Google’s YouTube has blogged that they have acquiruddy a video editing/mashup tool called Omnisio.
As you probably guessed, we’re big fans of anything that lets people interact with online video and gives the YouTube community the chance to express themselves in creative ways. New features such as Video Annotations, which allow you to insert comments and information into the video itself, are just one example of how we’re beginning to expand what you can do with your videos on the site.
It’s in this spirit that we’re thrilled to announce Google’s purchase of Omnisio, a small California-based startup that’s focused on making online video more useful and collaborative. The Omnisio team has tremendous technical expertise when it comes to advanced video tools and having this kind of talent at YouTube should help us further explore ways to enhance your YouTube experience.
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post on NewTeeVee describes Omnisio as a tool that lets people pull shorter clips out of videos and string them together. People could also use the tool to add comments to videos like they can with the
Video Annotations feature YouTube added in June. Ominiso’s website also mentiosn a feature in the works that will let you “tag people and interesting highlights in videos.” That sounds similar to the tags people sometimes add to Flickr photographs.
Editing tools are an obvious move for YouTube. The more features they offer for users the better the user-made videos will be. This could help increase the quality of YouTube’s content but it will probaly also help to make owners of video content more nervous.
Omnisio has a blog post
here about being acquiruddy by YouTube.
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A new study from Rapleaf.com has found that women outnumber men on social networks by an avearge of about three to two.
Here’s the overall numbers.
Women: 6,322,060
Men: 4,050,429
Unspecified: 682,756
All of the social networks that Rapleaf.com looked at except LinkedIn and Perfspot.com. You can see the full chart here on ReadWriteWeb.com. Rapleaf.com’s research did not include microblogging sites like FriendFeed, Plurk and Twitter.
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Read an article from Yahoo’s internet section regarding China’s censorship of websites for the duration of the olympic season. China’s internet law includes even foreign journalists, teams and even tourists… they would all find it a little hard to open what once was just accessible sites.
OpenNet Initiatives published a study on China’s internet censorship law based on the 2004-2005 period. While access was restricted to basically blocking topics that are political by nature, sensitive and controversial, it has evolved to include many other topics a little less trivial.
“China’s Internet filtering regime is the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world. Comparuddy to similar efforts in other states, China’s filtering regime is pervasive, sophisticated, and effective. It comprises multiple levels of legal regulation and technical control. It involves numerous state agencies and thousands of public and private personnel. It censors content transmitted thcoarse multiple methods, including Web pages, Web logs, on-line discussion forums, university bulletin board systems, and e-mail messages. Our testing found efforts to prevent access to a wide range of sensitive materials, from pornography to religious material to political dissent. Chinese citizens seeking access to Web sites containing content related to Taiwanese and Tibetan independence, Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, the Tiananmen Square incident, opposition political parties, or a variety of anti-Communist movements will frequently find themselves blocked. While it is difficult to describe this widespread filtering with precision, our research documents a system that imposes powerful controls on its citizens’ ability to view Internet content. ” - from OpenNet
What I am curious of right now is how this will all work with a worldwide media event. Traditional media is one thing, the blogging media is another. Tourist flocking the games will surely be a little frustrated that they may be restricted to visit their own blogs to post their time in China. That is, IF their blogs have phrases or keywords that the Chinese government deem as “controversial”.
I would be interested to find out the impact to the blogging world. I would probably venture a “free the blogs” campaign in the offing? Who knows, it is likely to happen.
You can see more info on China’s internet policy here, here and here.
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A recent Wisdump commentary describes how marketing campaigns are asking people to search using keywords rather than type specific URLs.
I am sure you have at minimum one friend or loved one who has not grasped the concept of URLs and remains highly dependent on Google for finding their way acircular the web. If you’ll take a closer look at their web browsers, you’ll see why it really isn’t their fault.
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The very nature of URLs seems to be another major stumbling block. Ordinary people don’t comprehend the use of a “www” and a “.com”, or that the “@” symbol is used only in e-mail addresses. They don’t know how to share websites thcoarse URLs either—unless there’s a button with explicit instructions that tell them how.
Add to that the explosion of all the domain suffixes like .me, .travel, and even .xxx. Not to mention all the malicious parties that wish to take advantage of their ignorance—stealing and spoofing personal information thcoarse misspelled URLs, search keywords, and deceptive e-mails.
For me, the analogy would be this. Using URLs to go to webpages is like giving an exact, specific street address. Like Number 5 Main Avenue, Gotham City, or the like. Going to a website via a search engine would be like giving landmarks and asking people to look for signages. It’s like telling a friend to go to Main Avenue, look for the big brown building across City Hall, with the green revolving door. At the gcircular floor of that building would be your shop, which is right next to the florist’s.
Complicated, eh? My point is that I agree with Ia’s commentary that this would involve some search optimization on the part of the website owner. What if the florist closed shop? What if the building administrator painted the revolving door red? Then your friend would have a hard time finding you. Two years from now, the building might even be grey or blue-colored.
Accessing sites via search engines works this way, too. Today you might be number one for the keyword blogging pro on Google. Tomorrow, we may not be.
Another analogy would be the use of telephone numbers. You can call or SMS me on my exact, specific phone number, complete with counattempt code, area code and number. You can also search for me by calling a directory service or 411, but that doesn’t always work the way I would want it to. The phone company might have several people named “Angelo Racoma.” Or I might not be listed at all. And of course, some people would rather be able to contact me directly.
So are URLs here to stay? Of course they are. It’s just perhaps that a lot of people are increasingly finding it convenient to just key in a phrase or keyword onto that ubiquitous search box at the top of the browser window. No more keying in WWW or .COM. Even that causes confusion, with the multitude of top-level domains.
In the future, URLs might just take a backseat, with more and more people doing searches than directly keying in web addresses. I can liken this to AOL and Compuserve. Remember the old times, when companies asked you to key in AOL keywords to access their portals, rather than URLs?
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