Google’s Video-Search Challenge
Now that it owns YouTube, the leader in text search needs to ensure it can help users find videos too—a job rivals do better
From BusinessWeek
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Archive for October 11th, 2006
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer chats with BusinessWeek editors about Web 2.0’s sky-high valuations and the new competition the company faces
From BusinessWeek
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Video Searching by Sight and Script
Researchers have designed an automated system to identify characters in television shows, paving the way for better video search.
From Technology Review
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Revver: The Newest British Comedy
User created video sharing site Revver has landed an intriguing partnership with a new UK TV station called FameTV. Revver users will be able to opt-in for TV broadcast and those selected will be shown on FameTV. Viewers will vote for their favorites by SMS and revenue sent to Revver will be split 50/50 with the video publishers.
From Techcrunch
Zoho Virtual Office Launching Tomorrow; Racing Google to Market
Online productivity company Zoho is finally bringing all its various services together into one offering with the release of the Zoho Virtual Office at tomorrow’s Office 2.0 conference.
Virtual Office, or ZohoX, will integrate most of the 10+ Zoho services already available and add several more like Webmail and calendaring. The whole thing will be unveiled on Wednesday but there’s a small screenshot at the end of this post. The service will be free for individual use and cost $9 per user for SMBs. Users across multiple locations can access the same workspace with their own admin and user list; the ability to collaborate across organizations will be available soon.
From Techcrunch
Google “Docs & Spreadsheets” Launches
Google just launched Docs & Spreadsheets at docs.google.com. It integrates the previously separate Writely and Spreadsheet product silos into a single control panel and admin area (the previous sites for those products redirect to docs.google). This is not a deep product integration, but it is another shot across the bow of Microsoft Office.
The new site shows all of a user’s writely and spreadsheet documents in a single list, but integration goes no further for now. The interfaces and features of the two products have also been mostly mirrored to provide a consistent user experience. For example, chat previously available only on the spreadsheet product, is now available when working on a writely document as well.
Notably absent is the ability to embed spreadsheets directly into writely documents, a feature already offered by Zoho.
From Techcrunch
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