A very talented graphic designer, Aleix Saló, has produced this video. 

The video features Spain's financial debacle. The storytelling is amazing, although the facts are not fully accurate. 

Overall, it transmits the idea that Spain has become a poor country called "Españistán" (remembering Afghanistan). 

The clip has reached almost 1 million views. To understand it you must be fluent in Spanish. 

Web-based video chats are gaining traction. 

TokBox is the one I like most. Its basic video chat is free, and so far it powers over 2,000 websites, including Slideshare. And now it has launched a WordPress plug-in. 

TokBox allows to host group video chats while others are watching. It is like a talk show with a panel of participants chatting. 

It is also useful for conducting one-on-one interviews in front of a live audience.
 

Blip.tv, a video site specialized in Web-created shows, has launched its new redesign using HTML5 and CSS, and with a focus on curating the best shows.

Now Blip.tv hosts 50,000 video series and it offers a way to dive through content from other portals. 

YouTube is expanding its onle streaming movie rental service by adding 3.000 movies.

The movies are, for the first time, from big-name studios like Sony Pictures, Universal and Warner Brothers.

But you know what? The real treasure are the free-movies that anyone can watch for free. There are tons of them. And the feature of adding them to a playlist makes the service really interesting. 

YouTube Movies is Google's latest effort to compete with services like Netflix, iTunes, Amazon.com and Hulu offering professional content. 

Clearly, the lines between online and offline continue to blur. 
 

The Google's on-campus speaker series, called Authors@Google, has gained traction, and now some talks draw more than a million viewers on YouTube.

For example, the YouTube video of "Google Goes Gaga" has been viewed 1.5 million times. Lady Gaga was interviewed by Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president for location and local services. 

Also Christy Turlington, the supermodel turned documentary director, shared the stage with Marissa Mayer.

Since 2005, more than 1,000 guest have appeared (mostly, A-list authors, actors, musicians and politicians) in this Google's talk-show-style series, which are now held three to five times a week and take place at Google offices around the world. Guests have the sense that is a way to be promoted on YouTube.

As The New York Times writes, for Google's employees it's a way to reinforce the sense that their work, and technology, is driving the cultural conversation in a way it never has before. 

This is the Google's TV ad campaign to promote its Chrome Web browser.

It appeals to users who want to do emotional things.

Now in the U.S. about 45 percent of computers use Internet Explorer, while Chrome is 18 percent of the market, Firefox 30 percent and Safari 5 percent.
 

Multi-tasking while driving is extremely dangerous, and this 4-min unusual movie, along with its website, illustrates the emotional toll for those who are affected.

I was struck watching this somber clip.

The video, sponsored by the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, tells a story, largely without spoken words, raises awareness on this issue. 
 

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory has created this amazing animation of the new Mars rover on its trip to the surface of the red planet.
 

The ex-CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, likes to do TV, and perhaps has a shot, despite being just an engineer. 

Here Schmidt interviews the comedic legend Tina Fey. 
 

Check out this new search engine called FindTheBest.com, which offers detailed comparison of product and services. 

It has been created by the co-founder of DoubleClick, Kevin O'Connor, who sold his firm to Google in 2007 for $3.1 billion.

FindTheBest.com receives 1.5 million unique users a month.

Here is a quick Mashable's DIY guide to improve your YouTube channel. 

Some advices I'd like to highlight:

• Create a background image and add a customized color scheme
   
• Select a "featured" video and choose thumbnails for each clip
   
• Add channel tags
   
• Engage with your audience keeping the comments quality (delete spammy comments... ) and asking questions through the "Moderator" tool.
  
   

Check out this commercial the Cool Kids put together for Nike and Foot Locker. 

No doubt that animated video is playing a growing role.
 

It seems that hotel industry is getting what the social media is all about. 

Some facts I've collected after browsing around: 

• Booking engines and widgets are starting to be found wherever the customer is, either Facebook, Websites or smartphones.
   
• Starwood Hotels view his company's Facebook pages (spread all over 1,000 hotel properties) as a way to extend its relationship with its customers. 
   
• Hyatt guests with smartphones can check in and check out with them. 
   
• Hilton Worldwide offers through its mobile apps (over 615,000 downloads) the ability to make or modify a reservation and book meals.
   
• To entice customers to book directly via Facebook, avoiding online agencies, some hotels are offering a guaranteed lowest price.
  

I read an article in The New York Times in where one the industry said:

“Travel is inherently social. Travelers have long asked their friends for hotel and restaurant recommendations, and then shared their impressions afterwards." 

 
Once again here it comes the power of Twitter. 

This Pakistani tech consultant liveblogged on Twitter the Osama Bin Laden raid without knowing it. 

At 1:09 a.m., Sohaib Athar wrote, "A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope it's not the start of something nasty."

At 1:43 a.m., Shah, who identified himself as living in nearby Rawalpindi, wrote a message to Athar, asking, "Hello sir, any update on the blasts? What has really happened?"

Athar responded, saying "all silent after the blast, but a friend heard it 6 [kilometers] away too... the helicopter is gone too."

Their tweets came ahead of the news of Bin Laden's death, which produced the largest traffic spike in Twitter's history, with an average of 5,000 tweets per second during President Obama's announcement of Bin Laden's death.

Their tweets generated global interest and turned them into instant if reluctant Internet celebrities. 

I'm reporting at iblnews.com, in Spanish language, about this breaking news that keeps all awake. 

Bin Laden, muerto tras atacar EE.UU. el campamento de Pakistán en el que se refugiaba...

Celebration day in the U.S.

As every year, the White House Correspondents' dinner video is a must-see clip.

Yesterday, President Obama mocked Donald Trump's presidential ambitions. 

Also he said that after birth certificate issue, now Trump (who attended the same dinner) could focus on other serious issues:

"Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened at Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?” 

Here is the whole story.