It’s been just over a month since YouTube launched their major site redesign, but it looks like they’re not done yet! Today they’ve announced updates to the Browse page, Video Editor and Video Manager.

Inside Social Apps 2012, held on February 8-9 in San Francisco, is less than two weeks away. Leaders from the industry will share their views on today's most formidable challenges affecting social and mobile apps and games in 2012. Inside Social Apps conferences sell out in advance, so take advantage of early registration pricing. Early bird pricing ends on February 1, so register today.

This week our funny video roundup includes a surprising classical music performance, an even more surprising Family Feud answer, a cat drinking beer (seriously!), an epic stop motion animation and the latest installment to the ‘Sh*t ____ Say’ trend—Sh*t Samuel L. Jackson Says!

Pinterest is easy to use and even easier on the eyes, which are two reasons that traffic to the online pinboard keeps pouring in. If you’ve got pretty things to sell, this infographic from LinchPin SEO can show you how to use Pinterest to turn heads.

Recently, the FBI busted the founders of the file hosting service MegaUpload.com for copyright infringement on a massive scale. Now it looks like the the government agency is in the market for a social media application to help them foresee and respond to crises.

It’s been just over a month since YouTube launched their major site redesign, but it looks like they’re not done yet! Today they’ve announced updates to the Browse page, Video Editor and Video Manager.

In itself, reading is a quiet, solitary activity that’s best for rainy afternoons spent in an oversize chair. But the ideas and experiences that an author shares can unite people throughout history and all over the world. I recently checked out Copia, a site that connects your favorite books, your friends and your eReading devices [...]

In the latest episode of “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler talks with entrepreneur Ella Gorgla about her startup, I-Ella, an online marketplace where users can buy, swap, sell, and borrow clothes, accessories, and shoes.

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On December 13th, 2011, Twitter users all over Japan broke a record by tweeting about during a television screening of Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky — it’s a famous anime that is known by all Japanese and Japanese tweeters tweeted quotes from the show during the entire program.  That was the world record for message [...]

AJ Kohn over at Blind Five Year Old has put together what must be the most rigorous, complete Google+ SEO guide around, and it’s going viral like gangbusters.  It looks at the various angles of how Google+ is impacting search, and then follows it with a best practices section which explains how to leverage this [...]

Books make great conversation starters, especially online. At the Digital Book World Conference 2012 in New York, industry veterans encouraged publishers to let their hair down and have some fun with social media to engage their readers.

Flowtown and Column Five have put in the work so you don’t have to – they’ve put together a Social Media Cheat Sheet for small businesses that covers the ins and outs of the social media ecosystem and can help you navigate the major social media sites on the web.