Simon Willison’s Weblog

Video speech matching on TheyWorkForYou.com. Launched this morning at BarCamp London by Matthew Somerville—TheyWorkForYou now has video from BBC Parliament but they need your help matching it exactly to their transcripts from Hansard. Neat example of a game that helps process large amounts of data.

# 1st June 2008, 1:52 pm / barcamplondon, barcamplondon4, matthew-somerville, theyworkforyou, mysociety, video, timestamping, government, political-hacking

I’ve (probably) been using Google App Engine for a week longer than you have. My snappily titled App Engine introduction, presented at BarCamp London 4.

# 1st June 2008, 3:02 am / appengine, googleappengine, barcamp, barcamplondon4, barcamplondon, talks

BarCampLondon3. 24th-25th of November in Google’s London offices (by Victoria train station). The last BarCamp London was a blast—I’m really looking forward to this.

# 10th October 2007, 5:20 pm / barcamp, barcamplondon, london, google