Tip: Share your #YouTube Favorites (for example) to #Twitter!

Earlier I wrote about the possiblity to share your Twitter Favorites (for example to Twitter, via TwitterFeed).
I assumed this would be possible some day and today I figured out that it works! If you run into a nice video on YouTube, it’s easy to mark it as a Favorite. RSS allows you to share your YouTube Favorites with your friends (or Followers on Twitter).
If you have an iPhone, you can set a Favorite by pressing a single button, allowing quick and easy sharing.

In fact: the approach is exactly the same as sharing your Twitter Favorites. You just need the URL address of your YouTube Favorites.
Go to www.youtube.com and log in using your account. If you don’t have one yet, sign up (you can use your Google account), so you can get started!

Your Favorites on YouTube

Your Favorites on YouTube

Go to your Favorites and check the URL in the address bar (click the picture to enlarge it)). Notice the orange RSS icon. YouTube automatically creates a dynamic RSS feed of your Favorites and we’re going to use it.
Click the orange RSS icon:

Your Favorites on YouTube as an RSS feed

Your Favorites on YouTube as an RSS feed

Write down (or copy) the address of your YouTube Favorites and use this RSS feed as an input source for TwitterFeed. Just like the Twitter Favorites, you can run this feed through Yahoo!Pipes to add or manipulate the stream. If you’re interested in who’s clicking your favorites, you might consider using Google FeedBurner. Yes, FeedBurner even allows you to set up an automatically generated Newsletter by email with your favorite video’s…

And Bob’s your uncle! As soon as you mark a video as a Favorite on YouTube, TwitterFeed can now send out a tweet to Twitter. Of course you can replace Twitter by MySpace, Facebook or even your weblog…

Good luck!

@Woopra Live Analytics Demo

I wrote about Woopra earlier, which allows you to view live website traffic, unlink Google Analytics, which has about a one day delay.
If you have a high traffic website Woopra looks very impressive! @marcned made a cool video to demonstrate this:

@Woopra – Web Statistics 2.0 :-)

Have you been using Google Analytics to find out who’s been visiting your website? After all: knowing beats guessing, right? 🙂
Although the one day delay in Google’s statistics was always bothering me. Well, Woopra does it live! With a world map that could have escaped straight from a James Bond movie, telling you who’s visiting your website right now and even how (s)he got there! You can even start a live chat with your visitors. It’s great! Free beta testing closes today, so make sure you get a free account and sign up your website(s!) for beta testing approval ASAP!

Woopra – Web Statistics 2.0