{"id":7966,"date":"2009-05-08T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-08T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T07:16:00","slug":"google-tightens-bonds-with-youtube-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/7966-google-tightens-bonds-with-youtube-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Google tightens bonds with YouTube users"},"content":{"rendered":"

People signing up for YouTube accounts automatically get matching Google accounts, YouTube software engineer James Phillips said in an official blog post on Thursday announcing the new development.<\/p>\n

“We feel that by jointly connecting accounts, you can take greater advantage of our services both on YouTube and on Google,” Phillips wrote.<\/p>\n

“Especially, as we start to roll out new features in the future that will be powered by Google technology.”<\/p>\n

YouTube members who don’t have Google accounts will still be able to use the popular online video-sharing service but might not be able to take advantage of new features that are added over time, according to Phillips.<\/p>\n

Feedback in an online forum accompanying the posting by Phillips ranged from “real cool” to “I hate it.”<\/p>\n

Google accounts provide access to iGoogle custom home pages, blog readers, text applications and other online services offered by the California firm.<\/p>\n

Google has been expected to weave YouTube, and hopefully its millions of users worldwide, into its online offerings since it bought the video-sharing site in 2006 for $1.65 billion.<\/p>\n

Google and Youtube accounts joined<\/a><\/strong> – give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google is routing YouTube users further into the online search giant's Internet world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}