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March 10 2010
Robosoft Kompai takes care of your elderly so you don't have to (video)
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Woot Videos Captioned: Relax a Little Incident
Google’s old motto: Don’t be evil. The new one: Don’t speak English.
If you thought the main problem with our “Real Actual Field Test” videos was that they made too much sense, you’re in luck. Now you can watch them with the sound off, reading along with subtitles provided by “Transcribe Audio,” a feature in beta testing that uses Google’s speech recognition technologies to automatically caption YouTube videos. The results? Pure Dada.
YouTube, we want to ask, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF OUR NARRATOR’S MOUTH? The answer: Enh, some of them...
We’d estimate Google’s software correctly interprets somewhere between a third and half of the words in our video voiceovers. From a programming standpoint, that’s pretty impressive! From a comprehensibility standpoint, it’s total gibberish.
Watch our most recent Real Actual Field Test (number five), and see if you can follow along with the transcript pasted below.
My personal favorite part of this transcript comes during the scene where our Air Hogs Switchblade fails to launch correctly and whacks our cameraman Kevin. To my ear, it sounds like he says “Argh! Ow, man!” But Google hears it as “I health plan.” Oddly appropriate.
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welcome to real action in field tests which relax a little incident
today we’re testing the spin master bear hugs switch weight remote aircraft are flying sort of that around and look in vain I was on it
what’s distinctive about this contraption is the way you can configure it flight either like a plane what would the twist suggesting like so of for the gate US troops died
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how does this happen there’s like one tree in our old Texas sized parking lot and you fly straight
anyway it’s kind of hard to capture this home video but you can actually transform the thing from one vote to the other in midair we need to do a vertical takeoff from the launch pad US automotive and then shifted airplane noted and out come on he has to be done on purpose
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also supposedly or as we say on the internet supposedly this which played the flyers best they can for just a couple of forty five degrees fahrenheit so when we got a nicer day we do that for a second afternoon of testing in the interest of science and also to get out of the meeting we have that changes to the capital plan laurin
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we know it was the right thing to do but you know that doesn’t mean we didn’t get choked up as did you want to listen he say about that in the country
so you’re seventy five this information helpful and we’ll see you next time for now the one who’s real actual field tests
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Thanks, Google! A huge improvement on the original!
So how about you? Happened across any amusingly shoddy automatic captions we should see?
SXSW 2010 for Marketers & Online Strategists
Navigating SXSW is overwhelming to say the least! To help you out ReadWriteWeb has been breaking the events, panels and parties down into vertical reviews. This post provides what we think are some of the best for marketers and online strategists. We'd also love to hear your recommendations in the comments.
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This is part of a series of ReadWriteWeb guides to SXSW Interactive 2010. If this guide isn't your cup of tea, be sure to check back for more information soon!
How Your Brand Can Succeed in the New Web
With Brian Solis. "Engage is the new book by Brian Solis that will debut at SXSW. Representing the third book on new media and its impact on society, culture and communication. Engage will help anyone not only understand the changes in the media landscape but also how to lead it. Brian Solis will be joined by a special guest to discuss the new book and answer questions followed by a book signing."
"The ability to share online has allowed consumers to control and filter the Web. For brands and publishers, tapping into Influence is critical to social media's future. What is influence and how is it measured? Leading voices in social media from multiple backgrounds will define the value of influence, discuss best practices, and predict future impact. Data will be shared! This panel is sponsored by ShareThis." With Tim Schigel, Paul Berry, Dave Knox, Mike John-Baptiste, Shiv Singh.
Extending Your Brand? There's an App for That
"For many, brand extension into the digital realm means a Web site, a banner ad, a viral campaign. But applications can extend conversations and perceptions of a brand, as well as add to discussions and ideas in compelling new ways. How can applications help your brand and idea be more authentic, genuine, user friendly, and just plain old fun? Learn from the folks that are making it happen. This panel is sponsored by Microsoft Silverlight."
With Gary Vaynerchuk. The content of this presentation has not been announced, but knowing Gary and his successful track record in growing business through the use of social media, this one is not to be missed.
Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
With Douglas Rushkoff. "Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values."
I Don't Trust You One Stinking Bit
"What gives people confidence on the Web? Bringing together experts in social capital and online trust, we help you build the company your users can love and call their own." With Chris Brogan and Julien Smith.
Monkeys with Internet Access: Sharing, Human Nature, and Digital Data
Clay Shirky hasn't announced the content of his presentation yet. He "divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, Web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web."
