Increasing Your Quality of Life with Tech
Lazyfeed brings you content about the topics you’re looking for from around the Internet. Finding relevant content doesn’t get any easier. Simply tell Lazyfeed what you need, and Lazyfeed does the rest. They have continued to grow since their launch earlier this year, went public, and have recently overhauled the interface that will make you […]
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Vokle Goes Public
We covered Vokle a little while back. It’s a platform by which brands can engage with their communities and fans via live video. I think of it as a Ustream for business. They have just gone public so that everyone can take a peek. They have added a bunch of features since there […]
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22Tracks is a new site for finding the hottest new music. You gain access to 22 playlists from varying genres. Each playlist contains 22 tracks of hot fire hand-picked by specialized DJ’s from Amsterdam. Not only are these guys good at picking out good music, but the site’s interface is clean and smooth. 22Tracks not […]
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Lose It or Lose It is an interesting service that helps you stay motivated in reaching your weight loss goals. You tell the site how much weight or money you want to lose each week and make an initial investment based on your selections. Each week, you check in with Lose It or Lose It […]
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About a month ago, we talked about why you should care about Twitter lists and talked about a few examples of using lists to catch breaking news. It’s all well and good to talk about lists and how great they are, but yet another to actually go about implementing them. In this post, we’ll take […]
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There’s An Owl For That, Facebook Dismantles Walled Garden, MySpace Shuts Down Imeem, and Google Finally Goes Real-time.
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We covered Simler just about a month ago and they have done anything but sitting at home eating snacks all day since then. The new Simler takes a lot of feedback from the initial user-base and puts it into action. If you recall, Simler lets you focus your online discussions with your friends and associates […]
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Foursquare awards it’s users points for doing things in the real world like discovering new places, completing interesting tasks, and meeting new friends. The service not only is a great and unique way for businesses to get involved in social media, it proves to be the same for charities.
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Apple has acquired music streaming service Lala and we are left wondering what, exactly, they’re planning to do with it. We just recently covered iLike and Lala being behind some major music initiatives involving Google and Facebook. Lala had partnered with Google to help power their Music Onebox service and were also working with Facebook to allow us to purchase musical gifts for our friends.
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In their endless quest to push the web to the next level, Google has made some major moves. Even when the very infrastructure of the Internet itself has stood in their way, they have forged ahead and made their own path. Now, in a move that has many users raising an eyebrow, Google has launched their own public DNS service.
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Google Dumps Gears for HTML5, Sean Kingston Makes a Twitter Song, Facebook Redesigns, Who Sampled in 2009, and 10 out of 15 Google Users Switch to Bing.
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VideoLobby helps nonprofits, companies, media, and individuals consolidate their online video activity all in one place. You can easily create a customized and professionally-styled, live webcast in about 5 minutes according to the site. VideoLobby integrates with streaming video services like Qik, Justin.tv, Ustream and more to bring all of your video content to one […]
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The Noteflight Score Editor is a top-notch application that lets you create, edit, print, display, and play back music notation. Not only can you create your own scores, but you can also make them public or submit them to Noteflight’s online library of music.
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You missed that recent episode of V or the first episode of CSI’s crossover week. You know they aren’t showing re-runs and you can’t believe you forgot to set the DVR. Maybe you can catch them online, but where? Clicker is a service that will help you answer that exact question: Where are the shows I want to see playing online?
As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers are entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed among billions of random clips and videos.
Clicker boasts more than 450,000 episodes, from over 6,000 shows, from over 1,200 networks. They also contain 40,000 movies and 50,000 music videos from 20,000 artists. They refer to themselves as “one part directory, one part search engine, one part wiki, one part entertainment guide, and one part DVR.”
Clicker basically indexes video from various sources across the web. Rather than trying to sift through YouTube, Hulu, or other video sites, Clicker serves as your one-stop shop for locating exactly what you need. When possible, you can even watch your shows right from the Clicker website. Otherwise, it links you to the relevant source.
Even if the content you’re looking for is not free, Clicker will show you where you can buy it. The search features auto-complete and thumbnails of the shows you might be searching for. If you’re not even sure what you’re looking for, you can browse through the extensive selection of categories or visit Trends to see what’s hot.
As you browse through the site, you can add items to playlists for later viewing. This works much like Hulu’s queue, including a history of items you’ve already watched. You can also connect Clicker to your Facebook account to let your friends know what you’re watching and to invite 5 lucky people to join the service. Clicker is in private beta, but it only took me a few days to get my invitation, so go sign up and let us know what you think.
LeapFish is an interesting search portal that creates it’s results by pulling together information from the major search engines. It also includes results from the social web and embeds all types of media directly on the results page. As you type your search, the results are pulled together using their “proprietary hyper-threading technology” in conjunction with the API’s of each service. Basically, LeapFish is a meta search engine.
Today, LeapFish is kicking it into overdrive by adding something me and most of the web is pretty excited about: Realtime. They will combine this with tighter integration with social networking sites and the ability to basically share anything you find instantly to your social networks from LeapFish.com.
Leapfish 2.0 will yield information from every inch of the Internet – breaking news headlines, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. – and will even allow for user ratings to ensure that everyone receives the most important information first.
Leapfish is calling the ever-changing environment that the web has become the new Living Web.
There are other realtime search engines out there, but they haven’t really delivered what they’ve promised as far as I can see. Leapfish, approaching the situation from a different perspective, combining your regular web search with realtime results from the social web, and allowing you to easily share the hottest new stuff, could be one of the most powerful tools we’ve seen in a while.
LeapFish is conducting private demos prior to the highly anticipated launch, if interested please email demo@leapfish.com
