Looking at videos on YouTube recently we noticed a light bulb sitting on the top right of the video playing back.
As it was the first time we’d used it, we felt duty bound to give it a try.
Services
Service offered
Google Video: Turn Out The Lights: New Feature
Detect Language Option In Google Translate: Brilliant
Google Translate has long taken over from the BabelFish translator that Alta Vista had way-back in the dim, distant past.We use it whenever we can’t make sense of block of foreign text – nothing new in that.
Presented with a language we weren’t sure of recently, we selected Swedish as a guess, but the translation didn’t make sense to us.
Channel 4 Say Sorry To Mac Users (video)
UK Channel 4 has finally sorted out their video catch-up service.Channel 4 previously only offered 4oD which only ran on PCs running Windows, because it uses Microsoft’s DRM.
AudioBoo: G20 Boost Take Up
Well done to the Best Before team who are behind AudioBoo, they’re really building user numbers and adding features.AudioBoo, if you haven’t come across it already, lets you record and post audio entries from your iPhone. These messages live on AudioBoo and can be integrated into your own blogs – giving you an audio blog post.
MBL Returns To Flash, Dumping Microsoft Silverlight. Why?
Looks like Microsoft has hit a speed bump in trying to get Silverlight adopted by broadcasters.Some reasons for the Major League Baseball stopping using Silverlight might be coming to light. With 500,000 subscribers, MBL.com is the Web’s most successful subscription service, so well worth taking note of.
Twitter Photos Capture Australian Fire Aftermath
Here we go, banging on about Twitter again.We came across another interesting use of Twitter – one that is usurping the mainstream media again.
You’ll be aware of the shocking fire that have been raging in Australia.
Twestival: Organising At The Speed Of Twitter
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you probably haven’t heard of Twitter.It’s a service that lets you write and post short messages that other people can read online or on their mobile devices. Some people call it micro-blogging, but that’s only because they don’t know how else to define it. It’s actually a a whole new communications channel, one that’s still firing off innovative uses of itself constantly.
Twestival is an interesting example. Its essence is a meeting of like-minded people, nothing new there, but the method and speed of arrangement is new.
Twitter Enters The Top 100 UK Website Listing
Unless you’ve been living under a cyber-rock for the past month or two, you’ll know that Twitter has become the most talked about service on the web, and its growing popularity has been reflected by the site shimmying its way into the top 100 UK website listings.
Google Translate has long taken over from the BabelFish translator that Alta Vista had way-back in the dim, distant past.
Following the piece we wrote on 
UK Channel 4 has finally sorted out their video catch-up service.
Looks like Microsoft has hit a speed bump in trying to get Silverlight adopted by broadcasters.
Music streaming service 
Here we go, banging on about Twitter again.
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you probably haven’t heard of Twitter.
Unless you’ve been living under a cyber-rock for the past month or two, you’ll know that Twitter has become the most talked about service on the web, and its growing popularity has been reflected by the site shimmying its way into the top 100 UK website listings.