Search results matching tags 'multimedia' and 'search engine'

SLIDEFINDER: Powerpoint Slides Search Tool

Anonymous — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:00:17 GMT

Greetings,

SLIDEFINDER is an online search tool which specializes in finding just Powerpoint presentations.

“Let’s not re-invent the wheel.” How many times have you heard that while attending a presentation or conference. The statement generally refers to teacher created materials and the sharing of those materials. It’s a great concept that tends to be short [...]

Qwiki: The Information Experience

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:46:00 GMT

Wow. This is what the Internet promised to be.

Qwiki is an information portal that aggregates text, photo, and video sources on almost any topic imaginable, and creates a near-instant multi-media synopsis on that subject.

Instead of listening to me babble about what you need to experience for yourself, go there now. Type in the name of your hometown and learn something you didn't know already, even if you lived there thirty years. Type in Where the Wild Things Are. Type in Holocaust. Type in Glee.

In Qwiki's own words:

Qwiki's goal is to forever improve the way people experience information.

Whether you’re planning a vacation on the web, evaluating restaurants on your phone, or helping with homework in front of the family Google TV, Qwiki is working to deliver information in a format that's quintessentially human – via storytelling instead of search.

We are the first to turn information into an experience. We believe that just because data is stored by machines doesn’t mean it should be presented as a machine-readable list. Let's try harder.

Think of asking your favorite teacher about Leonardo Da Vinci, or your most well-traveled friend about Buenos Aires: this is the experience Qwiki will eventually deliver, on demand, wherever you are in the world… on whatever device you’re using.
We've all seen science fiction films (or read novels) where computers are able to collect data on behalf of humans, and present the most important details. This is our goal at Qwiki – to advance information technology to the point it acts human.

Currently, Qwiki's technology has been applied to describe millions of popular topics - but soon we'll do much more. Our team needs your help in reaching our goal: join our alpha now to help test Qwiki and shape the future.

Very cool, and this is just alpha testing.

WYLIO: Free, Search Engine for CC PIctures & More

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:00:17 GMT

Greetings,

WYLIO is a free, online, search engine for locating Creative Commons pictures and created specifically for bloggers.Wow! A picture finding search engine, just for bloggers – now that’s niche specialization.

Actually, WYLIO has some nice features that will interest anyone with a web site but perhaps the specific blogger focus generates more “buzz” on [...]

Qwiki

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:17:00 GMT

Qwiki is a new (alpha) site that is the ultimate "information experience". The best way to describe it is a search engine where the results are different areas of interactive media, such as: audio, video, etc. I like to think of it as a cross between United Streaming and Voice Thread. The reason for this is when a term is searched, the result is an interactive piece of media where the user has control over it (think the way a Voice Thread is controlled).

What I'd like to see in future releases is the ability to embed one of these "information experiences".

I highly recommend giving Qwiki a try by clicking here!!!

A special thank you to iLearn Technology for her review.

SPEEDCINE: Free Movie Search Engine/Directory

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:08:35 GMT

Greetings,

SPEEDCINE is a new (beta), free, search engine/directory specializing in the location of movies only.

While the search engine may be free to use, the majority of the movies it locates are not. For the most part, SPEEDCINE uses existing facilities such as iTunes or Netflix to do much of the searching however, SPEEDCINE also [...]