Web 2.0 Tools To Master Economic Development, B2B Marketing and Competitive Intelligence
Here is a tool for individuals who wish to go beyond YouTube to find video content online.
Blinkx is a search tool that permits users watch video online as it becomes indexed. The screenshot below provide an example of how results are presented by Blinkx.
Blinkx is available at http://www.blinkx.com/.
According to Hitwise, activity on Web 2.0 sites increased by 686% over the past two years. Platforms such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook and other blogging applications has attracted a large amount of attention and does not show any signs of slowing down.
What are the implications you may ask? If you are a serious user of the Web 2.0 applications, you have the ability to create content that may be valuable to others on the web. Instead of conduct a general web search, they will turn to the various Web 2.0 search tools to find relevant content.
Yahoo is currently testing a new tool which permits meta searches of their web properties and the crawling of additional internet sources as specified by users. The tool pulled content from the following sources:
The screenshot below presents the results from YouTube for the keyword, “New York Knicks”. (See the right hand corner of the image.)
Alpha is available at http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/
Trivia time…
Besides YouTube, name another platform that permits you to view video clips on the web?
3.2.1………..Time is up!
If you were not able to come up with one platform, maybe you should consider Searchforvideo.
Searchforvideo is a gateway to access other video viewing platforms depending on theme. The six categories that users can select from include:
The screenshot below presents the results from selecting the Business section of the resource.
What is not seen in the image is the different sources that Searchforvideo utilizes to provide their results such as:
