Posts Tagged ‘google news’
YouTube EDU, an educational video repository
YouTube, the world’s leader in online video, opens a new section called YouTube EDU. YouTube EDU is a “volunteer project sparked by a group of employees who wanted to find a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities“.
The new section, launched last March 26, 2009, contains videos on university lectures, seminars, documentaries, video references, lessons, and other videos that are educational by nature. YouTube EDU simply aggregates all the educational videos uploaded to YouTube by different colleges and universities in the world.
This new feature is very promising but it sill needs a lot of polishing in terms of video filtering. There may be a lot of good videos (helpful, relevant and educational) within the section but some useless videos were not filtered out.
The announcement was made in Youtube’s release notes for 3/26/2009.
Google Earth 5.0 with Ocean feature
Google announced today the launch of Ocean in Google Earth, new features that enables users to browse the depth of the ocean. The underwater terrain can be browsed in 3D. It also contains contents contributed by different organizations specializing in ocean science and advocacy.
Google News, now in the Philippines
This news just came in. Google is now offering Google News for Philippines (http://news.google.com.ph), the first local Google News in Southeast Asia.
This addition is the 56th local edition of Google News.
Here’s a portion of the press release:
Philippines – September 17, 2008 – Google Inc. today launched Google News in the Philippines, providing 24 million Filipino Internet users the latest local news from more than 4,500 English-language sources, including a wide range of Philippines news outlets. The Philippines is the first country in Southeast Asia to get its own local edition of Google News. Google News for the Philippines is available at http://news.google.com.ph. With this launch there are now 56 regional editions of Google News available in 20 different languages
Local news organizations are encouraged to include their news article in Google News. For more information on how to include your news organization, please check the “Help for Publishers” page.
