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Youtube

YouTube is a popular online video-sharing platform that allows users to upload, view, rate, share, and comment on videos. It was created in 2005 by three former PayPal employees and was later acquired by Google in 2006. YouTube has since become one of the most visited websites globally, with a vast amount of content covering a wide range of topics, including music, entertainment, tutorials, vlogs, documentaries, and more.

Users can create their own YouTube channels and upload videos to share with the public or a specific audience. The platform provides various features for content creators, such as monetization options through advertising, memberships, and merchandise sales. YouTube's algorithms recommend videos to users based on their viewing history and preferences, aiming to provide personalized content suggestions.

YouTube offers different types of accounts, including regular user accounts and YouTube Premium subscriptions. With a Premium subscription, users can enjoy an ad-free viewing experience, access to YouTube Originals (exclusive content produced by YouTube), background play (allowing videos to be played while using other apps or when the screen is off), and offline video downloads.

The platform has also introduced live streaming features, allowing creators to broadcast live videos to their audience. YouTube has become a significant platform for content creators, many of whom have gained large followings and established careers through their YouTube channels.

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Facebook is a social media platform founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. It allows users to connect with friends and family, share photos and videos, and communicate through messaging and comments. Facebook has grown to become one of the largest social media platforms in the world, with billions of active users.

Facebook offers various features, including news feed, where users can see updates from their friends and pages they follow. Users can also join groups based on their interests, participate in events, and create pages for businesses, organizations, or public figures. Facebook has expanded its services over the years and acquired other platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp.

In addition to personal profiles, Facebook also provides options for businesses to create pages to engage with their audience, run ads, and promote their products or services. The platform has advertising tools that allow businesses to target specific demographics and reach a wide audience.

However, it's important to note that since my knowledge cutoff is in September 2021, there may have been significant updates, changes, or controversies surrounding Facebook since then. For the most up-to-date information, it's recommended to refer to recent news and official Facebook sources.

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mohhamedriaz · 2 years ago

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WordPress Explores AI Integration

WordPress contributors are having a still ongoing discussion about how AI might fit into the WordPress ecosystem, whether in the core or as a plugin.

There are no plans at this point to add AI to the WordPress core, these discussions are just the starting point, turning on the light so to see what there’s, so to speak.

A few contributors stepped up to share their opinions and although the discussion is just starting, important points were made.Plugin or Core Integration

One thing that was agreed on, at this point, is that integration of AI might be best accomplished through external plugins as opposed to hard coded into the WordPress core itself.

Matt Cromwell shared his concern that the current plans for WordPress are packed with projects that needed to be finished and that adding AI to that load might be distracting and pull efforts away from existing projects.

But he also agreed that talking about AI is a smart thing to do at this point.

He wrote:

“At what cost would the project chase an AI integration?

…I find it hard to imagine pursuing the current roadmap with excellence and stability AND adding a huge AI integration as well.

…being that all AI options currently require integration with a 3rd party system, some sort of pricing and authentication, this feels to me to clearly be plugin territory.

It’s a fun exercise to dream about what an AI-powered WordPress would look like, but at this infancy-stage of AI I think it’s better to let the plugin ecosystem do the innovating so that Core can focus on its more foundational features that need improving…”Diagnostic AI Co-pilot

Ollie Jones offered a brilliant use of AI in the context of keeping a WordPress site running.

They suggested integrating AI as a diagnostic co-pilot that can identify a problem (presumably like a plugin conflict) and offer steps to take.

Ollie wrote:

“HERE’S the AI feature I want to see: Feed tracebacks and error messages to the AI, then say ‘Hey AI, what went wrong here? Suggest some ways to fix the problem.’

If this worked even minimally in the “what went wrong” question, WordPress people will love it.”

That’s a great idea. How cool would it be an AI could detect when two plugins contained a conflict with the potential to crash the site?

