Product Reviews Audio Indexing: EveryZing's New Video Player Points Towards the Future of Online Video While online video is a great tool, automatically indexing these videos and making them searchable is still a very hard task. EveryZing, a Massachusetts-based company that focuses on media indexing through speech-to-text and natural language processing, released a new version of its media player today that allows users to search online videos on… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Google Google Launches U.S. Voter Info Site With the upcoming U.S. elections only 12 days away, Google has released a new web site to help simply and centralize information about voting locations and voter registration. According to a blog post about the new U.S. Voter Info site, Google found it hard to believe that in 2008, this type of important information isn't better organized on the… Sarah Perez View comments
Adobe Adobe's Ichabod and The Headless Search of Flash While Adobe Flash has remained popular with Web developers who want to deliver fluid user interfaces, database-driven content, and nonstandard typography on the Web, it has suffered from one glaring shortcoming: search engines have been unable to effectively index the content held within the Flash file. With Ichabod, Adobe is hoping to fix that… Rick Turoczy View comments
Google Gmail Canned Responses: If I've Said It Once... You got that email again. You know the one. The one you've answered a million times. And even though you don't have anything more you can add to your response - time after time after time - you dutifully craft the same exact email, each and every time. If only Gmail had some way to save a standard response to that question. Now, it does. Enter… Rick Turoczy View comments
Features AOL Quietly Launches One of the World's Biggest App Platforms AOL announced the new developer site for MyAOL today to almost no fanfare, but at a time when some are declaring the Facebook platform "dead" - AOL's new platform warrants some serious attention. The new MyAOL platform is an OpenSocial container based on the gadgets.*API, meaning developers shouldn't have to do much to get their widgets up and… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments