Month: October 2006

This is an experiment with Google Video and subtitling. Adding subtitles to movies hosted on Google Video is really easy; there’s a brief tutorial on their official site. {{video:http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5327937454848470194&hl=en-GB}} It seems to work, but note that the subtitles showed up about an hour after the video itself had been processed.

As reported by my guilty pleasure blog Techcrunch, Technorati (the blog search engine) have announced support for OpenID. From the blog post: Open ID provides one URL you can use to identify yourself at all participating sites around the web. You can handle the logistics yourself or you can pay any number of different vendors […]

Video is, after all, another way to express yourself online. This one’s streamed from Youtube, but I’ll see if I can work out a way to even have video embedded straight from Elgg. {{video:http://www.youtube.com/v/EMhaRAmzKH0}}

You can now embed videos from popular sites like Google Video, Youtube and Photobucket in your Elgg blog. To do this, you’ll need to find the ’embed HTML’ code for the video site you’re looking at, and extract the URL inside the src=”” tag. For example, for the video I’ve included below, the HTML looks […]