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YouTube BBC Pipe
My YouTube search for BBC Headlines is working! It uses this RSS feed http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml and takes the item,title from the RSS. Instead of searching YouTube itself, using the YouTube API, I’m using the Yahoo Search module, and then limiting the … Continue reading
No Analysis
Here is an example of the image results for the full headline. Much more appropriate!
Term Extractors/Regex/Content Analysis/Keyword Filtering
I’ve come to a bit of a realisation this morning. After working on all these methods of filtering (Term Extractors, Regex, Content Analysis and Keyword Filtering) in my Yahoo pipe, my fairly unpredictable conclusion is that, actually, none of these … Continue reading
Security Sandbox issue fixed…
With the help of this fantastic tutorial about running YouTube in Flash, I managed to work out how to overcome my security sandbox exception: // The player SWF file on www.youtube.com needs to communicate with your host // SWF file. … Continue reading
An alternative plan… PHP and You Tube
After working on the Yahoo Image search from the BBC News RSS, I’ve decided to look into You Tube. My first step was to work out how to display You Tube videos in Flash. I’ve been struggling with the security … Continue reading
My Yahoo Pipe is getting more sophisticated
It’s getting a bit more interesting now as I have been able to use some clever Regex modules in my pipe to find the keywords of BBC News RSS. Though it is a bit unpredictable, I have managed to create … Continue reading
Lots of Pipes
This screenshot shows the contents of my 4D Folder of Yahoo Pipes. Pipes very nicely allows you to clone your work, giving nice version control, and a descriptive archive of what I have been doing. It also allows me to … Continue reading
LiveLeak
LiveLink is a really interesting video sharing website I came across when searching for citizen video journalism. There are videos uploaded in many categories, including a lot of Middle East footage (Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran), lots of current affairs news. … Continue reading
Evolutionary Video Editing
I’ve been reading this very interesting document from a talk given by University of Surrey Phd student Tim Wang. He was looking into a project slightly similar to mine (much more complex!), in which he created various algorithms and programs … Continue reading