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Summize is a search engine that provides you with results based on consumer opinion and reviews on a product. It’s not meant to be a price comparison search engine, although they do provide you with the most recent prices from Amazon which is currently who they’re affiliated with. The opinions go from great to wretched with wretched obviously being awful. The results appear on a color coded bar, called a “snip”, which allows you to quickly see who’s in the green (great!) and who’s in the red (wretched!).

Flash Demo 2m29s

Gmail is crazy. It’s your email, but it’s your email with a bachelor’s degree, a masters, and a PhD. Meaning, there’s a lot goin’ on. I decided to create a screencast covering some of Gmail’s features, although it would take twenty 9 minute screencasts to include them all, to give those of you who simply use it to send and receive emails a glimpse of what else it has to offer.

Flash Demo 9m15s

Things are changing a bit here on DemoGirl.  Instead of just posting screencast and video demos that I find, I’ll now be posting all the screencasts I create on DemoGirl as well.  If you hadn’t checked out my other blog in the past, Screeniac.com, maybe you wouldn’t know that for the past year I’ve been creating my own screencasts of cool sites I find on the web.  I’ve got over 200 up there at the moment, so you should check it out some time.  It just seems silly to keep the two separate and now you’ll have a lot more choices of screencast and video demos to check out.  I hope you enjoy the new arrangement and look forward to hearing your comments!

Meanwhile, here are some screencasts most recently posted on Screeniac.com:

WordPress.com Demo 10m06s

CircleUp.com Demo 4m20s

Photobucket.com Demo 5m11s

VoiceThread is a service that provides you with a place to create VoiceBooks, which are essentially photo albums with audio narration. VoiceBooks can be made from photo albums, scrapbooks, and even yearbooks. Each person in the photo can create their own audio message, possibly describing how they were feeling while the photo was being taken. Here’s a demo of a VoiceThread VoiceBook and a bit of information on the inspiration behind the site.

VoiceThread Demo


Found on: Mashable

Google has just released a new version of Google Talk for your homepage. You can chat with your friends, view YouTube videos, and view photos from Picasa Web Albums all from your homepage. Here’s a quick screencast demo.

Google Talk Demo

Plazes is a service that gives you physical presence on the web and connects you with people and places nearby. Here are a series of screencasts where Peter Rukavina demonstrates how he uses Plazes everyday.

Plazes Demos

Noovo allows you to make fully customizable web pages using their DIY web editor. Here’s an upbeat and fun screencast showing what you can do with Noovo.

Noovo Demo

Business-Paper is a service that helps designers organize and create business cards for clients and allows businesses to easily create and order their own cards. They have a very quick screencast demo showing how quickly you can order your cards. The only problem I had was that I can’t for the life of me figure out how to create an account! Am I missing something?

Business-Paper Demo

Searchles TV allows you to bookmark videos from places like YouTube, MySpace, and Google Video and watch them all in one player. You can arrange the videos in any order you like and even place the player on your blog or website. Here’s a quick demo showing you how to use Searchles TV.

Searchles T.V. Demo

As some of you may know, I do custom screencast work. The screencasts I post on Screeniac are all created and designed by me and are not paid for, unless disclosed. I recently finished two projects for two completely different services. I was hired to create these screencasts and did my best to give the companies what they wanted. (They were both extremely patient and pleasant to work with.) I decided to post them here and on Screeniac, with the companies permission, so you have an idea of what a custom screencast for your company may look like.

The first is for ExtremePlanner, “Agile Project Planning for Software Teams”. The second is a group of screencast demos for JetTask, “The ultimate task list”. I hope you enjoy them and I’d love to hear your feedback.

ExtremePlanner Demo

JetTask Demos