It would be useful if the AI could take steps to block the problematic code, keep the site running and send display a message about it.

If AI’s are assistants, then assisting with the daily publishing and development tasks seems like a useful application of the technology in a way that wouldn’t take away anybody’s job.AI WordPress Team Member

Another person, robglidden, had a similar view of AI only this time as a user on a collaboration team.

The comment is a reference to Phase 3 of the four phase plan to modernize WordPress with Gutenberg.

WordPress is currently in phase two of four planned phases, phase three focuses on Collaboration.

Examples of Phase 3 focuses:Real-time collaborationCreating the UI and infrastructure to accomodate multiple members of team customizing the website simultaneously.Asynchronous collaborationThe ability to share drafts, comments and annotationsPublishing flowsThis incorporates editorial features such as steps, goals, and prerequisites in the content creation and publishing workflow.

There are many other focuses for phase three which will begin later in 2023.

robglidden wrote:

“I would suggest looking at AI chatbots as (“just another”) user type in the upcoming Phase 3 of collaboration/workflow.

I for one want an AI chatbot on my multiuser collaboration team in a phase 3 WordPress.

In the multiuser collaborative workflows already described in ‘Phase 3 Collaboration’ it seems like basically the same infrastructure should work for both human users and AI ‘users’.

Indeed, it is not a huge stretch in reading that document to think of ‘users’, ‘collaborators’, and ‘creators’ as also being bot-ish users, assigned and performing tasks within a workflow…”AI is Already Integrated With WordPress

An eye-opening contribution came from James LePage, founder of an AI SaaS company called CodeWP.

It’s a plugin that offers an AI Code Generator plugin specific for WordPress development.

According to the CodeWP website, the plugin can generate code specific for WordPress at the PHP level, JavaScript, and WooCommerce.

Although it promises to mitigate the need for expensive developers, it seems like a useful product for the developers themselves, to help make them more productive.

James LePage wrote:

“It seems like solid plugin territory to me; 1 – AI will always require compute, meaning 3rd party services, and I think that already moves it out of the core scope and 2 – we don’t really need anything special to integrate AI.

I’m the founder of one of the only AI SaaS offerings for WP, and we’re building a plugin to help integrate our service with individual sites.

We’re also collaborating with existing code snippet plugins.

There’s nothing that we really need from Core to help with this plugin, and we can add all of the features we need by leveraging existing features / functions.”

James raises an interesting point about AI integration with WordPress, in that integration is already here.

There are at least three SEO and one content optimization plugin that integrate AI:All in One SEO (AIOSEO)Rank MathSEOPressWordLift WordPress Plugin

RankMath features an AI content assistant feature called, Content AI. Rank Math’s Content AI offers SEO-focused suggestions for improving content, including what headings to use.

SEOPress and AIOSEO both offer programmatic title element and description meta tag generation via an integration with OpenAI

All three AI integrations require a paid upgrade. They are examples of how AI is already integrating into the WordPress ecosystem.

Lastly, WordLift is a content optimization plugin that also integrates AI.

In a way, WordPress already contains AI integration, which shows the value of the third party plugin ecosystem which is able to innovate fast.WordPress Keeping Up With AI

It’s encouraging to see WordPress discussing how to take advantage of technology to keep WordPress moving forward and prevent it from falling behind.

While this is just a conversation starter, many of the current innovations such as the WordPress Performance Team also began as conversations just like this.

What kinds of integration of AI into WordPress would you like to see?

Have thoughts? Share them at the official discussion WordPress:

Let’s talk: WordPress Core & Artificial Intelligence

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WordPress Has Done It: Performance Improvements Take Off

The development of WordPress 6.2 introduced improvements to how the core development team works, resulting in a consistent focus on performance at every step of development. These new processes catch problems at the time changes are introduced, preventing them from making it into the final version release.

