Category Archives: Multimedia

Google Toolbox

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This article in PCWorld introduces 20  tools (or tricks) for searching Google in privacy, and using Youtube, Gmail, Google Drive. See Ultimate Google toolbox: 20 tips, tricks, and hacks

  • Startpage from Ixquick is mentioned as a way to search privately at Google – yes – but know that it’s not a Google interface.
  • Of interest are tips about YouTube – there is a Chrome extension that will hide the ads!
  • There’s an email game you can play with GMail — “It’s basically an alternative interface for Gmail that shows you only one message at a time and challenges you to reply in a timely fashion.”
  • Do a lot more with Google Drive – including send a fax.
  • Play a game with Google Maps – but you have to get the hang of the cursor.
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AOL partners with Blinkx for AOL Video Search

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Blinkx Replaces Truveo To Power AOL Video Search, Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch (Feb 13)

AOL has retired Truveo, the video seach engine it acquired in 2006, and is switching its video search to the British video search Blinkx.

Of interest: “Of course, most people search for videos on Google, not blinkx. And somehow YouTube always seems to turn up as the top video results on Google. If your videos aren’t on YouTube, they are sort of invisible. But if they are on YouTube, you have to cut them in on the ad revenues. So media companies are trying to push video viewers to their own sites through deals like the one AOL just did with blinkx.”

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All-in-one for Searching Creative Commons

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Search Creative Commons offers an all-in-one place entry point to materials that may be under a creative commons usage license. Enter search terms, and select a service – images: Flickr, Fotopedia, Google Images, Open Clip Art Library; media: Europeana, SpinXpress, Wikimedia Commons; music – Jamendo; and Google Web. Examine the query it constructs on the service – you should see limitations according to license.
Very good place to start your search for material that is under CC License.

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Changes at Vimeo

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Vimeo Gets Its First Facelift Since 2007, TechCrunch

Video sharing site, Vimeo, is rolling out a new design that puts the emphasis on making videos.

“There are a bunch of other new features, including improved search options, a page for viewing Creative Commons-licensed work, and the ability to upload multiple videos at once. Many of these changes, Mellencamps says, aren’t “huge, sexy features” but rather “a ton of detailed elements that we think just improve the experience overall.” And beneath the visible improvements, Mellencamp says the entire Vimeo codebase has been rewritten, allowing the company to make faster changes in the future.”

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Personalized Video

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Plizy offers a Pandora-like service for videos, Webware (May 24)
More for ipad owners – can find videos to watch through Plizy.
“Plizy is a new video recommendation app and service that uses a social algorithm to find videos you’ll like. It mines what you and your friends do on social networks and yields, CEO Jonathan Benassaya says, near-perfect personalized playlists delivered directly to users on the Plizy iPad app. The app launched last week”

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