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Google Announces YouTube Gaming
An anonymous reader writes: Today Google announced a major new rival to Twitch.tv: YouTube Gaming. In addition to providing structure for the gaming content YouTube already serves (like walkthroughs, reviews, "Let's Plays," speed runs, etc), it'll also be a livestreaming hub for those who like broadcasting their games or watching other people play. Each video game will have its own dedicated page, and users will be able to add games to their "collection" to see other users's videos relating to those games. YouTube Gaming will have its own dedicated app, as well as being a part of the YouTube website. Google is also touting a recommendation engine that will help gamers find more content to watch.
So is that their plan B, turning YouTube into Twitch?
Streamers play music while they game, and even gameplay videos on youtube get flagged for copyright violations just for having the in-game music playing.
Streamers aren't going to move to a system they can't make money on. This will fail and end up like Google+.
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Pretty much everyone uses Twitch. Unless Google can get support for Twitch removed from a few key games/systems I don't see people switching in large numbers. Would be kind of like dethroning Paypal at this point.
I'm hearing rumblings that Youtube Gaming already has some concerning rules too, like automatic strikes for playing copyrighted music (even accidentally) over a stream. I have this feeling it's going to be an uphill battle...
So this is why they removed the super-useful feature that used to let you group your subscriptions into named groups until a few weeks ago? Because it was called "collections" and they wanted to repurpose the name for some useless video game thing nobody is going to use?
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I'd move to it in a heartbeat.
You would, but not necessarily all the shops you visit would too.
Welcome to the network effect !
PayPal is designed in such a way that both ends of the transaction (both the merchant and the client) must use PayPal as a payment processor.
Even if you decide on your own to switch, that won't have any impact on the merchant. If they don't switch, you'll be forced to keep PayPal to be able to buy from them.
Contrast the situation with SEPA payment in Europe:
You and the merchant are completely independent and free too choose a bank.
You can have your account at any bank of your liking.
The marchant can use any bank that pleases them.
As long as both banks follow the SEPA standard, you can do payment and buy your goods (with a couple of days up to one week delay).
Bitcoin (the protocol) was design partly to address the same problem:
you and a merchant can choose any payment processor or other source of bitcoin (the units) to do a transaction.£
The merchant could be using any payment processor that they would like (bitpay, coinbase, etc.)
You could choose instead to go for an exchange (BTC-e) or obtain your BTC by meeting someone face-to-face (localbitcoin) or even actually store them in a wallet (If you feel like gambling on the completely crazy unstable exchange rate).
As long as both ends of the transaction follow the bitcoin protocol, you're both free to pick any solution you like. You can do payment and buy your goods (with a couple of minute delay).
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Or when the major video game publishers' legal departments have filed so many copyright claims that both services lose a substantional portion of their user base.
Do you really want someone going through your garbage to complete your profile?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
does the tv app have a search function? i know twitch still doesn't
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Not that long ago Google was posting tasks on the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsource job platform that asked people to visit a Twitch user account page which was provided to the worker.
They wanted to know if that twitch user had a link to a YouTube page.... they wanted to know if there was an email address..... they wanted to know if the user had had some sort monetization link on youtube.. and if there were email/twitter contacts.
I wonder if this has anything to do with that.
were they just judging how much overlap there is between the communities?
were they seeking out 'popular' people to contact them?
To prevent the stream being taken down, you shouldn't use copyrighted content, or license the copyrighted content. If stream creators are being paid for their "work," why shouldn't the music copyright holders get paid as well?
The big streams already have a fan base. They know where to go, they are unlikely to risk losing a lot of viewers by moving.
On the other hand, the streamers who have a small viewership, whose list is mostly made up of new users, can defiantly benefit from the influx of having youtube suggestions that look just like normal videos that people will click. It will be a great way to establish a new user base.
Yes, there are stricter rules on what you can and can't do. You simply have to understand them and work with them.
I've said it before and here it is again. Within a decade, perhaps within the next 5 years, some bright young web designers will "discover" new methods of making websites that will turn out to be almost identical to the usable, intuitive, and inviting websites we had in 2008. I'm talking side navigation panes, site maps, links with actual words on them, legible text and fonts, content borders, actual fucking dense, readable, clear content instead of a 2+MB page that take 5 seconds to fade in a single login screen. In short people will discover how to make a motherfucking website again.
I'll be glad when that happens. Webpages are getting slow and slower with more JavaScript crap that doesn't gain anything (fine if it's an interactive Office App, but just a blog post?) It's causing me to have to retire computers simply because surfing the web is too slow. The requirements of a web page are normally pretty simple: Show text, show pictures, show links, and in select cases show videos.