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Watch Videos in Synch with Fellow iOS Users (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the let's-all-sing-together-now dept.

This video is about Dr. Saeed Darvish-Kazem and Dr. Michael Pazaratz, two MDs from Canada, who came up with a free iOS app called WeMesh that lets you share video content with iOS-owning friends in real time. You see the video and so does your friend. more or less simultaneously. Cat videos and 90s music are two categories the doctors say are especially popular on WeMesh, which only works with YouTube at the moment, a shortcoming they hope to change in the near future. NOTE: If you're on the Slashdot main page and click the 'Read' link below this paragraph, the video will autoplay.

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  1. Why do you turn on autoplay? by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 5, Informative
    Please do not link to any site that autoplays a video. Chrome handles html5 natively. It is not easy to block it in chrome. That alone is going drive users away from Chrome to Firefox+NoScript. It is just a matter of time before advertisers and sleazy websites add autoplaying videos. It is back to X10 popup and blinking text of geocities.

    Thanks for the warning, you will see the drastic reduction in hits for such links from Chrome. You will create a policy of not linking to any site that has auto play video. Also why do you include it directly in read? Can't you just put up a link and say click to play?

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  2. Re:autoplay?!? by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NOTE: If you're on the Slashdot main page and click the 'Read' link below this paragraph, the video will autoplay.

    Why? Slashdot is already having multiple daily outages. When users are allready cheesed off, autoplayiing a video is not a smart move.

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  3. Re:Solution looking for a problem? by Adriax · · Score: 2

    Google hangouts has a youtube option that syncs youtube across the hangout.

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  4. Re: IMHO, I doubt it. by Roblimo · · Score: 2

    I have explained more than once to more than one Slashdotmedia management person that autoplay videos were the work of the devil. The leader of the autoplay cabal (obviously) disagrees.

    Ever single person who works directly on Slashdot has an opinion about autoplay videos that is somewhere between dislike and raw hatred. One editor sent a 1665 word plea to kill autoplay videos up the chain of command, and yesterday I growled like an angry dog at the boss person who oversees Slashdot. The guy has always seemed pretty smart to me, but for some reason he is determined to inflict autoplay videos on us despite our ongoing, deepening displeasure.