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Building an AOL Video Upload Application for Facebook
by John Fronckowiak
March 24, 2008
In this article I show you how to integrate the AOL Video Upload API into a Facebook application. Facebook is a leading social networking site, with over 64 million active users. As of September 2007, it ranked 7th in Internet traffic, according to Alexa. It is also the most popular web site for uploading photos, with 14 million photos uploaded daily. Providing a tool to upload videos to AOL Video has great use potential, and also is illustrative for developers looking to leverage AOL technologies into Facebook. More... Open House On Demand, Part 2: A Video Open House Powered by OpenAuth, Video Uploads, Truveo, and the AOL Video Player
By John Fronckowiak
February 19, 2008
The goal of the Open House On Demand project is to provide an online virtual open house, supported by AOL technologies. Open House On Demand provides real estate brokers with a mechanism to upload videos of properties for sale to the AOL Video web site and to specify attributes of those properties--for example, property type, number of bedrooms, or year built. In addition, potential buyers will be able to search the property videos and view a virtual open house right in their web browsers. This article is presented in two parts: part one discusses the implementation of the video upload for property brokers, and in part two, which you are reading now, I discuss how potential buyers can search and view the videos. More...Open House On Demand, Part 1: A Video Open House Powered by OpenAuth, Video Uploads, Truveo, and the AOL Video Player
By John Fronckowiak
January 18, 2008
The goal of the Open House On Demand project is to provide an online virtual open house, supported by AOL technologies. Open House On Demand provides real estate brokers with a mechanism to upload videos of properties for sale to the AOL Video web site and to specify attributes of those properties such as property type, number of bedrooms, or year built. In addition, potential buyers will be able to search the property videos and view a virtual open house in a web browser. This article is presented in two parts. In part one, which you are now reading, I will discuss implementing the video upload for property brokers. In part two, I will discuss how potential buyers can search and view the videos. More...-
TruveoCast: Building a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget to Share Your Truveo Video Favorites
by John Fronckowiak
December 13, 2007
AOL's Truveo is a one-stop site for searching and browsing the millions of videos available on the Internet. Truveo Video Search provides a rich searching mechanism, and an associated API that give users the ability to find the content they need. In addition, Truveo users can create a list of their favorite videos, and if they choose to make the favorites list public, other users can search it by using the user: search modifier. More... -
The Making Of… the NFL Video of the Day
by Mark Blomsma
December 14, 2007
The World Wide Web is becoming more and more a resource for video. Online newspapers are receiving competition from television stations when it comes to getting your attention online. If your computer is running Windows Vista, then the obvious way to keep informed about what's happening in the world is by running a Vista gadget that searches the Internet for new content. Of course, building a search engine inside a gadget is a little ambitious, but integrating a Vista gadget with Truveo Video Search is definitely within the realm of possibility. With the NFL competition in full swing, let's take a look behind the scenes of the making of an NFL Video of the Day gadget for Windows Vista. More... -
Elephant's Pajamas: Building a Truveo Video Joke-of-the-Day Mac OS X Dashboard Widget
By John Fronckowiak
Sep 26, 2007
Elephant's Pajamas is a Mac OS X Dashboard widget, powered by AOL Truveo, that provides access to funny joke videos. Truveo is a one-stop destination for searching video resources available all over the Internet, including AOL Music, AOL Video, YouTube, CNN, NBC, Fox News, and much more. Elephant's Pajamas uses the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) API provided by Truveo to search through all the funny joke videos available from the resources aggregated by Truveo, and then randomly select one video, which the user can view in their Web browser. This article shows how I developed Elephant's Pajamas, using the technologies that only Truveo provides. Read More... -
Microsoft Silverlight and Truveo Video Search
by Kirk Evans
September 14, 2007
When building web-based applications, you often have to make a compromise between creating high-quality, engaging user experiences and the amount of coding effort required to build those applications. Microsoft Silverlight makes it easy to build engaging media experiences and rich internet applications (RIAs). In this article, we will show how to leverage the Truveo Video Search API using Microsoft Silverlight. More... -
Microsoft Silverlight and Truveo Video Search, Part Two
by Kirk Evans
October 19, 2007
In the second article in his three-part series on integrating the Truveo Video Search API with Microsoft Silverlight, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to construct a dynamically updateable user interfaces using Silverlight, Javascript, XAML, and AJAX in conjuction with Truveo.More... -
Microsoft Silverlight and Truveo Video Search, Part Three
by Kirk Evans
November 9, 2007
This is the third and final article in a series demonstrating how to use Truveo Video Search and Silverlight together. In the first article in this series, Microsoft Silverlight and Truveo Video Search, Part 1, I showed some basic constructs of Silverlight, including the createSilverlight function. That article introduced XAML, showed how to use JavaScript to interact with events from the UI, and demonstrated how easy it is to set properties of our Silverlight application using JavaScript. The second part of our series, Microsoft Silverlight and Truveo Video Search, Part 2, showed how to dynamically generate items in the UI using the createFromXaml API call. More... -
Styling the AOL Video Search API Function
by Jeremy Matzan
Apr 9, 2007
Creating an attractive Web page requires more than just applying API code. Jeremy Matzan shows how to integrate Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) into an AOL Video Search API application to style the information for improved readability and site consistency. More... -
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and AOL Video Search
by Shawn Wildermuth
Mar 16, 2007
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is Microsoft's new platform for developing rich Windows smart clients. In this article, Shawn Wildermuth shows how to apply WPF with XAML-based data binding to construct an AOL Video Search API application. More... -
Using the AOL API with ASP.NET: Part 1 - AOL Video Search
by Shawn Wildermuth
Feb 15, 2007
Shawn Wildermuth begins a series of articles on how to employ Microsoft's ASP.NET and C# to create appealing Web applications using AOL APIs and Web services. Part 1 demonstrates ASP.NET and the AOL Video Search XML API. More... -
Building a Simple AOL Video Search API Application Using Ajax
by Paul Sobocinski
Jan 16, 2007
Why send visitors away from your site in search of videos when you can provide them with the ability to simultaneously search YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo!, AOL Video, and others, right on your own site? The AOL Video Search API provides this capability. In this article, Paul Sobocinski introduces the API and demonstrates how to develop a basic video search web page using HTML and Javascript. More...