Tag: YouTube
The sensational return of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Episode 2: Not connecting with real people
The double act no one really wants to see the return of has returned, as the two extremely rich men try to act like they’re normal and in touch with us common folk. All in the name of making Windows Vista look cool. It is not working. It didn’t work before. And this one’s even worse.
See Bill and Jerry order Chinese food, as if they don’t have in-house chefs back home at their respective palaces cooking up high-nutrient, low-fat foods at any time of day. They joke about being rich. This all goes on for a completely bewildering four and a half minutes. Here. See how far you can get through it.
Bill does a bit of robot dancing at the end…
Block noobs on YouTube with YouTube Comment Snob
It’s been scientifically proven that 96.3% of all YouTube comments are stupid, but there’s very little you can actually do about it, except for clicking that little thumbs down button. Until now…
EA hit back on YouTube to Tiger Woods/Jesus claims
A little bit of backstory: a Tiger Woods golf title from EA seems to have a glitch in it which allows the user to walk onto water hazards and hit balls from there as if they were dry land. A user, Levinator25, took some footage of this, and uploaded it onto YouTube, mocking the company.
However the company have hit back with a video response of their own – here it is…
YouTube Hits: Condom Ringtone
Guess what the hot new ringtone in India is? I'll give you a clue. It's acapella. It's tuneful. It promotes safe-sex, and if the video's anything to go by then it might embarrass your dad at a wedding, but…
YouTube Hits: Close lightning strike
Here’s a fantastic short video of lightning striking a beach, tens of metres away from the cameraman. Lightning, as I’m sure you’re all aware, is caused by ice crystals rubbing together and transferring charged particles in storm clouds. What you might not be aware of is that thunder is the sound that lightning strike – the sound of the air along the lightning bolt’s path being instantaneously heated to 30,000°C. Warning: mildly NSFW language…
BBC to put Top Gear on YouTube. Let's hope Richard Hammond doesn't crash your browser.
Some say that his 19th century views on environmentalism and global warming are pushing millions of viewers down the path of climate change scepticism, and some say that his incendiary views are designed to cause a stir and causes people like me to write about them… all we know is that he’s called Jeremy Clarkson.
If you’re a fan of party-political broadcasts for the Conservative party presented by ill-informed controversialists who probably do actually use the phrase “political correctness gone mad” without irony, then you’ll be delighted to hear that the BBC has launched a Top Gear YouTube channel.
COMPETITION: 12seconds – the Twitter of the video world
12seconds is to YouTube what Twitter is to Facebook. That’s where I’m starting with the explanation of this one. It’s the microblogging of video.
As you may have guessed by its name, you get 12 seconds to make a tiny little video blog about, well, about whatever you like…
Top ten tech advancements in Olympic coverage
One of the three themes of the Beijing Olympics is to make it a “High-tech Olympics.” But how will this benefit the viewing public? Here are the top ten innovations that will improve coverage.
1. HD coverage
For the first time, the Olympics will be available in HD. In fact, the entire event is being produced in HD, although obviously you will only get the full effect of this if you have an HD-ready TV. Visit this page if you’re still unsure about HDTV, or if you’re looking to enter the HD world in time for the Olympics, check out this rather neat HANNSpree 19-inch HDTV, which is perfect as a smart TV for the bedroom – after all, the time difference means that some events will be on whilst you would usually be tucked up in bed…
IOC allowing Olympics highlights on YouTube
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that it will be showing news and sports highlights from the Beijing Olympics in countries where no broadcaster has exclusive rights. The Video on Demand service will be available on a YouTube channel.
That means some 75 countries, including India and Nigeria, will be able to watch the best bits of the Games, as determined by the IOC. The channel will be “geo-blocked” so that those of us in countries where a TV broadcaster is already showing coverage of the Games won’t be able to access the YouTube footage.
Since the BBC will be near-exhaustively covering the Games, official YouTube clips won’t be available in the UK.
YouTube trials speech-to-text function, making videos more searchable
YouTube has developed technology to automatically transcribe speech from a video’s audio track, and then embed that text into the video.
The process has been tested on speeches by John McCain and Barack Obama, and allows users to search for key words (such as “Iraq” or “free trade”) which will then bring up the exact position in each video where that phrase is spoken. The transcript is then available in the timeline underneath the video…
