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New 4U @YouTube

There’s some cool changes over at YouTube, folks, and it makes the world of online video even more accessible to the masses.  Accessibility is everything! An automatic captioning/subtitling feature, once only available to a few educational partners, will soon be available to YouTube's general audience. Choose "transcribe audio" from the captioning menu of any video and you'll be able to use Google's speech recognition software to place captions or subtitles at the bottom of the screen so that viewers who…
November 20, 2009
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Wear In The World

Over the past week and a half, I had the privilege of building out a WordPress site to support Adidas Golf's Wear In The World endeavor. The design is based off the flash site at www.adidasgolf.com, but translated in to html to allow the two most lucky Adidas employees / contest winners to get their blog on as they travel the glove to five of the most exotic golf locations. (more…)
November 19, 2009
DevelopmentTips

Three Essential WordPress Plugins

After spending the past ... 7? months working in Drupal, I found myself thrust back in to the wonderful world of Wordpress. And now that the dust is settling at least a little bit, after cranking out what seems like 5 sites since the start of November, I am able to look back and truly appreciate some of the goodness from this open source community. While its not (yet?) as easy (for me) to accomplish some of the heavy-lifting that…
November 19, 2009
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Online Trends: Personalization and Paying for the News

All the News Fit for the LCD Screen Critics of how people use the internet to access information initially balked at the idea of paying for news access on the web.  Why would anyone fork over money when the free flow of news items can be found in any number of free avenues? However, a new survey from The Boston Consulting Group contends the notion of charging for news online may actually fly with many online users. The amount news-savvy…
November 19, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

Dot Com Venture Capital — It’s Out There!

With the sluggish economy still an uncertainty, and banks slowly getting back into the credit-giving mode, one might think there would be a lull in funding for new internet brands and ideas...factoring in that the jury’s still out on whether or not social networking applications can trulybreak through and generate profitable sponsorship revenue. But one would have another think coming.  From what we've seen lately, the venture capitalists are making bold moved and the money is flowing in the millions...…
November 18, 2009