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Filed under: Internet, Video, Windows, Freeware, Search

Ashampoo Clipfinder Finds Videos, and Lots of Them!

Looking for a fast, easy way to find and download a whack of flash video files from your favorite sites? Download Ashampoo Clipfinder and fire it up.

Clipfinder searches YouTube, iFilm, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Yahoo Video, MySpace, MetaCafe, and several others and displays thumbnails. Right-click to bookmark it in you Ashampoo's My Videos folder or download the FLV. Ashampoo will automatically file it under Downloads on the My Videos tab.

Each site can be searched individually, or you can search them all via the portal search at the top of the interface. Rolling up a particular site will hide its results, but be aware that it'll also keep Ashampoo from searching it from the portal search.

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Filed under: Design, Video, Web services, Search

ClipBlast- your personalized video search engine

ClipBlast is a search engine that specializes in video. On the site users can enter a search term, and ClipBlast will crawl the web and find all the video content available on that particular term. The site also has video broken up into genre categories such as Animal, Celebrity, Fashion, History. Film, and Golf so you can find video quickly on a particular topic that interests you. Unlike other similar sites that pull video from only one or a few different sources ClipBlast is pulling video from everywhere so you are just as likely to get results from CBS as you are YouTube or MetaCafe.

ClipBlast also allows registered users to personalize their video searches by saving their searches from the past, their favorite video providers, or individual video clips they enjoyed. If you like to catch every video clip that hits the web on a particular topic you can also sign up for video alerts so you can be notified via email when a new video hits the web. Similar sites to ClipBlast include blinkx and everyzing.

Filed under: Internet, Video, Google, AOL, Search

AOL relaunches Truveo video search engine

Truveo
A year and a half after snatching up video search engine Truveo, AOL (this blog's parent company) has relaunched the site. It's bigger, better, and easier to use. But it's also not exactly a Google/Youtube killer.

Like the relaunched Google Video site, the new Truveo's not so much about letting users submit their own videos. Rather, Truveo gives you a central location to search for web videos. You can search user-generated video sites like YouTube, or mainstream media sites like NBC.com or CNN.com.

When you happen across a flash video, odds are you'll be able to watch it without leaving Truveo. The video player takes up most of your browser screen, showing YouTube videos, for example, at about twice their original size. That would be great if it weren't for the fact that YouTube videos are designed for a smaller viewer. Blowing them up usually makes them look worse.

But the bigger problem is that while Truveo can help you find professionally produced video from news and entertainment sources, many of these videos won't display outside of their original context. That means you click on a thumbnail, get taken to a Truveo sub-page, and then find out that you'll have to visit yet another site to watch the video.

Even if you can find more content using Truveo than Google Video, we're not sure the new site will catch on unless AOL introduces a tool that lets you visit external websites without losing access to your Truveo search bar. You know, kind of like the one Google Video uses.

[via Silicon Alley Insider]

Filed under: Internet, Video

Blinkx is the latest to target Joost

BBTV
It's funny watching companies come out of the woodwork to take on internet TV platform Joost. It's not even clear if there's a market for full-screen video players yet, but nobody wants to let Joost become the next YouTube without getting in on the action.

Blinkx is the latest online video site to announce a full-screen video player, no web browser required. BetaNews gota sneak peak at Blinkx's upcoming BBTV the other night.

Blinkx is best known right now for its video search engine. BBTV will utilize the same video indexing features as the web service, allowing you to search for specific text in a speech track. This will also help Blinkx to integrate a contextual advertisements.

BBTV will deliver video using a peer-to-peer system, much like Joost.

Filed under: Fun, Games, Blogging, Web services

YouTube is getting sued

youtube is getting suedOur friendly high trafficked video site is getting sued by a news service, along with its owner, Robert Tur.

The lawsuit alleges YouTube's sharing of its videos infringes on copyright violations. There is another lawsuit, in which the owner of the news site is suing YouTube for letting its users upload a video that he shot of Reginald Denny getting beat up during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

reginald dennyThe news site, and owner, are trying to weasel $150,000 for each video that had its copyright violated on YouTube. They are also pushing the courts to forbid any other uploads of any of his work through YouTube. Tur also shot the famous OJ Simpson car chase.

The videos on YouTube are apparently tagged with names that are irrelevant to the content in the videos, making it difficult for copyright owners to locate infringing content.

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Time-Wasters

Video Search is dominated by YouTube

youtube video searchLike many people, I enjoy a good video. Especially with YouTube. Anything and everything is on there, well pretty much anything.

YouTube hosts every kind of videos. From full length feature pirated movies, to news stories, video blog entries, a ton of just plain personal videos of dogs running around in circles, to just plain hilarious videos of senior citizens dancing. All this helps to add to the 20 million visitors per month.

Hitwise just released some stats on YouTube, and their amazing 60% share of all videos watched online in the US. Compare that with Yahoo, MSN, and Google's share of only 3-5%, and you can see why YouTube is a video traffic genius. The company gets around 100 million video's viewed per day, and YouTube has said that they had 2.5 billion videos watched per day last month.

If you think there is nothing to see in the video search marketplace, look again, it's hotter then ever, and YouTube is steaming up the web.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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