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AT&T isn’t the brand that comes to mind when you think of online video search, but let’s get past that point: the telecommunications company has announced a beta version of a site called VideoCrawler, which can search more than 1,600 online video outlets. AT&T hasn’t released a full list of compatible video sites, but Google’s YouTube is one of them.

VideoCrawler was developed in conjunction with start-up Divvio, a search company that constructed the VideoCrawler platform.

VideoCrawler doesn’t host any videos, but members can still compile playlists and share them through embeddable widgets.

Other players in this space include Blinkx and the AOL-owned Truveo.

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AT&T debuts video search site

AT&T isn’t the brand that comes to mind when you think of online video search, but let’s get past that point: the telecommunications company has announced a beta version of a site called VideoCrawler, which can search more than 1,600 online video outlets. AT&T hasn’t released a full list of compatible video sites, but Google’s YouTube is one of them.

VideoCrawler was developed in conjunction with start-up Divvio, a search company that constructed the VideoCrawler platform.

VideoCrawler doesn’t host any videos, but members can still compile playlists and share them through embeddable widgets.

Other players in this space include Blinkx and the AOL-owned Truveo.

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AT&T debuts video search site

AT&T isn’t the brand that comes to mind when you think of online video search, but let’s get past that point: the telecommunications company has announced a beta version of a site called VideoCrawler, which can search more than 1,600 online video outlets. AT&T hasn’t released a full list of compatible video sites, but Google’s YouTube is one of them.

VideoCrawler was developed in conjunction with start-up Divvio, a search company that constructed the VideoCrawler platform.

VideoCrawler doesn’t host any videos, but members can still compile playlists and share them through embeddable widgets.

Other players in this space include Blinkx and the AOL-owned Truveo.

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AT&T debuts video search site

On Wednesday YouTube unveiled the winners of its help video challenge. Last month the company offered users a chance to get their how-to screencast featured as the default video on the service’s help section, giving fledgling screencasters the opportunity to get more exposure and a larger following.

Among the clips chosen there are short how-tos on adding video annotations, creating playlists and digging deep into YouTube’s settings in order to get videos to automatically play in high quality mode. Ironically this video, along with the tutorial on creating subtitles has YouTube’s overlay ads, which in the case of the high quality how-to completely obscures what users are supposed to do to enable the feature.

Oops.

Despite this small stumble user generated help section video are smart move on YouTube’s part, since the company can continue to change interface elements, then call for community members to make an updated version. This strategy goes hand-in-hand with Google’s Knol service, which has quietly become the back end publishing tool for a large portion of Google’s help center articles.

I’ve embedded one of the new videos below. You can see the whole list over on the YouTube blog.

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YouTube’s crowdsourced help videos arrive (with ads)

If my eyes serve me right, you are gone.

If the news about bank collapses hasn’t devastated you enough, I have another depressing one. This time it comes from the Internet, but is no less devastating for a good number of people, hopefully not including you.

As of Wednesday, if you go to the Web site of Digital Railroad you will be greeted with this:

To our valued Members and Partners:

We deeply regret to inform you that Digital Railroad (DRR) has shut down.

On October 15th we reported that the company had reduced its staff and was aggressively pursuing additional financing and/or a strategic partner. Unfortunately, those efforts were unsuccessful. Therefore Digital Railroad has been forced to close all operations.

Digital Railroad has attracted a loyal set of customers and partners, and we regret this unfortunate outcome. Without sufficient long-term financial support, the business had become unsustainable.

Thank you for allowing us to serve the photographic community these past few years.

The once popular Web site, where professional photographers archived and sold their photos, is now gone, completely. As it turned out, at about 5 p.m. EDT on Monday, the Web site alerted existing customers about the shutdown and gave them a 24-hour window to download their photo archive. However, just about 10 hours after the alert, the site was shut down completely.

It’s unclear now if customers can still somehow retrieve their photo archive or will get money back for the undelivered services.

In the meantime, PhotoShelter is offering Digital Railroad customers a special offer–three month’s credit for their Digital Railroad account. The offer is set to expire November 4.

Take the offer or not, but definitely take this as lesson that you can’t rely 100 percent on online archiving services. It’s best to keep a copy of your data offline as well.

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Photo site Digital Railroad derailed completely