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Thursday, 19th November 2009

YouTube Videos Get Automatic Captions

Google just announced that YouTube can now automatically generate captions and subtitles for videos in English. For now, this feature is only enabled on a handful of partner channels, but Google plans to make this feature available for all users in the future. In the meantime, YouTube now also offers a new 'automatic caption timing' feature for…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Wednesday, 18th November 2009

Gmail Users Better-Connected, More Likely to Tweet than Members of other Webmail Services

The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined and revealed some interesting findings...like the fact that Gmail has more female users than male, for example. In the final…

Social Sarah Perez comments

At Last! Facebook Improves Photo Uploading Experience

Facebook has just added a new photo uploader tool to their Prototypes directory, the "labs" section of the social network where new programs are released for testing prior to their public rollout. The uploader dramatically improves on what was previously one of the worst experiences on Facebook: adding photos. Despite the fact that Facebook hosts…

Social Sarah Perez comments

MindTouch Cloud: The Open Source Alternative to Sharepoint and Salesforce.com?

Sharepoint is the big giant in the enterprise collaboration space. Salesforce.com is now in the market with Salesforce Chatter, a service that embraces Facebook, Twitter and the applications within Force.com. MindTouch has the potential to compete with the large market players. Today they are announcing MindTouch Cloud, an open-source, SaaS…

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

Microsoft Launches Pivot, A Radically New Visualization of Online Objects

Microsoft Live Labs' latest creation has just launched. Pivot is a fun, powerful discovery tool, built on Seadragon and powered by Silverlight, that runs in Vista or Windows 7 with IE8. It looks impressive and allows for truly intuitive exploration of information. Microsoft's Live Labs has been the source of a few interesting projects: a 3D…

Jolie O'Dell comments

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