Google adds automatic captions to YouTube
This deserves applaud! In a significant move towards helping the deaf in the intert age, Google Inc. on Thursday announced that the company was now on adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube.
Google stated that the machine generated captions would initially be available only in English and on videos from 13 YouTube “partner channels”. However, the company aims to extend the feature eventually to all videos uploaded to the site.
Vint Cerf, popularly known as the Father of Interent, and also the Google vice president observed, “Google believes that the world’s information should be accessible to everyone.”
He further added, “One of the big challenges of the video medium is whether it can be made accessible to everyone.”
At 66, Cerf, who also holds the title of “Chief Internet Evangelist” at Google is hearing impaired and has been wearing hearing aids since the age of 13. he also noted that he has “great personal interest” in the closed caption capability.
Introduced last year, the YouTube users have been able to manually add captions to videos but the feature is not widely used and the vast majority of content on the site does not have captions.
YouTube May Start Offering Online Pay Movies
Popular video-sharing site YouTube is reportedly talking to major Hollywood studios on a deal to stream rented movies which if successful will mark its first move beyond the world of advertising and amateur videos.
Google-owned YouTube was sounding out studios like Warner Bros, Lions Gate and Sony according to reports first published on the online edition of Wall Street Journal. Even though the talks over streaming movies on the video-sharing site are incomplete, sources indicate that YouTube was considering charging a fee for videos as against merely depending on advertisements to fund the movies. However YouTube was likely to settle for this plan only if the videos were available to it at the same time that the DVDs were released in the market.
If successful the deal will place YouTube in direct competition with other online movie rental sites like Netflix, Apple’s iTunes Store and Amazon.com. however YouTube scores over these sites in its massive traffic since it constituted the chief draw among all other Google sites which together attracted nearly 121 million viewers in July this year, according to data provided by comScore.
YouTube till now has been mainly streaming snippets of the latest movies provided by studios or contributed by viewers. If reached, the deal will mark its first foray into the world of professionally produced videos.
Now get your Google acc similar to your YouTube
Google is taking you deeper into its networking world! Now sign-up for a YouTube account and automatically get a matching Google account for yourself!
According to James Phillips, YouTube software engineer, People signing up for an account with them will be automatically given a Google account. Phillips announced this on YouTube’s official blog on Thursday.
“We feel that by jointly connecting accounts, you can take greater advantage of our services both on YouTube and on Google,” Phillips wrote.
He further added, “Especially, as we start to roll out new features in the future that will be powered by Google technology.
Phillips called for the audience feedback along with his blogpost to gauge the public reaction to the California based company’s new move.
Google accounts have been providing the users an access to iGoogle custom home pages. Alongside, it gives an access to blog readers, text applications and other online services offered by the Internet giant.
Google bought the largest online video-sharing site in 2006 for USD 1.65 billion. This move by Google seems to be one of its initiatives to take homer the millions of YouTube audience.
According to Phillips, the present YouTube members without a Google account will continue to use the popular online video-sharing service however some of the new features, that get added over time, might not be available to them.
Google to expand TV ad service to online video
Google Inc. is reportedly testing a new service that would help it in expanding its television-ad brokering business to YouTube and videos on other websites.
Google’s ad business makes a major contribution to the company’s yearly revenues and profits too. Google has recently dropped its Print advertising business.
However, Google’s this move comes in the wake of the ever multiplying numbers of people who are watching television online.
Google’s director of television ads, Michael Steib, has told The Wall Street Journal that the internet giant is presently working on a technology that would enable the advertisers to buy ads across Google TV, YouTube and other websites using the same interface.
According to Steib, Google is testing the service with a small group of advertisers. This has been titled as Google TV Ads Online. The official introduction is expected in the following months.
Google is currently earning staggering 97 per cent of its revenue from its online advertising. The company is optimistically expecting that this new service would make it easier for bigger brand advertisers to spend across both traditional and online media.
YouTube topped 100 million US viewer mark in January
According to comScore, the number of US internet users watching videos at YouTube hit a record setting monthly high, reaching a hundred million in January.
The total number of videos watched online in the month of January but the citizens of US mounted to 14.8 billion, up by 4 per cent from the previous month. As reported by comScore, 91 per cent of the growth was contributed by videos on YouTube. The Google owned YouTube, ranked as the top US online video website had 6.4 billion hits for the videos in January.
Ranked second was Fox Interactive Media, for the second highest number of videos viewed, 552 million. Fox also owns online social-networking website MySpace which accounted for 54.1 million of those online video watchers.
Yahoo! Emerged as the third favorite online destinations amongst the US citizens accounting for 374 million videos watched.
Google emerged as the clear winner according to the comSource report. Reportedly, 147 million US Internet users watched an average of about101 online videos each in January. Out of these, 102 million preferred using Google-owned sites. And there again YouTube topped accounting for the hefty ninety per cent share.
Microsoft websites were ranked fourth with 30 million viewers.
Cyber crime : Technological Threat
Computer together with the technology’s most sophisticated advancement, internet, has aided everybody’s work. Be that an office, a bank, a ticket counter, school homework, a showroom think of any place and computers have reached there. Sadly they have reached the world of crime too. Cyber crime, the unlawful acts wherein the computer and internet are either the tools or targets or both, today is one of the worst intensifying problems globally.
Cyber crime involves less of a risk because the criminal can’t be seen, they are as virtual as the cyberspace itself. Sometime down the lane, you might just run into the person who has all your passwords, say sorry and excuse yourself! Cyber crime is easy too. The expert spammers and hackers, with the use of the most sophisticated technology have developed every technique to break into any website/mail account.
Criminal activities in the cyberspace are on a sharp rise. This includes a whole array of activities that it gets next to impossible to list all. Illegal distributions of softwares which are mostly copyrighted material to cyber terrorism, the world of cyber crime has expanded to a very large extend.
Hacking and Spamming has widely increased. There is a major threat to personal data and passwords. Blogs, online forums, chat rooms, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and many other aren’t safe either. These rely on effortless downloading/distribution, publishing, and other information-sharing techniques which leaves every user vulnerable to cyber infections. Hackers have made their presence felt at the Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace etc too. Recently, Orkut ‘communities’ of former India Prez APJ Abdul Kalam and Indian cricket star Rahul Dravid were hacked and abused by the hackers to send vulgar messages to the members and hack their accounts.
The transmission of pornography has also amplified. Frauds worth billions over the World Wide Web have happened. E-commerce sites are the most vulnerable targets. Cyber crime has left many in double minds when it comes to choosing the option of e-banking. Drug trafficking too has expanded by the use of encrypted e-mail and other Internet Technology.
And the latest, terror groups too are now emailing their agenda to the governmental authorities! Their accesses to governments’ official websites have left many wondering about the security on the web. Hoax emails are sent to terrorize authorities and citizens alike.
After all its 21st century and the evil bytes are fast replacing whizzing bullets. And for those who are surprised, this is merely the tip of the iceberg!
YouTube to Feature Full-Length TV Shows
In its latest attempt to extract revenues, Google has decided to run favorite TV shows on YouTube with advertisements liberally strewn through the full-length episodes.
A YouTube blog announced Monday that it was launching full-length screenings of popular TV shows. The shows will be available on regular view as well as on YouTube’s new “theatre view” which makes use of gimmicks like fake curtains to frame the online video show as well as “lights off” feature to provide a realistic feel to the online experience.
Besides full length TV shows, Google is also experimenting with a new advertising method which will play fifteen-second ads at the beginning of the video. Under this format, commercials will also roll in during video playback as well as at the end of the show.
For the time being, the full length screenings of TV shows on YouTube are only available for viewers within the United States and non-US viewers trying to access the videos are informed that the service is not available in their country.
Google is the leader in online search and advertising markets while YouTube has amassed an incredible fan following over the Internet for its variety of online videos which range from breaking news and entertainment to the incredible and quirky.
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