Experiment Google Custom Search Engine | The Groovy Librarian - Teaching in the 21st Century Today I have been experimenting with Google Custom Search Engine. As a teacher librarian and educator I thought it was about time that I learnt to build a search engine that is customised with content, or a collection of sites/pages, on a particular topic(s) for a class/year level. What I liked is that the search engine can be shared by a a link or by embedding it onto a class blog or wiki. Building a customised search engine was EASY. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Yes, it’s that easy. In addition, custom search engines can be collaborative.
Curating the Best of the Web: Video The Internet is awash in content — and a whole lot of it is junk, spam or inane status updates. How do you begin to navigate through the zillions of news articles, Web sites, tweets and other stuff online to find content that matters to you? You need digital curators. To see the full article, subscribe here. Screen shot of Nizmlab, a site that sifts through online videos. Screen shot of Chunnel.tv. Releases January 2012 U.S. Online Video Rankings February 20, 2012 comScore Releases January 2012 U.S. Online Video Rankings Long-Form Video Content on the Rise, Reaching 6 Minutes on Average in January RESTON, VA, February 20, 2012 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 181 million U.S. Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in January with 152 million unique viewers, followed by VEVO with 51.5 million, Yahoo! *A video is defined as any streamed segment of audiovisual content, including both progressive downloads and live streams. Top 10 Video Ad Properties by Video Ads Viewed Americans viewed 5.6 billion video ads in January, with Hulu delivering the highest number of video ad impressions at 1.4 billion. Top 10 YouTube Partner Channels by Unique Viewers Other notable findings from January 2012 include:
knovio – Transforma powerpoint em apresentação com conteúdo sincronizado Knovio é uma fantástica ferramenta que nos permite realizar apresentações usando o vídeo como protagonista. A ideia é poder mostrar um vídeo e uma apresentação de forma simultânea, sincronizando os momentos para que apareça o conteúdo adequado no momento que o desejamos. No exemplo que podemos ver em sua homepage um dos responsáveis pelo sistema aparece em um vídeo comentando suas funções ao mesmo tempo que uma apresentação online avança mostrando o texto que o apresentador anuncia. Veja abaixo, quando a apresentação já está carregada e podemos começar a gravar o vídeo: Um recurso fantástico para uso acadêmico e profissional, permitindo divulgar cursos, promover produtos, apresentar aplicações… uma infinidade de usos em diferentes categorias profissionais. No momento se encontra na fase beta fechada, mas pode solicitar convite em sua homepage (em alguns casos estão demorando menos de 1 hora para enviar).
Internet Video Archive - Movie, TV, Music, and Game Developer APIs Our documentation pages provide you with the information you need to get the most from our service. The menu on the left of this page points to articles on every facet of putting trailers on your site. Use the menu to jump quickly to the subject you need. There are two basic steps to putting trailers onto your site: 1. 1. 2. Additional Services : Of course, there’s a lot more that you can do through IVA. That’s it!
181 Million Americans Watched 40 Billion Online Videos in January The comScore Video Metrix service reported this week that 181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 40 billion videos of online video content in January 2012. The average viewer watched 22.6 hours of online video content that month. This is down slightly from December 2011, when 182 million U.S. Internet users watched 43.5 billion videos for an average of 23.2 hours per viewer. The top five online video content properties in January 2012 were: Google sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, with 152 million unique viewers.VEVO (which is powered by YouTube) with 51.5 million.Yahoo sites with 49.2 million.Viacom Digital with 48.1 million.Facebook with 45.1 million. During the month, nearly 40 billion videos were viewed, with Google Sites generating the highest number at 18.6 billion, followed by Hulu with 877 million, and VEVO with 717 million. A Closer Look at Machinima Last month, we took a closer look at VEVO. But wait, there’s more! What Does This Mean to Marketers?
Google+: The Complete Guide Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Guide updated January 18, 2012 Google+: It's the hot social network on the block. In just a few months, Google's competitor to Facebook and Twitter has amassed more than 40 million users, and its growth hasn't stopped. Google+, however, isn't the easiest thing to understand. A recent change new and old Google+ users should take note of is Search Across Your World launched on Jan. 10, 2012. Now Google can pull search results from your Google+ friends and material from other Google+ users whom you don't follow who have related content labeled public. We will continuously update this guide as new initiatives such as the Search Across Your World are started, further integrating Google+ into the Google ecosystem. So, without further ado, here is Mashable's complete guide to Google+: What Is Google+? Profile Photos
Videos With A Brain ESPN’s live-streamed NBA Finals averaged 330k viewers If you look at the NBA Finals viewing stats by comparing TV and digital, the temptation might be a shrug: the broadcasts on ABC averaged 16,855,000 viewers over five games compared with 330,000 unique viewers via WatchESPN and broadband channel ESPN3. But in the context of a live event airing during prime time, it’s not shabby. And with broadcast records being set during the Miami Heat-Oklahoma City Thunder finals, fueled by the LeBron James storyline and last year’s Heat stroke, the additional online accessibility didn’t hurt the NBA or ABC/ESPN. (Starting Monday, we’ll see what it does for ESPN’s wall-to-wall coverage of Wimbledon.) ESPN released some internal Adobe and Omniture data about how digital worked across its platforms during the five games and on game days. A few highlights: WatchESPN/ESPN3/Xbox: The finals aired on ad-supported ABC but also were streamed live by ESPN through its broadband network ESPN3, the WatchESPN app and Xbox Live Gold.