--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Meiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone had seen this, and what they thought of it. > > http://tubularapp.com/blog/16/screencast > > It's a MacOX aggregator for youtube, primarily it just provides an alternate > viewing experience, but it also converts youtube videos to an ipod friendly > format. > > I must admit I haven't tried it. As a software aggregator Democracy does > Youtube and it's pretty hard to beat these days. > > > The first question is how useful is something like this? All it really does > is provide an alternate experience, aside from the iPod conversion. Is > better experience enough? Is it even better experience or is it just > different with no apparent real advantages over viewing videos on > youtube.com? > > Secondly, what does this say about aggregation in a youtube dominated world. > It includes no support as far as I can see for video podcasts. What is the > value in being an independant video podcast, do we even matter? I've been > wondering for a long time about the two diametrically opposed forces in the > vlogging world. > > Apple iTunes vs. Youtube. > > It appears never the two shale meet. Who's going to be the winner, is it a > winner take all proposition? Is video podcasting picking up steam or is it > being sidelined? What will happen as portable media players, set top boxes, > cell phones, PDA's, and other hardware NOT the desktop computer start to > support syndicated video? Can youtube go to these devices when it's > dependant on Flash and dependant on being online, or will it's value be > erroded as portability starts to increase in importance in the viewing > experience? Are we going to more exclusive youtube deals with hardware > makers? How will this help or hurt innovation, and the free market for > media? Sorry, got to ask the tough questions. > > Thirdly, is this third party software, the beginning of the end for youtube > or just a shot in the dark? If more and more applications building out > alternative interfaces to youtube will it undermine their business plan or > support it? Will youtube just cut them off at the knees and if they do, will > it alienate users increasingly used to getting what they want the way they > want it.
Flash lite 2 supports different video formats. a flash youtube player is possible. - enric > > Fourth, would you use it? > > p.s. I've seen like apps for aggregating photos purely from FLickr.com. An > app called sniper. Web app interfaces for popular webservices is not a new > thing. Honestly, I've never known them to last unless they depend on open > standards. Frankly... to me it seems such apps while a whole lot of fun are > a dead end. Because the webservice, in this case youtube, arbitrarily > decides wether they live or die. For Apple has a habit of canibalizing the > best pieces of mac software and incorporating it into the system. I suspect > youtube would do the same if not kill such innovations outright, so as to > keep people's expectations from changing... ie. from asking original > questions. To me this is the tru danger of such monocultures. People's > expectations stop evolving, change slows and even stops. Because independant > developmental innovation cannot happen on such a platform when it does > happen, such as say, Democracy, it's so on the sidelines noone sees it. > > In a manner, what I'm saying is... How stuck are we? Has our ability to > continue to innovate and affect change in the video blogging world forever > been sidelined. Is videoblogging now endoctrinated and affixed? If so is > video podcasting doomed to stagnation untill the next big thing comes along > and replaces it? > > -Mike > mefeedia.com > mmeiser.com/blog > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
