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YouTube High Quality 16:9, Widescreen YouTube

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

YouTube recently went widescreen with making the standard YouTube video size now 16:9.

YouTube changed it’s YouTube player to 960 pixels wide. Users need to make sure that they start uploading high definition videos using the MPEG4 format, MP3 audio, a video resolution of at least 480×360, and a frame rate of 24fps or higher.

So YouTube is not the first to go widescreen, they are merely keeping up with the time. Already setup boxes are starting to stream YouTube, connecting YouTube to your living room.

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Google Flu Trends, Google Tracks Flu Virus With Search Trends

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

A new search tool called Google Flu Trends helps pinpoint where the disease is and how it is spreading.  Google even gives a good indication of flu activity based on the current month of the year.

According to Google’s Flu Trends: “We’ve found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems.”

The question is, with all that information they compile with the Google search engine, as well as their other various Google services, what else do they know? Who would have thought that what you type in the search engine tells a lot more about yourself than you expected?

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Determine the Gender of a Blog, Blog Gender Detector

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Which gender wrote the blog you are reading?  The Blog Gender Detector trys to determine the gender of the blog by analyzing certain patterns and words that women my tend to use over men.

According to them:We created Genderanalyzer out of curiosity and fun. It uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman.

Did it properly tell the gender of Click for Nick? Yes.

What it said: We think http://www.clickfornick.com is written by a man.

So far they have been pretty dead on. You can test it out via http://www.genderanalyzer.com

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Pixolu Relevant Picture Search

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Pixolu is a new way to search pictures based on relevancy.  It can find pictures based on appearance, and help you find say a picture of pumpkins, but pumpkins in a patch, but no pumpkin pie, or carved pumpkins. similarity to each other.

Basically the pictures load based on a keyword, so then you simply select the pictures which best matched the result.  Pixolu then tries it’s best to further match the results to better fit what you were searching for.  In the end you should have exactly what you want… hopefully.

http://www.pixolu.de/

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