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It was Memorial Day is a United States on the last Monday of May (May 25 in 2009). Memorial day is formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I to include American casualties of any war or military action.

It seems like Google is also showing respect to people who have given their life for the country by displaying a very special yellow ribbon on their homepage like the screenshot above. In the past, certain groups and people criticized Google for not changing their logo on this day, while others have congratulated Google for ignoring the holiday.

The Google homepage also showed ribbons of other colors before. A red ribbon was put up on World AIDS day, and a black ribbon was put up during bomb attacks in Madrid in 2004, and London in 2005.

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It was Memorial Day is a United States on the last Monday of May (May 25 in 2009). Memorial day is formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I to include American casualties of any war or military action.

It seems like Google is also showing respect to people who have given their life for the country by displaying a very special yellow ribbon on their homepage like the screenshot above. In the past, certain groups and people criticized Google for not changing their logo on this day, while others have congratulated Google for ignoring the holiday.

The Google homepage also showed ribbons of other colors before. A red ribbon was put up on World AIDS day, and a black ribbon was put up during bomb attacks in Madrid in 2004, and London in 2005.

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Google displays Yellow Ribbon

It was Memorial Day is a United States on the last Monday of May (May 25 in 2009). Memorial day is formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I to include American casualties of any war or military action.

It seems like Google is also showing respect to people who have given their life for the country by displaying a very special yellow ribbon on their homepage like the screenshot above. In the past, certain groups and people criticized Google for not changing their logo on this day, while others have congratulated Google for ignoring the holiday.

The Google homepage also showed ribbons of other colors before. A red ribbon was put up on World AIDS day, and a black ribbon was put up during bomb attacks in Madrid in 2004, and London in 2005.

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Google displays Yellow Ribbon

This is probably not new, but I recently noticed that on the bottom of this YouTube video showing how a 80×80×80 Rubik’s cube is solved, there’s a strong copyright notice. It reads: “Notice … This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG [Warner Music Group]. The audio has been disabled. … More about copyright”. The link then points to YouTube’s copyright tips.

I really wonder, how many videos have been muted like this? Well Its pretty hard to tell exactly, but I tried doing a search in Google with search query ["This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by” site:youtube.com] returns around 342,000 hits (including some help pages from youtube, and perhaps some regional YouTube content too).

On a separate report, there was a rumor that YouTube is to run a trial of ’pre-roll’ video ads on selected content from several broadcasters starting from today. The pre-roll ads are short video ads shown before the video you requested and could be up to 30 seconds long. Advertisements will start appearing around videos from BBC Worldwide, ITN, Discovery, National Geographic and – from today – Channel 4.

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Youtube Copyright Notice

This is probably not new, but I recently noticed that on the bottom of this YouTube video showing how a 80×80×80 Rubik’s cube is solved, there’s a strong copyright notice. It reads: “Notice … This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG [Warner Music Group]. The audio has been disabled. … More about copyright”. The link then points to YouTube’s copyright tips.

I really wonder, how many videos have been muted like this? Well Its pretty hard to tell exactly, but I tried doing a search in Google with search query ["This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by” site:youtube.com] returns around 342,000 hits (including some help pages from youtube, and perhaps some regional YouTube content too).

On a separate report, there was a rumor that YouTube is to run a trial of ’pre-roll’ video ads on selected content from several broadcasters starting from today. The pre-roll ads are short video ads shown before the video you requested and could be up to 30 seconds long. Advertisements will start appearing around videos from BBC Worldwide, ITN, Discovery, National Geographic and – from today – Channel 4.

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Youtube Copyright Notice

This is probably not new, but I recently noticed that on the bottom of this YouTube video showing how a 80×80×80 Rubik’s cube is solved, there’s a strong copyright notice. It reads: “Notice … This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG [Warner Music Group]. The audio has been disabled. … More about copyright”. The link then points to YouTube’s copyright tips.

I really wonder, how many videos have been muted like this? Well Its pretty hard to tell exactly, but I tried doing a search in Google with search query ["This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by” site:youtube.com] returns around 342,000 hits (including some help pages from youtube, and perhaps some regional YouTube content too).

On a separate report, there was a rumor that YouTube is to run a trial of ’pre-roll’ video ads on selected content from several broadcasters starting from today. The pre-roll ads are short video ads shown before the video you requested and could be up to 30 seconds long. Advertisements will start appearing around videos from BBC Worldwide, ITN, Discovery, National Geographic and – from today – Channel 4.

