Blog: Video

Use FeedAPI, Feed Element Mapper, and Embedded Media Field to Aggregate Video from Blip.tv

Sean Effel from Drupal Therapy just put up a wonderful screencast on how to pull blip.tv videos from RSS feeds into Drupal. In the screencast, Sean shows step by step how to set up your Drupal  site with the FeedAPI, Feed Element Mapper, and Embedded Media Field modules to aggregate video feeds from blip.tv.

If you're interested in pulling video into your website or online app, you'll definitely want to check this out.

Streamlined, Centralized Drupal Building Logic

Last month at DrupalCon Boston I presented with Jeff Miccolis on implementing a formal context system in Drupal. We had a lot of ideas to share and some proof of concept code to demo. Since then we’ve been working hard to clean up our code and our concepts.

The basic idea behind the context module is to allow different parts of the Drupal stack to expose key pieces of logic to other parts in a standardized fashion. Context_ui extends this core functionality by allowing users to create context definitions - bundles of views, content types, panels, menu items, and blocks - that can be used to model “sections” or “features” on your Drupal site, among other things.

Adding realtime metadata to videos

Below is a two minute video clip from Bill O'Reilly's May 11th episode of The Talking Points Memo. No, our beliefs haven't done an about face. I was experimenting with Viddler.com and decided to use it to fact check O'Reilly's show. I went in and, right on the video clip itself (thanks Viddler), tagged it and added comments to expose O'Reilly's bogus commentary. But why take my word? The video gets smarter as more metadata is added, so why don't you fact check my facts and post them as comments and add a few tags while you're in there? Just scroll over the dots in the segment to read my comments.

Yep, the Washington, DC, web strategist mentioned in this month’s Wired magazine is our very own Eric Gundersen. The article, Commercial Break, talks about Chevy’s now notorious advertising campaign for the Tahoe and how it was hijacked.