Michael Castellon

I’ve always found the default Google Video categories a bit boring. I had always wondered what it would be like if you could search by other categories (even by circumventing Google’s defaults). The answer to the question, of course, is yes:

Here they are, via JimmyR:

Publishers have the opton to select 38 different genres they’d like to categorize their video in. Google Video’s website only lists 7 types: Comedy, Music videos, Movies, Sports, Animation, TV shows, Google Picks. You can still order by genre using a special search.

1. Educational
2. Instructional
3. Stock Footage
4. Comedy
5. Mature Adult
6. Science and Technology
7. Ads and Promotions
8. News
9. Animation
10. Sports
11. Home Video
12. Documentary
13. Business
14. Dance
15. Drama
16. Foreign
17. Gaming
18. Horror
19. Movie trailer
20. Nature
21. Political
22. Religious
23. Romance
24. Special Interest
25. Thriller
26. Travel
27. TV Show
28. Western
29. Movie Short
30. Movie Feature
31. Faith and Spirituality
32. Gay and Lesbian
33. Science Fiction & Fantasy
34. Action and Adventure
35. Children and Family
36. Art and Expiremental
37. Health And Fitness
38. Independent

Via Engadget:

To attract current iPod users Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you’ve already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They’ll scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account. Microsoft will still have to pay the rights-holders for the songs, but they believe it’ll be worth it to converts

This is a strong move from Microsoft that could mean any number of things. While the idea of importing your DRM-purchased iTunes music sounds atttractive, what will the store selling the MS-compatible music be like? This is not to mention that hardware, either. It’s hard to beat iPod+iTunes.

Also, what’s the draw of swapping out once DRM-protected library for another?