Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Automatic Captioning Now on YouTube Videos

Nov 19
2009

Google just announced an interesting new service available for YouTube: automated captioning of uploaded videos. Simply upload a text file with a transcript of the video and Google’s speech recognition technology will figure out when those words are spoken and create captions based on this information. Pretty slick.

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Google Announces Social Search

Oct 26
2009

The intensifying battle between Bing and Google for social media hearts and minds ratcheted up a few notches last week with Google announcing Google Social Search at the Web 2.0 Summit. Part of that announcement was a somewhat veiled disclosure about Google’s agreement with Twitter.

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Simplifying the Social Media Landscape

Aug 18
2009

Interesting article from eMarketer today about the increasing trend toward a simplified social networking landscape. According to Universal McCann’s “Power to the People: Social Media Tracker” study: “Internet users are ’starting to focus their digital life’ around single networks, rather than around many specialized tools with social features.”

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