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Google Street View Hong Kong (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-11 06:04:39]
Google released Street View imagery for Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a fun and busy place where it's easy to get lost, perhaps less so with these photo maps. [Thanks Keith!]

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No, we can't translate "Yes we can" (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-10 10:08:40]
Ten years ago, the best-available translation software analysed the source text to determine its structure: subject, object, nouns, verbs, phrases, etc. From the structure tree, a new text could be generated in the target language. The precise details of Google's translation algorithms are not published, but the structure tree is not the main mechanism. Instead, there is a corpus -- an enormous database of parallel works. These are works available in more than one language as a result of a previous human translation. Based on equivalents found in the corpus, Google obtains translations for various multi-word fragments from the source text, then blends those together into what is usually a coherent sentence in the target language. The system doesn't work so well on fragments that weren't translated in the c ...

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Reader Play, Google's Slideshow of Interesting Stuff (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-10 09:43:08]
OK, I can see myself waste some time with this. Google Reader Play is a casual, push style way to feed yourself distracting/ enlightening/ inspiring snippets, imagery and videos. You can star a specific page, Like it or share it, but just jumping from page to page using the bottom navigation works too. Note Reader Play is personalized. Google writes, "We use the technology behind Recommended Items in Reader to populate Reader Play with the most interesting content on the web. While you don’t need a Google account to use Reader Play, your experience will be personalized if you ...

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Variable Speed for YouTube Videos (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-08 07:26:05]
If you've opted in to YouTube's HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser's player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player. This was discussed in the Forum a few weeks ago. YouTube can serve HTML5 videos if you have an HTML5-capable browser with the h.264 video codec (i.e. Chrome but not Chromium, Safari v4+, or IE with Google Chrome Frame). Videos containing ads continue to use the Flash player. YouTube has implemented a variable speed control for their HTML5 videos. Next to the play/pause button is a small arrow. When clicked, it opens up a panel containing a slider and two icons: a hare and a tortoise. As you can probably gues ...

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Do Some People Confuse Public and Private Buzz Messages? (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-08 04:16:08]
Do some people confuse public Buzz messages with private email conversations? I don't know, but some of the following conversations I found using Gmail's Buzz search sounded a bit odd. One of the conversation, for instance, was by a person who only follows one person and only has one follower. Then again, how would this misunderstanding come about, if that's the case, as Buzz says "Public on the web" next to the Post button, and doesn't offer a field to address only a single person? Gmail puts private emails and public buzz messages in one app, one click away in the interface... is that enough to trigger misunderstandings? I've obfuscated some parts in these screenshots.

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Criticism of Google at Wikipedia (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-08 04:16:08]
Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to criticism of Google.

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The Ask-Our-Computer Service (from 1967) (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-07 11:18:19]
This snippet is from Popular Science, May 1967, page 94: [Hat tip to George R!]

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15 YouTube Killer Features of 2025 (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-05 07:55:35]
In the year 2025, perhaps we'll be seeing: 1. YouTube Super Zoom What it is: When watching a video, you can press the pause button and zoom in on smaller stuff you see in the background. For example, we see a mayor walking through a museum, and there's a painting by Vermeer in the background. Hit pause and the zoom icon, and click on the Vermeer painting, which is highlighted with a "zoomable" color (as are some other objects in the scene). It will be enlarged up to the point where you can see individual paint strokes. How it works: Google's image comparison engine will run in the background as soon as you select the zoom tool. For instance, the comparison engine will notice that images of the region containing Ver ...

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YouTube With Auto-Subtitles Option for All English Videos (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-04 01:00:03]
TechCrunch reports that YouTube announced they will roll out auto-captions to all English videos now, for content creators who want this (before, only a portion of videos received this option). As a disclaimer, Google noted that (quote TechCrunch) ... ... Just like any speech recognition application, auto-captions require a clearly spoken audio track. Videos with background noise or a muffled voice can’t be auto-captioned. President Obama’s speech on the recent Chilean Earthquake is a good example of the kind of audio that works for auto-captions. When video creators now choose a platform to upload their video, a feature like this -- well in sync ...

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Topeka, Kansas Is Now Google, Kansas (view original)

[Post Time: 2010-03-03 10:35:25]
Bill Bunten, the Mayor of Topeka (the capital city of Kansas, USA) has signed a proclamation declaring that during March the city will be known as Google, Kansas. This is being spun by the press as a name change, but that's not the case. The city's official name remains Topeka, even though during March it will be (also) known as Google. The wording of the proclamation is interesting. It starts by asserting that Google "is a corporation who maintains a small company feel", then lists ten core principles of Google's philosophy. (Somehow, the list still includes "It's best to do one thing really well".) Then we get to the p ...

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