Friday, December 23, 2005

Got2Video, podcasts the search result

Today I am happy to release my new web site named "Got2Video".
It is a video searching site based upon Yahoo!Japan's web search API, but it is not just a simple clone of Yahoo! Japan, features the followings.
  1. Enables users to watch the video in "Got2Video" site.
  2. Gives a web form to rate the video.
  3. Provides users with the HTML tags so that users can put the video in their site.
  4. Issues a Podcast RSS so that users automatically downloads the video from the internet.
When you enter the keyword in the text box on the top page and then clicks the "Search" button, you can obtaion top 20 video from the search results. By clicking a thumbnail or a "Play this video" link, the video will automatically start in the upper part of the result view with an embedded Quicktime or Windows Media Player.
Now you can see the radio buttons and "Rate this video!" button below the embedded player. Choose the rate (1:Bad - 5:Good) and click "Rate this video!" button. If my server receive your rate, an alert window tells you so. It uses "AJAX" (Asynchronous Javascript with XML) technique, so you can send your rating without moving to the rating result page.You can put the video by copying "embed" tag which is shown in the text box below the video and pasting it into your web site or your blog.
If you want to download the video result from your "iTunes" or "iPodder(Juice)", just drag the G2D PODCAST icon to your iTunes or iPodder(Juice). You can receive the updated search results whenever you open your iTunes, and moreover, you can carry the video with your Video iPod.

There still remains many bugs and things to be improved, so your comments or requests would be highly appreciated.

FYR, I attach the video below by putting the tag which is created by Got2Video.