AOL Launches Developer Program for AOL Video Search Engine.DULLES, Va. -- AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. :
Open Platform Enables Developers to Integrate AOL Video Search
Results Into Third-Party Web Sites
Also Makes it Easy for Content Owners to Submit Video Feeds in
Real-Time to AOL Video Search Index
Continuing its commitment to provide developers with open access to its popular services, AOL announced today an initiative that opens the platform for its industry-leading AOL Video Search engine A video search engine is a web-based search engine which crawls the web for video content. Some video search engines parse externally hosted content while others allow content to be uploaded and hosted on their own servers. to third-party developers and video content owners. Through its new AOL Video Search developer program, AOL has made available a set of open video search APIs (application programming interfaces) as well as implemented a system for video content owners to submit feeds to the AOL Video Search index through new AOL Director Accounts. "With more and more video content coming online each day, we believe video search will become increasingly important as a way for consumers to find all of the rich content on the Web - from high quality branded content Branded Content, also known as Branded entertainment and Advertainment, is a relatively new form of advertising medium that blurs conventional distinctions between what constitutes advertising and what constitutes entertainment. to the most popular viral videos from across the web," said Kevin Conroy Kevin Conroy (born November 30 1955) is an American actor of stage, screen, and voice, perhaps best known for his portrayal of DC Comics superhero Batman in numerous animated series and features that comprised the DC animated universe. , Executive Vice President, AOL. "In an effort to help deliver the best results for the user, we are opening our platform and enabling developers to integrate video search results into their websites so that they can in turn offer their users easy access to the best search engine for finding video on the Web." "The new AOL Video Search APIs offer developers an unprecedented set of tools and functionality for integrating our powerful video search technology into their websites," said Dr. Timothy Tuttle, Vice President, AOL Video. "We believe developers will find our video search APIs to be more versatile and easier to use than other video search APIs available today." Through a set of open AOL(R) Video Search APIs, which are available in both REST and AJAX, developers can now build innovative video search-driven applications that access AOL's extensive index containing millions of videos from across the Web. Other functionality available through the new AOL Video Search APIs includes: --Advanced keyword searching as well as video browsing by category, channel, tag or user. --Advanced sorting and filtering capabilities for video search results. --Rich support for user ratings, tagging, favorites, etc. --Integrated support for easy user sharing on social networking sites, blogs, etc. --Full RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. support to enable easy syndication of video search results. --Easy self-service online sign-up. For content owners looking to broaden the distribution of their video content, the AOL(R) Director Account program is a free, first-of-its-kind offering for site owners and content publishers to submit feeds to AOL Video Search. Unlike other video search engines, this fully self-service online sign-up and feed management system enables users to make their self-hosted videos easily searchable across the AOL Video Search network within minutes of being submitted. Through its network of third-party syndication partners and across the AOL websites, the AOL Video Search network has greater reach than any other video search engine, providing an ideal platform for content owners to syndicate their video and drive traffic to their own Web destinations. For more information on AOL Video Search developer tools, access to the AOL Video Search APIs or to sign up for an AOL Director Account, please visit the AOL Video Search Developer Center at http://developer.searchvideo.com. Also available at the AOL Video Search Developer Center is comprehensive online documentation as well as an application gallery showcasing mash-ups built on the AOL Video Search APIs. In related news, AOL also announced today the launch of AOL Video for the Intel Viiv Viiv (IPA: /ˈvaɪv/, rhymes with five) is a platform marketing initiative from Intel. Like Intel's Centrino and vPro, Viiv is a collection of computer technologies with a particular combination of Intel products as its (TM) platform. With this new service, thousands of original, licensed and distributed content in the AOL Video library can be viewed by consumers from a "10-foot" living room TV viewing experience via Intel Viiv-enabled PCs. About AOL AOL and its subsidiaries operate a leading network of Web brands and the largest Internet access See how to access the Internet. subscription service in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Web brands include the AOL.com(R) website, AIM(R), MapQuest(R) and Netscape(R). AOL offers a range of digital services in the areas of education, safety and security, communications and music. The company also has operations in Europe and Canada. AOL LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is a majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange Service) A U.S. and Canadian dial-up communications service that became part of Telex. In 1971, the Bell System sold TWX to Western Union. TWX transmitted 5-bit Murray code or 7-bit ASCII code at up to 150 bps. See Telex. ) and is based in Dulles, Virginia. |
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