Comments on: Cloudy Vista, and More News of Note

By: audibletype

audibletype — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:51:40 +0000

Here’s a similar service to podzinger

http://www.audibletype.com is a web based voice recognition system. The system allows for transcription of audio and video files to search engine friendly text! The system will transcribe your audio or video file for you and provide time indexing so that you can quickly navigate trough the relevant data. Audibletype is also working on an open-api so that others can develop and build “widgets” to take full advantage of the technology and service. It also comes with tools so that you can make good use of your content. You can even send it back to your blog.

Audibletype is currently inviting beta-testers to participate in our UI development phase. Check it out at http://www.audibletype.com

By: Mr Wave Theory

Mr Wave Theory — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:50:24 +0000

Looks the old fossil from Redmond they did a restructuring! Finally!

Microsoft Announces Major Restructuring to Compete Against Google

http://www.mrwavetheory.com/2006/03/microsoft-announces-major.html

By: Brandon Byers

Brandon Byers — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:14:51 +0000

I've also seen the new SERP layout you mention. For some reason, I only see it when I'm at home, on my Macintosh (G3 PowerBook, Lombard). At work, on my XP & Linux machines, I rarely see it.

Not sure why.

See Google Blogoscoped post from January 26: http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-26-n64.html

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:06:41 +0000

John I think you are wrong, This is going to cause google some serious grief now in the quarter that vista launches.

If you look at other search engines like ask jeeves, they are earning a good 30%+ of their revenues from toolbar searches. Google is trying really really hard to get the distrubition of its toolbar up. If they have 30 to 50 million installs by the time vista launches they are going to lose millions of search users that don't resinstall the toolbar.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:47:48 +0000

does anyone actually use google reader??

By: jonathan

jonathan — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:20:19 +0000

Is google reader down for anyone else?

I've been getting 502 and 503 errors for the past 10 minutes...

By: Shimon Sandler

Shimon Sandler — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:49:10 +0000

Internet retailers must be shuddering if they were relying on new sales from Windows Vista.

By: Fahad Al Mahmood

Fahad Al Mahmood — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:51:01 +0000

According to Bloomberg.com, Microsoft shares fell 69 cents to $27.05 after the Windows Vista delay news ….

By: Webmetricsguru

Webmetricsguru — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:32:12 +0000

Great to keep us abreast of the latest news – familar with most of the stories but the one with the new search layout in Italian – I was unfamilar with.

Kinda wonder…why is Google testing a this feature in Italy? Why not here?