Posted by Mateo Baisden on Monday, 23 November 2009 | Creating Content, Video Content | 6 Comments
Video has been growing in it’s importance for ranking well in search, and Google will soon begin indexing the dialog within videos posted to Youtube. This is great news for disabled users that can enjoy captioned videos, but the greater implication is that video will soon most likey be the most important content you create online.
Here’s the link to a great article on the subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/technology/internet/20google.html
Here’s some examples of captioning on Youtube. Going to be cool when they do this for all videos.
http://lifehacker.com/5408499/youtube-adds-machine+generated-automatic-captions
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Man that’s pretty amazing stuff.
It’s still important in the interim to publish text summaries or transcriptions with your video content. {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.tv/thumbnail/NIDdRmJefh_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”It’s still important in the interim to publish text summaries or transcriptions with your video content. ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/eZH3FwuFyk”}}}
Looks like Guy Kawasaki agrees: http://holykaw.alltop.com/how-to-prime-your-videos-for-success