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Get Your Videos on the Web
Getting videos on the web is a trend that has grown rapidly over the past few years with the help of social, blogging, and video networks fueling the fire. Just recently, I decided to jump on board and start posting videos to the web. Despite, how much I didn't know, it turned out to be fairly easy. If you were to ask
me, this is how I would recommend getting your videos onto the web.
1. First, you need a digital camera.
The best one I found for web video is the Flip camera, just under $150 at Best Buy or any electronic store. It's simple, light weight, and easily connects through a built in USB port on the device. Holding either 30 minutes, or 60 minutes of video, it is sufficient for posting on the web.
2. Second, find an application to compress your videos.
Compressing makes for quick uploads, and easier viewing. Visual Hub (Mac) is what Mike recommended in the office, and it smoothly knocks a 800MB file to a 200MB file in just minutes. It also encodes to various video formats like AVI, MOV, and MP4.
3. Third, find a video network that best suites you.
YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, and many other sites offer accounts with great upload features. People who are out to promote themselves generally spread video over a broad range of these sites hoping for a big bite.
4. Share with friends, family and the world!
Mike shared all of this information with me, so I can not take credit for the ideas...
only the fact that they work well for me or the technically challenged!
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What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.