Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

by laurent_denoue • 16 years ago

41 28 16 years ago

this is a video search engine for lectures and talks. It extracts keyframes like slides, analysis them with optical character recognition, and shows them in a nice UI for quick skimming.

timf• 16 years ago

At first I thought this was another "launch" of a skinned, Google custom search. Those tend to fade away when the curator loses interest, etc.

But looking at your about page it seems to be different, looks like you're doing an interesting and useful thing to find/index talks, good luck with the site!

I like the all-slide thumbnail view, that will be really useful.

danishkhan• 16 years ago

The site is sweet. I really enjoy finding videos and searching through google is a pain. I can see this website be extremely useful. If you ever need any help with testing let me know.

I would definitely say once you get the core functionality done to work on some UI changes, which would really help out the look and feel.

chipsy• 16 years ago

I really like what I see. I think it would benefit from a "browsing" entry point as well as a search box, because I often want to see a stimulating lecture, but don't have a subject in mind.

Truff• 16 years ago

I think the recently added talks let you browse through various talks without having any topic in mind.

famousactress2• 16 years ago

I totally agree. When I land on a new site that has nothing but a search box, my mind goes blank. The recent links are nice, but I think more real estate devoted to really compelling, well-liked content would be really helpful for new people trying to 'get' it.

robertg• 16 years ago

great idea. great execution. poor design. You did the hard stuff, now make it look good and you'll have the complete package. Nice work.

saurabh• 16 years ago

I think he should keep how it is. It's so simple.

jamesjyu• 16 years ago

Yeah, totally agreed. Just a few changes here and there to make the colors less garish and tweaks in the padding would make the content stand out better. Other than that, it's very functional.

He launched with the right MVP.

ElbertF• 16 years ago

Removing some of the clutter can make it look better and even simpler.

mrduncan• 16 years ago

A simple suggestion regarding the design - change the green term highlighting to something less overpowering (such as #ffc or #ffa). For me, just that small change would make an enormous difference.

jiganti2• 16 years ago

This is a cool idea, I haven't seen something like this that's all encompassing. Ted.com is huge for talks within it's sphere, but for talks in general (as opposed to the more broad "videos in general (youtube) this seems ideal.

jiganti2• 16 years ago

rwaliany• 16 years ago

Just crashed: http://talkMiner.com

j_admo4• 16 years ago

Not a crash, just a (poorly) scheduled server restart.

kapitalx• 16 years ago

I get an Error 503

there• 16 years ago

am i the only one that was expecting something to do with the trapped chilean miners?

Volscio• 16 years ago

No, I thought it'd be that too! Send a message to the trapped miners! Top answers will be curated/voted up and then sent along!

mikecane• 16 years ago

BUG: The Share balloon hides behind the video -- at least the one I'm seeing here: http://talkminer.com/viewtalk.jsp?videoid=jqjTBEfh4gM&q= I'm using Opera, btw. [typo edit]

j_admo4• 16 years ago

FWIW the share balloon shows correctly in firefox.

TheSmoke• 16 years ago

i liked it, i really liked it.

the first thing i've searched is "django" and i got an awesome result. :)

congratulations and wish you all the best.

thejash• 16 years ago

Killer feature for me--if you made this thing automatically extract the text from talks, I would be willing to pay for it. I love talks but hate having to wait through the whole thing to get all the information.

famousactress2• 16 years ago

Maybe crowd-rated "spoiler" comments. A succinct paragraph on the core point of the talk would be huge for me with some of this kind of content.

andrewcamel• 16 years ago

I really agree with robertg's comment, but I would also make the suggestion to include TED talks.

j_admo4• 16 years ago

http://talkminer.com/searcher.jsp?q=author:%22tedtalksdirect...

targz• 16 years ago

Very cool. Do you think a http://www.khanacademy.org/ channel fits in?

kaitnieks• 16 years ago

One minor suggestion: Do not shorten titles so aggressively (or at least add full title to title element). Here's an example: http://talkminer.com/searcher.jsp?q=scalability - all titles are prefixed by "Seattle Conference on Scalability:" and then almost all of the real title gets cut off.

j_admo4• 16 years ago

Those short titles are coming from youtube. That is, the original youtube page for those videos has the 'truncated' titles. TalkMiner isn't truncating them.

kvinnako• 16 years ago

There is no suggestions on incorrect spelling. Instead it just says no results found. WOuld be great if it can suggest a correct spelling.

Just launched: http://talkMiner.com

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