Up to this very moment I have always used Overstream to create YouTube subtitles, but today I have discovered a new service, Captiontube, which seems even better than overstream in quite a few ways…
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We all know that searchbox in Firefox that you can customize with different search engines -forget about that. This here is the real thing: in chrome you can set up as many search engines as you like, so if you want a search engine for your own personal blog, then that’s no problem! On top of that, Chrome also allows you to assign simple keyboard shortcuts to each one of your search engines: look at the video to see how easy it is! Don’t forget to turn the captions on (press CC button in the youtube…
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And here are the pictures from our New Media & Web 2.0 seminar that we organised in Ghent in July 2011:

Here are the pictures we took during our Moodle@school seminar in Athens:

Below you can find the memolane for our New Media & Web 2.0 seminar which we organised in Ghent in July 2011:

Here’s a memolane for our Moodle at School seminar which we organised in Athens, Greece, in July 2011 -a few tweets, a few pictures, a few films… Enjoy!

Memolane is an web application that turns all of your tweets, facebook posts, picasa pictures, youtube videos etc. into a timeline that you can easily search. Alongside the currently supported services such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Last.fm, Foursquare, Instagram, Tripit, YouTube, myspace, vimeo and wordpress, you can also add RSS-feeds.

What is Memolane?

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Our course on New Media & Web 2.0 Applications started today – we’re very happy to welcome 15 people from 5 different European countries!

Today we went to the Acropolis, where we could marvell the wonder that is the Parthenon. For more videos, check our Facebook page.

In the afternoon we’re going to the archaeological museum. Until that time, we’re having great fun with the different options offered by Moodle’s Groups and Groupings.