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The YouTube Screening Room

Posted on August 29th, 2008 in Films, Videos. 0 Comments

YouTube is filled with sneezing pandas and dramatic everythings – not exactly high quality stuff. However, with the YouTube Screening Room, the site has finally taken the initiative to showcase quality content from award-winning filmmakers around the world. Not quite sure why YouTube hasn’t been upfront about these featured videos (try to find them on the home page), but I am pleased that they have been given a home.

Christian the Lion

Posted on August 5th, 2008 in Inspired, Videos. 2 Comments

This is one amazing story of the reunion between two men and a lion. The similarities between the humanistic and animalistic reactions and emotions is very uplifting (read: may make you well up). This video was shot in 1971 for a documentary and just recently went viral on Youtube.

Youtube Speech-to-Text (Watch Out ‘Dragon Naturally Speaking’)

Posted on July 31st, 2008 in Technology, Web. 0 Comments

Youtube’s popularity was revolutionary. Since then, the site has failed to bring papa Google any happiness and has pretty much dropped the ball in terms of innovation. Youtube recently purchased Omnisio to try to spice things up, but the latest news regarding Youtube’s speech-to-text technology is what I find most promising interesting. Youtube is now capable of “listening” to the audio of a clip and transcribing it into rich metadata whcih can be embedded in the video and can be searchable by users. Pretty cool stuff, and you should try it.