oSkope é um buscador visual. Usando oSkope você pode exibir e explorar visualmente os resultados por palavras-chave específicas dentro da própria janela do seu navegador. Os resultados da Amazon, eBay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo! e YouTube podem ser explorados em diferentes formas de visualização como: grids, pilhas, gráficos e listas.

http://oskope.com/

Hace tiempo que no publicaba un Dato Feliz.

Estaba hablando con un amigo hace un poco tiempo atrás, quien me dijo: “Igual tenís harta gente que te lee…”. Pero viendo las estadísticas, no creo que sea tanta xD Pues, muchas llegan indirectamente buscando imágenes que justo pongo. Eso le respondí. Pero me dijo: “Igual… escogís bien las imágenes. Son la raja xD” (Em… no me dijo “equis dé” cabe aclarar).

Y creo que en realidad puedo sentirme satisfecho por las imágenes que publico. Si bien algunas veces no encuentro la perfecta, otras veces sí. He incluso hay veces que he cambiado el título porque la imagen era wena y no pegaba con él. Y más aún, hay ocasiones en las que, por la imagen en sí, escribo algo.

Y aquí llego al dato feliz. De dónde sacar imágenes.

Si bien uso normalmente Google no má, a veces uso OSKOPE.

Es una página pa buscar imágenes, videos, y que si bien no es muy útil pa ser sincero, es bonita la wa xD Te tira las imágenes según el “buscador” que seleccionaste (Flicker, Yahoo, Fotolia, YouTube, y otras más que no recuerdo =w=) y lo hace de manera… bonita xD

Es eso principalmente. No tiene más gracia que mostrar las imágenes de forma bonita, y te da la opción de hacer tu carpeta de favoritas… emm… eso!

Harto mula el dato feliz! XD

Tangled web

I know, I should be sleeping. But isn’t that always the best time to write?

I’m a relatively new and naive blogger, becoming rapidly overwhelmed by the diversity of services and platforms that are available to perform all manner of blogging and social networking tasks. I can remember, a year or so ago, lamenting the fact that there where so many services and websites that posted, bookmarked, favorited, dugg, ranked, commented, tagged, aggregated, distributed (all of these things and more) your data from your website or blog – to make your information more visible and reach more people.

You have barely worked out how to use and utilise one service, when another one appears that does a slightly different thing, a slightly different way. All of these services require that you sign up, have a user name and a password, and maintain a profile, and status updates; they have their own message, chat or email system; you can add friends, pals, subscribers, fans, crew, collaborators, customers, clients, pets – the works. Where will it all end? How can we keep track of everything? Do we need all or any of these services? What works and what doesn’t? How can we integrate all of these services together; so that we can make some sense out of them?

I’ve lost track of the number of places where I have developed a digital presence. As well as my own unique persona, I represent a number of musical groups that I am promoting, because I love their original, alternative creativity. In order to get them ‘on the net’ we maintain a lot of websites; social networking is a great way to spread our music and our video clips. We are not organised enough yet to actually sell anything; we are satisfied enough that people will listen and watch, become our friends, subscribe to some of our channels, give us encouraging comments – and share their own music with us. Slowy, we are reaching a global audience and building a global network.

The actual task of producing music and film clips is supposed to be our prime directive. Such creativity still goes on; but we have been sidetracked to some extent by the process of publishing, packaging and promoting our material. First we had to get our first web sites hosted and published, needing html and design skills, (not to mention myriads of programming languages and protocols). Then we needed to promote our simple little sites and make sure Google googled them and thousands of people would come and visit. Targetting audiences and markets for your site can become a full-time job, and has become an industry in itself.

As a musical commodity, it behoves us to have a presence on MySpace, where, indeed we have made a small toe-hold, as well as hosting our own web sites. We uploaded some videos to YouTube, but we did not experience many views; so we joined LiveVideowhere we established a small amount of traffic and friends. Later we signed up with TubeMogul, which distributes videos to a dozen video hosting sites.

From this point our traffic started to grow, and our dream of world domination began to take hold. We signed up for some more video channels, and some live channels and looked around for somewhere to spread our music. We signed up for more and more services. We started blogging about what we were doing, and what we wanted to do. We searched for sources of material to help us design, code, publish, promote, network and anything else that we couldn’t afford to neglect. We signed up for a new blog and stopped blogging at the other one. Then we signed up for another one; we tried to host our own blog, which we nearly did. In short, we struggled, blindly, alone; a gnat amongst the frenzy of furious fans and friends.

If signing with TubeMogul represented one breakthrough in our quest for traffic, the adaption of FaceBook and Twitter were also significant milestones in our propagation. I had resisted joining FaceBook for a long time – I didn’t think it would be useful and I surely didn’t need to sign up for something else and keep another profile and all that rigmarole. Did I? And Twitter? What a silly name. But then everything seems to have a silly name on the internet.

