Archive for March, 2010
YouTube enables Captions!
Youtube recently announced automatic captions for YouTube videos. While the technology is imperfect, the system will analyze videos and make best guesses about the script. This is beneficial to Google of course, in analyzing the videos to deliver better ads, and eventually, translate videos into a multitude of languages. The core benefit to me is [...]
Social Media Use Growing Among Small Businesses
A new study by the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland found that small businesses are enhancing their social media presence. The Small Business Success Index indicated that one out of every five small business owners in the study engaged in social media activity that included blogging, and business-related communication on LinkedIn [...]
Twitter to Launch Ad Platform
All Things Digital broke the news this week that Twitter will launch an ad platform very soon. The service is expected to utilize twitter searches and match ads with queries. Users who don’t search for something won’t see the ads at all. Similar to tweets, the ads will be displayed in 140 characters or less and [...]
Oscar Animated
I don’t care too much for the Oscars. I think their sole saving grace is to bring attention to the films that weren’t as noticed this year. So, I prefer the less popular categories. This year, let’s say it’s the Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films. I’ve gathered them here for you, as best I could. I’ll [...]