With Craig Watkins. "In 2006, S. Craig Watkins participated in the MacArthur Foundation's well-funded digital media initiative alongside a select team of scholars and tech experts. The goal was simple: to understand young people's emphatic embrace of social and mobile media. Watkins went on to build a small research team that skillfully collected over 500 surveys and conducted 350 in-depth interviews with young adults, parents, and educators."
Design and Usability, The UX of Mobile
"The term 'user experience' used to be an afterthought in mobile application design. The iPhone changed all that and has set a new benchmark for user experience on mobile devices. This panel will serve as a primer for anyone interested in learning how to apply UX principles to the creation of applications for iPhone, Android, and mobile websites." With Barbara Ballard, Tom Limongello, Scott Jenson.
The Ten Commandments of User Experience
"User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it's delivered and its related artifacts according to the design. In this presentation we will explain how following the 10 commandments can boost your project's ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more." With Raina Van Cleave, Nick Finck.
Persuasive Design: Encouraging Your Users To Do What You Want Them To!
"So you've designed a great product, fixed a stack of usability problems and spent a fortune on marketing. The only problem is, people aren't using it. In this session you will learn how to get your users to do what you want them to through good design, human psychology and a touch of mind control." With Andy Budd.
My Three-Year Old Is My Usability Expert
"Children are perfect testers for the innate usability of visual structures. Learn how neuroscience and cognitive psychology research can make your designs and interfaces more intuitive." With Dave Stanton.
Can the Real-Time Web Be Realized?
"The emergence of the real-time Web enables an unprecedented level of user engagement and dynamic content online. However, the rapidly growing audience puts new, complex demands on the architecture of the Web as we know it. This panel will discuss what is needed to make the real-time Web achievable." With Scott Raymond, Brett Slatkin, Dare Obasanjo, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Jack Moffitt.
Time + Social + Location. What's Next In Mobile Experiences?
"As more devices become location aware, social uses will continue to evolve beyond just who and what,to WHEN. Adding the temporal dimension creates new opportunities for social interaction. Learn about ways to leverage and use technology to add features at the intersection of temporal, social, and location." With Naveen Selvadurai, Josh Babetski, Greg Cypes.
ActivityStrea.ms: Is It Getting Streamy In Here?
"From Facebook's newsfeed to Twitter's relentless real-time updates, the metaphor of the "stream" has taken social networking beyond blog posts and on to rich social activities. Learn about ActivityStrea.ms - the open format adopted by Facebook, MySpace, and Windows Live - and how it's fundamentally changing the social Web." With Chris Messina.
HTML5: Tales from the Development Trenches
"HTML5 is coming. Originally called "Web applications 1.0", it brings new semantics, JavaScript APIs for drag and drop, offline storage, generating images, plugin-free video and form validation. It's upset semantic Web advocates, accessibility evangelists and baffled developers. Cut through the crap: learn what it is and what it does."
What Are Analytics? A Guide To Practical Data
"Analytics are often a confusing and convoluted mess, but that doesn't mean that they have to be. The Guide to Practical Data will help ensure you're reaching your full analytical potential. Learn how to analyze public and proprietary data to accelerate the success of any initiative." With Margaret Francis, Blake Robinson.
Those are our SXSW Interaction recommendations for marketers and Web strategists. If you've got suggestions or feedback, let us know in the comments! See you in Austin!
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Korea starts testing 'recharging road,' might make it part of its public transport system
Time to set aside the chains of worry that have prevented us from jumping on the electric bandwagon -- Korean researchers have figured out a way to make us forget all about charging stations and cruising ranges with their magnetically recharging road. The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) you see here went into service yesterday and can now be found towing three bus-loads of tourists around a Seoul amusement park. It operates on a battery five times smaller than conventional EV juice packs and can collect its power through non-contact magnetic transmission from the recharging strips in the ground. We're also told running costs for this system are a third of what a typical EV would require, and should it prove successful and find itself expanded to the public transport system, only about 20 percent of bus routes would need to be electrified -- at bus stops, crossroads and the like -- with the rest being covered by the power stored inside the OLEV. Here's to hoping it all works out.Korea starts testing 'recharging road,' might make it part of its public transport system originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Twitter’s New Security Strategy: Rewriting Some Users’ Links
From Media Memo: Beset by phishing attacks and other scammy behavior, Twitter is taking a step I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere else before: The social messaging service says it may change the text of its users’ messages in order to protect them.
