Posted by Shane Snow on Mar 3, 2010 in News | View Comments
by SHANE SNOW | Guest Writer
Throngs of programmers, MBAs, and entrepreneurs in all varieties swarmed Fashion Institute of Technology’s Haft Auditorium last night to watch nine New York technology companies demonstrate their products; the Fire Marshall had to order a few dozen people standing in the back to bounce. (But geeks in the crowd squeezed in close so they could all fit.). With 70 previous such events under its belt, New York Tech Meetup, a monthly gathering of tech talent, kicked off the night with a set of five one-minute demos by new companies, and concluded with five five-minute demos. As usual, the crowd ate it up.
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Posted by Vadim Lavrusik on Mar 2, 2010 in Featured, Multimedia, News, Videos | View Comments
Nate Westheimer, co-founder and EVP of product & technology at AnyClip. He is also known as the organizer of the NY Tech Meetup.
Nate Westheimer, the co-founder and executive vice president for product and technology at AnyClip.com and the executive director and organizer of the NY Tech Meetup, demoed AnyClip for us and talked about how the company plans to make money through affiliate revenue, advertising and partnerships.
The site uses meta data to allow users to search words or subjects to find specific movie clips. In the video, you’ll see Westheimer search gas station and several movie clips in which a scene takes place at a gas station show up. The idea is similar to that of SpeakerText, which we’ve written about, in that it helps make online video more usable and searchable.
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Posted by Vadim Lavrusik on Jan 18, 2010 in Featured, Multimedia, News, Podcasts | View Comments
NYC 3.0 Podcast #1 - Speakertext Interview [12:46m]:
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Matt Mireles thought of the idea for SpeakerText while working with video and audio as a journalist. (Photo: Vadim Lavrusik)
SpeakerText has the potential to make video a lot more searchable, useful and navigable. Founder Matt Mireles demoed the video tool at January’s NY Tech Meetup with resounding applause and approval from the audience.
The tool syncs the video track with the transcript and allows you to navigate the video by clicking on different parts of the text.
Perhaps the most useful feature is that if anyone copies the transcript text from the video and pastes it into a blog post, it turns it into a link that goes directly to that moment in the video (a feature that got oos and ahhs at the meetup).
Right now the tool works with YouTube API, and it would be great to see the technology extended to other video platforms. So where does the transcript come from? It integrates with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for one hour of video transcription for $20. Considering most videos are a little over 3 minutes long, that’s not too bad of a price.
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