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YouTube -- The Flickr of Video?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the baby-stepping-towards-something-cool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new folksonomy website that seems to be catching on is YouTube, a service similar to Flickr, except that it is for sharing and hosting short video clips instead of photos. Like Flickr, its core functionality is implemented in Flash. Videos can be tagged, searched, discussed, etc through a social network. YouTube has developer APIs, RSS feeds, and the ability to embed videos directly into other web pages. The website was recently profiled on TechCrunch as an up-and-coming Web 2.0 application."

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  1. Re:Pretty cool, but... by Fiznarp · · Score: 3, Funny

    It worked just fine for me in Firefox.

    This one is pretty funny...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=omhLaE8nJRk

  2. Thank god... by InsideTheAsylum · · Score: 3, Funny

    That they're not calling it pod-viewing (although I assume eventually there will be something similar), videoblogging (although people already use that for other things), or something similar. It's a video om the net and that's all it is!

  3. Re:Pretty cool, but... by Mattygfunk1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I managed to get to the videos with FF, but I think it's mum who needs to explain the massive zuchinni.

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    Funny videos adult style