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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."
It worked just fine for me in Firefox.
This one is pretty funny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=omhLaE8nJRk
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.
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!
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! =)
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At one point and time, I had the following on my computer:
I needed all of those just so I could play video, since every website had its own different format. And my system was crawling at a slow when it loaded. When I looked at the system tray, it was filled with 15+ icons.
So I got rid of them all. I got tired of keeping track of what program was calling home. I got tired of Flash loading into websites when I did not want the Flash (like ESPN). I think the final straw was the slashdot story saying how Flash was not secure, that programs could exploit it. I figure the less programs running on a computer, the more secure that computer is.
Why can't everyone use one standard like MPEG? What is wrong with MPEG? It is perfect, anyone can play it, it does not require anything extra. The video quality of MPEG is better than any WMV or quicktime I have seen. And it does not require any downloads or special programs to play.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
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!
I managed to get to the videos with FF, but I think it's mum who needs to explain the massive zuchinni.
__Funny videos adult style
Flash has it's own native video format now(flv), which is useful for developers seeking a cross-platform audience (since the Flash plug-in has a wider installed base than any of various video players out there...except perhaps Windows Media...and makes it possible for developers to integrate the video into the page however they like)
The Flash video format is not too bad if you pony up for Sorenson Squeeze...otherwise, it sucks.
I didn't test the url, but my guess is that it what they are using, if the site is Flash based.
There are other sites doing this, though with different audiences, formats, etc.
Vidiac.com
PutFile.com
In my experience, the quality of the videos posted are often quite poor. The owners of the sites battle copyright issues constantly and risk being held responsible if their users post material illegally. Finally, the range of the audience affects the overall quality of the site. Videos that a 12-year-old finds funny may not be worth my time.
Not all the criticisms apply to this particular site or to all uses of the site, but it's there.
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.
They switched over to DHTML a while back after people comlained.