Archive for October, 2006

Happy Halloween

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Happy Halloween! Today we’re highlighting the finalists in the Google Video Horror Show. Not sure which will scare you most, but we hope one of these videos will put you in the Halloween mood. The following videos were hand-picked by you and rated as the scariest videos on Google Video.

Thank you for participating in the Google Video Horror Show and have a safe Halloween!

Click here to watch “How to… Overcome fear”
For successful living.
1 min
Click here to watch “Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror Teaser”
Welcome to the Hood of Horror, a place where revenge is a dish served cold…in a 40oz. The Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) is your guide through three terrifying tales from this nefarious neighborhood…
1 min 14 sec
Click here to watch “92″
A surreal commission for the Hayward Gallery’s ‘Undercover Surrealism’ exhibition from director Dominic Hailstone.
31 sec
Click here to watch “WKID - Trick or Treat”
WKID Presents - A Halloween Special
5 min 3 sec
Click here to watch “Happy Tree Friends - Remains to Be Seen”
It’s Halloween… Happy Tree Friends style.
3 min 55 sec
Click here to watch “CLASSIC HORROR TRAILERS RARE FREE LIMITED TIME ONLY”
Aging Baby-Boomer Ira H. Gallen has spent over 30 years collecting and restoring this collection from 16mm & 35mm Celluloid Film, and Kinescopes to Video tape, with the help of Museum of Television and Radio in New York.
13 min 50 sec

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Spotlight on P. Diddy

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

In an exclusive video from Walmart, Diddy talks about how he grew up listening to James Brown, Marvin Gaye, and Diana Ross. Learn where he’s from and how he broke into the music business.

Click here to watch “Walmart Soundcheck: Exclusive Diddy Promotion”
Check out an exclusive in-studio promotion from Diddy’s new album “Press play”
2 min 10 sec

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Highlight: “Expert Gamer” Contest winners

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

From July 7th to July 23rd, 2006, gamers from around the world competed in the first annual “Expert Gamer” contest sponsored by ExpoTV.com and GamePro.com. The contest provided an opportunity for gamers to demonstrate their skills by creating original product reviews (also known as videopinions) of the games they love (or hate) and uploading them to ExpoTV.com for their friends to cast their vote. Voters determined the 15 semi-finalists and the winning videopinions were selected by a panel of expert judges. They scored entries on creativity, video production quality, and the contestants’ depth of knowledge in the games they reviewed. The five Grand Prize winners received awesome prizes (including a Sony high-definition flat screen TV) and they were featured on ExpoTV’s video-on-demand network. You can find entries from the “Expert Gamer” contest here.

Click here to watch “FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 3 User Review 7894″
Video review of FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 3. Videopinions are Expo TV members reviewing and demonstrating the products and services they use - in full motion video, from the inside out. Videopinion product reviews are unbiased, personal testimonials created by real users. Go to expotv.com the next time you’re doing product research to see the best video reviews by experts and consumers - or contribute a Videopinion of your own!
1 min 41 sec
Click here to watch “GUITAR HERO!! User Review 7981″
MORE GUITAR HERO - IN DEPTH REVIEW
3 min 58 sec
Click here to watch “PREY User Review 7952″
Randum’s Review of P R E Y for the PC
5 min 1 sec
Click here to watch “Chrome Hounds User Review 8034″
video game review for XBox 360
2 min 19 sec
Click here to watch “Battlefield 2: Armored Fury User Review 8118″
Dan’s Review of Battlefield 2: Armored Fury - an expansion booster pack for Battlefield 2 for the PC.
3 min 13 sec

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Trailer: Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

The mad scientists at Eepybird have taken the Coke + Mentos experiement to the next level.

What happens when you combine 500 liters of Coke + over 1,500 Mentos mints?

What happens when you combine Google Video + EepyBird?

Find out October 30, 2006!

Meanwhile, get a taste of the explosion here…

Click here to watch “Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II - Trailer”
EepyBird’s “Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II” is coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek at what we just finished filming. The full video will be at www.eepybird.com on October 30, 2006.
1 min 14 sec

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Horror Video Finalists

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Well, you’ve done it. You’ve sent us your favorite horror videos for the Google Video Horror Show. Now it’s up to you to tell us which ones are the best. The scariest videos on Google Video will be announced on the scariest day of the year - Halloween, of course! Check out the selection of finalists here and then rate the videos by giving it stars. You’ll find the stars on the video’s playback page underneath the video’s title. Some of the videos already have a tough ranking to beat, so if you really love a video, tell your friends, tell your parents, tell your grandparents to vote - do whatever it takes to get your video highlighted as the most horrific video on Google Video!

