• 14 Vote!

    Automatic captions in YouTube

    The Official Google Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washington, D.C. to announce what I consider the most important and exciting milestone...
  • 11 Vote!

    Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”

    CrunchGear (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    The Little App Factory seems to have a big problem on their hands. The company received a letter from Baker & McKenzie, representing Apple, asking that The Little App Factory change the name of one of their most successful applications. Why? It has the word iPod in it. iRip (formally known as iPodRip) was originally written in 2003 at the MacHack developer conference in order to fulfill an obvious...
  • 7 Vote!

    Dems alarmed as independents bolt

    Tony Phyrillas (subscribe) | 11/18/2009 | Politics

    Remember all the gloating by Democrats and their media allies after the Obama victory last November? Remember the talk of how the Republican Party was finished? How the GOP will become the minority party for decades? Who's laughing now? It appears that the Democratic Party under the leadership of far-left radicals like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi is on the road to political oblivion. From an article...
  • 7 Vote!

    New lawsuit challenging AY approval to be announced today by BrooklynSpeaks members,...

    Atlantic Yards Report (subscribe) | yesterday | US

    Groups in the BrooklynSpeaks coalition–originally following a “mend-it-don’t-end-it policy”–today will file their first lawsuit, word of which first emerged last month.It will be interesting to see how much this case, which challenges the Empire State Development Corporation's approval of the Modified General Project Plan and failure to pursue a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement,
  • 11 Vote!

    Think Globally, Tweet Locally

    Twitter Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    In August we announced that we were working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available. This release is unique in that it's API-only which means you won't see any changes on twitter.com , yet. Instead, Twitter applications like Birdfeed , Seesmic Web , Foursquare , Gowalla , Twidroid , Twittelator Pro and others are...
  • 7 Vote!

    16-Year-Old Confesses To Shooting That Caught Girl In Crossfire

    Gothamist (subscribe) | yesterday | US

    Suspects: At left, Carvett Gentles (image from WCBS 2), and, at right, clockwise from top left, Rohan Francis, Dwayne Taylor, Clivie Smith, and Cleve Smith (images from NY1) A 16-year-old boy has confessed to the Monday afternoon shooting that left a Bronx girl in a medically-induced coma. Carvett Gentles, a sophomore at Bronx Leadership Academy who rarely attended class, had no criminal record before...
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