Mixx Gets Better

writer85 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:23:14 +0000

Here are some of the goodies updated for a whole new Mixx experience.

Twitter Integration
Integration with Twitter let members of Mixx Communities choose topics relevant to their communities and have latest updates delivered. Like if your Community is dedicated to Beijing Olympics, by inputting the search term with the words “Beijing Olympics”, you can get all the recent tweets with the keyword “Beijing Olympics”. Who wouldn’t want to know all the recent stuffs circulating about Beijing Olympics?

You can find these settings in the Editorial section of the Community Management panel. The people at Summize.com are the reason behind the search feature, which was recently acquired by Twitter and is now being used in Mixx.

Cleaner Navigation
Due to the overwhelming response of the new comment system, Mixx have come up with a better and faster way to get to all the new comment traffic. The number of comments coming in on Mixx each day doubled since its last installation on August 7. The Mixx story page will now house all the headlines on story lists around Mixx to be able to give comments quicker. Try to click the view story/photo/video link right next to the headline to get straight from the source.

Pagination
The “Next” button is now replaced with little “1 2 3 4 5 . . .” buttons of every page for easier navigation on which page you want to be. Its about time Mixx changes the “Next” button. Wouldn’t it be harder to get to the 100th page if you started from the 1st and just click the “Next” button?

YouTube on Captions

writer85 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:21:38 +0000

As more and more users are visiting YouTube, the development team is looking for more ways in providing users new and useful features to enhance their viewing experience and conquer a wider audience. One of this is the captioning feature that allows video owners to put captions on their videos that will give the viewers a better understanding of it. Captions can surely be handy especially to those with hearing disabilities or to those who speak other languages. It can also provide a better viewing experience when audio tracks are of poor quality.

To add captions on your videos, go to the “Captions and Subtitles” menu on the editing page and upload a closed caption file. You can upload multiple files if you wish to add several captions to a video. For foreign subtitles in multiple languages, there are over 120 languages to select from, you can upload a separate file for each language and add titles for each caption.

You can turn on/off video captions when watching a video by clicking the “up arrow” button found on the bottom right of the video player. Select the captions/subtitles menu button. If there are available captions/subtitles for the video, the button will be clickable. You can also change the language by clicking the “up arrow” button on the bottom right of the video player. Click the “left arrow” next to the captions/subtitles menu button. The button will only be available if there are any captions/subtitles for the video. Choose the language you want for the subtitles. Available languages you can choose for the subtitles depend on the video uploaders.

With the caption/subtitle feature, viewers can have a better understanding of the video they are watching. The only problem with subtitles is how accurate the translation is.

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Mixx Gets Better

YouTube on Captions