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YouTube -- The Flickr of Video?
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."
They played fine for me in Firefox. Flashblock didn't stop the videos from loading, so it's probably not pure flash. As for the concept, it'll be interesting to see where it goes. I noticed that the descriptive tags for a lot of the videos aren't too helpful (funny, silly, dumb, etc)...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Sites like www.newgruonds.com turn a profit serving 4-5 meg movies to every single user based purely on advertising. It isn't pretty but it can be done.
Easy P Z, just like other hosted content services, they will eventually allow a limited number of free videos, but charge for larger quantities. I think it's a cool idea and well done. Worked fine for me using Safari on Mac OS Tiger 10.4.2.
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
Actually, only the Organizr requires Flash. The Organizr is required to sort your photostream (all the images you've uploaded) into different sets as well as adding images from your photostream into the photo pools of groups you belong to.
Of course, you can also use it to do other neat things, like mass-tagging images. But it is definitely not the "core functionality" - uploading, tagging, adding descriptions, browsing, adding tags and comments, etc, photos all do not require Flash.
Have a nice day! =)
Gnash Gnash Gnash
Ah, blogospheric neologisms...
"Folksonomy" apparently refers to keyword-based organization and tagging and such.
Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. In contrast to formal classification methods, this phenomenon typically only arises in non-hierarchical communities, such as public websites, as opposed to multi-level teams. Since the organizers of the information are usually its primary users, advocates of folksonomy believe it produces results that reflect more accurately the population's conceptual model of the information. Folksonomy is not directly related to the concept of faceted classification from library science.
From the Wikipedia entry.
This Like That - fun with words!
A few minutes after the crash of Air France 358 in Toronto, a YouTube user who lives in Toronto uploaded this footage of the smoldering wreckage. Apparently he just happened to drive by at the time, and was able to shoot this video from the freeway. You can hear the announcer on his car radio saying that spectators are running across the freeway to make videos of the crash with their cameras and cellphones. Under the video the YouTube user also provides a Google Maps link that shows precisely where the video was shot. http://www.youtube.com/?v=a0C5H9vjjN0
there's Our Media ("We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches."). &if you want to host your own site that lets people upload tagged video and dist via bit torrent, there's BroadcastMachine.