Friday, July 23, 2010

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[G] YouTube Play jury selected and ready to view your work

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 02:18 AM PDT

YouTube Blog: YouTube Play jury selected and ready to view your work

For artists, YouTube is a 21st century canvas. Since the YouTube Play project was announced last month, more than 6,000 videos ranging in genres, topics and budget have been submitted from 69 countries, and the YouTube Play channel has received over 2 million views.

Today, we're unveiling the jury for YouTube Play, which includes some of the world's leading artists, from international film festival winners and renowned photographers to performance and video artists on the cutting edge of art.

YouTube Play jurors include musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson; musical group Animal Collective; visual artists Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter and Takashi Murakami; artists and filmmakers Shirin Neshat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Darren Aronofsky; and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, with Guggenheim Chief Curator and Deputy Director Nancy Spector serving as jury chairperson.

Over the course of the next few months, these jurors will watch countless hours of videos submitted by the international YouTube community and select the most creative and inspiring work to showcase at the Guggenheim museums in October.

Already, this campaign has drawn some remarkable talent, and we're looking forward to seeing more of your submissions in our quest to find the most creative video art in the world and showcase it alongside van Gogh and Picasso. The deadline for getting your videos in is July 31. For more information about the jurors and to learn more about how to participate, check out youtube.com/play.

Ed Sanders, Senior Marketing Manager, recently watched "YouTube Play: Behind the Scenes."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/dbPgCscd2tw/youtube-play-jury-selected-and-ready-to.html

[G] "Unstaged” concert series brings you live music, starting with Arcade Fire

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 10:27 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: "Unstaged" concert series brings you live music, starting with Arcade Fire

Hello, music lover, meet "Unstaged," a new five-part concert series brought to you by YouTube, American Express and VEVO. Each performance will not only be streamed live on YouTube, but it will also have unique on- and offline components to entertain fans -- for example, you may be able to vote on the encore performance or switch camera angles. And if you miss anything, no worries: the full show and highlights will be available on the artist's channel soon after the show.



Kicking off the series will be Arcade Fire, who will perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City on August 5. The concert will coincide with the release of Arcade Fire's third album, The Suburbs, and will be broadcast live to the world on www.youtube.com/arcadefirevevo.

















Other artists slated to be part of the "Unstaged" lineup include John Legend and the Roots. More artists will be announced in the coming weeks so keep an ear tuned right here for more details.



Glenn Brown, Business Development, Music, and Dana Vetter, Marketing Programs, recently watched "Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika) ."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/5xUFGfYpVrw/unstaged-concert-series-brings-you-live.html

[G] 2010 EMEA Scholars’ Retreat: top CS students share their impressions

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:15 PM PDT

Official Google Blog: 2010 EMEA Scholars' Retreat: top CS students share their impressions

Back in June, our Zurich engineering headquarters welcomed 100 of EMEA's brightest computer science students to our annual Europe, Middle East and Africa Scholars' Retreat. Recipients of the Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities joined Anita Borg Memorial Scholars and Finalists for three days of workshops, technical talks, poster sessions, networking events and, of course, lots of fun! Check out our video below to hear from scholars and speakers in their own words:



Our academic scholarships are designed to support a new generation of talented, diverse computer scientists from all backgrounds. If you want to learn more, visit www.google.com/university/emea for a complete list of scholarships, grants and other opportunities available to students and academics.

Posted by Caitlin Pantos, University Programs Specialist
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/2010-emea-scholars-retreat-top-cs.html

[G] Faster dialing with Google Voice on Android and Blackberry devices

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:58 PM PDT

Official Google Mobile Blog: Faster dialing with Google Voice on Android and Blackberry devices

(Cross-posted with the Google Voice Blog)

At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better. This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone should connect you as quickly as possible, whether you're calling via Google Voice or not.

Today we are launching an enhancement to the Google Voice mobile app on Android and Blackberry phones, which makes placing calls much faster. We call this feature "direct access numbers." Here's how it works:

Until today, the Google Voice app had to make a request to the Google Voice server every time you wanted to make a call to send us the phone number you wanted to dial. Then the call would be connected via a Google Voice access number. With direct access numbers, we assign a unique phone number to every person you call. This means that we no longer need to use your data network to access the server each time you make a call, so calls will be placed much faster.

