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shazad rouf

Designing an Internet for kids - CNN.com - 1 views

  • The goal is to be both educational and entertaining. So KidZui has mapped out 8,600 channels of what kids are interested in, ranging from photosynthesis to Miley Cyrus. And we relate all of those categories to each other so kids can independently and safely browse, search and share.
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      Social and ethnical issues: control; security Parents can easily control kids from going to bad sites.
  • Our goal with KidZui is to focus on the light, not the darkness. Of course, we keep all of the bad content and the bad people out of KidZui. But we focus on letting kids who want to discover, who want YouTube, to get YouTube videos that are fun and appropriate for them ... I think it is indicative of just how much kids want to be online.
  • Our goal with KidZui is to focus on the light, not the darkness. Of course, we keep all of the bad content and the bad people out of KidZui. But we focus on letting kids who want to discover, who want YouTube, to get YouTube videos that are fun and appropriate for them ... I think it is indicative of just how much kids want to be online.
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      Areas of impact: Health, Education, Arts, entertainment and leisure
Chalana Perera

YouTube Captions (BBC Technology) - 1 views

  • machine-generated captions
  • The translation is not always perfect
  • media industry
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  • group of radio stations, newspapers and websites
  • YouTube offers a manual captioning service but video makers tend not to use it
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    This article discusses the new automatic subtitles that appear on You Tube videos for deaf viewers, created by a deaf technician. They are found on 13 major channels and YouTube. It involves speech recognition technology & caption systems.
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    This article discusses the new automatic subtitles that appear on You Tube videos for deaf viewers, created by a deaf technician. They are found on 13 major channels and YouTube. It involves speech recognition technology & caption systems.
Ali Parrish

YouTube Shares Video Profits with Individual Users - 0 views

  • The new scheme aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals
  • Such videos are typically by individual users; the more entertaining among them get posted in many other places and as a result get a rapidly growing number of views.
  • For instance, Lauren Luke of northeast England began posting make-up tips on YouTube in 2007. She was approached to become an advertising partner and now the hobby has become her main source of income.
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  • The Partner Program will start in the US, and YouTube says it plans an international version soon.
  • and have helped many people earn thousands of dollars a month as their videos went viral and endured over time," YouTube product manager Shenaz Zack said in the post.
Chalana Perera

YouTube Caption Editing (Cnet WebWare) - 0 views

  • public-interface URL
  • on-screen annotation editor
  • multiple languages of captions at the same time, which show up as separate tracks in the time line
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  • exports your captions as a .sub file that can be worked on in a separate text editor or sent out with the source video to be viewed locally with the captions in something like the VLC player
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    This article discusses public-interface and YouTubes caption-editing option online that is available to all users/members.
iman mustafa

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user - 0 views

  • The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET New
  • A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
  • Kelly declined to speculate on who was behind the attack, but he said: "You have to ask who would benefit the most from doing this and think about what those people are doing and the disregard for the rest of the users and the Internet."
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