Create Video Home Page (Video Wall)

More and more people are using Google personalized home page to organize their favorite RSS feeds & gadgets. User can categorize their page by adding it to different tabs, e.g. Home, Blogs, Finance, Sports. We thought, why not provide functionality where people can organize their videos. Hence, we added features using which user can create their video home page (video wall).

Step 1: Add new Tab (Video Wall)

Go to google personalized home page. If this is the first time you are using personalized home page then follow the steps to get started. After you added some stuff to your home page, click on the "Add a tab" link. Give the name of the tab as "Video Wall", you may give any name you like.

Step 2: Add Search Gadget

Add search gadget to your home page. Click on Add to Google Homepage icon. It will ask you about adding it to google home page. Click on "Add to Google" button. Your page may look like this:

Step 3: Video Search using search gadget

Add any search term in the input box, e.g. "Super Bowl Ads", and click Search. It will show you the search result and Add to Google Homepage icon at the bottom of the screen. Click on "Add to Google" icon to add this result to the video homepage.

Similarly, you can search videos of your interest and keep adding it to your video homepage.

Search gadget is also available for any search result when you search on uLinkx. "Add to Google" icon is displayed on the right side of the search result.


For this example we added following search result gadgets:

Add to Google Homepage Super Bowl Ads
Add to Google Homepage American Idol
Add to Google Homepage seinfeld




Search result may look like this ==>

Step 4: Add playlist gadget and popular gadget

You can add playlist gadget by going to playlist and clicking on the Add to Google Homepage icon. For example, go to the "Video of the day" playlist and click on the Add to Google Homepage icon.

Similarly, you can add popular video gadgets.

Add to Google Homepage Get Popular videos gadget
Add to Google Homepage Get Popular videos from web gadget
Add to Google Homepage Get Recent videos gadget


Step 5: Enjoy your Video Wall

Your final video wall will look something like this:


For more information about Gadget and Widget, click here.