Tara Daniels
Google, Video, YouTube
Last week, YouTube and Google Video “upped the ante,” so to speak, on their captioning technologies. YouTube and Google Video will now use automatic speech recognition (ASR) combined with YouTube’s existing caption technology to create automatic captions within videos. Automatic captions (a.k.a. auto caps) benefit several groups, including the deaf, the hearing impaired, non-English speakers, Web searchers and video posters.
The benefit for the hearing impaired and non-English speakers is fairly obvious — people who would not otherwise understand the content of an online video are now able to read the spoken content via auto caps. But what are the implications of auto caps for online video search? Read the full article…
24Nov
Cory Grassell
Google, Mobile, YouTube, verizon
Beginning November 6, consumers can purchase the new Droid smartphone ($200) from Verizon Wireless. Verizon officials hope that this new release will directly compete with the Apple iPhone, giving consumers yet another option for mobile search. Today, more consumers are searching via mobile browsers, and Web-based mobile devices are flying off store shelves. That’s why Verizon’s latest phone features Android 2.0, Google’s recent mobile operating system. Read the full article…
28Oct
Terri Greene
Social Media, Social Networking, Video, YouTube
With the emergence of social media in such a short amount of time, we can only expect the growth to continue. This growth will cause people to not only rethink marketing strategies from a business perspective, but also cause people to be more cautious of what they are putting out on the web about themselves from a personal perspective.
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28Jan
Scott Phillips
Google, Microsoft, Universal Search, Video, Yahoo, YouTube
The results are in and the verdict is that American’s love for video online is spreading like wildfire. Monday, comScore released its November 2008 data showing U.S. online video consumption grew 34 percent compared to a year ago. That means 12.7 billion online videos were viewed in November.
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07Jan
Scott Phillips
Social Networking, Video, YouTube
Thursday, YouTube announced that much like American households this February, they are going HD.
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19Dec
