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Do you know YouTube has been providing feeds for search result? I don't know that until recent days...

Tags:

For example, if you wanted to create an RSS feed for the tag ‘monkey’ you would enter:

feed://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/monkey.rss

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

It's great! But, where can we get a feed for the tags at? We can't get it without building feed URI by hand according to the step quoted above. It's almost ridiculous.

So I created a greasemonkey script to resolve the problem. Install the script below (needless to say, this script requires you've installed greasemonkey into your Firefox), then you'll get an icon linking to the feed at the left side of the input box.

Install: addfeediconforyoutubesearchresult.user.js

As you see, I subscribe to 586 feeds and read at least over 1,000 entries everyday with livedoor Reader (they call it "LDR").

When I used Bloglines, it seemed impossible for me to read all entries storing up one after another. But with LDR, the mass of informations has turned to readable all too easily.

I hope LDR will be internationalized to enable the people who don't understand Japanese to use it. LDR is really really good thing.

ref. miyagawa-san's post and sekimura-san's post

Though I've truly loved my laptop computer ThinkPad X41, seeing Yappo-san's post demonstarating DIY security alert system using Sudden Motion Sensor and Plagger, I inclined to switch to MacBook throwing X41 out. I was about to order it.

But, I've come to myself, because we ThinkPad users now have ThinkPad Saber, and another thing, we can control Google Maps via ThinkPad tilt.

My recommendation is to choose Satellite mode, with the 3rd Zoom level. It makes me feel like flying in the sky, just as birds.

bulknews.typepad.com: Control Google Maps via ThinkPad tilt

Really cooooooooooooool! Thanks much, miyagawa-san!!!

As competition with miyagawa's hack, Yappo has succeeded to control Google Maps via MacBook tilt. It's also fantastic!

I'll introduce a little thing of mine named "YouTube Anywhere". It's a greasemonkey script that enables you to instantly watch YouTube videos linked on weblogs, linklogs such as del.icio.us, and of course YouTube itself.

Install: youtube_anywhere.user.js

Its features are like this:

• You can watch a movie with a cool player on the spot without following a link to YouTube.
• The player provides you the links to download the movie, and to post the movie to linklogs (it currently supports del.icio.us, Spurl.net, and Hatena::Bookmark.
• And also it provides the original URI of the movie on YouTube, and the snippet of the tags that enables you to show the player on your weblogs etc.

After installing the script, visit http://del.icio.us/tag/youtube as a test, and you'll see some icons as below.

And click the one, then...

A cool player appears, and you can watch the movie on the spot, download it, post it to your linklog, blog it, and so on. Pretty convenient!

MySpace is going to be localized for 11 countries including France, Germany, China and India this summer.

Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, told the Financial Times on Monday that he had earmarked 11 countries for its international expansion, among them France and Germany, and was looking at China and India over the longer term.

Source: FT.com / Technology - MySpace outlines European expansion

And TechCrunch anticipates that the targets for MySpace's international expansion also include Korea, Brazil, Italy and Japan. It's exactly exciting!

There is a very powerful competitor for SNS enters into Japanese market. It'll be applicable even to MySpace. mixi is that. It has over 5 million registered users, and continues growing up day by day. For more details about mixi, see the entry on Wikipedia.

Can MySpace succeed in Japan? I'm looking forward to watch the race for the honor as the representative SNS in Japan.