Innovation

Buzz Watch: YouTube Adds Speech-to-Text Functionality

Authored by Jay Baage on July 31, 2008 - 6:58am.

Beet.tv has interviewed Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube, about a neat new feature which translates speech to text in the videos uploaded to the site. That way, users can search and find that content of the videos easier and not be confined to just the tags or the titles. I also noticed that Grove mentioned that YouTube now gets 13 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute! It's much more than just a few months ago when YouTube's Brent Hurley told me in an interview that they got 10 hours of video uploaded every minute.

Tech Innovation Is Driven By Dissatisfaction

Authored by Scott Karp on November 25, 2007 - 2:36pm.

A couple months ago I wrote that the mobile web sucks, based on my own user experience that didn’t seem to match the hype. Some people agreed, but a lot of people defended, passionately, the mobile web. Today the New York Times published some interesting data:

The Midbutton and Other Reasons To Think Small

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on June 21, 2007 - 10:31am.

I don't wear ties.  It's not so much a rule as it is a preferred statement - learned over being in the interactive industry for more than ten years.  Instead, I often wear button down shirts, which leads me to the most serious of all wardrobe questions that men around the world deal with on a nearly daily basis ... how many buttons do you leave unbuttoned?