YouTube includes automatic captions

YouTube has incorporated a beta automatic subtitling feature advantageous for users with hearing disabilities and those not easily understand foreign languages. Until now, people have posted videos on YouTube manually subtitled by the posting user. This has changed with the incorporation of  this automatic subtitling function based on Google ‘s text-to-voice technology. To activate the feature (beta version for the time being), users need only press a virtual button called “caption” and then select the “transcribe audio”, so that YouTube automatically generates text based on the video’s audio. The system also features a choice of translation / interpretation in real time. In their  blog, YouTube accepts that the system has certain imperfections, and that voice to text conversion can produce results that sometimes are difficult  to understand.

What a great feature! who has checked it out?

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For those aspiring to get a Google Wave account, we wanted to share with you this link to this comprehensive user manual written by Firefox extensions builder Gina

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Trapani and Web Developer Adam Pash ‘The Complete Guide to Google Wave’.

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Claudia Walliman

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

For those entrepreneurs and business managers, who seek for tips and advice on how to be successful, this article provides a list of 10 entrepreneurs who have built their businesses from scratch.

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These entrepreneurs use Twitter to communicate their unique perspectives. Follow their tweets and learn from the big players. I hope you enjoy the article.

ttp://mashable.com/2009/10/29/entrepreneurs-twitter-follow/

Claudia Walliman

The US chairman of the Federal Communications Commission will present some proposals that may require Internet providers in that country to treat everything the same way every flow of content. The concept, known as net neutrality, faces Internet companies like Google with providers of broadband services like AT & T, Verizon Communications and Comcast, which oppose

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control rules in the network management.

Proponents of network neutrality say that Internet service providers should not be able to block or delay traffic on the basis of content. The suppliers say that the growing volume of services that monopolize the bandwidth, like streaming video, requires an active control and some argue that network neutrality could be a problem for innovation. The Federal Communications Commission of the United States could formally propose ruling fixed wireless platforms designed to ensure neutrality for the Internet.

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by Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

For more info visit http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/search/label/Net%20Neutrality

Almost stealthily, last week Apple updated listings for their online store to offer consumers new products in almost every product lines. The biggest surprise of all was the unveiling of the new  iMac. The old versions that Apple marketed in sizes 20 and 24 inches disappear to make way for a new display of 21.5 “in the basic model, and the huge 27-inch iMac, with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. With these resolutions, Apple reaches the 16:9 high definition tv ratio and emphasizes the idea that their computers are home entertainment centers.

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Although the new iMac has been improved in many respects, Apple – as usual – keeps the price of the basic machine in £949; the same cost of the basic model for the previous generation.

In the top models of the iMac line, it will be possible to incorporate QuadCore processors, 16GB of RAM and hard drives up to 2TB (approximately 2.000 “gigs”). Significant cosmetic changes are incorporated into the new iMac, with the back and the base of the computer, formerly of black plastic, in aluminium finish, slightly thinner.

In the initial setup – 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5, 4GB RAM, graphics card ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB and 1 TB of storage – the new iMac 27 “is priced around £1,599.

These all-in-one will come from factory with embedded wireless accessories, and those wishing to use the bigger keyboard (with numeric keys) will have to order directly from the Internet store, a move not liked for those who prefer Wired keyboard with its convenient USB port and complete set of numeric and shift keys.

The most popular computers from Steve Jobs, the “Macbook White” – so successful that the market took its big brother, the version made of aluminum – also went through a microscope for a “total re-engineering.

In appearance, Apple’s engineers devised a carcass “unibody”- in one piece – slightly more rounded, and incorporated the glass trackpad, significantly larger than the equivalent of a conventional notebook and enables the “multitouch” that hitherto exclusive to the very expensive model MacBook Pro and Air.

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For around £799, that until recently bought a Macbook with 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive and 2.13 GHz processor, you will be able to purchase a laptop with 2 GB of RAM (two modules of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM), a slightly higher processor and 50% more storage.

We’re looking forward to getting hold of one of these new iMacs, have you already got one?

Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

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As had been rumored, the Cupertino company announces its new mouse, the “Magic Mouse”, which replaces the Mighty Mouse, an accessory that has been vehemently criticized for sacrificing usability in exchange for a cute design. The major failing of the Mighty Mouse – one of the most expensive in the market, is the tiny area that performs the “scroll” function – just a few months of use are enough before the piece requires constant cleaning, as grease and dust settle on the delicate scroll mechanism. On several occasions, the wear of this mechanism impacted on the ability of the mouse click, disabling the expensive accessory.
Apple seems to want to redeem themselves with the new Magic Mouse, whose design completely eliminates the mechanism of the sphere and the style of the new BlackBerry Tour, uses an optical sensor to detect movements. The news, however, has been met with skepticism from some consumers, who are accustomed to poor performance by Apple when it comes to design and manufacture of mice that can run correctly for a reasonable period of time.
The new mouse will work wirelessly via Bluetooth, with rechargeable batteries, and allow the use of “multitouch” like those Apple presented on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and soon after on their notebooks trackpads.

The Magic Mouse will be on shelves later this month with a price of around £55.

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A demonstration video of the Magic Mouse can be watched here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgiGd53jg2U

by Michael Gomez

The ‘Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

Online ad spending grew 4.6% in the first half of this year and for the first time it has surpassed spending on television advertising.

Online advertising seems to be immune to recession, according to the latest Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB http://www.iab.net). New figures obtained by this organization, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the World Advertising Research Center claim that online ad spending grew 4.6% in the first half of this year, and for the first time it surpassed the TV advertising spending.

Spending has exceeded 1,900 million euros and now accounts for 23.5% of the global advertising market. It is, according to experts, record numbers for an industry which has shrunk by 17% in the period studied.

Internet advertising has exceeded expectations for growth and has worked better in front of the television, radio or print media, and that although the advertising industry has lost more than 1,600 million euros.

Payment for search advertising is the preferred, accounting for 60% of all online advertising spending. Technology-related advertising accounted for 19% of the market, telecommunications second with 14% and finance the third with 13%. As can be detached from the study, the slowing economy has accelerated the migration to digital advertising.

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Claudia Walliman Gomez

Translated from www.itespresso.es