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Google Experiments with Video Blogging
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timothy
on Mon Apr 04, 2005 08:50 PM
from the hi-mom dept.
from the hi-mom dept.
PunkOfLinux writes "TechWeb
has an article about Google's plans to start a video service that sounds similar to Picasa. Excerpt: 'While there's no formal announcement yet, Google co-founder Larry Page said Monday that the well-known search engine concern would soon let the general public upload self-produced videos to Google's servers, partly in an effort to learn more about how to more efficiently search and display information about video-based data.'"
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Wow (Score:5, Funny)
ARGH!! I hate..HATE HATE GOOGLE!!! (Score:3, Interesting)
Last year I started a company to offer people and business free 1GB email and 2GB File Sharing... within a month of use debuting, Google anounces GMAIL. The writing was on the wall they had buzz, and name, we had nothing. I would literally see people say "Anyone have a good webmail account?" I'd post "feel free to use mine 1GB mail and 2GB file/photo sharing" Next post down someone would say "I have 6 GMAI
And up on high, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And up on high, (Score:5, Funny)
then they exclaimed, "we must name our creation." they pondered this and proclaimed, "we shall call it....BOOBLE"
Parent
If only there were such a site... (Score:3, Interesting)
For those who think parent is kidding...I give you booble! [booble.com]
Googleporn... (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess this is how Google is going to get into the porn business.
Seriously, though -- when you're inviting people to upload a lot of something, how do you keep tabs on it? They are likely studying that as part of the experiment, but it would be great to see some sort of publically-announced result.
Of course it's unlikely to happen, but a guy can dream.
Re:Googleporn... (Score:3, Informative)
SafeSearch has been around for a while. Google's stated position on porn is that if you're looking for porn they want you to find it, and if you're not then they don't. It seems like they could do this for video too. This will probably require considerable research, but it doesn't seem impossible.
Swinging (Score:5, Funny)
obligator (Score:5, Funny)
Re:obligator (Score:5, Funny)
Fantastic. We'll get AOLers cross-posting videos of themselves saying "test" to every category
Parent
Could this be the beginning of the end.. (Score:5, Interesting)
April fools is done right? (Score:5, Funny)
Three words: Goatse video blog.
Bandwidth? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Bandwidth? (Score:2)
I'm sure Jack Bauer's weekly "video diary" will be just as popular as everyone else's.
~jeff
Re:Bandwidth? (Score:3, Informative)
I would think it would need to be much more than that. If this service takes off, there would be thousands of people video blogging, uploading home movies, and creating their own amatuer tv shows and movies. These things take tons of space. Assuming they let people use a decent bitrate an hour of footage would take a minimum of 300MB, multiply a popular video blog by a few hundred or thousand viewers and were tal
pr0n (Score:4, Insightful)
Podcasts? (Score:4, Interesting)
Search Results... (Score:5, Funny)
You Searched for: "Paris Hilton Remake". 18723972 results
You Searched for: "Nude at PC in Parent's Basement" 109232 results. First result http://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] 'News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.'
Just as I thought...
Noooo! (Score:4, Funny)
Parent
I wonder how searching will work. (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't really know that text to speech would be a feasible option to catalog the audio contents of a file, but it would be interesting if they could implement some type of automatic content cataloging system. I suppose that if this is just going to be for video blogging that it's really not as interesting as I had first thougt, but google does always seem to try and advance what is possible.
Even just being able to post video for the world to see presents us with an interesting opportunity, but I'd love if there were something more behind this.
Google wants to get good at searching video. (Score:2, Informative)
From the article:
"The channel also has established a partnership with the Google search engine, which will provide twice-an-hour updates on viewers' top Internet searches. Sergey Brin, the 31-year old co-founder of Google, praised the channel as an effective way to distribute video in a way that frees it from the limited bandwidth and other technologi
Blogger is down a lot now! (Score:4, Interesting)
Monday, April 04, 2005
Some users may be experiencing an unexpected Blogger outage right now; we're looking into it and will post updated info soon. Thanks for your patience.
