Archive for the ‘Multimedia Search’ Category
Monday, April 27th, 2009
From the Article:
“Global access to multiple perspectives helps you tell what the real story is,” says Newsy president and co-founder, Jim Spencer, of the basic premise behind his brainchild. He says the idea for the website came to him after observing the way people watch television and use the internet. When people are looking for coverage of big news stories, they channel surf from CNN to MSNBC to FOX, and maybe even to the BBC. They do the same thing on the internet; only on the web, there are thousands-if not millions-of sites to choose from rather than a handful of television networks.
A team of editors monitors news from online, print, and televised sources from around the globe. They then put together 2-3-minute video clips summing up the different kinds of coverage a particular topic is getting in the media. A recent video about the handshake heard around the world between President Obama and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez incorporated video of a debate on FOX News, as well as stories from South American newspapers and websites. The newscasters, of sorts, in the Newsy videos keep commentary to a minimum. “We simply try to point out the differences in the reporting,” says Spencer.
Direct to Newsy.com
Source: Information Today
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
From the Article:
…public TV stations are taking more risks, and on Wednesday they introduced a fancy video portal at PBS.org/video. It replaces a hodgepodge of sites, with different features, run by the producers of each of the network’s programs and by its member stations.
The sleek animation and the features of the site will be familiar to users of Hulu, the NBC-Fox joint venture. You can search and browse among thousands of programs, contributed both by PBS and its member stations. You can watch full episodes, and also search for clips and segments.
The site is built on new technology that will also allow users to upload video, make comments and otherwise interact with the site and one another. For example, in conjunction with the Ken Burns documentary series “The National Parks,” which will be introduced this fall, users will be invited to upload videos of parks.
Direct to the New PBS Video Portal
Source: New York Times
Hat Tip: LS
See Also: You Find Also Find Some PBS Content on the Hulu Site
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
From the Article:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the latest government organization to use YouTube to reach the public. NIST has created a channel on the video social networking site as part of an effort to expand the amount of information available to the public about its programs.
Users will be able to use the NIST YouTube channel to share videos via e-mail mesages, post links to the videos on their own Web pages and comment on the videos. Subscribers will be notified via their YouTube account when a new video is posted. About a dozen videos are now online, and additional videos are planned.
Direct to NIST’s YouTube Channel
Source: GCN
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
From the Story:
The commonwealth of Virginia has launched a new education portal on iTunes U, the education space within the iTunes service from Apple.
iTunes U provides free access to educational content contributed by universities, colleges, K-12 institutions, and even entire statewide education systems. Virginia is not the first such statewide system to embrace iTunes U and contribute educational materials to the large and growing user community. The Tennessee and Maine state departments of education both operate portals within iTunes U, as does Arizona with its IDEAL learning platform. Several other individual K-12 districts, online schools, and other programs also have a presence on iTunes U, along with a plethora of higher education institutions, some of which provide content specifically for K-12 teachers and students.
Direct to Virginia on iTunes U
Source: T.H.E. Journal
Posted in Education, Multimedia Search, New Websites and Resources, Resources for Educators, Source File | No Comments »
Monday, April 13th, 2009
From a Pandia Article:
The CHORUS conference on multimedia search engines will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on the 26th and 27th May 2009.
CHORUS is a European Coordination Action which aims at creating the conditions of mutual information and cross fertilisation between the European projects dealing with Multimedia Content Search Engines. National and international initiatives are also included.
The conference will address the challenges, gaps, commonalities, difficulties, targeted/expected impacts and success criteria related to search initiatives.
See Also: Learn About Quero Search Technology Under Development in Europe
Source: Pandia
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
From a Blog Post:
As you know, we recently launched the Veoh Video Compass, a browser plug-in that makes video discovery a seamless experience, enabling video to be played on every major search engine, portal and commerce site – without having to leave the site. As of today, its capabilities will be hugely expanded as the Veoh Video Compass in now supported on the popular social networking sites MySpace and Twitter.
This allows any user who has installed the Compass plug-in to utilize the video search while exploring these sites each day. The Veoh Video Compass makes video discovery easier and more effective than ever, by enhancing the ability to pull up recommended videos relevant to consumer’s search terms. The video recommendations provided by the Veoh Video Compass are based on the search and viewing behavior of millions of online video users.
Veoh Video Compass adds over 25,000 new users daily and supports millions of recommendations each day on highly-trafficked sites including Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, Ask, MSN, Amazon, IMDB, Craigslist, eBay, Wikipedia, and now MySpace and Twitter.
Direct to Veoh
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
It’s easy to start watching YouTube videos at any point that you specify. To do so, just add to the end of the web address (URL) the minute and second where you want the video to begin playing. The format you must use looks like this: #t=2m27s. Here’s an example: Ordinarily, YouTube starts at the beginning of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM. However, this URL begins at “2 minutes 27 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM#t=2m27sYou can of course, you can change the minute/second values as needed.
Hat Tip: Pete W.
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
From the Article:
YouTube has launched an education portal that compiles all the video from official university and college partners. Creatively named YouTube EDU, it’s not the spot to find drunken frat-party antics, but even PR-sterilized content can still be interesting.
Direct to YouTube EDU
Source: U.S. News & World Report
Hat Tip: P.W.
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
From a Blog Post:
Click through to Hulu’s Movies section today and you may notice a new addition to the grey menu bar near the top: a new link to Documentaries. In this new section on Hulu, you’ll find some of our most popular documentary films and shorts alongside a whole slew of new additions. We’ve also called out Forum Highlights from some of our documentary titles, where we’ll feature quotes from the filmmakers as well as comments from our users themselves. We love documentaries and are thrilled to provide another outlet for these great stories to reach new audiences.
