YouTube Auto Captioning featured on Beet TV

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Daisy Whitney from Beet TV interviews software engineer Ken Harrenstien about the new automatic caption and automatic timing features in YouTube.

Reposted with permission from Beet TV.

See the full article at http://www.beet.tv/2009/12/youtubeautocaptions.html

Shaffi Mather: A new way to fight corruption

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http://www.ted.com Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company to fight the booming business of corruption in public service, eliminating it one bribe at a time.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

The Doctor and Adelaide are chased by the infected inhabitants. – Doctor Who: Waters of Mars – BBC

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The Doctor and Commander Adelaide Brooke come face-to-face with two of the infected colonists on Mars. With their bodies gushing copious amounts of water, and a single drop being enough to infect the Doctor and Adelaide, there is only one thing they can do….run! Dramatic clip taken from Doctor Who: Waters of Mars starring David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan, Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC America YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcamericatv and don’t forget to subscribe to be one of the first to see our latest videos and exclusives.