FaceBook is a very powerful social networking tool; I was really unaware of how pervasive it has become and how useful it really is. Twitter broadcasts short bursts of information from sources that you choose to listen to. These bursts of twittering might include chatty, domestic banter; or you can select breaking news, tech news, updates, gossip, informed commentary, uninformed commentary, Mars lander updates, hurricane and weather alerts, traffic reports, what music people are listening to, what videos and movies and tv shows . . . endless – but useful, up-to-date information, rich with links to more detail.

Twitter has spawned hundreds of sites, applications and services to enhance the publishing of 104-character messages. Blogging has deconstructed itself into micro-blogging; now we can microblog. I’m not sure if I ever intended to become a microblogger, or a blogger, or a web publisher – we just want to make music and dance. How can we make sense of all these websites and services with silly names that are now all part of our social network? How do we integrate all of these services together so that they work for us? How can we make sense out of all these silly names.

Google, (and all of the Google services: Adsense, gMail, Analytics, Reader, etc) Yahoo, GeoCities, MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, flickr, del.ioci.us, digg, furl, tubemogul, revver, metacafe, myspacetv, blip.tv, crackle, veoh, dailymotion, blinkx, uLinkx, mashable, beet.tv, mogulus, worldtv, livevideo, live.yahoo, magnify, videosearch, trueveo, ustream, qik, vodpod, bebo, oSkope, pixsy, mofuse, wordpress, drupal, blogger, bloglines, kickapps, tag.clipr, friendfeed, feedburner, RSS, twitter, plurk, thwirl, ping.fm, digsby, netvibes . . . and on and on and on – how do we see the big picture of all of this? How do we see how all of these pieces fit together? What can be discarded?

I know. I’ve raised more questions than I’ve answered. But I do have to think about getting some sleep, just at the moment. It’s going to be a long day tomorrow. I will pick up this theme of integration . . . in a day or two.

adios amigos
Chris Loft from the blogloft

Las herramientas de búsqueda han ido evolucionando con tantas redes sociales o las famosas web 2.0. Ahora podemos buscar imagenes y videos a nuestra elección por medio de oSKope, este nos permite seleccionar que tipo de servicio queremos, entre ellos tenemos a Flickr, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon, Fotolia y Ebay, esperemos encontrar más servicios.

Gestern abend wurden die Preise an die besten schweizer Webseite (Best of Swiss Web) verliehen. Unter anderen, das meiste sind Redesigns, fällt oSkope.com aus dem Rahmen. oSkope.com bezeichnet sich als visuelle Suche, d.h. inerhalb einer Kategorie oder eines Begriffes erscheinen Bilder der gewünschten Quelle, nach denen dann gesucht werden kann. Am besten selber ausprobieren:

oSkope ist für mich ein neuer Massstab in Usability, und sehr intuitiv zu bedienen . Es hilft beim Stöbern inBildern und macht viel Spass.

Konzeptionell ist oSkope im Prinzip ein Suchebene, die über eine bestehende Webseite gestülpt wird. Im Moment sind das die grossen Ebay, Amazon, Youtube, Flickr, die ein eine offene Schnittstelle anbieten, wo jeder auf die Daten darstellen kann.

Spannend wird oSkope, wenn es in E-Commerce Plattformen als weitere Suchform integriert wird. Ich stelle mir das so vor:Ich gehe z.B. auf Webshop y, auf der Frontseite ist ein Feld mit oSkope, ich klicke drauf, das Feld vergössert sich bis es knapp den ganzen Bildschirm füllt. Ich stöbere innerhalb von oSkope in den Produkten und lege die gefundenen in den Warenkorb, sobald ich genug habe, schliesse ich oskope und kaufe die Produkte. Ich schätze, das die Verweildauer innerhalb des Shops durch Oskope.com dupliziert werden kann.

Die meisten Webshops heute sind technisch top, aber die Usability stammt häufig noch aus der Zeit als man noch einen Kaffee holen ging, wenn ein Bild geladen wurde. oSkope.com beweist, das in Webshops suchen, Spass machen könnte.

Wer sich oSkope gerne bei sich integrieren würde, melde sich bitte bei oskopemedia.

Bin gespannt, wer Webshop oSkope zuerst integriert hat.

Bruno

Wichtiger Hinweis: Christoph Schifferli, der Kopf hinter oSkope.com, ist ein guter Freund von mir.

En naviguant une fois de plus sans grand but sur le net je suis tombé sur un moteur de recherche assez recent qui a de suite attiré mon attention.

Son nom me demanderez-vous: “Oskope“

Barbare n’est-il pas? Quoique dans ce domaine ils ne se demarquent pas par une imagination debordante entre les google, msn et bien sur l’escargot shooté au crack alias YahooOooOOOo!!!

