Monday, September 20, 2010

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[G] Moving security beyond passwords

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 04:14 AM PDT

Google Online Security Blog: Moving security beyond passwords

Posted by Travis McCoy, Product Manager, Google Security Team

Entering your username and password on a standard website gives you access to everything from your email and bank accounts to your favorite social networking site. Your passwords possess a lot of power, so it's critical to keep them from falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, we often find that passwords are the weakest link in the security chain. Keeping track of many passwords is a pain, and unfortunately accounts are regularly compromised when passwords are too weak, are reused across websites, or when people are tricked into sharing their password with someone untrustworthy. These are difficult industry problems to solve, and when re-thinking the traditional username/password design, we wanted to do more.

As we explained today on our Google Enterprise Blog, we've developed an option to add two-step verification to Google Apps accounts. When signing in, Google will send a verification code to your phone, or let you generate one yourself using an application on your Android, BlackBerry or iPhone device. Entering this code, in addition to a normal password, gives us a strong indication that the person signing in is actually you. This new feature significantly improves the security of your Google Account, as it requires not only something you know: your username and password, but also something that only you should have: your phone. Even if someone has stolen your password, they'll need more than that to access your account.



Building the technology and infrastructure to support this kind of feature has taken careful thought. We wanted to develop a security feature that would be easy to use and not get in your way. Along those lines, we're offering a variety of sign in options, along with the ability to indicate when you're using a computer you trust and don't want to be asked for a verification code from that machine in the future. Making this service available to millions of users at no cost took a great deal of coordination across Google's specialized infrastructure, from building a scalable SMS and voice call system to developing open source mobile applications for your smart phone. The result is a feature we hope you'll find simple to manage and that makes it easy to better protect your account.

We look forward to gathering feedback about this feature and making it available to all of our users in the coming months.

If you'd like to learn more about about staying safe online, see our ongoing security blog series or visit http://www.staysafeonline.org/.
URL: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/09/moving-security-beyond-passwords.html

[G] A more secure cloud for millions of Google Apps users

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:44 AM PDT

Official Google Enterprise Blog: A more secure cloud for millions of Google Apps users

Cloud computing is about making your information easily accessible from anywhere, on any device. Until today, organizations looking to secure their information beyond a password have faced costs and complexities that prevented many of them from using stronger security technologies. Today we are changing that with the introduction of a more secure sign-in capability for Google Apps accounts that significantly increases the security of the cloud: Two-step verification. For the first time, we're making it possible for organizations large and small to use this technology in just a few clicks for free. In the coming months, we'll also be offering this same security to our hundreds of millions of individual Google users.

Two-step verification is easy to set up, manage and use. When enabled by an administrator, it requires two means of identification to sign in to a Google Apps account, something you know: a password, and something you have: a mobile phone. It doesn't require any special tokens or devices. After entering your password, a verification code is sent to your mobile phone via SMS, voice calls, or generated on an application you can install on your Android, BlackBerry or iPhone device. This makes it much more likely that you're the only one accessing your data: even if someone has stolen your password, they'll need more than that to access your account. You can also indicate when you're using a computer you trust and don't want to be asked for a verification code from that machine in the future.

Two-step verification is built on an open standard designed to allow integration with other vendors' authentication technologies in the future. We are also open sourcing our mobile authentication app so that companies can customize it as they see fit.

Two-step verification continues Google's stream of security innovation. In early 2009, we added the ability to view password strength and set minimum password length requirements for Google Apps accounts. Later in the year we were the first to provide HTTPS encryption to millions of users, and in 2010 Google Apps was the first cloud messaging and collaboration service to gain US government security certification.

Administrators for Google Apps Premier, Education, and Government Editions can activate Two-step verification from the English version of the Admin Control Panel now, and Standard Edition customers will be able to access it in the months ahead. Once enabled by their administrator, end users can set it up in the Accounts tab in Gmail settings.

Posted by Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security, Google Apps
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-secure-cloud-for-millions-of.html

[G] 125 video shortlist announced today for YouTube Play

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 11:05 PM PDT

Official Google Blog: 125 video shortlist announced today for YouTube Play

(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)

The Guggenheim has spoken: the shortlist for YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video is now going in front of the jury, and is available to view at youtube.com/play.

It's been a busy summer. More than 23,000 videos, from 91 countries across the world, were submitted for YouTube Play, and the Guggenheim has picked 125 to make up the shortlist.



In there you'll find submissions from students, video artists, photographers, filmmakers, composers, video game programmers, an American Women's Chess Champion, a comedy improv group, a Swedish rock band, a South African hip-hop group, an Australian electronic music producer—and a lot more.

It's now down to the YouTube Play jury to pick up to 20 videos for a special presentation at the Guggenheim Museum on October 21. Here is one of the jurors, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, to explain why he thinks YouTube is important in the art world today:



The videos selected by the jury will be on view to the public from October 22 through 24 in the Tower 2 Gallery of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at kiosks at the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao, Berlin and Venice, and available to a worldwide audience on the YouTube Play channel.

Posted by Tom Pursey, Product Marketing Manager
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/125-video-shortlist-announced-today-for.html

[G] 125 video shortlist announced today for Youtube Play

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 10:16 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: 125 video shortlist announced today for Youtube Play

The Guggenheim has spoken: the shortlist for YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video will now go in front of the jury, and is available to view at youtube.com/play.

It's been a busy summer. More than 23,000 videos, from 91 countries, were submitted for YouTube Play, and the Guggenheim has picked 125 to make up the shortlist.



In there, you'll find submissions from students, video artists, photographers, filmmakers, composers, video game programmers, an American Women's Chess Champion, a comedy improv group, a Swedish rock band, a South African hip-hop group, an Australian electronic music producer – and a lot more.