Specifically, Twitter is going to rename links that users send to one another via direct messages, which allows the company to track them and shut them down if they turn out to be malicious. You’ll be able to identify the renamed links, because they’ll be shortened using a “twt.tl” prefix.
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- Twitter Startups HootSuite, 140 Proof, Admit Screw-Up, Plan To Fix Spammy Ads
- Twitter's Secret Ad Revenue Plan Revealed: Copy Google
Bicycling Directions, Trails Comes to Google Maps
There's nothing worse for a bicyclist than finding yourself a mile in to a two-mile stretch of shoulder-less, busy, highway-speed traffic with no alternative route. Before today, this was a common occurrence if you went to trusty Google Maps to get bicycling directions, but starting today, that has all changed.
Google has added bicycling directions, lanes and routes to Google Maps, meaning you no longer have to drive, walk or bus to get directions. And we can tell you, bicyclists are excited.
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Before now, the only option to cyclists to get even remotely appropriate directions, was to use the walking option, but this would still ignore bike trails. Google has heard the pleas of cyclists and, from first look, we have to say that the feature is well implemented.
We gave it a test to see if it would put us on some of Austin's more bike unfriendly streets, but it managed to chose some good alternative routes and stick to the bike trails when it could. The directions got a little wonky when we threw it a few curve balls, but we expect this to happen with any mapping service, especially one still in beta. But, as we've learned, you can't just go mindlessly follow directions, lest you end up in a lake.
The new feature also includes a "Bicycling Layer", which shows bike paths and bike-friendly streets with or without lanes. Three different lanes appear in the layer.
- Dark green indicates a dedicated bike-only trail;
- Light green indicates a dedicated bike lane along a road;
- Dashed green indicates roads that are designated as preferred for bicycling, but without dedicated lanes
According to Google, it has also taken steps to avoid uphill and long downhill routes, busy roads and even busy intersections. Google says that it even takes hills and other factors into account when calculating your trip time. "Assuming typical values for mass and for wind resistance, we compute the effort you'll require and the speed you'll achieve while going uphill," Google says in its Lat Long Blog.
Google worked with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy to bring more than 12,000 miles of biking trails to its map, along with bike lanes and recommended streets for 150 cities across the country. Google makes sure to point out that the feature is still in beta, so feel free to tell Google the next time you find yourself on a crowded, shoulder-less highway because of Google Maps.
And for those of you headed to fair Austin this week, make sure to take a look at the new feature, because it includes all of Austin's numerous bike trails and bike lanes. If you've never been to Austin for SXSW before, bicycling is the way to get around town and now you'll know how to get there.
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Motion-Sim 4DOF racing simulator will take your retirement fund for the ride of its life (video)
Race simulators like rFactor or iRacing offer the kind of gaming experience only available this side of a six-point harness, particularly when combined with a wheel like Logitech's G27, but sometimes it's a little difficult to get into the game when perched on an office chair. The 4DOF racing simulator from Motion-Sim will provides the missing link with a somewhat dangerous looking combination of pistons and articulating arms. It's been around for a few months but we're just now getting a chance to check out the thing in motion -- pitch, roll, yaw, and heave to be specific, with a harness of its own to keep the latter of those forces from sending you across the room whilst braking for La Source. It's only available to PC simmers (games like Gran Turismo and Forza don't provide the necessary output) and only the very richest ones: €18,450.00 for the home version, or $25,000 -- enough to get into a Formula Ford and onto a real track if you wanted. For everyone else we have two infinitely more affordable videos embedded below, one showing frantic F1 action, the other rallycrossing in Live for Speed.Motion-Sim 4DOF racing simulator will take your retirement fund for the ride of its life (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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AOL Ad Sales Confusion Is A Boon For Yahoo (AOL, YHOO)
AOL ad sales are in quiet chaos thanks to January layoffs and a subsequent re-org that CFO Artie Minson says resulted in 80% of accounts switching hands.
Analyst Douglas Anmuth of Barcalys Capital says this situation -- bad news for AOL -- is one of four reasons to bet on Yahoo, even as it cedes search share to Microsoft.
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- CHART OF THE DAY: Yahoo Still King Of Display Advertising
- AOL Just Dumped Another Acquisition
- AOL's Tim Armstrong BS's About Global Opportunity In A NYSE Ad
Leaked Verizon Memo: "The iPad Is An Opportunity For VZW!" (AAPL, VZ, T)
Those wily folks at Engadget landed an internal Verizon memo about the iPad.