Direct to Hulu’s Documentary Section
See Also: Hulu’s Twitter Feed
Source: Hulu
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
+ From a News.com Post:
Quietube is a new tool to enhance the YouTube watching experience. The idea is that you can watch just the video with none of the other YouTube page elements. To do this you simply add its bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar, and click it on any YouTube page.
++ Calibre: iTunes for e-books?
Calibre is a cross-platform, open-source library for your e-books that can also sync them to your e-book reader. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, it offers a massive range of individual book customizations, as well format conversion and newspaper-style RSS feed grabbing, but lacks a slick interface that would go a long way towards convincing skeptics that it’s a powerful tool.
Source: News.com
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
oops! Here’s an article that we missed posting when it was first released.
National archives and public broadcast archives in Europe and the United States hold millions of hours of spoken-word materials, the bulk of it in analog form. In 2005, an EU-U.S. working group estimated that world holdings of audio materials in analog formats total approximately 100 million hours.1 These holdings will perish within a few decades unless we take steps to preserve them. Millions more hours come into existence in digital formats each year. The accelerating growth in spoken-word documents will generate demand for efficient archiving and retrieval strategies. But these resources will prove stillborn if we do not identify ways to reveal their contents.
Source: EDUCAUSE Review
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
From the Announcement:
Truveo…has released a Web Slice, which works on Internet Explorer 8, to provide customers with the ability to watch the most tweeted videos as discovered by Truveo’s video search engine. Using the Truveo Web Slice, users can find what videos are being shared on Twitter, by day, week or month,” said Pete Kocks, President of Truveo and Vice President of AOL. “We use Truveo’s extensive index of videos online to discover what videos are being shared on Twitter.
Direct to Truveo Video Search
Source: AOL
and on a related note…
Internet Explorer 8 with Instant Visual Search Suggestions from Yahoo!
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
This trial is available to all. NO login/password is required during the trial. The name of this new database from Alexander Street Press is American History in Video and is available at: http://ahivfree.alexanderstreet.com . In a word, wow!
From a Description:
This is a massive, first-of-its kind collection of streaming video covering the entire gamut of American history–it will total 2,000 hours of video / 5,000 total videos at completion (currently it’s at about 420 hours and growing fast). It includes a wide range of documentaries (like those from The History Channel), newsreels–including the complete series of both Universal News and United Newsreel–and other contemporaneous films. It’s all deeply indexed, and the technical features make it easy to zoom in on exact moments of footage, make clips, create playlists (of clips by theme, entire films, and anything else anywhere on the Web) and share them with a class, for example.There are synchronized scrolling transcripts for every video (and those are searchable, too).
The free trial runs through April 30, 2009.
Source: Alexander Street Press
See Also: Free Database Trial for ResourceShelf Readers: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974
Posted in History, Information Industry, Multimedia Search | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
From the Article:
Jinni, a semantic search engine for movies now works with Netflix. If you’re a Netflix subscriber you can link up your account and get custom-tailored search results and recommendations based on what you’ve watched and rated on the DVD rental service.
Jinni organizes search results in a cloud with varying sizes of thumbnails, with the larger ones being the being the most relevant to your search. You can also adjust it to show how long each movie is, what it’s rated, and what year it came out. Hovering over any of these results expands it, giving you a brief description of the film, and if you’ve linked up your Netflix account, the option to add it to your queue. There’s also the option to search only from movies you can stream from Netflix’s Watch Instantly service–something you can’t even do from Netflix.com.
Direct to Jinni Search
Note: Jinni is now a closed beta release. You can request a login/password at the bottom of their homepage.
Source: News.com
Posted in Multimedia Search, Search News, Search Tools | No Comments »
Monday, January 12th, 2009
From a Blog Post:
As the 111th Congress kicks into gear, many of your elected leaders are starting their own YouTube channels. They’re posting videos direct from their Washington offices, as well as clips of floor speeches and committee hearings alongside additional behind-the-scenes footage from Capitol Hill. And in conjunction with both the House and Senate, we’re launching two new platforms that will help you access your Senator and Representatives’ YouTube channels: The Senate Hub (youtube.com/senatehub) and The House Hub (youtube.com/househub).
Source: Broadcasting Ourselves
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
From the News Release:
comScore today released November 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 34 percent versus year ago.
Hulu Retains #6 Ranking
In November, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with nearly 5.1 billion videos viewed (representing a 40 percent share of all videos viewed), with YouTube.com accounting for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 439 million videos (3.5 percent), followed by Viacom Digital with 325 million (2.6 percent) and Yahoo! Sites with 304 million (2.4 percent). On the heels of a surge in viewership in October, Hulu retained its #6 position with 227 million videos viewed (1.8 percent).
Source: comScore
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
From the summary (PDF):
On January 16, 2008, the Library of Congress launched a pilot project on Flickr, the popular photosharing Web site. We invited the public to tag and describe two sets of approximately 3,000 historic photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress.
The Flickr community welcomed us warmly. By asking people for help and by offering broad public opportunity for interaction with collections, the Library struck a chord that fits well with Web 2.0 communities. In the first 24 hours after launch, Flickr reported 1.1 million total views on our account, with 3.6 million views a week later. In mid-March we began to load an additional 50 photos each Friday, with the result that more than 4,000 photos are now in the account. Today, Library of Congress (LC) photos on Flickr are averaging approximately 500,000 views a month and have surpassed the 10 million mark in total views.
Direct to Full Text Report (55 pages; PDF)
Source: Library Of Congress
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