It's now down to the YouTube Play jury to pick up to 20 videos for a special presentation at the Guggenheim Museum on October 21. Here is one of the jurors, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, to explain why he thinks YouTube is important in the art world today:




The videos selected by the jury will be on view to the public from October 22 through 24 in the Tower 2 Gallery of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at kiosks at the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao, Berlin and Venice, and available to a worldwide audience on the YouTube Play channel.

Tom Pursey, Product Marketing Manager, recently watched "Luis."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/IRv63cCx1mo/125-video-shortlist-announced-today-for.html

[G] President Clinton: The YouTube Interview

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 09:15 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: President Clinton: The YouTube Interview

You asked, and he answered: see President Bill Clinton in our latest YouTube Interview on CitizenTube:







Tomorrow, the former President launches his sixth annual Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York, where he'll bring together CEO's, philanthropists, nonprofits, and political leaders all in once place to make "commitments" to fund ideas and organizations who are tackling some of the world's biggest problems. The focus areas of the meeting are empowering women and girls, market-based solutions to problems, access to modern technology, and harnessing human potential.



You have the opportunity to join the discussion at CGI, via a special Moderator series they have set up on their YouTube channel. Hear more from New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, and submit your questions now.











Steve Grove, YouTube News and Politics, recently watched, "Join the Conversation at #CGI2010"


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/7FA8QQKVnaw/president-clinton-youtube-interview.html

[G] 5 Questions for Jackie Pyo, LG Brand Manager

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 09:12 AM PDT

YouTube Blog: 5 Questions for Jackie Pyo, LG Brand Manager

The call went out. People responded. The gallery is up. Editors are editing. It's Life in a Day, and who's behind it? Well, you are, most importantly. Along with Ridley Scott and Kevin McDonald, of course. But the project has also been a unique sponsorship opportunity for LG, and when you're a large brand with a plethora of sponsorship options, you want to stand behind something that reaches out and grabs people.



The Life in a Day project is entirely based on everyday people sharing the course of their lives through their own video uploads. We sat down with LG's Brand Manager, Jackie Pyo, to talk about why LG chose to partner with Life in a Day.





1) Life in a Day promises to be one of YouTube's largest global experiments. How did LG come to be involved in the project?



LG is always looking out for innovative projects and ground-breaking ideas that support our company vision that technology can make life better – that it can make life good. YouTube is a company that uses technology to help people learn more about each other, build better relationships with one and other and, in doing so, ultimately enrich our lives.



When we first heard about the Life in a Day project we knew immediately that this was going to be a chance to bring our company vision to life and deliver something special to millions of people around the world. What started as just the seed of an idea has grown into one of our most exciting partnerships to date. Because we were involved at the very beginning, we've been able to work collaboratively with YouTube to shape the direction of the project and help to make Life in a Day a fantastic success, while staying true to the core essence of the LG brand.



2) LG has done many other sponsorships in the past, from New Year's Eve 2008 fireworks in London to Formula 1 racing. Why did this particular partnership make sense, and how does Life in a Day differ from other sponsorships you've done?



Other sponsorships we've done in the past, and are doing today, all associate LG with phenomenal properties – properties people love – that help us connect with people on an intimate, emotional level. Life in a Day is no exception, but the difference between Life in a Day and our other marketing activities is that it has never been done before – the journey is new both for LG and for the people who join in. In this respect, it's a completely new path for LG and we hope we can show people what we really stand for along the way.



3) Tell us a little about LG's values as a company and how you've maintained those through other marketing efforts.



Our brand has four core values: Humanity, Pleasure, Curiosity and an Optimistic Energy. So, whenever we do any marketing we always ask ourselves, "Is it truly representative of 'Life's Good'?" It's our litmus test for everything we do.



4) From the Life in a Day Gallery launch, the LG page talks about how you hope to reach YouTube users on a personal level. What kind of user engagement are you hoping to achieve?



We wanted to present the Life in a Day Gallery because we were fascinated not only by the sheer volume of entries the project received, but the way the entries were tagged. Each of the 80,000 entries has its own story, and no one story is more or less important than the next. We worked with YouTube to create the Gallery to showcase all the entries in one place. These personal, emotional stories – the entries – are important to us. It's what excited us most about the project. The Gallery brings the stories to the users, and the users to the stories. That's the real emotional engagement – between the people in the films and the people watching the films. Our role, in facilitating this emotional engagement, provides LG with a great opportunity to engage with both the participants and the viewers on a personal level.



What really surprised us with the tagging is that so many videos were illustrating positive messages. Thousands of people wanted to tell the world about the good things in life. To celebrate this we created the Smile Gallery, but we also want to give these people the chance to create a video about their favorite "Life's Good When…" moment in a LG promotion we'll be running towards the end of October. By running our own promotion, people won't just be learning more about our brand, but they'll actually be relating the positive experiences of their lives to our brand expression of Life's Good – this is a really interesting prospect for our brand and something we're very excited about.



5) Anything else to note about the project?



Like any brand, LG has always looked at YouTube almost like a window – a window to an engaged audience. We shouldn't forget that YouTube is still only 5 years old, and lots of brands tend to rush into new platforms without thinking about how they're actually adding value. We didn't want to do that, so we always looked on and just wanted to wait for the right opportunity; an opportunity that worked for LG, worked for YouTube, but most importantly an opportunity that in some way would improve the lives of the YouTube community. The YouTube community has already embraced it with open arms and we're really excited to see how Kevin interprets all the footage.



Kate Rose, YouTube Communications recently watched 'DominoStudios - Life in a Day'


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/CB3ll3tzJHY/5-questions-for-jackie-pyo-lg-brand.html
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