VideoSurf Brings Video Search to Twitter » VideoSurf BlogVideoSurf 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!
October 5, 2009
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WHEN YOU NEED THE TRANSDERMAL DEPRESSION PATCH YOU'RE REALLY DEPRESSED Show #51, May 2006
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.Additional Information:
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Bridge plunge kills teenage girls
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Bridge plunge kills teenage girlsBridge plunge kills teenage girls
The girls jumped from the Erskine Bridge on Sunday nightTwo 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 spokesmanA 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.
Strathclyde PoliceThe 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."
