Today’s Pick: ScienceHack
As a follow-up to my September 13 post about SciVee, TheScientist.com recently alerted me to a new video service with a Canadian connection. ScienceHack was created by a Halifax-based electrical engineer studying at the Dalhousie School of Business as a video search engine for science videos that meet production quality and scientific criteria. Launched in May 2007, the website does not host videos; it only indexes videos from other sites like YouTube and MetaCafe and receives over 2,000 hits a day.
While the two reviewers quoted in The Scientist article expressed reservations about the site’s review process and the quality of content, this still might be worth checking out, if only to see ScienceHack’s most popular video, “Gummy Bear (Sucrose) in molten potassium chlorate”.
Helen Kula sources and delivers market data and intelligence to entrepreneurs, high-growth companies and MaRS staff and advisors. She is an active member of Toronto’s information professional and librarian communities.