Advanced search is now available in html mode. Simply click on adv search and then add in parameters such as date or person combine them for specific queries.

The metavid contribution to the danm.01(.alpha.unstable-branch.. hehe) show that opens this week will be highlighting user-built sequences. Users are highly encouraged to throw together collections of clips to help us have something to show :).
A sequence is essentially a collection of clips. if you are logged in to bleeding edge bleeding edge interface and you have a video clip open, you should see a ‘ADD TO SEQUENCE’ button, this will let you create (and link externally to) your sequence.

We imagine that this will be useful for building thematic montages, or people using the same word, or perhaps showing a speaker contradicting himself.
Keep an eye on Building A Sequence in the wiki for documentation (and discussion) of how this works.

Update: Sequences are going through some renovation right now, but feel free to keep track of your favorite clips in the wiki.

Update2:  Sequences can be built with drag and drop goodness.. Watch for a more detailed post and update of metavid happening in a few days

The metavid contribution to the danm.01(.alpha.unstable-branch.. hehe) show that opens this week will be highlighting user-built sequences. Users are highly encouraged to throw together collections of clips to help us have something to show :).
A sequence is essentially a collection of clips. if you are logged in to bleeding edge bleeding edge interface and you have a video clip open, you should see a ‘ADD TO SEQUENCE’ button, this will let you create (and link externally to) your sequence.

We imagine that this will be useful for building thematic montages, or people using the same word, or perhaps showing a speaker contradicting himself.
Keep an eye on Building A Sequence in the wiki for documentation (and discussion) of how this works.

Update: Sequences are going through some renovation right now, but feel free to keep track of your favorite clips in the wiki.

Update2:  Sequences can be built with drag and drop goodness.. Watch for a more detailed post and update of metavid happening in a few days

The Center for Responsible Politics runs a very well established site called open secrets. This site offers clear overviews of campaign finance information about politicians. I wrote a quick overlay to query their site and pull in their content. You can check it out in the bleeding edge of the site (under add overlay -> person overlay). We are just getting started so the functionality is still kind of limited but in the future we hope to integrate their dataset into other areas of the site. (as well as increase stability
The interface may undergo some alterations as well more on that in the near future

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The metavid interface is coming along nicely. You can preview the bleeding edge version. If you want it not to crash as much I recommend the “stable” version which in the future should be more stable than the dev version;)

The interface was inspired by the web2.0ish sites such as protopage, PageFlakes, or live.com. The virtual windows are styled via css classes and the and the content in the “virtual windows” will be web service centric. In these services online participants are asked to supplement the context providers modules in the form of an easy to script api for making “Gadgets“, “flakes”, or “panels” or in the case of metavid: overlays. Except in metavid your collective participation will be owned by the collective you, not the context provider ;)… given the openness of our application you won’t be restricted to running your overlays in our system under our “brand” as long as you don’t restrict others to do the same

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