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Within Picnik, you'll find a whole series of fun and useful photo effects you can apply to your image. These great photo effects can drastically change the look and feel of your photos. You can add drama to an image, make your picture look like it's from the 1960s, convert a photo to black and white or sepia and much more. Experiment with the fun effects in Picnik to find the ones you like best.

Hulu keeps a log of all the shows and movies you've watched when signed into your account. You can choose to rate shows on a five-star scale to tell Hulu your favorites and least favorites. Hulu then learns about you, compares the shows you like with the shows other like-minded Hulu users have enjoyed and makes more targeted recommendations for Hulu shows you may like.

Audience targeting video syndicator AlphaBird will be expanding its brand and its offering this quarter, driven by two recent acquisitions, the company's CEO Chase Norlin said in an interview with Beet.TV. The company is broadening beyond its audience targeting work to add more refined tools. That's coming in part from the purchases of brand integration platform PlaceVine earlier this year and social video firm Media Social earlier this month.

NBC News, which has registered success in creating microsites around specific shows including the Today Show, will be expanding the number of microsites, says Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer, in this interview with New York Times reporter Brian Stelter on stage at the Beet.TV Leadership webcast. Schiller joined NBC earlier this summer. She had previously been CEO of NPR and general manager of the NYTimes.com.

Google comes out with SO many new products and features, it's impossible to keep up with them all! Thankfully, there's Google New, which gives you a hand. On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to stay updated.

Internet tutorial: this tutorial will show you how to improve the performance of your wireless network.

The proliforation of tablet devices provide video news publishers with the opportunity to make video consumption "much for useful and engaing" says Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CBSNews.com.

Online audience measurement service comScore has released two new video reports that lets clients see how video audiences between sites overlap and relate to each other, the research firm told Beet.TV in an interview. The audience duplication and cross-viewing reports in the Video Metrix service give comScore customers a snapshot into unique video viewers on various sites, as well as the crossover between those viewers and among specific demographics, said comScore product manager Dan Piech.

Having the utility to share the identity of those who interact with brands, Facebook is a unique platform for advertisers says Jennifer Kattula, who manages advertising agency relationships at the company. Today, Ad Age reports that Facebook is the industry leader in display advertising, citing an eMarketer report. Beet.TV traveled to Palo Alto last month to interview Kattula as part of a series of interviews created in association with Digitas for the NewFront conference.

Yahoo Messenger is a powerful chat tool that will allow you to chat with friends and family around the world. It's fun, free and with these tips, it's easy too. Whether you're on a computer with Yahoo Messenger installed or not, you can still access your instant messaging friends through a browser window. We'll show you how.

Internet tutorial: this tutorial will show you step by step how to use iChat, with all its different features.

You can get instant reviews and user reviews about each wine tasted in the episodes. Since March 2007, Wine Library TV has been tagging their videos with the exact time that Gary starts to talk about a particular wine.