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You really have to wonder what YouTube are doing. Trying to play catch up with TikTok instead of innovating with what they have. They’ve had transcriptions for

You really have to wonder what YouTube are doing. Trying to play catch up with TikTok instead of innovating with what they have. They’ve had transcriptions for ages - but it’s hidden away and practically useless. The things they could do with a bit of creative thinking…

gumballindie 3y ago
> creative thinking… The death of creative thinking is management and processes. Assembly line work doesnt permit creativity. Google is heading the same route as IBM and other once great corporations made by creative people. When the discussion shifts from ideas to processes and triviliaities it's game over. Long live whatever replaces google. It's over.
- conception 3y ago
  There is a term in business for this I can’t remember. Where basically your money comes from business process X and so you protect X at all costs. Which makes it very difficult to innovate away from supporting X. It’s almost impossible for a company to pivot to making their money from Y. You see this classically in things like Sears, Woolworths etc. unable to keep up with the times. The solution to this seems to be to basically start a new company in your company completely separate from your core company more or less. Meta seems to have initially done this very well with their pivot from Facebook to Instagram. Perhaps less great in their metaverse pivot but we’ll see. Google set themselves up for success at this with alphabet but I don’t think we’ve really seen them be able to have something they feel like they can really pivot into yet so business X continues to be the focus.
cal85 3y ago
Hidden away yes, but it’s amazing. It creates a totally new way of consuming informational videos and everyone here should try it. You can scroll through the transcription vertically and tap on any bit and the video instantly jumps to that point - basically the transcription is the new seek bar. And about 1000x better at the job. No more skipping back to somewhere roughly where you stopped paying attention and just letting it play for a bit until you get back into the thread - now you can jump around with surgical precision. It’s like how you can easily skim back and forth in a text article, but with a video. It’s a total game changer and I find it bizarre that it’s so hidden away so most people won’t find it. It also works particularly well when casting from your phone to a TV, using the phone as the navigator. Oh and the transcriptions are about 99% accurate, which is good enough for me.
- iamflimflam1 3y ago
  That’s really interesting - on my own website I’ve extracted the captions to my videos and I was thinking of wiring it up so you could navigate the videos. I may actually get round to doing this now.
hypercube33 3y ago
I really wish I could search transcripts easier across YT.

gumballindie 3y ago

> creative thinking… The death of creative thinking is management and processes. Assembly line work doesnt permit creativity. Google is heading the same route as IBM and other once great corporations made by creative people. When the discussion shifts from ideas to processes and triviliaities it's game over. Long live whatever replaces google. It's over.

conception 3y ago
There is a term in business for this I can’t remember. Where basically your money comes from business process X and so you protect X at all costs. Which makes it very difficult to innovate away from supporting X. It’s almost impossible for a company to pivot to making their money from Y. You see this classically in things like Sears, Woolworths etc. unable to keep up with the times. The solution to this seems to be to basically start a new company in your company completely separate from your core company more or less. Meta seems to have initially done this very well with their pivot from Facebook to Instagram. Perhaps less great in their metaverse pivot but we’ll see. Google set themselves up for success at this with alphabet but I don’t think we’ve really seen them be able to have something they feel like they can really pivot into yet so business X continues to be the focus.

cal85 3y ago

Hidden away yes, but it’s amazing. It creates a totally new way of consuming informational videos and everyone here should try it. You can scroll through the transcription vertically and tap on any bit and the video instantly jumps to that point - basically the transcription is the new seek bar. And about 1000x better at the job. No more skipping back to somewhere roughly where you stopped paying attention and just letting it play for a bit until you get back into the thread - now you can jump around with surgical precision. It’s like how you can easily skim back and forth in a text article, but with a video. It’s a total game changer and I find it bizarre that it’s so hidden away so most people won’t find it. It also works particularly well when casting from your phone to a TV, using the phone as the navigator. Oh and the transcriptions are about 99% accurate, which is good enough for me.

iamflimflam1 3y ago
That’s really interesting - on my own website I’ve extracted the captions to my videos and I was thinking of wiring it up so you could navigate the videos. I may actually get round to doing this now.

hypercube33 3y ago

I really wish I could search transcripts easier across YT.