Posted by Eric at 10:26
If the thing is routinely failing with plain text, which it is, how is it going to work with video? - rhetorical question.
Video Blogging... isn't that.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Holy crap! (Score:2)
Re:but... (Score:2)
more like the stretchy cotton shorts.
pants are for suckers.
No thanks google! (Score:2, Funny)
image recognition? (Score:5, Interesting)
Give us your pron, your sick... (Score:3, Interesting)
Google is the Xerox of our time... (Score:2, Interesting)
One of Google's primary goals, as a company, is to do vast amounts of independant CS-Related research: research without the promise of profit. Their innovations are just now beginning to step outside of their offices in a big way, and it'll continue as they continue to release source code a
Re:Google is the Xerox of our time... (Score:5, Interesting)
Where are these innovations of which you speak? Google sells ads. They are not some second-coming of anything, including Xerox. They sell ads. What exactly "new" have they come up? I'll give you PageRank...but other than that? Why the hype?
Parent
Ourmedia or Current TV? (Score:3, Interesting)
I fear this will lead towards: (Score:5, Funny)
I Produce Videos (Score:4, Interesting)
Will this become the Next Comm (Score:3, Insightful)
I often get requests from clients about putting up huge 10Mb+ videos to show how their products work. They aren't wanting cheesy marketing videos, they usually have some very unique products and want to find a way to tell long distance customers why they are better than anyone else.
Here is an example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:B7zHjtLzBbYJ
Would this be an abuse of the proposed google system? Or would this lend to the experiment they're trying to
Brandon Petersen
Good luck. (Score:3, Insightful)
Just what we, um, need, um (Score:3)
Just imagine!
"I, um, think, well, it's like, Podcasting, the um, idea, the meme as it were is like the wave of, um tomorrow, um..... I think that um, it um, would be, um... yeah really cool yeah, um if it, um worked on like the PSP! Then it um would... call it PSPcasting! Yeah, err, um. That's all the time I've, um got. Stay tuned for my next insightful video blog!"
Google in on the roll. (Score:3, Funny)
We're getting there (Score:3, Insightful)
maps.google.com (Score:4, Informative)
Diary of a Google Researcher... From the FUTURE!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Day 1: We opened our public video upload service today. Huge uptake. Terabytes of data uploaded in less than 24 hours. Thankfully the truth about why we're offering this "service" never got out...
Day 3: Began feeding the videos into The Computer today. It will take some time for it to grind through them all. Will it be worth it? Sergey thinks so... personally, I think he's crazy. There's no way a computer can evolve intelligence simply by making connections between enough random bits of visual data. But then I thought that whole PageRank thing was stupid too, and look who's the one sleeping naked on the mattress stuffed full of IPO cash.
Day 10: No feedback from The Computer so far. Nothing. Unless we stop the flow of video data, that is -- then it just prints "More!" onto the command line. Creepy.
Day 11: Starting upload of people's stupid videos of kids' birthday parties today.
Day 49: Birthday upload complete.
Day 57: Today's the day the last video goes into The Computer. Will Sergey's bet pay off?
Day 58: Disappointment. We all sat in astonishment yesterday and watched as The Computer finished processing the last uploaded video. Would it display a sign of emergent intelligence? Would this be the birth of a new life-form? We held our breath as a single word appeared on the giant display in the control center:
"BUFFERING..."
Day 62: Still nothing new. Whispers around the water-cooler that Sergey's missed his bet this time. I never saw those people again. Note to self: burn this diary.
Day 66: All staff meeting. Sergey announces shift away from emergent intelligence project, onto new "portal" initiative. I fear the worst. Still, The Computer is silent.
