Blinkx Video Walls demo

Posted by Jake on Jan 7th, 2008
2008
Jan 7

Aggregated video walls are great resource discovery tools and a way to track the latest events / products/ trends. Blinkx makes it super easy to create and place custom tailored walls of live, constantly updated video links anywhere you like. I’ve tossed up a UW Libs demo here.

To create a wall of your own, simply go to the Blinkx site (choose advanced search for flexibility), type in your search term, click go, then click “wall it! ” Copy the embed code and paste it into your webpage, blog etc. Using advanced search, results can come from specific news sources, video portals etc. and can be ordered by date, so that the most recent content comes first.
Actually, what you are seeing are snippets linking to the actual video, not a ton of resource-sucking windows - so ITS can rest easy!

You might think there is no academic use here…..bzzzt! Universities, corporations, think-tanks, government agencies, research institutes etc. are increasingly creating portals to disseminate video content. Tagged video aggregation is a powerful way to access the most important / relevant resources. (and it would take several lifetimes to ’surf’ to all of them daily to keep up :) - J.