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Youtube Copyright Notice

This is probably not new, but I recently noticed that on the bottom of this YouTube video showing how a 80×80×80 Rubik’s cube is solved, there’s a strong copyright notice. It reads: “Notice … This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG [Warner Music Group]. The audio has been disabled. … More about copyright”. The link then points to YouTube’s copyright tips.

I really wonder, how many videos have been muted like this? Well Its pretty hard to tell exactly, but I tried doing a search in Google with search query ["This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by” site:youtube.com] returns around 342,000 hits (including some help pages from youtube, and perhaps some regional YouTube content too).

On a separate report, there was a rumor that YouTube is to run a trial of ’pre-roll’ video ads on selected content from several broadcasters starting from today. The pre-roll ads are short video ads shown before the video you requested and could be up to 30 seconds long. Advertisements will start appearing around videos from BBC Worldwide, ITN, Discovery, National Geographic and – from today – Channel 4.

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Youtube Copyright Notice

I am pretty sure this this will become your favorite Gmail feature that has been rolled out via Gmail Labs: automated message translation.

How to Enable Gmail Message Translation

If you wish to enable this cool new feature just head over to your Gmail Labs settings, and the next time you see a mail written in a language that you cant read, you can hit a simple link which reads e.g. “Translate message to: English” above your email message, and the message will magically appear in English. If you wish to change your default language for this tool, go to the general settings tab, and you’ll find a selection box labeled “Default translation language”.

I am thinking whether Google plans to roll this feature out for everyone after the initial public testing and feedback-gathering. Some of the Gmail labs products seem to be too useful to leave out in the Labs section.

These days, translations of texts we don’t understand are often triggered with a click. For instance, when I need to translate something, I usually head over to Google Translate or press the translate button in my Google Toolbar.

However in future as we see more use of translations, it may be logical for Google to auto-translate a text when its not in my default language and at the same time they can probably show a disclaimer footnote that “this message was auto-translated for you” with a link to the original.

And if this sort of features are built into the browser itself and not built per-app then it would be just great. For instance Google’s Chrome browser might one day automatically translate every web page you visit, as you visit it. But of course there are few downsides, mistranslation being one of them.

Any thoughts?

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Translate Gmail Inbox

I am pretty sure this this will become your favorite Gmail feature that has been rolled out via Gmail Labs: automated message translation.

How to Enable Gmail Message Translation

If you wish to enable this cool new feature just head over to your Gmail Labs settings, and the next time you see a mail written in a language that you cant read, you can hit a simple link which reads e.g. “Translate message to: English” above your email message, and the message will magically appear in English. If you wish to change your default language for this tool, go to the general settings tab, and you’ll find a selection box labeled “Default translation language”.

I am thinking whether Google plans to roll this feature out for everyone after the initial public testing and feedback-gathering. Some of the Gmail labs products seem to be too useful to leave out in the Labs section.

These days, translations of texts we don’t understand are often triggered with a click. For instance, when I need to translate something, I usually head over to Google Translate or press the translate button in my Google Toolbar.

However in future as we see more use of translations, it may be logical for Google to auto-translate a text when its not in my default language and at the same time they can probably show a disclaimer footnote that “this message was auto-translated for you” with a link to the original.

And if this sort of features are built into the browser itself and not built per-app then it would be just great. For instance Google’s Chrome browser might one day automatically translate every web page you visit, as you visit it. But of course there are few downsides, mistranslation being one of them.

Any thoughts?

Originally posted here:
Translate Gmail Inbox

I am pretty sure this this will become your favorite Gmail feature that has been rolled out via Gmail Labs: automated message translation.

How to Enable Gmail Message Translation

If you wish to enable this cool new feature just head over to your Gmail Labs settings, and the next time you see a mail written in a language that you cant read, you can hit a simple link which reads e.g. “Translate message to: English” above your email message, and the message will magically appear in English. If you wish to change your default language for this tool, go to the general settings tab, and you’ll find a selection box labeled “Default translation language”.

I am thinking whether Google plans to roll this feature out for everyone after the initial public testing and feedback-gathering. Some of the Gmail labs products seem to be too useful to leave out in the Labs section.

These days, translations of texts we don’t understand are often triggered with a click. For instance, when I need to translate something, I usually head over to Google Translate or press the translate button in my Google Toolbar.

However in future as we see more use of translations, it may be logical for Google to auto-translate a text when its not in my default language and at the same time they can probably show a disclaimer footnote that “this message was auto-translated for you” with a link to the original.

And if this sort of features are built into the browser itself and not built per-app then it would be just great. For instance Google’s Chrome browser might one day automatically translate every web page you visit, as you visit it. But of course there are few downsides, mistranslation being one of them.

Any thoughts?

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Translate Gmail Inbox