Monthly Archives: November 2009

YouTube improves accessibility support

November 20, 2009 - 5:13 pm

Google announced today two new features for YouTube: automated captioning and automated time-aligning of transcripts (called automated timing). The video provides the best introduction: Basically, you can now have your typist create a transcript of your video and then directly upload that to YouTube, which will use speech recognition to time-align the transcript and turn [...]

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Developing a scoping study for video.gov.au

November 18, 2009 - 7:00 pm

We're very excited that Vquence and Jimi Bostock have together managed to snap one of the round two projects of the Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce and that the project has a huge video focus - something that has (for valid reasons and yet disappointingly so) largely been treated as a side issue in Gov 2.0. [...]

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YouTube launches promoted videos in Australia

November 8, 2009 - 6:56 pm

Promoted videos are videos that take part in the AdWords scheme. Just as you build a little ad to make your Website bubble to the top in Google searches, you can now place your video such that it bubbles to the top in YouTube - a wonderful means to kick-start a viral campaign. Promoted Videos [...]

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