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Wistia Further Enhances Video Embed Player
Jan 11th
I use the service Wistia.com to embed videos on my blog pages: I have covered the company before here and mentioned their analytics and video player. Today the company announced another series of improvements to their player on their blog here that are worth considering. The new features go way beyond what most video hosting sites offer.
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Included are several enhancements for showing a call-to-action slide that will come at the end of your video stream (the controls to set this up are shown below), new social sharing buttons that will appear at the bottom of the video frame, along with a place to add your logo too. As if this isn’t enough, there is also the ability to add an interactive transcript that scrolls along with the video. Some of these can be found in competitive players, but none in a package for the equivalent cost of Wistia’s hosting service.
The nice thing about Wistia’s transcripts is they contain essential Google SEO juice. You can click on a particular word and be magically transported to that portion of the video. Wistia has a two-step process: they convert the text automatically, and then spend another day passing the text through human readers to ensure accuracy.
The new features are all part of your account at no extra charge, with the exception of the transcriptions that will cost $5 per minute of your video. Plans begin at $23 a month for hosting up to three videos, and jump to $79 a month for unlimited videos. And, as the company says, “They will work on your desktop, they will work across browsers, they will work on all mobile devices, with no extra work on your end.” That is great news indeed.
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Ask.com Opens Up Its Human Q&A Community, Steps Further Away From Search
Sep 1st
After more than a year in beta, Ask.com today opened the doors on its community-based question-and-answer product. It positions Ask as much less search-oriented, and much more Q&A based — not unlike its original incarnation in the 1990s. The Q&A site had been available in beta to a…
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Mono’s Not Dead Yet: New Startup Will Offer Support, Further Development
May 16th
Earlier this month Attachmate laid off the developers working on Mono, an open source implementation of Microsoft .NET sponsored by Novell. Attachmate acquired Novell last year.
Today Mono creator Miguel de Icaza announced the formation of a new startup to support the open source project: Xamarin.
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de Icaza wrote:
We have been trying to spin Mono off from Novell for more than a year now. Everyone agreed that Mono would have a brighter future as an independent company, so a plan was prepared last year.
To make a long story short, the plan to spin off was not executed. Instead on Monday May 2nd, the Canadian and American teams were laid off; Europe, Brazil and Japan followed a few days later. These layoffs included all the MonoTouch and MonoDroid engineers and other key Mono developers. Although Attachmate allowed us to go home that day, we opted to provide technical support to our users until our last day at Novell, which was Friday last week.
We were clearly bummed out by this development, and had no desire to quit, especially with all the great progress in this last year. So, with a heavy dose of motivation from my music teacher, we hatched a plan.
Now, two weeks later, we have a plan in place, which includes both angel funding for keeping the team together, as well as a couple of engineering contracts that will help us stay together as a team while we ship our revenue generating products.
According to de Icaza Xamarin will:
- Build a new commercial .NET offering for iOS
- Build a new commercial .NET offering for Android
- Continue to contribute, maintain and develop the open source Mono and Moonlight components.
- Explore the Moonlight opportunities in the mobile space and the Mac appstore.
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Bruce Clay Australia Announces Further SEO Training Dates for 2010 – PR Web (press release)
Jul 31st
 PR Web (press release) |
Bruce Clay Australia Announces Further SEO Training Dates for 2010
PR Web (press release) Bruce Clay Australia has added additional SEO training dates for the second half of 2010. The highly regarded 1 Day SEO course provides “very useful and … |
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