February 23, 2005
"...breakthroughs in information retrieval would come when researchers gained a deeper understanding of how humans process information and then endowed machines with analogous capabilities." —Ben-Ami Lipetz
So you know how Flickr has tags, right? It lets visual images have searchable text describing what it is, like IKEA or meatballs. It's like letting pictures talk in word-language. Or letting us speak in pictures, just like Peter Gabriel does. Anyway, it's crazy cool. And this networked intermedia symbiosis party is spreading to video. The party's just gettin' started.
Witness what a couple of my vlog-buds are up to:
Michael Verdi is shaking things up in the land of mefeedia tags. Check out the growing little video conversation surrounding vlog anarchy. Another popular tag is The Gates.
Jakob Lodwick, who writes an ever-expanding epiphany on tagwebs, has taken his vimeo project from hobby to beta. Vimeo goes beyond showing you videos with certain tags. It assembles them into "automatic movies" - for example, automatic movies about a concept: funny or a place: 349 broadway where Jakob and the boys live. This isn't available for the public to play with just yet, but from what I've seen this could be huge. And huge fun.
Plug in, zoom on and freak out man.
Not entirely related: Check out a review of Jahshaka, "grassroots real-time video production powerhouse" that does just about all the audio and uncompressed video editing and effects you'd ever want... for free. It's in alpha right now - download here.
