Archive for April, 2007
Dabble Indexed Over 10 Million Web Videos
Dabble.com announced it has indexed more than 10 million videos since launching just eight months ago. Dabble has struck data partnerships video hosts of all sizes, providing access to the Web’s available inventory of rich media resources. Dabble’s index collects and keeps a record of where videos are located, descriptions about the video, its creators, what the video is about and its popularity. Users collect and arrange media into play lists which they can organize and share according to specific interests.
“Dabble’s index of over 10 million videos (now growing at 2.5 million NEW videos a month) means users only have to visit one destination to search for video and other rich media. Dabble doesn’t directly host any media; the search engine keeps track of the bookmarks, or links, to wherever the media is stored on the web along with all the rest of the essential details about the media. Dabble users add to this details and notes, correct mistakes and share what’s valuable to them about the media.”
We posted about the companies custom playlists back in July 2006.
Inside Onomy Labs
Onomy Labs like to make fun interactive devices that are engaging, intuitive and cutting edge. Onomist and GETV R&D reporter Julia Yacenda prods principle Onomists and former Xerox PARC researchers Dale MacDonald and Scott Minneman into showing off a couple of their signature interactive pieces. Fresh out of the lab is the GeoConnectTable, an amazingly intuitive interactive interface to satellite maps and geo-data. Another popular piece is RED, the Reading Eye Dog. Watch and listen as RED sings a popular dog song in his robotic canine synthesized voice.
Episode links: Onomy Labs, GeoConnectTable, RED
Online Video Guide – Extreme Channel Choice
OVGuide has quickly grown to become what some consider one of the best online video guide on the Internet. In fact, it was selected by Time Magazine as one of the Top 10 Websites of the Year for 2006.
“There really is no secret to our success…we just listen very closely to what people want and give it to them. We will not list any site that our staff would not personally want to spend hours watching each day. Only a small percentage of sites that we review even make it into the guide. This care is evident in our listing and why people like us so much.”
Now don’t go wandering off into their Adult section during working hours.. 
NAB 2007: Dead Man Walking?
Nobody puts it better than GigOm’s Paul Kapustka, describing the Washington Post’s new online video feature:
A quick visit to Sunday’s Washington Sketch video from D.C. reporting vet Dana Milbank shows how powerful off-the-cuff video can be, pairing the rich (looks like HD) visual images with the deep background and snark of a beat reporter. You feel like you’re sitting in the back of the room with Milbank, listening to him rip apart the pomposity of official Washington in a way you just can’t do on the front page of the print edition.
Get the full skinny on this one via DailyWireless