Viddler – Tags and comments on the video timeline
Posted on 01. May, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Viddler allows you to add tags and comments at any point in on the video timeline. This is a great feature to find specific points of interest, especially in long videos. Additionally user generated tags and comments make video search more relevant.
While the video is playing you can insert a tag or comments. When you rollover the marker on the player bar a pop-up reveals the tags or comment. The comment bubble reveals a single comment – you can click a link in the comment panel to reveal all the comments. The comments have a ‘digg-like’ feature that allows you to promote or demote the comment so the highest rated is the one that displays on rollover.
Web 2.0 Directory
Posted on 30. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
GO2WEB20.net is a fun way to explore the world of Web 2.0 solutions. The site uses a Flash/AJAX application to display almost 1,200 logos. You can quickly filter the display by keyword or you can select a tag from a tag cloud. As you roll-over each logo a tooltip displays the name and description and when you click an information panel appears with more details.
The site is supported by advertising. If your service is listed there’s a panel (190 x 180 pixels) where you can pay to display an ad or rich content such as widget or video.
Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
Posted on 27. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
ProgrammableWeb is where you can keep-up with what’s new and interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the new Web as Platform. The core of the site is the blog and the 4 dashboards: Home, Mashups, APIs, and Developers and is updated daily.
One really cool feature of the site is the Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix. The matrix lists over 200 APIs on each axis and you can look where they intersect and see what mashups exist for that combination of API’s – Brilliant!
Identity 2.0
Posted on 26. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
I can’t estimate how many times I have registered with a new site (daily), enter credit card information, sign-up and/or log-in. There’s so many disparate sources that I need to communicate my identity to which brings up two important issues: Web single sign-on and data security.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was an authentication system that could hold all my personal information securely and allow me to transport that data around the internet? Not just name, address and social security numbers but even insert my frequent flyer number on a new travel site or port my Amazon wish list to Netflix?
Podcast Ad Service
Posted on 24. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
They’re mostly in the elusive 18 – 34 demographic, and they don’t sit around watching TV. They go online, download the shows and videos they want, and then play them where and when they want. How can you can reach this “asynchronous” audience? Podcasts.
Podbridge provides an audio and video podcast and analytics service with flexible ad insertions and rotations based on familiar demographic targeting techniques like age, sex and location? It works as an iTunes plug-in that gets downloaded and installed when a listener first downloads a Podbridge-enabled podcasts. When the plug-in is first installed, the listener is asked some demographic questions to help target ads. From then on, the plug-in-tracks a podcast’s online reach, frequency and playing time (anonymous), as well as the download count. Podbridge aims to have a plug-in for Windows Media Player as well.
Google AJAX feed API
Posted on 23. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Today Google launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that allows users to develop mashups using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.
The sample below uses the AJAX Feed API to display a rotating collection of iTunes RSS Feeds.
Pageflakes Widgets
Posted on 23. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page similar to My Yahoo!, Google Personalized Homepage, and Microsoft Live. The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes containing information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos and user-created modules.
Got Widgets?
Now you can make any Flake a widget. Pageflakes provides a code snippet so you can add the Flake to your webpage, blog, MySpace profile etc.
Mobile Widgets
Posted on 20. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
WidSets is a free phone manufacturer-independent Internet service that multicasts preferred feeds and user-generated content to mobile devices. With it you can get mobile widgets, which are much like web widgets, or gadgets, with traffic alerts, news, blogs, gossip, restaurant reviews, weather reports and loads of other stuff that you would normally get through a web service.
WidSets was born out of Nokia Emerging Business Unit and represents a first step in Nokia’s vision of mobilizing the Internet. The WidSets service currently has several hundred thousand registered users and a comprehensive library of over 1200 widgets. WidSets works on a wide variety of mobile phone brands and is compatible on over 200 mobile devices.
If you can’t find exactly what you’re looking for they have templates for creating your own widgets. In the Beta stage, you can tweak the look of your widgets, name them, and set their RSS feed address.
Video search engine
Posted on 18. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Blinkx is an advanced video search engine. Fed by automatic spiders that crawl the web for audio video content and content partnerships with over 200 leading content and media companies, blinkx uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content. Users can search for content, create personal TV channels that automatically splice relevant content together.
Video wall: A cool feature is that you can submit a search query and create a video wall that you can embed it on your blog or social networking site.
Search Term: Web 2.0.
A drawback here is that since the video wall is build in Flash you need to disable your pop-up blocker to launch a video.
BEA’s Enterprise 2.0 platform
Posted on 17. Apr, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive and has 0 Comments
Blogs, wikis, tagging and other social software have already infiltrated the consumer internet. These concepts are only being embraced by the early adopters in corporate/enterprise computing. “Enterprise 2.0” is the migration of Web 2.0 functionality into the enterprise.
BEA is bringing Web 2.0 tools to the enterprise and they call it En.terpri.se. The new suite consists of 3 components:
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