The flickr of video. Share your videos online. Categorize each digital video with tags.
From YouTube’s FAQ:
Q: How long can my video be?
A: There is no time limit on your video, but the video file you upload must be less than 50 MB in size.
Q: What video file formats can I upload?
A: YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras and from cell phones in the .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats.
Found on Social Patterns:
Here’s how they [Yahoo] are setting up to be the market leader in the communication space.
Via: sinceretheory weblog
Ninjam allows musicians to play music together through the Web using audio streaming. The Social Software Weblog calls it: Skype for musicians.
A short excerpt from the linked article:
It takes a rather unique approach to the ubiquitous latency problem involved in trying to keep multiple signals in sync: instead of trying to eradicate the latency, Ninjam actually enhances it, such that each musician is actually playing along with the previous intervals of everybody else. Creator Justin Frankel (developer of Winamp) says it takes some getting used to but becomes natural in time. I’m hoping to get a chance to try out some intercontinental jamming at the earliest opportunity, meself. The creative and collaborative potential here is pretty exciting, and this is only the beginning.
Hat tip to: Emanuele Quintarelli
Announcing A New Way to Look at Search - We’re very excited to announce the launch of Grokker, the visual search tool that helps you discover the unexpected on the web, now online at www.grokker.com. The new online version of Grokker is FREE and web-based so you don’t have to download it!
Grokker returns hundreds of search results in topically organized visual maps that make exploring the web a fun and immersive journey of discovery, rather than a frustrating exercise in sorting through long lists of links.
With Grokker, you can:
- Explore hundreds of search results in a single, topically organized map.
- Discover links and information that would remain buried deep within listed search results.
- Use one-click GrokMail to save and share results.
The best way to understand the power of Grokker is to explore it on your own.
We’re also excited about the launch of the newly redesigned Grokker.com website featuring:
- A forum section where Grokker fans and newbies can share ideas, suggestions, tips, and tricks.
- Blogs that discuss the future of search, technical innovation, and even the ingredients of peeps.
- Fun Grokker-inspired You Grok puzzles.
- A free trial of the powerful myGrokker desktop software.
- A sneak peek at our upcoming products and pre-registration for our developers’ program.
Via about creating a social interface to corporate information (warning: 6Mb PDF with pretty pictures)
According to Pew Internet & American Life Project 55% of adult American internet users have looked for do-it-yourself information online. 1 in 20 search for help on a typical day.
GUUUI - People use the web to find how-to information
Some 55% of adult internet users have looked for “how-to,” “do-it-yourself” or repair information online and roughly 1 in 20 internet users – about 7 million people — search for help on a typical day. The prevalence of this activity is yet another example of the many ways online Americans use the internet to gather practical information for their everyday lives.
Dave Snowden talks about how we make sense through pattern matching rather than linear analysis. Social software can support this process by improving our peripheral vision and helping us organise our own eco-system of links, cues and sources to improve our sense making and decision making ability. My own presentation, linked from the piece, describes how we can go about achieving this.
Meditation can focus the mind in a measurable way, according to a study of Buddhist monks. In a visual test designed to confuse the brain, the monks were able to stave off confusion more easily than those not trained in the contemplative arts.
An essay by Jakob Lodwick on February 1st, 2005
Tagging, as seen on Flickr and other sites, allows you to organize things in a way that makes sense to your brain. You may also notice that tagging photos on Flickr is the first time that organizing something has made perfect sense. According to Scientific American, in 1966 Ben-Ami Lipetz concluded that:…breakthroughs in information retrieval would come when researchers gained a deeper understanding of how humans process information and then endowed machines with analogous capabilities.
Well, Ben was right, as you’ll soon see for yourself. By looking at how we tag photos on Flickr, we can understand how humans process information. Once we understand that, we can understand how to model it with computers, thereby creating better information retrieval systems.
What Ben was unable to predict all those years ago was that we will not only develop better information retreival systems, but also model our own brains on the lowest levels, and eventually create artificial intelligence.
Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick)
via La Taberna del Turco