Here are 3 Horror Video Finalists to get you started

Click here to watch “92″
A surreal commission for the Hayward Gallery’s ‘Undercover Surrealism’ exhibition from director Dominic Hailstone.
31 sec
Click here to watch “Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror Teaser”
Welcome to the Hood of Horror, a place where revenge is a dish served cold…in a 40oz. The Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) is your guide through three terrifying tales from this nefarious neighborhood and its depraved denizens, including a tagger who finds out that not all gangstas die hard; a spoiled heir to a Texan oil dynasty who murders for money but can’t pay to stay alive; and a major rap star that discovers he’s got a few skeletons in his dressing room…and they’re kicking down the door. This bone-chilling, gut-bursting (literally) anthology proves, once and for all: “It AIN’T all good in da Hood!”
1 min 14 sec
Click here to watch “Kid thinks he’s falling from ride. Stepmom is laughing hysterically!”
This poor kid thinks he’s falling out of an amusement park ride, although he actually is strapped in tight. This is a very rare real combination of horror and laughter captured within the same sequence.
1 min 2 sec

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New: Christina Aguilera Music Video

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Christina Aguilera is back in a brand new video entitled “Hurt” from Sony BMG. The video is touching, the strings and piano lovely, and Christina’s voice is positively stunning. That girl can really sing…

Click here to watch “Christina Aguilera - Hurt”
Christina Aguilera’s second single from her album “Back to Basics”
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Highlight: Century City Shorts & Screenplay Fest

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Do you have 15 minutes to spare? Point, click, sit back and watch 29 of the top submitted films for this year’s Century City Shorts & Screenplay Fest . Offering everything from social issues to comedy, without putting a dent in your busy schedule. Better yet, rate your favorite film and Century City Film Fest will use your direct feedback and pick this year’s winner.

Today’s Highlighted Videos

Click here to watch “Stay Awake”
The war in Yugoslavia serves as backdrop to an ethnic clash between a Serbian and Kosovar family in the Bronx. Once best friends, fathers Gregor and Mirosh now battle over their nationalistic obsessions, while their children, Kosta and Lily, are secretly caught up in a romance. But before the two can successfully run away together, Mirosh discovers them and challenges Gregor to a street fight. In this final confrontation, the fate of both families becomes inextricably tied together by the very violence they fled in former Yugoslavia. This film was selected for the 2006 Century City Film Festival.
28 min 50 sec
Click here to watch “Dirty Mary”
Mary: No matter what, I am NOT going home with him tonight! Kyle: Next scene is you naked, cooking him breakfast. Mary: NO! Absolutely NO breakfast! I’ve already set it all up. Kyle: Set what up? Mary: My mission. My strategy. My game plan! This is a battle plan of the strictest form and order! This film was selected for the 2006 Century City Film Festival
19 min 34 sec
Click here to watch “The Legend of Flashpants”
On their lunch break, three women discover a haunted tale of love, revenge and murder in a run down male strip club. This film was selected for the 2006 Century City Film Festival.
18 min 9 sec

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Highlight: More music videos

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

So many new music videos from Sony BMG and Time Warner, I couldn’t choose just one, or four, or six…

Today’s Highlighted Videos

Click here to watch “Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket”
Music video for “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” by Cake.
3 min 45 sec
Click here to watch “Billy Joel - Uptown Girl”
Music video for “Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel.
3 min 22 sec
Click here to watch “Five for Fighting - 100 Years”
Music video for “100 Years” by Five for Fighting
4 min 2 sec
Click here to watch “Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out”
Music video for “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand.
3 min 57 sec

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New: Embedded Video Search

Monday, October 16th, 2006

You may have noticed the “Embedded Video Search” module we added to our blog awhile back (look to the right). It’s something that you can easily add to your website or blog as well. For more information, check out the How-To page for the Video Search solution. There’s also a Video Bar if you just want a vertical or horizontal strip of videos instead of the entire searcher.

Both of these are built on top of the Google AJAX Search API, and that team is always adding new features to improve these solutions.

– Tom Stocky, Product Marketing Manager

Highlight: Friday the 13th

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Do you believe in Friday the 13th?

I mean, it’s just another day right? I’ve always found that if you really believed in something, you can actually go about making that something happen. You’re in charge of your own fate sort-of-thing. Bad things supposedly happen on Friday the 13th, right? So technically, the day really doesn’t stand a chance. I mean, if you wake up already believing that you’re going to have a bad day, you’re going to trick yourself into believing that the day is already bad. And every single little thing that happens, such as spilling your coffee, will be because it’s Friday the 13th. So you spilled your coffee yesterday, too. But yesterday, it was because you were clumsy. But today, it’s not your fault. It’s because it’s Friday the 13th.

Which, by the way, also happens to be the last day to submit your favorite horror videos to the Google Horror Video Show! Share those videos with us at horrorvideos@google.com to ensure that your favorite video is included. Scour the Google Video site and your own video library - we just might give you the rest of the weekend to do it. We’ll show you the first group of terrifying flicks next week and you can start to vote on your favorites.

In the meantime, I’d recommend playing it safe this evening - stay home and snuggle up to a good video. Let these get you started:

Click here to watch “Cthulhu Lego!”
A Lego movie based on “At the Mountains of Madness” by HP Lovecraft.
31 sec
Click here to watch “ANTISOCIAL-BEHAVIOUR FILM TRAILER”
Jakob Kelser is a lonely man living in a run down house in the middle of a council estate, tormented by the continued abuse inflicted by local yobs. After weeks of aggravation, Jakob is frustrated, and in a last ditch attempt to once again lead a normal life, he plots his revenge on the unsuspecting youths. One by one they are “taught a lesson”. One by one they meet their deaths…
1 min 5 sec

And just in case you’re having a really bad day and need a pick-me-up, just follow the link below and hopefully this really cool mash-up will cheer you up. It’s just another example of a really innovative user who used Google Video and Google Maps to create something awesome:

http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVideo_Mashup_Rendezvous.html

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