The two improvements responsible for this change are:A new performance leadsAutomated benchmarking

Those two improvements allowed the WordPress team to make performance a part of developing every part of WordPress, essentially adding it to its development DNA.Lessons Learned from WordPress 6.1

The previous WordPress release, version 6.1, was marked by an overall decrease in performance, what WordPress refers to as performance regressions.

A performance regression is when an improvement leads to a decrease in performance.

What they discovered is that even though they fixed the largest single cause of performance regression as well as introduced multiple performance enhancements, the overall site performance was still dragged down by changes that degraded performance.

WordPress explained the lesson they learned from the version 6.1 release:

“Despite other performance enhancements landing in those releases, the regressions effectively ended up canceling out the enhancements.”

…The more regressions there are, the less impactful any other performance enhancements are overall.”WordPress Development Performance Lead

The development process for WordPress 6.2 was completed with coordination from a new performance lead role.

The Performance Lead is not initiating the changes and improvements. That was the job of the development team.

The Performance lead simply coordinated between the teams.

Each of the teams are responsible for the performance wins on their projects.

The performance lead explained how this worked:

“This enabled me to closely collaborate and support the other contributors and coordinate with them our performance measurement approaches.

…the performance wins in this release are a result of excellent work from several contributors on identifying performance weaknesses.

The introduction of the Performance Lead role …merely brought a better representation of performance alongside the other members of the release squad.”WordPress Automated Benchmarking

WordPress noted that performance regressions happened unnoticed because not every change could was manually checked for the impact to the overall release.

To address the shortcoming of not being able to manually test every single change to the core, WordPress introduced automated performance benchmarking for all changes.

Automated performance benchmarking measures the impact of every change in order to catch hidden performance bottlenecks before they make it into the final release versions.

WordPress describes this workflow change:

“Several contributors have been collaborating on introducing an automated performance measuring CI workflow to WordPress core…

With this CI workflow, WordPress core performance metrics are now recorded for every single commit and are available in this dashboard.

This allows us to easily spot a potential regression where previously it would have gone unnoticed.”

The WordPress 6.1 update introduced performance regressions in Gutenberg, problems that would have been caught ahead of time with automated testing.

Automated performance tests happen at each core commit in GitHub to measure how WordPress performs on block and classic themes.

The testing also collects server timing metrics using the latest version of PHP.

More information on automated performance monitoring here: Automated performance monitoring in WordPress core.WordPress Contributors Worked Together

WordPress contributors worked to identify areas that needed improvement with a renewed focus on performance.

Profiling the server-side performance of the WordPress core was done with open source tools Xdebug, XHProf and Blackfire (SaaS).

Benchmarking the WordPress core was less straightforward because the development groups used different tools.

Standardization of the tools used for performance measurements is currently in progress so that all the teams are measuring the same thing with the same set of tools.Fact: WordPress 6.2 Performs Better

The result of automated performance benchmarking and the performance coordination between the development teams is a substantial improvement in performance metrics.

WordPress shared:

“Based on lab benchmarks, WordPress 6.2 loads 14-18% faster overall for block themes and 2-5% faster overall for classic themes (measured via Largest Contentful Paint / LCP).

Particularly server-side performance (measured via Time to First Byte / TTFB) is seeing a major boost of 17-23% for block themes and 3-5% for classic themes, which directly contributes to the overall load time.”

Performance testing happens not only at the core commit stage, benchmarking takes place for the entire WordPress release candidates.

WordPress describes this process:

“At this point in particular, it is advisable to use the production ZIP version of WordPress core (e.g. a particular Beta or RC release) instead of measuring in the WordPress core development environment.

The ‘benchmark-web-vitals’ command mentioned in the previous section is perfect for this use-case, as it provides high-level performance metrics that capture both server-side and client-side performance.

The resulting data can then be compared with the same metrics from e.g. the previous stable release, to get an idea how performance of WordPress core has changed (hopefully improved!) in the new release.”WordPress Turned a Corner on Performance

WordPress has been working hard for the past few years to integrate performance improvements into the development workflow.

