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Click on this video and try this out: (1) Click the full-screen option on the bottom right of the video, (2) then click on the network icon in the bottom left beside the play button.

YouTube Swarm?

Screenshot of the recommended videos based on the Golden Compass teaser

Have you ever seen this YouTube feature before?

No? Me, too. I’ve never seen it either. I haven’t been on YouTube for a while. Or maybe because I barely use the full screen mode. But it looks familiar, though. I mean, it looks similar to Swarm — Digg’s cool visualization tool lets you see new stories being submitted -in real-time, and shows you related contents. Only this YouTube visualization seems to be a poor imitation of Swarm. I thought it’s supposed to recommend relevant videos but it doesn’t show you videos which are related to the video you are viewing. I can’t see its uses other than visualizing random videos. And the video balloons are like unstable atomic particles that seems to repel each other forever. Maybe it is still on beta phase or an experiment. I’m sure Google has an explanation for this half-baked tool or a grin that says just wait and see. Though inefficient as it is, I must say this visualizer is an interesting and neat experiment. Visualization will be the next big thing on the internet. What’s cooking, Google?

Tell me what you think about this tool.

If you’re 13 years of age or older and enrolled in a pre-university (e.g. high school or secondary school) educational institution, you can join the Google Highly Open Participation Contest and get a chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to the Googleplex, Google’s Headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA.

Google recently launched the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, or GHOP for short, following on from the success of the Google Summer of Code program. GHOP is intented to students and offers each contestant an opportunity to get involved in the Open Source community. It is also the aim of GHOP to encourage young people to
engage in such open source projects at an early time.

It’s Google’s not so secret hope that the student contestants of today will be long-term contributors to these and other open source projects in the future.

The participating open source projects gain the benefit of additional contributions to their project, often in important areas that may get overlooked for whatever reason.

There are ten (10) participating Open Source projects in the GHOP. Contestants are asked to select and decide which open source project(s) are doing work that is interesting to them, and complete a pre-defined task of their choice. Continue reading →