Bref, pourquoi ce fameux Oskope mérite t-il un post? Tout simplement par son approche de l’exploration des principales bases de données du net (youtube, amazon, flickr…) Oust les pages sans vie sur lesquelles nous nous egratignons la retine pour trouver une info potable!! Ici tout se fait par l’image

avec la possibilité de modeler l’écran à votre bon vouloir. Entre les reponses bien ordonnées et les tas de feuilles aprés une bonne bourrasque de vent automnale, de quoi ravir tout le monde! C’est beau la technique non?

voilou je ne vais pas entrer dans les details vu le peu de connaissances informatique que je possede . Mais, je vous conseil vivement d’aller y faire un tour.

http://oskope.com/

Thanks to Stephanie over at 2695 Design for the heads up on this one. oSkope media in Zurich & Berlin has a prototype out for a visual search engine. The idea is that, much like in a bricks & mortar retail environment, it is much more intuitive to browse visually. Check out the oSkope Search primer video.

They already have eBay, Amazon & Flikr on board, so it will be interesting to see how this one develops.

Una de las cosas mas latosas es buscar un video en youtube pagina por pagina segun la relevancia que le demos a nuestras palabras…esto ya es cosa del pasado ya que aparecio oSKope un buscador virtual que a nivel de pagina muestra de manera rapida y directa todos los videos que corresponden a lo que escribimos en la busqueda.

sin duda alguna es una excelente forma de buscar…ademas funciona con flickr, amazon y ebay.

A continuación les dejo el review que hice del nuevo buscador oSkope para Mouse.

su comentario es mi sueldo

oSkope visual search

Low-res movie demonstration here

Hi-Res Quicktime movie demonstration here (6.6Mb)

Visual search seems to be popping up a lot lately as web technologies and Internet speeds increase. Microsoft’s Tafiti was another recent attempt at visual search and oSkope is another though is restricted to a small number of predefined sites such as eBay, Amazon, Flickr and YouTube at present with further localisation refinements possible. No doubt other sites will be added in future. There are several options available relating to how you can view the results with the ability to choose from grid, stack, pile, list or graph options on the left of the screen and adjustments to the icon size available on the right.

oSkope.com

Twitter updates__Random blog post__Blogs I Read

Azziz sur Mashable (France) nous parle du lancement d’un outil de reconnaissance faciale sur video par Reuters.

Philippe sur AccessoWeb nous parle de Yahoo Widget et des nouvelles fonctionnalités de personnalisation.

Si vous vous intéressez aux nouveaux services et nouvelles entreprises “Web2.0″ vous pouvez aller lire un excellent article sur RWW qui traite de l’analyse des modèles économiques de sociétés présentées au Techcrunch40 (article anglais). Vous découvrirez que les sociétés qui se lancent, pour être financées, doivent avoir des modèles viables.

Fred nous présente un outi, oSkope, un moteur qui propose une nouvelle manière de disposer les résultats de vos requêtes. Pour avoir testé l’outil je peux affirmer que la présentation est originale mais n’est pas troublante, vous vous ferez tres vite à cette présentation.

WorkBoxers parle de Adsense Mobile (lien officiel).

Traffik quant à lui nous expose Google Ads Widget (autre article ici). A mon avis, effectivement, le widget est un format qui présente quelques avantages (visuels notamment) qui permettent de proposer des publicités plus attirantes, mais Google n’est absolument pas novateur dans le concept, je connais au moins une entreprise qui propose des widgets

extrait -> “They’re considered “non-traditional ad units with rich, interactive capabilities.” Google further explains that you might want to think of these as “mini versions of your website” in any AdSense ad size.“

Olivier (veille perso) nous présente Wixi, un outil media center en ligne. Je rejoins totalement son sentiment, Wixi va vraiment dans le sens des besoins actuels.

extrait -> “Et quand je dis contenus, je parle de vrais contenus intéressants, pas des vidéos-gags à la YouTube : en effet, le partage se faisant entre amis, on peut vite imaginer retrouver sur Wixi des albums et des films entiers, un peu comme on se prêterait dans la vraie vie nos CDs ou nos DVDs.“

A ferramenta de busca oSkope vem com uma proposta diferente. Sua busca traz resultados visuais, como se fosse uma mesa com figuras ou fotos espalhadas. Esse negócio de figuras na mesa está na moda, né?

Por enquanto, só é possível realizar buscas no Flickr, YouTube, amazon e e-bay. É legal, principalmente para o YouTube e Flickr, dá até para ficar um bom tempo fuçando. Ops, estava esquecendo, tem uns efeitos “flash” bacanas durante o uso da ferramenta.