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VideoSurf Brings Video Search to Twitter Jun 18, 20098:00 PDT

Videosurf.com is now powering video searches from within Twitter!

Anyone on Twitter (whether they follow @videosurf or not) can now search through VideoSurf’s rapidly growing index of over 50 billion visual moments from great sites like YouTube, CNN, ESPN, Hulu, MTV, MSN, Comedy Central, and more without ever leaving their Twitter stream. By combining the Twitter API and the bit.ly API with our own VideoSurf API, VideoSurf has created a mashup that gives you one more reason to watch video all day long.

Performing a VideoSurf search on Twitter is easy:

1. In the Twitter post field, simply type @videosurf

2. then type “s” (as in search)

3. then a description of the video you want to search for

Within a few moments, VideoSurf’s Twitter Bot replies back to you with links to up to three videos from your search’s results!

If, for example, you were looking for videos of President Obama, you could tweet the message:

@videosurf s obama

Powered by VideoSurf’s innovative computer vision technology that delivers the most relevant search results around, the videos you want to watch are now just a simple Tweet away.

The Applications for Twitter Applications

As mobile Tweeting continues to grow in popularity, the increased ability to watch video on phones allows the VideoSurf Twitter bot to return video results within mobile applications like Twitterific and Orangatame’s Twitterberry. Additionally, with Safari’s future support of HTML 5’s Flash-less Video tag, and Quicktime X’s rumored ability to play Flash video, even iPhone users may soon be able to take VideoSurf video search results with them wherever they can Tweet.

The VideoSurf Twitter bot allows video searching from within stand alone Twitter desktop applications like Tweetdeck, Seesmic Desktop, and Twadget, from Outlook with TwInbox, as well as from Twitter browser extensions like Friendbar. Other third party apps would allow you to search VideoSurf’s video results from your system tray, message forums, Yahoo! Messenger or Google Chat, even from inside Microsoft Excel. Anywhere you can Tweet, you can search!

Have a Twitter account? Try your own search now!

For updates on this new feature, as well as links to great videos and the rest of the goings on here at VideoSurf, be sure to follow us at @videosurf!

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℞ First Depression Patch • You Wear 『FDA Approved』 - YouTube

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WHEN YOU NEED THE TRANSDERMAL DEPRESSION PATCH YOU'RE REALLY DEPRESSED Show #51, May 2006

FDA Approves Emsam - First Drug Patch for Depression

FDA recently approved the first transdermal drug patch for treating major depressive disorder. The patch, called Emsam and marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb, is applied once a day to deliver the drug selegeline, an MAO inhibitor.

MAO inhibitors taken orally usually require specific dietary restrictions because when these drugs are combined with certain foods (such as aged cheeses), they can cause a hypertensive crisis. However, patients can use the lowest strength (6 mg per day) Emsam patch without observing these dietary restrictions. At the higher dosage strengths (9 mg and 12 mg per day) patients will still have to avoid these certain foods.

The manufacturer and distributor of this new product have planned an educational campaign for patients and prescribers to ensure that advice on dietary modifications for the higher patch strengths is adhered to. They are planning to conduct surveys to measure the effectiveness of the campaign, and they'll closely track adverse events for hypertensive events.

Although the effects of heat on the patch are not known, the drug labeling advises patients to keep the patch away from sources of heat because direct heat could increase the absorption of the drug. Patients should avoid exposing the patch to heating pads, electric blankets, heat lamps, saunas, hot tubs, or prolonged sunlight. And like other antidepressants, the Emsam patch carries a warning about the possibility of an increased risk of suicidality in children and adolescents.

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FDA Press Release - FDA Approves Emsam (Selegiline) as First Drug Patch for Depression. February 28, 2006.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Bridge plunge kills teenage girls

Bridge plunge kills teenage girls

The girls jumped from the Erskine Bridge on Sunday night

Two teenage girls have died after apparently jumping into the River Clyde from the Erskine Bridge.
The pair, thought to be Neve Lafferty, 14, from Helensburgh, and a 15-year-old girl from Hull, jumped from the bridge just before 2100 BST on Sunday.
Their bodies were recovered after a search involving the emergency services and the Ministry of Defence.
The girls attended the Good Shepherd's Centre in Renfrewshire - a young person's unit.
The Bishopton unit cares for young people referred by local authority educational and psychological services, social work departments and children's hearings.
The girls entered the unit seven to eight weeks ago.

Counselling is being offered to the other residents at the unit, who have been shocked and traumatised by what has happened

Good Shepherd Centre spokesman

A spokesman for the centre said they had been on apparently happy and productive weekend outings with relatives. Staff saw them going to their rooms in their pyjamas to watch television on Sunday evening.
Workers carrying out routine checks later noticed they were missing and began a search of the campus and the immediate vicinity.
Shortly afterwards, police called to inform staff of the incident which had taken place at the Erskine Bridge.
The spokesman said: "The thoughts and prayers of all at the Good Shepherd Centre are with the families and friends of the girls who have died.
"Counselling is being offered to the other residents at the unit, who have been shocked and traumatised by what has happened."
No authorisation
The Good Shepherd Centre is affiliated to the Cora Foundation, a non-profit-making company owned by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Scotland, and comprises three sections - an open unit, a secure unit and the St Francis Day Unit.
The two girls who died were among nine live-in residents at the open unit, which is also attended by 21 girls who live in foster or care homes.
Pupils there are not kept under lock and key but any outing requires authorisation.
No authorisation was given for the girls to leave on Sunday.

