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New Youtube feature: crowdsourcing subtitles – anyone can submit - improves automatic captions, for non-native English speakers, global audience, hearing-impaired, preferences for reading, extra metadata for search engines YouTube has a new feature that allows regular users to contribute subtitles and captions to any video after a YouTuber opts into this feature. **Broken podcast** I don’t know if I’m remembering correctly, but I think that Felix discussed preferring subtitles when watching vide…

Quote from Dolunay: “what about Let's Plays? What are they?” **Curating** This is part of a great Reddit comment by Trachtas: Quote: “Still playing the game of "stay on top of it." Still thinking we can maintain control by checking all the new media out personally. Look at your steam library: how many dozens, hundreds of games there have you never played? With every year it only becomes more impossible to catch up. Are you really in control there? What kids today appreciate are the importance of…

Quote from FULLOFHATE: “they are not making fun of pewdiepie, they are making fun of you, the viewers who dont even play games any more but watch someone play.” They did with Cartman and his random noises, but unlike other celebrities that get served, Felix was brought in for a collaboration. He is clearly a fan of the show (evidenced by the Stick of Truth play-through), and was willingly helping to parody himself; his hands were not even on the keyboard at one point. South Park went after every…

Quote: “make LP fans out to be anti social no lifers ” I think it’s the opposite. I don’t have the time to play video games anymore, so it’s nice to be able to skip around, and see highlights without wasting time on unwanted trial and error. Getting small glimpses of new experiences is still sometimes better than the alternative of not having the time to even know that they exist. I think it’s just about shared experiences. Here are two options: You have the option of watching 1 season of a supe…

Productivity and scenery I’m interested in virtual reality for productivity and scenery. Remember the virtual-reality scene in Heavy Rain? youtu.be/0S_C23MPf3Y?t=1m40s ?t=1m40s “Step one: change the office” E.g. Traders can have 12 or more monitors for prices, news, charts, analytics, financial data, alerts, messages, etc.. Bloomberg LP (makes financial software) built a virtual prototype of their data terminal for the Oculus Rift. Here is the image of their prototype with 20 virtual screens: Z9…