In it, Verizon tells its employees that despite AT&T having the exclusive wireless rights to the device, "it's an opportunity for [Verizon Wireless]!"
How so? Verizon can sell more MiFi wireless devices. (MiFi is a little gizmo that acts as a wireless router anywhere Verizon's 3G is available.)
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- The iPad Starts At $499
- Adobe And HP Team Up To Trash The iPad And Its Lack Of Flash
- Apple Gets More iPad Buzz Out Of A Press Release Than Its Oscars Commercial
What Designers Do All Day, In Two Minutes Or Less
It goes by too fast to be much of use as a lesson. But this time-lapse screen-capture video of the making of a book cover design is still a fascinating look over the shoulder of a pro designer. And although it took six hours to make the design, watching the video will only cost you two minutes.
(As seen at BoingBoing.)
HP MediaSmart add-in adds TiVo compatibility, enables video transfers to and fro
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Internetradio-Test: Die besten Webradios ab 90 Euro - Chip Online
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Google's Insider View On Why Newspapers Are Screwed (GOOG)
"The fact of the matter is that newspapers have never made much money from news," wrote Google’s chief economist Hal Varian on the Google Public Policy blog.
Print newspapers traditionally "made money from the special interest sections on topics such as Automotive, Travel, Home & Garden, Food & Drink, and so on. These sections attract contextually targeted advertising, which is much more effective than non-targeted advertising." But as newspapers lost their grip on advertisers and readers, they now have to be where users go, whether that is on Google or Amazon or other aggregators.
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- Another Reason You'll Actually Miss Newspapers
- Internet Passes Newspapers To Become Second-Most Popular Source Of News (After TV)
- More Newspapers Put Up New York Times-Like Paywall
“Price is Right” Ups the Ante for April Fools 2010
The Price is Right has been finally embracing holidays. The one I look forward to more than any for the show is April Fools Day, where they let the show go crazy. Every year it gets progressively weirder. The first year wasn’t much because they still had the old people there. When they were gone, Drew and the crew finally started having some fun in 2009 with set malfunctions, strange prizes, and Drew’s nemesis from his sitcom, Mimi Bobeck (played by Kathy Kinney), as one of the models. One of the complaints last year was as great as it was to have Mimi back (Drew’s sitcom is one of my favorites), and the crowd apparently loved it, she didn’t really talk or do much of anything. It’s going to change in 2010.
TVGuide talked about the upcoming April Fools special. It’s more story driven this year, so this may be interesting and awesome. Mimi will be taking over as the show’s producer. One of the first things she does is having announcer Rich Fields replaced by a monkey. Well, someone in a monkey suit. The second thing is much funnier. Mimi will demote all of the models and replace them with guys. Not male models, either. The models will be, well, interesting looking, according to emails sent to us. Given it being Mimi it would have been funny to have them as troll dolls, but I digress in a very nerdy way. Other things will most likely happen through the episode.
There we go. I can’t wait to see what you think. I think I can already plot this out. We’ll get three or four people (I think I can already name them) saying what a horrible idea it is and why have they done this to their precious show. But most of the others with a sense of humor and like this sort of thing, like myself, can see that it’s only for one show and it’s a special day for the show which is notorious for going off-the-wall. Why not have a bit of fun? I’m really looking forward to this one. It sounds hysterical.
CE-Oh no he didn't!: Katzenberg says 'beautifully styled' 3D glasses won't make you look like a dweeb
CE-Oh no he didn't!: Katzenberg says 'beautifully styled' 3D glasses won't make you look like a dweeb originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Why Apple's Oscar Ad Won't Go Viral (AAPL)
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Apple went big on TV for the new iPad with multiple spots during the Oscars telecast, but don't expect "Meet iPad" to do huge numbers on the web.
While other big-budget TV marketers have taken to flogging their TV ads using social tools on YouTube, Twitter and elsewhere, Apple's strategy is decidedly retro. For Apple, it's all about driving viewers to Apple.com, and a potential sale; dissemination of the video itself is secondary.
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- CHART OF THE DAY: Kindle Owners Already Wishing They Had An iPad Instead
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Niedersächsischer Hörfunkpreis: 1.000 Euro für die Klassenkasse zu gewinnen! - bildungsklick.de
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The MySpace Exodus Continues: Three Key Employees Go To Gravity (NWS)
From TechCrunch: More bad news for an already bullet-riddled MySpace: three key employees have left the company to join Gravity, a cross-town startup founded by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto.
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OO HD wireless projector concept reaches for the stars, almost grabs 'em (video)
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