There would appear to be no suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths

Strathclyde Police

The centre, which is an independent unit owned and managed by its own voluntary board of managers, has been inspected twice a year by the Scottish Care Commission, and is generally rated as "good".
However the commission did receive a complaint last year which was "partially upheld".
An inspection report at the time said there had been a big increase in the numbers of cases of girls being physically restrained by staff at the centre, with it being used because of "very challenging behaviour".
Inspectors told management at the centre that their restraint procedures were "unacceptable", but in a follow-up report five months later inspectors said staff retraining was under way.
In an inspection report earlier this year the centre was rated as "good" or "very good" for its quality of care and support and for its staffing.
The girls' bodies were pulled from the water on Sunday night after a search involving police, fire and rescue services, coastguard teams and the Ministry of Defence.
They were then taken to Glasgow's Southern General Hospital in a Ministry of Defence helicopter.
'Distressing case'
A statement from Strathclyde Police said: "We can confirm the death of two girls aged 14 and 15 years at the Erskine Bridge on Sunday 4 October 2009.
"Inquiries are continuing. However, there would appear to be no suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths.
"A report will be prepared for the procurator fiscal."
An Argyll and Bute Council spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that one of the young people involved in this tragic incident was an Argyll and Bute resident and was known to social work services.
"We will be holding our own investigation into the circumstances surrounding this distressing case, and will of course assist other agencies in any way we can during their inquiries."
Nigel Richardson, from the Hull Safeguarding Children Board, said: "We are aware of the incident and are working closely with authorities in Scotland to understand what has happened.
"Our sympathies go out to the friends and family of both of the young women."

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A $1 Million Research Bargain for Netflix, and Maybe a Model for Others

Even the near-miss losers in the Netflix million-dollar-prize competition seemed to have few regrets.

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“You’re getting Ph.D.’s for a dollar an hour,” Reed Hastings, chief of Netflix, said of the people competing for the prize.

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Netflix, the movie rental company, announced on Monday that a seven-man team was the winner of its closely watched three-year contest to improve its Web site’s movie recommendation system. That was expected, but the surprise was in the nail-biter finish.
The losing team, as it turned out, precisely matched the performance of the winner, but submitted its entry 20 minutes later, just before the final deadline expired.
Under contest rules, in the event of a tie, the first team past the post was the winner. “That 20 minutes was worth a million dollars,” Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, said at a news conference in New York.
Yet the scientists and engineers on the second-place team, and the employers who gave many of them the time and freedom to compete in the contest, were hardly despairing.
Arnab Gupta, chief executive of Opera Solutions, a consulting company that specializes in data analytics, based in New York, took a small group of his leading researchers off other work for two years. “We’ve already had a $10 million payoff internally from what we’ve learned,” Mr. Gupta said.
Working on the contest helped the researchers come up with improved statistical analysis and predictive modeling techniques that his firm has used with clients in fields like marketing, retailing and finance, he said. “So for us, the $1 million prize was secondary, almost trivial.”
Indeed, since it began in October 2006, the Netflix contest was significant less for the prize money than as a test case for new ideas about how to efficiently foster innovation in the Internet era — notably, offering prizes as an incentive and encouraging online collaboration to tap minds worldwide.
The lessons of the Netflix contest could extend well beyond improving movie picks. The researchers from around the world were grappling with a huge data set — 100 million movie ratings — and the challenges of large-scale modeling, which can be applied across the fields of science, commerce and politics.
The prize model is increasingly being tried on work like new science and freelance projects in design and advertising. The X Prize Foundation, for example, is offering multimillion-dollar prizes for path-breaking advances in genomics, alternative energy cars and private space exploration.
InnoCentive is a marketplace for business projects, where companies post challenges — often in areas like product development or applied science — and workers or teams compete for cash payments or prizes offered by the companies. A start-up, Genius Rocket, runs a similar online marketplace mainly for marketing, advertising and design projects.
“The great advantage of the prize model is that it moves work away from the realm of the beauty contest to being performance-oriented,” said Michael Schrage, research fellow at the Center for Digital Business at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s the results produced that matters.”
The emerging prize economy, according to some labor market analysts, does carry the danger of being a further shift in the balance of power toward the buyers — corporations — and away from most workers.
Thousands of teams from more than 100 nations competed in the Netflix prize contest. And it was a good deal for Netflix. “You look at the cumulative hours and you’re getting Ph.D.’s for a dollar an hour,” Mr. Hastings said in an interview.
Netflix, Mr. Hastings said, did not do a crisp cost-benefit analysis of its investment in the contest. But several crucial techniques garnered from the contest have been folded into the company’s in-house movie recommendation software, Cinematch, and customer retention rates have improved slightly. Better recommendations, Netflix says, enhance customer satisfaction.
“We strongly believe this has been a big winner for Netflix,” Mr. Hastings said.
The prize winner was a team of statisticians, machine-learning experts and computer engineers from the United States, Austria, Canada and Israel, calling itself BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos. The group was actually a merger of teams that came together late in the contest.
In late June, the team finally surpassed the threshold to qualify for the prize by doing at least 10 percent better than Cinematch in accurately predicting the movies customers would like, as measured against actual ratings. Under the contest rules, that set off a 30-day period in which other teams could try to beat them.