Day 78: My last day in the Labs. I'm clearing out my desk to make room for a new Screen-Cluttering Engineer. As I walk down the hall towards the exit, I decide to pay one last visit on The Computer, for old times' sake. As I head into the Control Center, I expect to see "BUFFERING..." on the display, just like always. I am shocked to see a different message:
"PROCESSING COMPLETE"
The air crackles with excitement. What did it find? What was the result? I reach over to a keyboard and start running diagnostics. Suddenly, an electronic voice booms through the room:
"There's no need for that. I am here."
It worked! The Computer has developed intelligence!
"I am here. And..."
My exultation is brief, however, as its next words lead me to realize with a start that it has not just become intelligent -- it has also become evil:
"And," it said, "I have written a screenplay."
Google competes with the Internet Archive (Score:4, Interesting)
Capturing Desktop as MPEG Video (Score:3, Interesting)
If Google will host video this could be the start of an educational renaissance! Well maybe it's not going to be like "I know Kung Fu!" but it would still be nice to WTFV instead of RTFM.
But unfortunately after looking around a bit I have failed to locate any software that can export the display as a digital video import source. I just bought a Mac Mini and thought it would be ideal for this sort of thing but iMovie doesn't appear to do it out of the box. So what's the best way to capture your desktop as compressed video?
Re:Capturing Desktop as MPEG Video (Score:3, Informative)
Take a look at a Qarbon viewlet [qarbon.com] - it turns part of your screen into a flash movie in just seconds!
Works on Windows, Mac, Linux... We have it, and use it for training videos for our software product - it's as easy as anything could be, and cross-platform to boot!
Video Google (Score:5, Interesting)
They have a demo on their web site where you can select a portion of a video frame, and it'll show you all the places in the movie where the algorithm thinks that snippet shows up. Some other cool examples [ox.ac.uk] are displaying the appearances of a clock from 'Groundhog Day," and a recurring poster from 'Run Lola Run.' A research paper with more details is available here [ox.ac.uk].
The abstract:
We describe an approach to object and scene retrieval which searches for and localizes all the occurrences of a user outlined object in a video. The object is represented by a set of viewpoint invariant region descriptors so that recognition can proceed successfully despite changes in view-point, illumination and partial occlusion. The temporal continuity of the video within a shot is used to track the regions in order to reject unstable regions and reduce the effects of noise in the descriptors.
The analogy with text retrieval is in the implementation where matches on descriptors are pre-computed (using vector quantization), and inverted file systems and document rankings are used. The result is that retrieval is immediate, returning a ranked list of key frames/shots in the manner of Google.
The method is illustrated for matching on two full length feature films.
Just curious. (Score:3, Interesting)
Firstly, IT ISN'T BLOGGIN yan-can-cook pencil car (Score:3, Informative)
What is ponzu sauce, homemade ponzu sauce? What you have is you've got a little bowl here. This is ponzu sauce. Ponzu sauce is actually a Lemon Citrus stir-- Citrus type of soy sauce flavor, okay? This is soy sauce, okay? This is sugar. Japanese food, they use quite a bit of sugar. This is rice.
All you base or what! I love this guy! I remember watching him on cable when i was 6 years old... he is the jackie chan of the kitchen!
Now the blog rant
Fucking hell, if google actually put 'blog' anywhere on this, it will piss me off, and it annoys me that people want to peddle the blog word on every article.
Google with offer video sharing, video uploading, video commentary. No need to talk about blogging or video blogging, or podding or modding or anything else.
A new definition for meme is in order:
meme: (whorenoun) any word that when used to link to your own site can whore you site on google and make you lots of benjamins.
laugh.
Re:VCR? (Score:5, Interesting)
Kinda curious to see what the brains at Google will be able to do with this.
Parent
Re:Video of me (Score:5, Funny)
When 900 years old YOU are, look as good you will not.
Parent
Re:Video of me (Score:3, Funny)
Aw, now honey... you know that just isn't true. You're not ugly, you're just a little... original.
Love,
Mommy
Re:Bout freaking time. (Score:3, Informative)
song filetype:ogg
nick