The updated Android app is available from Android Market starting today. For Blackberry users, you can download the app by visiting http://m.google.com/voice from your mobile device. You will need a valid Google Voice account to use the app, and at this time, Google Voice is available in the US only.

Posted by Flavio Lerda, Software Engineer
URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/07/faster-dialing-with-google-voice-on.html

[G] You Report: What’s happening now in the Bay Area?

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:46 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: You Report: What's happening now in the Bay Area?

Though YouTube is a global site, it's often local videos that are most relevant to your life. When people use camcorders and mobile phones to capture newsworthy events in their neighborhoods and upload them to YouTube, they're broadening the window into our own communities. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area (where YouTube is based), we've seen several YouTube videos inform local news coverage, from the snapping of support cables on the Bay Bridge, to the shooting of Oscar Grant by an Oakland police officer, to fights breaking out on Muni, the local bus system.


Earlier this summer, we announced our CitizenTube News Feed, the first of two projects we're doing with the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Now, we're participating in an experiment in citizen reporting right here in our own backyard. We're joining forces with our local ABC station, ABC7 (KGO-TV), to launch the ABC7 uReport powered by YouTube. ABC7 will use YouTube Direct to collect news footage from people in the San Francisco Bay Area. Residents of the Bay Area are invited to document the news and events happening where they live, work and play, and to submit those videos via YouTube Direct to the producers at ABC7. The team at ABC7 will feature newsworthy videos on television (Channel 7 in the Bay Area), on their website (ureport.abc7news.com), and on their YouTube channel (youtube.com/abc7news).







Do you have a video camera and live in the Bay Area? You can participate in the project by submitting your news videos to ureport.abc7news.com, and be sure to follow along on Twitter (@abc7newsbayarea) and on Facebook (facebook.com/abc7news) for the latest news and updates.



Olivia Ma, News Manager, recently watched "Dancing at Sunday Streets Mission."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/yfejbvg0cK0/you-report-whats-happening-now-in-bay.html

[G] Announcing our Q2 Research Awards

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 01:28 PM PDT

Official Google Research Blog: Announcing our Q2 Research Awards

Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations

We're excited to announce the latest round of Google Research Awards, our program which identifies and supports full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. From a record number of submissions, we are funding 75 awards across 18 different areas—a total of more than $4 million.

The areas that received the highest level of funding for this round were systems and infrastructure, human computer interaction, multimedia and security. We also continue to develop more collaborations internationally. In this round, 26 percent of the funding was awarded to universities outside the U.S.

Here are some examples from this round of awards:
  • Jeremy Cooperstock, McGill University. A Spatialized Audio Map System for Mobile Blind Users (Geo/maps): A mobile audio system that provides location-based information, primarily for use by the blind and visually impaired communities.
  • Alexander Pretschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Towards Operational Privacy (Security and privacy): Provide a framework for precise semantic definitions in policies for domain-specific applications to give users a way to define the exact behaviour they expect from a system in application-specific contexts.
  • Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Future of Prediction - How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Quantities (Economics and market algortihms): How data from search engines like Google provide a highly accurate but simple way to predict future business activities.
  • Stephen Pulman, Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Automatic Generation of Natural Language Descriptions of Visual Scenes (Natural language processing): Develop a system that automatically generates a description of a visual scene.
  • Jennifer Rexford, Princeton. Rethinking Wide-Area Traffic Management (Software and hardware systems infrastructure): Drawing on mature techniques from optimization theory, design new traffic-management solutions where the hosts, routers, and management system cooperate in a more effective way.
  • John Quinn, Makerere University, Uganda. Mobile Crop Surveillance in the Developing World (Multimedia search and audio/video processing): A computer vision system using camera-enabled mobile devices to monitor the spread of viral disease among staple crops.
  • Allison Druin, University of Maryland. Understanding how Children Change as Searchers (Human-computer interaction): Do children change as searchers as they age? How do searchers typically shift between roles over time? If children change, how many of them become Power Searchers? If children don't change, what roles do they typically demonstrate?
  • Ronojoy Adhikari, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India. Machine Learning of Syntax in Undeciphered Scripts (Machine learning): Devise algorithms that would learn to search for evidence of semantics in datasets such as the Indus script.

