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Talk around the water cooler today is bound to include yesterday's Super Bowl. Whether it's the game itself, the musical performances or the much-hyped commercials, there's something for everyone to ring in on.
Vox's video partners, YouTube and iFilm, each have their own coverage of the commercials from yesterday.
iFilm does an annual Commercial Bowl where they capture, organize and feature the best-of-the-best Super Bowl commercials. You can check out Super Bowl ads from 2002-2007 and a collection of this year's ads.
YouTube is letting you vote to rank your favorite commercials from the big game. The winner will be featured on their home page on Tuesday.
Vox's integration with iFilm and YouTube lets you easily add videos to your blog. Just click on the "Videos" button either in the Compose or Organize screens, then click on the IFILM or YouTube tab. With YouTube, you can search on your favorite commercial's URL or on some of the video's tags.
What were your favorite Super Bowl commercials?
From all the great feedback you give us through the Feedback link at the bottom of every Vox page, we know that many of you love Vox's integration with YouTube, Flickr, Amazon, and other web services. We recently made it even easier for you to pull that outside content into your Vox blogs by adding more specific searches for some of those sites.
Let's walk through an example. Say you've had a sudden epiphany about how your entire worldview has been shaped by the movie "The Princess Bride" that you've seen a million times since you were a teenager. Of course, you need to share this with the Vox community, and you have several media items to include in your post. Unfortunately, you have just a few minutes before you have to leave for work. How will you ever pull it all together in time? The following improved searches come to the rescue!
Managing Photos:
You have the perfect photo to show how your fascination began early with your Dread Pirate Roberts Halloween costume as a child. It's already uploaded to Flickr, but it's got the tag "childhood" along with dozens of your other Flickr photos. Instead of going through a tag search, just search the Flickr URL or Photo ID of that specific photo to immediately find and add it to your Vox blog.
Managing Audio:
The soundtrack of the movie has also been a big part of your life: You and your own Princess Buttercup even used the song "Storybook Love" from the movie as part of the music for your wedding. There's no need to search through several CDs on Amazon to find the right one; just search on the ASIN (B000002LCB) or URL (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002LCB) to find the specific soundtrack.
Managing Video:
There's no surprise that you need to add some videos to your post. You're talking about the movie that's shaped your life after all! You decide that you have to share the "Dread Pirate Edition" of the DVD, so you add that to your post from Amazon by using the ASIN (B000F9RBBC ) or URL (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F9RBBC/). With so many editions of the DVD out now, it's nice to be able to go directly to the one you want to share.
Speaking of the DVD, you still remember when the Dread Pirate Edition was released and how excited you were, so you decide to share the DVD trailer with everyone reading your post. Lucky for you, it's already on YouTube, so you just search by URL (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ksETP325o40) or Video ID (ksETP325o40) to add it to your post.
Managing Books:
Finally, you decide that the post wouldn't be complete without mention of the book that started it all - The Princess Bride by William Goldman. To quickly add that hardcover anniversary edition you love, just type the ISBN/ASIN (034543014X) or URL (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/034543014X) in the Amazon search box.
Of course these newer URL and ID searches will work with any photos, audio, videos or books. Maybe you want to add a recent YouTube video, and it's not yet indexed for you to search for it with tags. No problem! Want to quickly add some older photos from your Flickr account without going through multiples with the same tag? Again, we've got you covered!
We hope this helps you spend more time creating and sharing memories and less time hunting for them!
-- Brandy & the Vox Help team
While exploring Vox, have you ever seen a YouTube video or Amazon item that you'd like to be able to quickly share on your own blog? We've got just the thing for you! Vox has a great Re-Blogging feature that lets you add YouTube and Amazon items to your blog with just one click.
Let our pal Wally show you how it's done! Wally is taking a look at some of the latest audio additions in Explore when he sees an album that catches his eye: Billboard Top Hits of the 90's. The songs immediately take him back to the summer evenings on the Jersey Shore with his friends before they all went their separate ways after high school. Each song from groups like Ace of Base and Barenaked Ladies has a strong memory attached to it, and he wants to share some of those stories on his blog.
Wally is a busy guy and maybe just a bit lazy, so the thought of having to go to his blog and then find the album in order to get started on a post about it almost stops him from even bothering with it. Suddenly, he realizes that he can bypass all of that by just clicking the "Re-Blog This" button next to the album. Re-Blogging has saved the day!
Normally, we wouldn't encourage anyone to emulate Wally because he can be a bit odd, but in this case, he's the perfect role model! Explore audio, videos, and books on Vox, and see what you find that starts you wandering down memory lane. Go to the individual asset page for any item that catches your eye, and then click "Re-Blog This". With one click, the YouTube video or Amazon book, CD or DVD is added to your library, and you're taken to a Compose page with that item already inserted. Just type whatever you want to say and then click Save to save your post.
For more information about Re-Blogging, check out Re-Blogging Vox Assets. Re-Blogging is a great opportunity for sharing content on Vox. As Wally might say: "Whoomp! Re-Blog This!"
