A Nielsen study suggests that there has been over a 300 percent increase in online video watching since 2003. Further, most watching is done during work hours. Workplace computers are often muted or have no speakers.
"The web offers a world of quality videos for our enjoyment and enlightenment. However, for a large population of Internet users* who are unable to hear, understand, or enable the audio content of videos, finding ones to watch can be a pain**. Captioned and subtitled videos are an answer; however, they are generally scattered and/or mixed with all other videos across the Internet. Up until now, there was no central place to easily and reliably search for and discover such videos across multiple video hosts. 22frames was built, in part, to provide such a place. In turn, an additionally important goal is to drive significant traffic to caption/subtitle friendly video hosts and creators."
This is an interesting website. It seems this is the first search engine that will search for videos with CC or subtitles not just on Youtube, but across the Internet.
It looks actually neat. They put everything into categories from Animations to News to Music and more.
Check it out. :)
Dude I'm loving that homepage. They need an rss feed tho. I also noticed it's not just captioned videos but others for the deaf community.
ReplyDeleteLOL'd: "FYI: During the silent film era, films were often shot at rates anywhere between 16 and 23 frames per second. 22 sounded the coolest to us, and here we are!"
by the way, how does one find stuff about this and the skin alert thing? where on the internet?
ReplyDeletealso, how come you ice your shoulders?
You bet! I'm anxious to see how it goes with 22frames.com. Good luck to them!
ReplyDeleteI read a lot of news on a daily basis and I get a lot of emails. :) I'm happy to share them with you.
(And it's a shoulder injury. I haven't update my pic for a while now. I like to tell others that it adds character. Haha.)
Cool. Now, I "have" CNN ;) -- http://www.22frames.com/video.aspx?id=186652
ReplyDeleteRock on! Hey, have you heard about the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act?
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