You can find the full list of this round's award recipients here (pdf). More information on our research award program can be found on our website.
URL: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/07/announcing-our-q2-research-awards.html

[G] Apply template themes to existing sites in Google Sites

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 11:08 AM PDT

Official Google Docs Blog: Apply template themes to existing sites in Google Sites

With new site templates being created every day, there are times when you find the theme you want after you have already created your site. Based on your feedback, we added the ability to apply a site template's theme to any existing site. To choose from the 100s of themes in the public theme gallery, select Browse the theme gallery from the Themes page (Manage site -> Themes), and start browsing.




Try it out and let us know what you think on the forums.

Posted by: Eric Zhang, Software Engineer
URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/07/apply-template-themes-to-existing-sites.html

[G] Faster dialing with Google Voice on Android and Blackberry devices

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 10:02 AM PDT

Google Voice Blog: Faster dialing with Google Voice on Android and Blackberry devices

At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better. This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone should connect you as quickly as possible, whether you're calling via Google Voice or not.

Today we are launching an enhancement to the Google Voice mobile app on Android and Blackberry phones, which makes placing calls much faster. We call this feature "direct access numbers." Here's how it works:

Until today, the Google Voice app had to make a request to the Google Voice server every time you wanted to make a call to send us the phone number you wanted to dial. Then the call would be connected via a Google Voice access number. With direct access numbers, we assign a unique phone number to every person you call. This means that we no longer need to use your data network to access the server each time you make a call, so calls will be placed much faster.

The updated Android app is available from Android Market starting today. For Blackberry users, you can download the app by visiting http://m.google.com/voice from your mobile device. You will need a valid Google Voice account to use the app, and at this time, Google Voice is available in the US only.

Posted by Flavio Lerda, Software Engineer
URL: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/faster-dialing-with-google-voice-on.html

[G] Sit back, relax, and explore: new seatback maps with Virgin America

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 09:24 AM PDT

Google LatLong: Sit back, relax, and explore: new seatback maps with Virgin America


One of my favorite truisms is, "no matter where you go, there you are." Call me sappy, but it's a nice way to remember that every place on Earth has meaning, history and identity. But let's face it: when you're on an airplane, traveling over unknown lands at triple-digit speeds, it's hard to get a sense of where you really are.

That's why I'm happy to announce that as a part of our continued partnership with Virgin America, we've completely updated the Google Maps data on the touchscreens of every airplane seat. As before, the map shows you almost exactly where you are, and you can zoom and pan to explore. Now, with our beautiful terrain view and fresh Google data, the maps are not only prettier, but also highlight mountains, elevation and other natural features. In other words, it more closely matches what you'd actually see if you had cloud-penetrating eyesight and looked out the window from 35,000 feet.



Virgin America also announced this morning that it will soon show up in more places on the map. With an order of 60 aircraft, the airline will triple its fleet size and expand to many new destinations. So whether you're flying one of those planes from San Francisco to Seattle, or New York to Los Angeles, we hope the new Google Maps can help answer questions like, "Is that Mt. Hood or Mt. St. Helens on the right?" and "What's that huge canyon over there?" Or, if you want to explore Street View or satellite images of where you're headed, Google Maps also works great on the in-flight WiFi Internet!

Posted by Jesse Friedman, Product Marketing Manager
URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/07/sit-back-relax-and-explore-new-seatback.html

[G] Ready...set...discover more music on YouTube

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 08:43 AM PDT

YouTube Blog: Ready...set...discover more music on YouTube

If you want easier ways to discover music on YouTube, just start here. Our revamped music page - part of a redesign that started with our shows and movies pages - showcases the most viewed music videos, special promotions, curated playlists, unsigned talent and gives you the ability to create on-the-fly mixes. For example, in the mood for electronic beats? Just scroll down to that genre and click "play" for an instant playlist. Looking for the latest viral music sensation? Check "Today's Hits"!


And if you want to find live music happening in your area, we will soon surface local music listings in "Events Near You."

So go ahead and give our new music browse page a try! The only hazards are: 1) singing along to your favorite song; 2) hipping your friends to something new; 3) getting stuck in a groovy mix; or 4) stepping out to catch a live performance in your own backyard.

Michele Flannery, Music Manager, recently watched "My Terrible Friend."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/913Ppm5UXsY/readysetdiscover-more-music-on-youtube.html
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