In the beginning the performance team was making improvements such as reducing redundant or unnecessary JavaScript that was loaded for each page and adding things like lazy loading images.

But now the performance team is integrating performance benchmarking straight into the development phase of each improved component at the GitHub commit level and using automated performance benchmarking to scale improvements.

In essence, WordPress has successfully added performance into the DNA of it’s development process.

This is one of the most consequential changes for how WordPress is developed and a sign that WordPress is on the path to catching up to other content management systems.

Finally, WordPress may be back in the performance game.

Read the full WordPress announcement, which contains details of their progress and links to the tools used to benchmark performance.

The benefits of prioritizing and measuring performance in WordPress 6.2

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mohhamedriaz · 2 years ago

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What is YouTube?

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

What Are the Main Functions of YouTube?

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

What Are the Main Functions of YouTube? Users can search for and watch videos Create a personal YouTube channel Upload videos to your channel Like/Comment/share other YouTube videos Users can subscribe/follow other YouTube channels and users Create playlists to organize videos and group videos together Why Do Teens Like YouTube? YouTube is a free to use service and a can be a great space for teens to discover things they like. For many young people, YouTube is used to watch music videos, comedy shows, how to guides, recipes, hacks and more. Teens also use the video-sharing service to follow their favourite vloggers (video blogger), subscribe to other YouTubers and celebrities they are interested in.

Age Restrictions To set up a YouTube account users must be 18 years of age or 13+ with parental consent. Update: Under the new E.U General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Ireland has now set the Digital Age of Consent to 16 years old. This means young people under the age of 16 in Ireland are not allowed to access this platform.

However, users do not need to sign-in to access the website or to view videos. There is, however, a YouTube kids version now available to download for free. YouTube kids is designed for children aged 3-8 years old and make it easier for children and parents to find content they are interested in. Click here for more info the YouTube Kids app.

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How Much Personal Data Does Facebook Have? Even If You Delete Your Account, Info Remains

Even if you haven’t created an account on a social media site, they might have a hidden profile with more details than you’d believe. Sneaky, right?

That’s why you should say no thanks when an app offers to take in your contacts to find all your friends. It’s not your info to give away.

If you use social media, it's worth clearing out all the things (and people) you've looked up. Here are easy steps to save yourself some potential embarrassment later.

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Perhaps you deleted Facebook years ago or never made one. Meta might still have your cell number, landline, or email address.

The shady side of social media Over the years, most of us have willingly overshared. Hopefully, you’ve removed your phone number and email address from your social media profiles.

Even if your account is private, anybody can take a screenshot. If you have any contact information in your profile, delete it now.

Those hidden accounts I mentioned are called Shadow Profiles. They exist thanks to all your contacts who passed along things like your full name, birthday, phone number, email address, and maybe even more.

If someone you know shared their address book with Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger, Meta probably has your details. Good news: You can remove them.

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Opt me out, please First, head to this help page for non-Meta users. There’s an important line buried under the heading, How Non-Users can exercise their rights:

“Click here if you have a question about the rights you may have.”

That links to a contact removal tool, where you can ask Meta to delete your information from its address book database. Yeah, they don’t make it super easy to find.

Here’s how to delete your contact information from Meta:

Go to facebook.Com/contacts/removal.

Select the type of information you want to remove. Choose from a mobile number, landline, or email address, then hit Next.

Enter your phone number and/or email address to get a confirmation code.

Select the platform you want it removed from (Facebook and Messenger or Instagram), or select All.

Click Next and enter the confirmation code on the next screen. Hit Next one last time.

If something is found, hit Confirm to delete the data.

Hit Close on the next screen, or use the link to search for another number or email.

You can still use the removal tool if you have a Facebook account, but there are more steps you should take to protect your privacy.

Tap or click here for 10 Facebook privacy and security settings you need to change.

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