One of the most useful tools for us as owners of CyberNet News is Google Analytics because it gives us a great idea of where our visitors are coming from, what time of day they visit, and how long they stay for. This information helps us in numerous ways, and it's hard to imagine not having it available to use.

The second annual YouTube Video Award nominees were announced last week (view 1st annual here). After a week of voting, the winners have been chosen! YouTube does this to reflect on the year and recognize the best videos of 2007, although now that we're three months into 2008, we've just about forgotten the happenings of 2007.

About a week ago, Ryan wrote about a way that you could watch high-resolution YouTube videos by adding something on to the end of the YouTube URL.

One of our favorite options for listening to music for free online with no strings attached is Songza. We did a review of it back in January and one of the things we liked most about it was its simple interface and the option they offer to create playlists.

Many social sites have had to deal with gaming in one form or other. Digg for example, has had big issues with people trying to game the content. Some say that it's a legitimate form of marketing in a social media age like we have today while others say that manipulating content should not be tolerated.

Last Tuesday, the team over at YouTube posted a blog entry that explained their new experimental personalized homepages that they were getting ready to launch. On Saturday, the new personalized homepages were made available. Here's a quick run-through on what they've done:

The words YouTube and "high-resolution" have never really fit well in the same sentence. YouTube has always greatly limited the resolution of their videos to conserve on bandwidth, but going forward that may not always be the case. As it turns out there is a little something that you can add on to the end of a YouTube URL to have it play a high-resolution version of the same video.

For you enjoyment, the YouTube Video of the day:

Not long ago, Google.com stood at #2 on Alexa.com's list of most visited websites around the World. They've had their #2 spot taken away though and now the list looks like this:

It's Valentine's Day and sites around the web are celebrating. Below you'll find a collection of screenshots that we took from different sites around the web that are celebrating Valentine's Day in some way or another.