity.

However, if you happen to come across videos or photos of you and your friends or family doing things that people will definitely want to enjoy watching then photo or video blogging is for you. However, you have to make sure that the media you post is indeed entertaining in order for you to get positive feed back from your visitors.

These are two types of blogs that can bring you fame.

Just remember that blogging can bring fame if you do it right. By remembering these tips, you can be sure that you will be able to become famous just by blogging. In fact, you can even get so famous that you might even receive fan mails from thousands of people.