22frames.com
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I am a co-developer of a closed captioned video search engine called 22frames.com (http://www.22frames.com/). It's goal is to provide a single place for finding captioned web videos on any topic on any site. There are lots of other features -- read: http://www.22frames.com/aboutus.aspx. Anyhow, the site was primarily built for the deaf community, so I’m joining with this name (22frames.com) so you can directly share ways improve the search engine with me.
Here is a summary of why it was built:
With the growing support of captions and subtitles on extremely popular sites like YouTube and Hulu, web video accessibility is becoming more of a reality. Up until 22frames.com, however, discovering captioned videos has often been a pain for the large population of Internet users who are unable to hear, understand, or simply enable the audio content of videos. Such videos were scattered throughout the many video hosts available today with no effective way for users to search across them.
22frames.com goes far beyond discovering and indexing captioned videos. At the core of the service are specialized web-crawlers that can also, for example, determine that videos like (1) 22frames.com - Bruno Kammerl jumps and (2) 22frames.com - Baby Loggerhead's first swim on Flagler Beach might not be captioned but are still easy to watch without audio.
Perhaps more intriguing than search, the service offers a unique experience for its users that are also visitors of link-sharing and community sites like Digg and Reddit. Such sites are often where the most entertaining videos are discovered. 22frames.com allows users of these sites to avoid mining through pages of community submissions to specifically find ones that are easy to watch without captions and audio.
Here is a summary of why it was built:
With the growing support of captions and subtitles on extremely popular sites like YouTube and Hulu, web video accessibility is becoming more of a reality. Up until 22frames.com, however, discovering captioned videos has often been a pain for the large population of Internet users who are unable to hear, understand, or simply enable the audio content of videos. Such videos were scattered throughout the many video hosts available today with no effective way for users to search across them.
22frames.com goes far beyond discovering and indexing captioned videos. At the core of the service are specialized web-crawlers that can also, for example, determine that videos like (1) 22frames.com - Bruno Kammerl jumps and (2) 22frames.com - Baby Loggerhead's first swim on Flagler Beach might not be captioned but are still easy to watch without audio.
Perhaps more intriguing than search, the service offers a unique experience for its users that are also visitors of link-sharing and community sites like Digg and Reddit. Such sites are often where the most entertaining videos are discovered. 22frames.com allows users of these sites to avoid mining through pages of community submissions to specifically find ones that are easy to watch without captions and audio.
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