Video Central
Welcome to the Video topic center. Here you will find a selection of tools, tips, resources, articles, and more on the topic of video search and Truveo. There will be frequent updates and new information added to this page so make sure you come back often. There is also the Video forum that you can participate in to get even more information and support from your fellow developers.
Recent Blog Entries
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The Presidential Election Mac OS X Dashboard Widget - The Implementation
After introducing the idea of a Presidential Election Widget last week, I’m pleased to present the implementation! As I indicated last week – my plan was to take the TruveoCast widget I previously wrote about – and turn it from a widget designed to browse the video favorites of Truveo users – to a presidential election news cast – right on your Mac OS X Dashboard!
Submitted by John Fronckowiak on January 29, 2008 | Read More Election 2008 Video of the Day
I recently created the NFL Video of the Day gadget for Windows Vista and wrote an article on how it was made. After John's blog about creating a Mac Widget for the elections I figured I'd adapt my NFL gadget and change it into an Election 2008 Video of the Day gadget. Mine is not as fancy as I think his will be, but then again, it's just for fun, right?
Submitted by Mark Blomsma on January 23, 2008 | Read More
The Presidential Election Mac OS X Dashboard Widget - The Idea
A press release last week, announced the Truveo launch of a comprehensive Presidential Election video site. According to the press release:
Truveo's election site includes pages for each of the leading candidates in the Democratic and Republican primary races: Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama on the Democratic side and Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Mitt Romney on the Republican side. The site also has pages for coverage from national, international and local sources as well as the ever-popular late night shows.
Submitted by John Fronckowiak on January 22, 2008 | Read More
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TruveoCast: Building a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget to Share Your Truveo Video Favorites
By John Fronckowiak
Dec 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. Read More...The Making Of… the NFL Video of the Day
By Mark Blomsma
Dec 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. Read 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... -
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...