Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
YouTube to Add Two New Closed Captioning Services
A great endcap to our great presentation yesterday by Stephani Roberts from MIT’s ATIC and CJ Johnson from 3Play Media, the New York times published this article yesterday about new features coming to YouTube. Google will begin rolling out service the end of this week that will automatically generate text captions to many videos on its site! YouTube has supported closed captioning on the site already, but this new service will allow users to upload a video, the closed captioning will be automatically generated, and allow the owner to review accuracy of the closed captioning before the content... [read more]
Constant Contact Rolling Out Event Registration and Marketing Features
Many communicators are looking toward email marketing campaigns versus traditional print campaigns to save both money and the environment–a double win. One of the big commercial players in the email marketing arena, Constant Contact, is rolling out a new service today that will allow customers to to promote and manage registrations and RSVPs for their meetings, seminars, parties and other events. This additional service, starting at $15/month for up to 5 concurrent events, will enable customers to promote and manage registrations and RSVPs for their meetings, seminars, parties and other... [read more]
Dries Buytaert Speaking at MIT 10/26
Great news to the WebPub folks: Drupal project founder and Acquia CTO/co-founder Dries Buytaert will be speaking at MIT’s Stata Center next Monday, October 26, 2009 at 5pm. Dries will talk about Drupal 7, where Drupal is headed and more. There’s no need to register and this even is open to all! Location: MIT Stata Center, Building 32 Kirsch Auditorium-32-123 and Student Street reception area Special Thanks to Susan MacPhee for giving us the heads-up on this great event! [read more]
Internet Stat Center: For all your curious internet factoids.
ReadWriteWeb posted an article about Google’s Internet Stats. As described on the Internet Stats site, “This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place. These have been collected from a number of third party vendors covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.” This site is hosted on a UK server, but the data is gathered from companies such as BusinessWeek, Coke, HarvardBusiness.org, Motorola, New York Magazine, PriceWaterhouseCoopers,... [read more]
Video posted: Web Apps with Jared Spool
The video from our last WebPub meeting is now online at TechTV and iTunes. Due to some technical difficulties the recording starts a few seconds in to Jared’s presentation, however I’m sure you’ll find the content extremely enjoyable! Many thanks to the MIT HyperStudio and IS&T for sponsoring the podcast. Here’s the summary of the topic covered: Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business with Jared Spool Who has the best practices for web app design and what do they do to make world-class applications? Jared will share the latest research in the techniques and methodologies... [read more]
