Thursday, January 6, 2011

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[G] A sneak peek at “Life in a Day”

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:01 AM PST

YouTube Blog: A sneak peek at "Life in a Day"

In December, we announced that "Life in a Day," a documentary film directed by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald, produced by Ridley Scott, and filmed on July 24, 2010 by thousands of YouTube users around the world, was finished—and would have its world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on January 27.

Today we'd like to share with you the first in a series of clips we'll release between now and the world premiere. In this clip, beautifully shot by Toniu Xou and Patricia Marinez del Hoyoa of Spain, a young girl climbs a human castle in the small town of San Jaume dels Domenys in the Spanish province of Tarragona.



If watching this clip gets you excited for more, subscribe to the Life in a Day channel to be automatically updated when new clips are released.

And, most importantly, don't forget to tune into the world premiere of "Life in a Day" at 5pm PT on Thursday, January 27, to see the 1,125 clips—out of more than 80,000 submitted—that made it into the final film.

Live in an incompatible time zone? Not to worry. The film will be re-broadcast at 7pm on Friday, January 28, in your local time zone, whatever that may be. This will be your only chance to see "Life in a Day" before it is released later in 2011, so don't miss out!

And for those of you who want to experience Sundance even more intimately, check out the Life in a Day channel daily from January 24 to January 27 to see on-the-ground updates from Kevin Macdonald and a group of contributors to the "Life in a Day" project whom Kevin has invited to join him for the world premiere. You can also submit questions on the channel during that time for a chance to take part in a live Q&A with Kevin and the 20 contributors following the world premiere.

Tim Partridge, Product Marketing Manager, recently watched Homeless Man with Golden Radio Voice


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/lYIdNqZKb5w/sneak-peek-at-life-in-day.html

[G] New Year, New Asynchronous Tags for GWO

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:16 PM PST

Official Google Website Optimizer Blog: New Year, New Asynchronous Tags for GWO

Happy New Year fellow testers! We've just made a change to the Website Optimizer tags that will help your pages load faster, improve data accuracy, and eliminate tracking errors when tags are not fully loaded.

The next time you go to create an experiment, you'll be given the new tags, which use asynchronous JavaScript. Asynchronous tagging, which is already a standard for Google Analytics, allows the Website Optimizer tracking and conversion scripts to run in parallel to your site loading. For Website Optimizer veterans, these new tags appear in Step 2 of the setup wizard -- be sure to read the instructions as the installation is slightly different.

Here's five things you should know about the new tags:
  1. The traditional (non-async) snippets will continue to work if you want to use them. And there's no need to retag experiments.
  2. We've combined the Control Script and Tracking Script into one snippet of code. Be sure not to double tag your pages.
  3. Async tags go immediately after the opening &lthead&gt tag on your test and conversion pages, not at the bottom of the page like the old tags.
  4. If you customize your Control Scripts (for experiments with cross-domain experiments and the like), the Control Script still uses urchin.js-style methods.
  5. Articles in the Help Center have been updated to reflect the new tags though we still have articles with the traditional tag for your reference.
Here's to winning experiments in the new year.

Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Website Optimizer team
URL: http://websiteoptimizer.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-year-new-asynchronous-tags-for-gwo.html

[G] Mission Blue: Return to the Gulf of Mexico

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 07:35 PM PST

Google LatLong: Mission Blue: Return to the Gulf of Mexico


With support from Google, the Waitt Foundation, Hope Spots LLC and the National Geographic Society, Sylvia Earle and Mission Blue are embarking on an expedition to the Gulf of Mexico that will take a deep look at how the region is recovering from the five million gallons of oil spilled from the BP Deep Horizon Oil Spill last year. Follow along with the expedition by checking back daily and clicking on the blue ship icon in Google Earth located off of the US coast near Pensacola, Florida, where the expedition begins (make sure the Places layer is turned on). The science team will share updates and media from the expedition, including photographs, videos and links to Google maps on the National Geographic News Watch blog here.

Click on the blue ship icon near Pensacola, Florida in Google Earth
to see the most recent post from the expedition.

"Our goal is to identify areas with potential for Gulf ecosystem recovery," said Dr. Earle, founder of SEAlliance and recipient of the 2009 TED Prize that developed into Mission Blue, an international ocean conservation movement. "That is going to require protection of places healthy enough to replenish and rebuild populations. What's happened here is far from over for the clams and oysters and other sea life critical to a healthy Gulf of Mexico."

The fate and impact of the spilled oil, gas and dispersants applied following the blowout into the Gulf are the subject of intense discussion by experts. The expedition team, assembled under the broad banner of the Mission Blue initiative, seeks answers to questions about the current status of key species and ecosystems.

Other research participants include: Dr. Thomas Shirley, Larry McKinney, Douglas Weaver and Harriet Nash from the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Edith Widder and Brandy Nelson, Ocean Research & Conservation Association and Carl Safina, Blue Ocean Institute. Research dives are planned using a Dual Deepworker submersible made available to the expedition by the Waitt Institute.

You can also experience the expedition for yourself by downloading this KML for viewing in Google Earth.

Posted by Jenifer Foulkes, Product Manager, Ocean in Google Earth and Maps
URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/01/mission-blue-return-to-gulf-of-mexico.html

[G] Your window into the 112th Congress

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:33 PM PST

YouTube Blog: Your window into the 112th Congress

Just after Representative John Boehner was sworn in as the 61st Speaker of the House earlier today, he and new House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa made an early move to make the activities of the House of Representatives more accessible to citizens via YouTube. Starting in this 112th Congress, all committee hearings of the House Oversight committee will be available on YouTube, on a new channel called HouseResourceOrg. This is the first congressional committee to ever put all of its hearings online, and the new Speaker hopes it's the first step towards getting all House committee hearings available to all citizens on the web.


This was made possible via a Google Project 10^100 grant made to Carl Malamud at PublicResource.org, who will be working with the House to access and upload all of the hearings that the Oversight Committee holds each week. PublicResource.org will also upload hundreds of hours of archived content. Where transcripts are available from the House, they'll be uploaded along with the videos, using YouTube's auto-timing capabilities to automatically create accurate captions through voice recognition. Thanks to the reuse of these uploaded transcripts, PublicResource.org videos with captions will be fully searchable, and the captions can be auto-translated into over 50 languages.

Here's an example of the types of videos you'll see on the new channel – if you go to the video page, you can see the interactive transcript in the upper-right hand corner of the clip:



As always, you can access the individual channels of Members of Congress at youtube.com/househub and youtube.com/senatehub.

Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, recently watched "U.S. Policy towards Iran."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/t0r5c7uPlCA/your-window-into-112th-congress.html
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