Juice Application is quite an interesting browser plug-in that is built to facilitate the aggregation of information various sources on the same page. It is interesting to browse websites with it because one only needs to highlight a word, drag it to the right and Juice aggregates information from various sources on the right of your screen. Have a look at the video because it is quite tricky to describe but overall it makes the browsing or researching for information faster. Our experience however is that only when dragging from the Juice site.
After having met Addy Feuerstein at the DLD 08 Conference by Burda in Munich last January 2008, Allofme has now opened their ports to the beta users. Being a fan of timelines, we just had to try out this interesting media-aggregator for ourselves.
The BillyTimeline has been enriched with some few videos, photos and entries and it already looks interesting. Not all the uploading features are active yet however you can upload all some offline files or your data from Picasa, Flickr, YouTube & Twitter already. Check it out because it is an interesting way to demonstrate information on a horizontal chronological timeline in comparison to the top-to-bottom textual way. We are trying to visualise our developments a little and this timeline is an entertaining piece of work.
I had previously written about video ads and now found this interesting article on Off-the-record with some more good examples for video ads. It seems that the German market tries to go video now to sell their products. Another good site also Ikea.de, which present almost every room in short videos nowadays.
We have previously already written about APIs in our Mashup Article and the Opensocial Project but this one is of particular interest for media and content websites. Google has just published that it has set up a YouTube API along with developer docs on how to adapt and use the API. Now developers can customise and develop their own YouTube which many developers and bloggers have been waiting for I think! These are the features as shown on the page of the YouTube APIs and Tools:
Create a web front end to let people view videos about specific topics.
Create a desktop application or plugin that plays videos in a customised environment.
Add related, dynamic video content to your website or application.
Customise the Flash player to fit the look and feel of your site, device or application
Add feeds of videos from each of YouTube’s 18 international domains
… and Yahoo! knows how to deal with it. Indeed, their developer website provides a great list of Design Patterns, describing how they deal with common user interface needs and problems.
